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Show THE ELECTION. The election for the acceptance or rejection of the constitution, held on the 22d inst., passed off very quietly throughout the various precincts of this county. The vote, as will be seen from the figures given below, was surprisingly large, by far the largest ever polled in this county, and larger than the most sanguine friends of the constitution expected that it would be. So large a vote on such a question is in the highest degree creditable to the citizens of this county. It testifies of their education in the principles of constitutional liberty, of their repugnance to a continuance of territorial vassalage, and of their high determination to place on record their protest against the thralldom they now labor under. Another circumstance highly creditable to our county is that every vote polled was "yes." Not a soul in Cache county was so destitute of all sense of propriety, justice and right as to vote "No." The figures throughout the Territory show a heavy vote, and indicate great earnestness on the part of the citizens in asking for their rights at the hands of Congress, even in the absence of any encouragement to believe that they will be granted. Following are the figures for Cache county: Clarkston, 163, Hyrum, 256, Newton, 91, Millville, 116, Smithfield, 815, Hyde Park, 116, Trenton, 80, Mendon, 159, Paradise, 128, Richmond, 366, Benson, 26, Logan, 793, Lewiston, 158, Wellsville, 338, Providence, 110. Total, 8113. |