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Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

The state had elected Republican candidates in the past two years.

There was no doubt as to the control the Republican party exercised throughout the state.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

The American Republicans and the Republicans both nominated Lieutenant-Governor Turner for governor.

Elisha R. Potter was the Democratic candidate.

The results of the election of 1859 found Republican candidates not only winning the offices of governor and lieutenant-governor but also obtaining the two Congressional offices from the eastern and western sections of the state.