CHAPTER XIII ELECTION DAY AND ITS RESULTS [Burlington (Iowa) State Gazette, October 29, 1858] What a night next Tuesday will be all over the Union! The whole Nation is watching with the greatest possible anxiety for the result of that day. No State has ever fought so great a battle as that which Illinois is to fight on that day. Its result is big with the fate of our Government and the Union and the telegraph wires will be kept hot with it until the result is known all over the land. [Illinois State Journal, November 3, 1858] THE ELECTION.-We are gratified to state that the election in this city yesterday passed off as usual, without any disturbance. The rain fell almost incessantly throughout the entire day, and the streets were in a horrid condition. [Galesburg (Ill.) Democrat, November 3, 1858] Election day more than sustained its reputation as a day of considerable weather. For days beforehand the rains began to descend and the floods to come, and on that day the weather gear was in good working order. Such mud, such inky slop, such incessant pourings were remarkable, even for Illinois. For the farmers to get out to the polls was almost an impossibility-hence the falling off in this county. A fair day would have given 1400 Republican majority. [Illinois State Journal, November 9, 1858] THE APPORTIONMENT The thirty-five Lincoln members of the House represent a larger population than the forty Douglas members; and the eleven Lincoln Senators represent a larger constituency than the fourteen Douglas and Buchanan Senators. In other words, if the State had been apportioned according to population, the districts carried by the Republicans would have returned forty-one Lincoln representatives, and fourteen Lincoln Senators, which, of course, would have elected him. In the Republican districts it requires on an average a population of 19,635 inhabitants to elect a representative, and 58,900 for a Senator, while in the Democratic districts 15,675 for a representative and 47,100 for a Senator suffices. On a fair apportionment, Douglas would have been beaten seven in the House and three in the Senate. He was elected for the reason that 754 voters in "Egypt" are an offset to 1000 in "Canaan." [Illinois State Register, November 9, 1858] EXCUSE-WHO DID IT? We had supposed that our neighbors of the Journal had, philosophically, settled, down into defeat, and were willing to admit that, being short of votes, they were unable to make that sort of "connection" necessary to make A. Lincoln senator, but we are mistaken-they have been hunting excuses, and every apology for defeat, but the true one, is offered in their yesterday's issue. Black-republicanism, though over twenty thousand in a majority two years ago, succeeds in electing state officers by a minority vote. It does by the intrigue and treachery of the Washington cabal, which fails in its great desire-the defeat of Douglas. The returns show that Illinois is yet democratic. They show that although 21,000 behind two years ago, they are within 3,500 of a clear majority over government officials and black-republicanism combined. These facts scatter to the winds the Journal's palliatives. Blackrepublicanism is in a minority in the state where it succeeded two years ago by 21,000. Treacherous democrats deluded enough honest men to give niggerism this preponderance. But for this treachery, this intrigue of gambling politicians, the Illinois democracy would, to-day, stand, as they everywhere have stood, in a majority over all opposition. The Washington cabal have only succeeded in this: They have defeated, by the most villainous treachery, the democratic people of a state, which has never yet failed to sustain the party of the country by a state majority, but they have failed in their chief and controlling desire the defeat of the leader of the Illinois democracy, Stephen A. Douglas. Their treachery has taken for niggerism some of the minor tricks, but they have lost the game, and incur the loathing and contempt of the truest democratic state in the Union, which cannot fail to meet the cordial sympathy of the democracy generally. STANFORD LIBRARY The telegraphic dispatches received by both parties in this city yesterday leave no room to doubt that Jodge Douglas has been trium phantly sustained by invincible Democracy of Illinois. A dispatch from Springfield, received late last night, says that the black "Oh! these hard times !" said the merchant. republicans there, including Lincoln himself, concede a majority in the legislature for Doug to the poor woman, who asked him to throw las on joint ballot. Dispatches from Alton, of a shilling from the pece of calico which he "Papa, can't I go to the zoological Peoria and Chicago confirm this one. We was selling at one hundred per cent, in adhave neither time, room, nor inclination for vance. "We cannot take a cent loss these cemment this morning. The verdict of the hard times." At the ten-pin alley I saw him see the camomile light the rye-no-aur-e the poor woman. Thus our merchant spends torn. Strange, my dear, what a taste 4has for nat'ri his'try. No longer ago t people of Illinois is a sufficient comment of Pay fifty times as much as he refused to allow "Sartin, my son; but don't get your itself. Hurrah for Stephen A. Douglas, the his money these hard times. terday, he had eight pairs of tom cats by their tails to the clothes-line." I don't say, Mr. Judge, that the d next U. S. Senator, and the NEXT PRESI DENT! was drank; no, not by any means I will say, when I last seed him he w ing his face in a mud-puddle, and dry a door-mat. Whether a sober osn this, in course I can't say. The court he wouldn't. The consequence was, fendant" went up for sixty days A youth, smitten with the charms tiful maid, only vented his passic looks, and now an then touching his toe underneath the table. The girl his advances a little while in silence cried out: "Look here, if you love so, but don't dirty my stockings" Gribbins is a neat fellow. He say spare time to take a bath. Beside like thunder for soap and towels. him how he managed to keep clean said he, with shighly incentive amit A two story passenger car has be paper myself every Christmas" "Oh! these hard times!" said a loafer as be stretched out his legs over three chairs by our stove. "Oh! these hard times!" and there he sat all day, repeating like a parrot We have received the following statement "Oh! hard times! hard times! hard times!" And I pitied the man from my soul, for I believe he thought it was hard times, when be of the official vote of Warsaw: alone was to blame for being lazy and spending what is better than money, his time, these hard times DEMOCRATIC REJOICING OVER DOUGLAS' ELECTION |