The elections came, and your expectations were not quite fulfilled.
Absorbed in such thoughts, she passed five days without him, the five days that he was to be at the elections.
Ten of these elections took place simultaneously by the votes of the special electors in the different States.
The annual elections at Rome had just taken place, and Terentius Varro and Emilius Paulus had been chosen consuls.
Nor was it only at the elections that the popular feeling, so long and so severely compressed, exploded with violence.
The same is true of important elections in a number of States, districts and counties in which the colored vote proved to be potential and decisive.
It was, the Chancellor wrote, their duty to tell His Majesty that the recent elections had indicated the public feeling in a manner which had not been expected, but which could not be mistaken.
The state elections which followed resulted in defeat for the Federalists in the election of the governor, but they carried the legislature and elected two senators,--General Schuyler and Rufus King.
The influence of this result upon parties, old and new, is perhaps best illustrated in the organization of the Thirty-fourth Congress, chosen at these elections during the year 1854, which witnessed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
The elections of 1862 had gone against the government, and there was great discouragement throughout the North. Voluntary enlistments had fallen off, a draft had been ordered, and the peace party was apparently gaining rapidly in strength.