New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-23
THE ATTITUDE OF OHIO.

The eldest Oorn OF The JenerSoni1n Or1inAnce d
Freedom has nobly indicated her psrentsge. Her
majority against Douglasism is not re, done piing
up, but il is already over SEVENTY THoysayD, WITH
every Congressional District swept clean By
ing majority. Lsst year her majority for the Sham
Democracy was Fifty thousand over the Wing and
Fifteen or Twenty Thousand ever al opponents.
How the astounding change MSS been produced vii
be seen by the following from The Clerslaad MIrH,hg
Leader;
THT ELRcTIoE-THE RFsULT-ITs CAUsEs AID IT'S
LTssos
The result OF the election Of Oct TO- 1854 has ss.
tOnshed the friends and fCes OF human freedom.
We had anticipate a decided victory in Ohio. We
counted forty thousand majority for Ssan but we
did not, We could not, forete foresse the 0Hai
hR0ton Ct the Nebraska party. Let the victory Yield
no barren fruit and while we rejoice aud eyA over
it, Lot for this END understand h0T il was won and
the lesson it teaches.
Fret, the REPUBLICANS Of Ohio STARTED right.
The call Of the State Convention OF July 10, s5i,
all remember. II embraced the great issue, and
ahjured all political parties The Convention itself
Wcs true In letter and spirit TO that call Resistance
to Sl0r6ry Aggressi0R and Slarerg Extension en-
bodied lis central thought and The union of OF true
men TO carry ont that thought was the policy i.
svowed. OLD issues half or wholly dead, were ig.
nored. The popular and pressing State question
even ia regard 10 torofioz put aside, and that
too, when large sections of the State demanded nay
ci0mored for its presentation and discussion. The
purpose Of the Convention, indeed, was regiou.ly
observed. Neither Democrats nor Wings nor Free.
Sellers stood up stood out in it distinctly as su,h
but merged-FUSED on a REPUBLICAS basis into a
EEPrBLIcAS party, with q fidelity and earne..ness
which assured the country Of their triumph.
Secondly, the People OF Ohio Loyalty sustained tue
action of the Convention OF the 18th Of July on the
10th OF October
There were fer counties in the State where old
leaders dsavowed this policy, or refused to be gov
erned by it but they were limited 10 number though
heretofore strong in influence. The PEOPLE gene
rally, Y haever their past party bias, indorsed tao
principles and policy Of the State Convention Of July
10, and carried them out With practical sagacity
ana mpbatic will We need only cite few in
stances to establish ths fact. The Democrats-Nch-
OILS, Mott Day and Leiter-were borne up by tor
rent of united freemens voices; GiddinE, Wade
Watson Bliss, Free Sellers, were swept GA through
tlCir cooperation by an overwhelming vote; while
these Nbgs-BiDeham, Galloway, Sherman aud
Horton-wero elected. as II would seem, by the ac-
clamatiOn Of the PLoPLE.
A closer examination into the details OF each dis
trict, indeed would only confirm OR position. No
matter how strongly Democratic, Wing or Free Soil
each one may have been, pat distinctions and the
divisions created by them were burie:, as THE YYN or
OHIO voiced forth their indignant protest in andin
all against the treacbery of the Administration and its
northern servile5 and as they proclaimed to the oil
garchs unanimously their fixed resolve to stay their
aggIessons and stop the extension OF their cherished
and sectional curse. There can be H0U no mistake as
to their WILL. II is to denaonalize Slavery and de-
ceI.TaliZe power.
Thirdly, let U.s. though we repeat for practical rea-
sons and especially for the future look little more
closely into the causes OF this glorious decision.
We have said that the Republicans OF Ohio started
right and that the people OF Ohio Loyalty sustained
their action. Very true. But rhy3 Because the
issue declared was made irrespective Qferstiag poi-
zeal organisations, and utter dsregard Of parties
or Their platforms. The People 30 understood it.
They the machinery of party dead in the hands of
those who had been made Of consequence mainly
through it. They heard thee partizans shout out.
with stoutest voice, stand by the old flag" eight
/" for your friends, and witnessed freeuen, of all
sides turning deaf to their cries and squirting
their sbor. sighted and selfish pleas. Taey fen as
freemen M0f ic0s necessary for them to unite IN de.
tense Of yeedom They marched TO the ballot box in
sold phaapx, therefore, and carried EVERY COSGREs-
SIGNAL DISTRICT Of the State by such n'gor'tes as
ree nerer knopa beore. closer examin alton, too,
las we shall show when we getiu ami exact returns
will only confirm this position. few Of the counties
were rallied, sought to be rallied under the Ivh,g
banner and with bad results in every Instance; Mus
LDgum is example. the vote in that county dad
not reach ats usual majority, while in the NorthW West,
and in every county in the State, where the simple
Republican platform put forth, the Republican
Candidates were swept in by a VERY TORRENT. BY
way of proof consider a few examples:
st Dist b. 6 p s majority
IXh Dist. Cooper X. Watson over................S5Oo
These districts were overwhelmingly Democratic;
vet Democrats, well as Wings and Free Sellers
"put behind them all old issues AID orgauza atoms
and not only appealed to the People on broad and
humane issue But TRUSTED N THEM the result was.
not a rout of the foe merely, but REyoLuTios. 40
it was we repeat in all parts Of the State With Wing
or Free Soil msjorities where the simple platform of
Republicanism was put FORTH and sustained in a Re
publican spirit. The great success OF the People on
the 10th Of October 1854, in Ohio, therefore, grows
out of the fact that they called to vote d.
rfcIv against the aggressions Of the OhgGrchs, aud
their determination 10 eytend Siarerg; and like
great success will bless the country aud man. il in 50
and So they shall stand upon the same platform, aud
speak for the same manly and glorious cause.