The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-11-11
FREE SOIL VOTE,

We can CLEAN but few returns of the Free
other number. Massachusetts gives 29OOS :;
Connecticut so far as heard from, 1884 R.
Island, 6iO Hudson county, N. j., 1919. One
hundred and twenty-nine towns in Maine gave,
in 1850, Hubbard, d., 1906; Crosby, w,
1896; Talbot, F. D., $685. they now give
Pierce 20, 367; Scott, %, 900; Hale, 1883. Will
mngton, Del, 80 for Hale Allegheny county,
Pa, gives 965 for Hale, an increase over the
vote of 1913 of 1856 Chester county, Pa, gives
Hale 1913; Philadelphia city and county, 667.
Oswego county, n Y. gives Hale 2,O5S; four
towns in ST. Lawrence county, 800 five towns
in Chautauque. sol Marion, in the county of
Wayne gives Hale majority of II over the
Wings and 81 over the Democrats, and the
Assembly district stands 500 for Hale and
Julian Niagara county, 800.
The indications are that New York has given
Hale pretty good vote.
The election of Gerrit Smith will be hailed
with joy by the friends of Freedom. What
ever we may think of his speculative views of
the Constitution, nobody questions the nobility
of his nature. The New York Tribune says:
"The election of GERRIT SMITH to Congress
from a District which gives Pierce and King,
Seymour, Church < Co. about | 900 ma jority
is sign of the times. IL shows that the much
execrated Reputation Of the Slavery plank in
either Baltimore Platform is by no means coh
fined to Wings Mr.. Smith is one of the most
thorough, consistent, uncompromisng oppo-
nents of Human Slavery in any country. He
believes it unconstitutional, and will take the
oath to support the Federal Constitution with
the understanding that said oath requires OF
him the utmost effort to strip Bondage of eve.
ry shred of pretended legality, and expose it tC
the ridicule of the enslaved and the scorn OF
mankind. These mind you, are not our ideas
but Gerrit Smiths and he has Just been elected
to Congress by handsome majority, running
stump against the regular nominees OF the two
great parties Seven-eighths of the electors of
Oswego and. Madison counties have probably
voted for either Scott or Pierce yet thousands
of these same electors have simultaneously vo-
| ted to send Gerrit Smith to Congressman
have sent him. Let those who fancy that the
coalition of the Barnburners with the various
sorts of Hunkers to kill Seward has crushed
Anti Slavery, put that in their pipe and smoke
it, This is but beginning.
We are heartily glad that Gerrit Smith is
going to Washington. He is an honest, brave,
kind-hearted Christian philanthropst whose
religion is not put aside with his Sunday coat
but lasts him clear through the week. We
think him very wrong in some of his notions
of political economy, and quite mistaken in his
ideas that the Constitution is inimcal to Sla-
very. and that in Justice cannot be legalized ,
but we heartily wish more such great pure,
loving souls could find their way into Congress
He will find his seat any thing but comfortable,
but his presence there will do good, and the
country will yet know him better and esteem
him more highly than it has yet DONE
In Ohio Preble county gave Hale 1877; Fay
cite, 1885, Lake, LII; Ashtabula, 2,475 I;
Trumbull 1918; Cuyahoga, 1899 Medina,
262 Portage, 1896 Monroe $40; Greene 500;
Lorain, l,77s: Geauga, l,465; Mahoning,
1864 Columbiana, 942.
Montgomery county, Pa, 100.
W'nois.-Gage Free Democrat, is elected to
the Legislature, from Balance and McHenry
counties Another Free Democrat is elected
from Lake.
Wisconsin polls large Hale vote, but Dur
kee, we are sorry to say, is defeated The Con-
gressonal delegation stands, three Pierce
Democrats-one of them Mr. Eastman-open-
ly committed aga inst the Fugitive Slave Law