Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-23
MAINE AND VERMONT.

MAINE AMI " f5ISH0IN - 49,
Arson P. Morrill, Abolitionist. Maine-law man.
and Know-Nothing, has been elected Governor o.
Maine by a large majority. The Augusta Age thus
sums up horesult in that State:
3. The ISSUES DECIDED In the election of last
Monday the people of this State have virtually repu
dated both the democratic party and the %hg par
ty, and declared in favor of confidng the destnes
of Maine to the hands of Arson p Morrill,, their
chosen chief and Neal Dow Wiley, Peck, & Co., as
his trusty subalterns. s.a.
They have also declared in favor of prostitutng
the Maine law political hobby. 5-v
They have declared in favor of know nothingism.
They have declared in favor of fusionism.
They have declared in favor of Morrism.
They have declared in favor of abolitionism.
They have declared in favor of sectionalism.
They have declared in favor of religious intoler-
ance and religious persecution.
They have declared in faver of humbugism in all
its protean shapes. ...rsg- z5.- Ia -
They have declared specially in favor of the repeal
of the fugitiye-slave law.
They have declared in favor of the restoration oil
the Missouri Compromise.
And, finally, they have declared in favor of bar
gain and corruption generally. s.
Maine has fallen from her high estate Her citi
Zens have proved reckless of her reputation and I'M
true to themselves. They have forsaken the paths
of political rectitude, and yielded to the worship OF
false gods"
The Vermont Patriot gives the result as follows
in that State:
at has been a most singular affair." most unprin-
cipled, most ridiculous and most contemplate. The
mongres have fought the battle, under many
names as there counties in the State. In one
their tickets have been styled Union; in another,
free democratic; in another, whig in third, know
nothing; and in fourth, republican and on, and
the returns they come in would raise a smile on
the face of block of Barre granite-Union, repub-
lican, feesoi fee-so whig esoil democrat, free
democrat, Independent, wing, republican, being
few of the names used to designate the motley
No DonC hnUo n
Gratis and freesoilers into the tumble, and success
has apparently crowned these efforts. 1t is quite
apparent however, that the face of the result far
as the legislature is concerned, has an ugly look
The few sc national wings" returned begin to feel
uneasy, while the striped wings" and the scali-
wags" are fearful of trouble from the they have
attempted to swallow. g.
There will be some fifty or sixty straght-out de-
mocrats in the house. who will compel perfect fusion
of the stripped forces of the opposition, defeat
and the disunion forces will find, after ALL victory
the democracy of Vermont matter easier talk
ed about than won.
The democracy have done much better than could
have been anticipated. They have elected more
than their usual number of members of the house,
and have lost the counties they usually carry by the
smallest majorities. Clark will have, for governor,
vote much higher than even the mongrels antlcl-
pated, and one that will count higher than any we
have poled for years. except that of last September
The band of the fusion will prove rope of sand
The democrats who have been cajoed into the truck
and dicker will abandon it, and the whole thing will
tumble to pieces before another September"
From all this fusion ~ and confusion we deduce
one thing, and that is, that the Wings of the free
States are more embittered than towards the
Southern people. They perfectly willing, in Or
der to achieve triumph at home, and to secure
more strength in Congress, to coal esce with every
ism, no matter how pernicious in its purposes and
character.