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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], More deserters Coming in. (search)
The vote yesterday. --The footing up the polls yesterday evening, given below, shows that the people deliberately and by an over whelming majority rejected the mad scheme of instructing their delegates to vote for a law which, if passed, would cause, untold misery. The vote of yesterday gives us lesson which will be of value to us hereafter. It teaches us how great a noise can be made by a very small portion of the community, and how utterly without reason a handful of men may set themselves up as the representatives of the great body of their fellow citizens. The ballot-box is a much surer test of public opinion than the clamors of the hustings or the bulletins of committees. The following is the vote: Monroe Ward.--For instructions, 161; against, 260. Madison Ward.--For instructions, 61; against, 439. Jefferson Ward.--For instructions, 70; against, 168. Total majority against instructing the city delegates to vote for the maximum, 575.