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The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Northern Items. (search)
troops. The farce of an election was held there on the 25th of January, to fill civil offices, made vacant "by a late proclamation of Gov. Frances H. Pierpont," and we are informed that the Drummondtown presence, which heretofore polled 200 votes, or this occasion polled only 25; thus showing next the people are not yet sufficiently subjugated to lend themselves to the dirty work of the bogus Government, backed up as it is by abolitionism. We have seen an address to the voters, by one Gillet F. Watson, who modestly says that at the request of a large number of friends, "he has very reluctantly consented" to become a candidate for their suffrages for the position of State Senator! The document possesses neither importance nor interest, its prominent characteristic being a servile fawning at the foot-stool of the Federal tyrants. We have not heard whether he succeeded in his aspiratiects or not. The only civil office not vacated by the proclamation of "Governor" Pierpont, as that of