Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-10-15
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R1IEIGH. SATURDAY. OCT. Is. 1855.
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
rhare 10 no longer any doubt of the election o.
1ohneon. Democrat as Governor of Georgia, by q
,,,,oiority of eight hundred or one thousand. The
Gentlemen who seem to be elected to Congress are
Seward, Colquitt, Bailey, Dent Chastain and Hill
yer. six Democrats; and Stephens and Reese, two
Wings. The Democrats have also majority in both
branches of the State Legislature
The gallant Democracy of Georgia (says the Wash
ington Union) has done its work nobly. By tele-
graphic despatch received yesterday afternoon we
learn that ninety counties have been heard FROM
and the ascerained result is that the Democrats have
elected their governor majority in the legislature,
and the majority of the congressional delegation.
Five Democrats Seward, Colquitt, Dent Chastain,
and Hillyer-are certainly elected to Congress.
Bailey is regarded as doubtful; and the only Wings
known to be elected are Stephens and Reese.
Such is the response which the Empire State Of
the South makes to the avowed principles and poll
CIV of the administration of President Pierce Such
an approval by the people of the South-shown, as
it is by the whole series of southern elections clos
ing in this great Democratic victory in Georgia-is
the fit reception of policy which looks to the inter
position of the whole power of the united democracy
to shield the country from the evils and perlls OF
renewed sectional agitation
We also copy the following well-hmed remarks
from the Washington Union:
"TuE Presidents PoLIcY.-THE VOICE THE
PEOPLE Before the mails can bring us the full de-
tails of the glorious triumph by which the united
democracy of Georgia have just sanctioned the pol
lev of the President the telegraph will convey to
the thunder-tones in which the united democracy of
Pennsylvania and Ohio are this day speaking to the
same effect 1t is the reclamation of the people
the people of all the sections and all the States-giv-
inc solemn sanction and support, after trial, and up
on deliberate consideration to the only plan of states
manshp which is adequate to the wants of the coun-
try because it is the only plan which can hope to
array the chOt force of the democratic party against
a renewal of the sectional agitation. The recent
manifestation of this sense of the people, as made
out in the result of the whole unbroken series of
elections which have taken place in the South, and
as now spoken forth most loudly and most trium-
phantly in Georgia, is undoubtedly the capital polit
ical indication of the time The only question be-
fore the people of the South in these elections has
been the question of sustaining the administration
in its recognition of all democrats eligible to office
who in good faith rallied upon the national platform
in the presidential contest Everywhere in the South
the wings raised the same cry which the wings in
New York raising now, that this policy of the
President in effect determination with the free
soiler. Everywhere the same answer was made by
the united democracy of the South, that demo-
crat is free-soer who honestly and in good faith
accepts the Baltimore platform his political creed.
And everywhere in the South the people at the bal
lot-box have triumphantly sustained that answer
sound and sufficient and have indicated the policy
predicted upon it not only policy of good faith,
but also as the only policy by which domestic tran
guilty can be secured to the country. To accom-
plish that great object the democratic party united
at Baltimore. To consummate its accomplishment,
the President has recognised and maintained that
union. And now the people have pronounced upon
his course, and have pronounced it good.
Nowhere by reason of obvious facts, has this
great issue been made prominently and so precise
y as in Georgia. Eminent wing leaders there refus-
ed support General Scott through just fears of the
free-so tendencies of the men whom, if elected he
would bring into power. These same leaders, clear
ly perceivng the vantage ground upon which this
course placed them before the South rallied to
desperate effort to break down President Pierce
under the charge that he too, giving office to
freesolers Had there been any truth in their accu-
saton these men, of all Others stood in the position
to command for it the popular belief But they
met by united democracy democracy led by
men who but a short time before had stood opposed
to each other Union democrats and State rights
democrats, but who now stood shoulder to shoulder
at the head of one national democratic party-and
before this grand and powerful array the wings and
their accusations have gone down together. Such
is the verdict of the Empire State of the South Be-
fore the sun of this day shall set Pennsylvania and
Ohio-the populous and potent centre of the Union
will have given to that verdict, by an immense
majority, their conclusive confirmation