The Election

The City election yesterday resulted in the choice of Cavanagh, Democratic candidate for Mayor, by 87 majority. On the west side of the river, the Aldermen elect are all Democrats, and on the East side the Republicans secured but three. One year ago yesterday, a prominent Democratic wiggler said to a republican in this city: “You d----d Black Republicans may go South and do the fighting; but we Democrats intend to stay home and do the voting!” Some folks have queer notions of duty and glory. But there is no accounting for tastes! –{State Register.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 2