Columbia Democrat And Bloomsburg General Advertiser

The means resorted to by the Opposition leaders to defeat our ticket we will at present simply characterize as extraordinary. The incident and false charges of "secessionists," "southern (rebel) sympathizers," &c., were made against all our candidates, and active men, and the organ of the Opposition teemed with personal libels against all of us, (in such form as to avoid responsibility,) the utterance of which would shame the most abandoned blackguard in ordinary times. That most powerful lever—money—was used with a degree of freedom we have never before witnessed, and the different Railroad powers were brought to bear with all the force and tyranny they were capable of. That the great body of the Democracy stood firm under this torrent of misrepresentation and corruption is a subject of the proudest congratulation.—Clinton Democrat.