Demoine courier., 1854-09-14
The Election In IOwa---The Lesson
it Teaches.

@ IL lcdCucSs
Here is an editorial of the CINCINNATI
Gazette exactly to our mind, and We
save ourselves the use Of the pen by
transferring il to our editorii Al columns. az.
one of the lessons taught by the late.
election. There is We, another lesson or
two which We will take occasion 10 draw
from i. for the benefit, of The people Of
Iowa a, large. The Gazette says:
The recent election Of Iowa can only
be properly expressed by styling i, a
revolution. 1t has no paraael in cleo.
lions which have passed, because the ell
emen,s which operated TO produce The
present result have never before been
brought into action.
The State OF Iowa has from the be-.
ginning been a liked star in the demo
cratic ornament. Year after year j. has
steadily voted as the party leaders de.
sired ito, bu, now a complete change
has taken place. and Iowa elects a wing
anti Nebraska Governor, Legislature and
Congressman, and will in the end e~lec,x,
United States Senator Of the same faith.
VIVA. has produced the change! w.
hesitate no. to affirm that il has been pro.
duced by the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. The free States have suTS
fered long end patiently. They have
no, been lre,ful and Grabbed. They
have been patient and long suffering
No free Stale has ever attempted TO in.
fringe upon the prescribed rights OF the
South, and no free State ever desired 10
do SO. If the North had repealed that
part of the act admitting Texas into the
Union which permits two new Slave
States to be formed GU, Of the TERRITORY
which was admitted, the South would
have had occasion TO find fault, although
the admission of Texas in the first in.
stance in the Union was contrar,' 10 the
wishes Of a vast majority of the North.
ern people. The repeal OF the Nilsson.
ri Compromise was a graiuiious insul, 10
the sixteen Free States, which has no,
been and which never will be forgotten.
If the nationality of the whig party is
10 be preserved, it is for the Southern
wings to come upon the National plat.
form. They canno, complaining hon.
est nan can. The North asks for moth.
ing that is new or strange. il merely.
asks for the restoration Of an old land.@
mark. To have things placed where
they were Fix months ago, and where
they have stood for more than 80 years.
The wings OF the South had a chance
curing The late session of Congress ~
have made the wing party invincible.
and TO have gained for il a name which
would have been forever honorable
They were expected to have taken such
a cnurse-to have spoken against The
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise. and
to have voted agains, it. A Few ~gallan,
spirits did so, but the grea, majority de.
serted and joined the enemy. Instead If
standing by their Northern brethren they
went over TO Douglas and PIERCE
Tl.ey have a chance veto redeem them.
selves.
What Iowa has done other Northern
States will do, until there shall no, be a
Saot vi Representative III
Congress from the North. With the
same proportion of gain in Ohio tina, the
result in Iowa exhibits. and Ohio would
give nearly fifty thousand anti Nebraska
majority. We believe she will do il,
and so The ball will roll on.
There is no exciiemea, among the peo.
pie. no effervescence, no ftful gusts 81
passion. The political elements are
quiet, but there never was a more firm
determinations, a more fixed resolve, on
the par, OF the people. The farmer As
his field. and the mechanic in his shop.
thinks Of the indigni,ies that have been
offered to the free States with clenched
hands and compressed lips. and he ca.
gerly awaits the coming election day
when he can speak his feelings through
the ballot box.
Iowa. the younger sisler of the West.
p ints the way her sisters will follow
all homo. to her.