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Updated: July 5, 2025
It has also been demonstrated a thousand times over that women do not incite the lawless element to riot about the polls; but that, instead, their presence tends to remove the polling-place from the saloon and make it safer for men to go there on election-day.
But, as I said, I did my best, with the help of Webster's Dictionary; although the further I went the less I liked it. As election-day drew nearer, our prospects looked brighter. The Republican ticket, under the editorial head of the "Burroak Banner," with my name and Mrs.
Thus he communes with himself: I must be mindful, says he, to call at Captain Scut's, in Creek Lane, and examine his rich velvet, whether it be fit for my apparel on Election-day, that I may wear a stately aspect in presence of the governor and my brethren of the council.
On election-day in Seaford, Del., some young men, going out to hunt rabbits, discharged their guns in sport; the men being absent, all the women in the vicinity took to flight; the alarm spread like the "Ipswich Fright"; soon Seaford was thronged with armed men; and when the boys returned from hunting, they found cannon drawn out to receive them.
As the family knew nothing of the world beyond the limits of its own township, and an occasional visit to Hartford, on what is called "election-day," Jason's early life was necessarily of the most contracted experience. His English, as a matter of course, was just that of his neighbourhood and class of life; which was far from being either very elegant or very Doric.
He tells me, that at great peril to herself and she nearly had her arm broken by a stone he saved Shrapnel from rough usage on the election-day. 'Hum! Colonel Halkett grunted significantly. 'So I thought, Mr. Tuckham responded. 'One doesn't want the man to be hurt, but he ought to be put down in some way. My belief is he's a Fire-worshipper.
There were always fights on election-day between well-known Whig and Democratic champions, which the boys somehow felt were as entirely for their entertainment as the circuses. My boy never had the heart to look on, but he shared the excitement of the affair, and rejoiced in the triumph of Whig principles in these contests as cordially as the hardiest witness.
Seymour Austin declared to be the most delusive of electoral auspices; and it proved so. A little later than four o'clock in the afternoon of the election-day, Cecilia received a message from her father telling her that both of the Liberals were headed; 'Beauchamp nowhere. Mrs. Grancey Lespel was the next herald of Beauchamp's defeat.
They met and passed three horsemen armed to the teeth and very tipsy. "Why, if to-morrow ain't election-day ag'in! Why, I quite fo'gotten that!" At the edge of the town two more armed riders met them. "Judge March, good mawnin', seh." All stopped. "Goin' to Suez?" "We goin' on through into Blackland." "I don't think you can, seh. Our pickets hold Swanee River bridge. Yes, sah, ow pickets.
It might again be possible to lend to the polling-place some of the dignity of a law court, and if no better buildings were available, at least to clean and decorate the dingy schoolrooms now used. But such improvements in the external environment of election-day, however desirable they may be in themselves, can only be of small effect.
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