Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-09-08

! The truths expressed III 1he lolio"Hg aih-
Gle of the Springfield (Mass) Republican, on
the subject of the late elections, are so much
to the point, taat we are induced TO give it
space in our columns:
THE LATE ELECTIONS.
"There be vaneuished who are victors, and
never is the maxim of the poet truer in ITS ap-
phcation, than when it is used in connection
with the defeat OF party, which has sacrificed
its maiorities, to an adherance to principle,
in opposition to the baser interests OF It's
antagonist. The recent assertion oftke North
ern Wing press, That the liberal feeling upon
| Slavery-extension, in the South, was monopo'
lized by that section of the Wing party, has
! been fully borne out by the late elections In
that ,quarter The Northern partiEan who
can rejoice at the result OF those elections,
shows his recreancy to the principles oi tree
dom. The shout OF triumph, however, has gone
up Northern l,ncofocoisFR has re-esserted Ms
unity with the ultra slavery spirit Of the South,
and the Democracy OF the Free Siateshas, once
more, bowed subserviency TO the despotlc splr-
il which has so long held Il tIadlsgracetul bond
age.
Eight Wings should have been elected to
Congress in Kentucky, yet three OF the eight
have been lost, aud whyl Simply, because the
most prominent and influential Wing III the
State was an avowed EmancipationiS, and the
Congressional Candidates OF his party were
more or less tinclured with his spirit: while
every Locotoco paper, and every prominent Lo-
1ofoco politician committed themselves, body
and SOUL 10 the perpetuatlon ofslavery in their
own State, and the extension OF itheir peculiar
institution to all new territory, without Iimil.-
These are undeniable facts, and let them be
marked. SLAVERY has given the new VIC
tories to Iocofocolsm in Kentucky. The fact
is recorded, and Northern Democracy is wei
come to 1t, In all lis length and breadth
Loud rejoIcings have also been held
over The meager majority which has elected
Edward Stanley OF North Carolina Why that
meager majority, Simply because by his lib
eraty CT principle, voting against the odi0us
gag-rule and the Slavery extension resolutions
Of the Legislature of his own State, he had
demonstrated his devotion 10 the cause "tright
and humanity What causes for rejoicing by
the free Democracy of the North!
Bnt the causes for rejoicing stop not here
In Kentucky, Aylett Buckner, the Southern
advocate IN Congress Of the WIlmot Provl-
so. aud John F. Gaines who introduced bill,
at the last session OF Compress, for the 8boll-
ton CT slavery in the District Of Columbia,
have been beaten by rabid Slayery-extenslon
Loeofocos. Humphrey MARSHALL, stlgmallzed
as an aboltIonist, has been elected, 1t is true,
in the louisville District: but by majority
that has been grateful subject OF cong-atuIa-
tiua, among the Northern Locotoco ranks
Another cause tor rejoicing, ja=t as Legitimate
as these, is found in the defeat, through LEGO
foco influences, OF every Emancipation Candl-
date to the Kentucky Conyentlen.
II is a delightful coRcert-~the magnificent
= 1aunnpraftc rty Nnrfh and
South The Neshg;Ne Union, the leading 10
cofoco paper Of Tennessee. gives column of
triumpiian; music over the result of elections
in that State, and very o5ligingIy explains the
cause Of tkc triumph. IL states that the de-
feat OF Neil 5. Brown, the Wing candidate
for Governor, was attributable TO his opposition
TO one of the resolutions ofthe Democratic Con
vcntlon. And what was the resolution! Re
siStance 10 the lFilmot Proyiso, and all Kim
dred measures, al all hG-crdS and Ia the last
erlremttV. Because Neil 5. Brown o)Posed
tbs lncendary resolution, he failed IN his cleo
ton and the shouts OF the fierce Democracy"
went up IN Tennessee, aud found an echo IN
the hearts of the free Democracy, all over the
Union, and re-verberated among the green hills
of Free Soil" Vermont! The echo ceased
not here, but sweeping backward IN It's track
il stopped IN Indiana, directly across the rv-
er from old kentucky, and joined ltSeii 10 the
shout oi District of LocoiOcos, who, by join
ing themselves to the Free Soilers," had eiec-
ted Geo. w. Julian, Van Burcnite, over Sam
ue w. Parker, Whig.
1 We repeat the maxim: There be vanquiah-
ed who are victors,' and though we couldhave
wished for stronger Wing ascendancy in the
| House, than, by the best fortune, We shall
obtain, we cannot look upon our regerses in the
Slave States a. any thing less than high NOR
al triumph. The position of the two parties
OF the country has been unmistaklbIy defined.
. The Southern Loc0.ecos are the SlaYefy-cx-
tensionisls of the South Slavery-extenslon IS
/ the ground upon which they have fought and
/ won their recent battles. Il is undenable.--
! Northern Locofocos have demonstrated their
/ hollow -heartcdnesss, by professions Of Free
, Soil principles, aud yet reiplcing over The de-
feat Of the friends of Free Soil al the South.