The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-15
CITY UF WASHINGTON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1851.
El,e,,o.. IN Psnnsylv.nia and Onto.

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Elections la Psnnsylv.nia and Onto.
The returns so lar as received last evening, and given
in our elegraphic column. Indicate the election OF Big
ler (deln) by from IL, 900 to 10000 majority. The
returns from Ohio also indicate democratic triumph.
mar. Cosb, OF Georgi@.
The overwhelming vote by which this able and talent
ed man has been placed in the chair OF his
State, taken in connexion with the great questions
which were involved in the canvass, forms an era in
the history Of the country scarcely less important than
any which can be referred 10 in recent civil expert
ence AT early period after the election OF General
Taylor Mr. Cobb perceived that the Union would be en-
dangered il the sectional movement fostered by OF
the most distinguished men of the South, not coun
eracted by an opposite one. which would preserve
onal democratic platform the raying basis for the
people of The whole country without which the anati.
cism of the anti slavery party could not be put down
Under the influence of this conviction, he opposed the
Southern Address which emanated from Mr. Calhoun,
and out of which may be said to have come the
Nashville Convention and he went to work 10 put
in molten the patriotic agency which produced the
Com PROMISE and which has been finally crowned by the
expression which came up with much unanimty from
the people in favor of that healing measure He looked
10 the honesty and intelligence OF the people in all
lions of the Union 10 defend the constitution, and repair
The nroads which had been made by the spirit OF faction
The inevitable effect of the other pocyaimng to unite
the South attitude of menace, refusing acqulescence
in the Compromise, and demanding other guarantees than
those already provided by the constlution-woud have
kndled the fire OF discomfort, and produced conaga.
lion that might have consumed the whole edihce of
federal system.
How gratifying is it TO compare the fruits OF the
measures eloquently and ably carried through by
Mr.. Cobb and his patriotic associates, with those
which would have been produced if the opposite
party had succeeded We now see the people in all
sections of The land congratulang each other upon
the prospect OF increased peace and harmony. We
possess that the rock upon which our
political church rests is unbroken and that those who
minister at its affairs will be honored and sustained as
long they adhere 10 the faith of their fathers. IT, on
the other hand the banner of secession had been raised
and floating southern Congress- the signal OF
an authority which staked the existence of the Union
upon guarantees conrayenng those of the constitution,
language describe the horror which would have
pervaded the American heart. The despos of Europe
would have raised the shout of JOY and the hopes OF the
patriot in all countries would have been alarmed if not
sckened into despair
But it is not our wish to dwell on such contrast
Our only purpose 10 express the satisfaction fee
that the of MIR Cobb is decisive it is and
so full OF honor 10 all who took part in it, Such
victory the to be priced, inasmuch it is in
which the defeated will find no motive for com
plant-no right disturbed, wrong avenge. Bowling
the sovereignty of the very principle which they proessed
to represent, they will minge again with their counrymen
neighbours equals, and friends and share the blessings
mistaken zeal might have destroyed Such victory is
also the less acceptable because is not merely and
exclusively party II parakes in this respect OF
the patriotism which adopted the Compromise meas
necessary TO the Union and which dictated
hy higher feelings than those OF party 1t is. how
far from being true That the democracy of Georgia
did not stand by Mr.. Cobb in the whole contest A
pregnant proof of this fact is in the OF the 18TH and
sixth districts of the State. which are the strong.
holds OF the democrats party OF the Stale. Here
'ofore their majority has ranged a, about five thou
sand il is now about len thousand Bot, ndepe nd.
ent OF this voie the unprecedented and over whelm-
ing majority throug hout the State Is an indication
which cannot be mistaken tina, the sound nation.
al democracy has been true on this as on all occa-
slons. 1t is this democracy which has spoken in Ala
bama and Mississippi, and il is the same democracy
which is speaking in the North and the West, and will
rally on the national platform in 1852, confirming the
sentiment which restores the constitution its true
reading disarms fanatcism and ultrasm and rekndles
the fires which burn at the affairs OF the Constitution and
the Union. II was this democracy which stood by JEFF
ferson and Jackson, and which has always known
how 10 find exponent and leader worthy OF its great
mission in extending the blessings OF our free and popu
lar institutions.