The Bedford Gazette

One vote.

The importance of one vote is rarely made more manifest than it was in the recent elections in Kentucky and Tennessee. One opposition candidate for Congress, in the former State, was elected by three votes, and in another district the vote was a tie. In the latter State one opposition candidate for Congress was elected by eight votes, another by twenty-six, and another by fifty. In all of these cases there were doubtless Democrats enough remained at home to have turned the scale in favor of the Democratic nominees, had they gone to the election and deposited their ballots, as it was their duty to have done. We hope that Democrats will bear these instances in mind, this fall, in this county and State, and not under-estimate the importance of one vote in determining the result of the election.