Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-24
WASHINGTON, ID. C.
SATURDAY, JUNE "a, 1884.
THE ELECTIONS QUESTION TO BE DE
CIDED.


CIDED
Since the agitation of the Nebraska Bill, three
State elections have been held at the North, In
States which cast their electoral votes for Gen
eral Pierce and gave him in the aggregate a
majority Of nearly twenty thousand Of the pop
uar vote over General Scotland in all Of
them the result has been disastrous to the Ad-
ministration.
10 New Hampshire, where the Democratic
Party carried everything before it in 1882,
the Administration this year is left in a minor
ity in the Legislature, az is proved by the fail
ure to elect its favorite candidates to the Uni
ted States Senate, and to pass resolutions sane
tiuning its policy on tho Nebraska Question.
1t must be recollected, too, that tho election
took place in March, before tho passage OF the
Bill, and while the Administration papers were
strenuoasly insisting that it was not regarded
NJ test measure.
After this the fact that the President was
fully identified with the Bill became notorious;
and the elections that followed in the early
part of April, in Rhode Island and Connecticut,
resulted in the defeat of tho Administration, and
in tho return Of Legislatures which passed deci-
ded Anti-Slayery resolutions that Of Connecti-
cut at the same time sending to the United
States Senate two Anti-Nebraska and Anti
Slavery Senators.
The only other important election was that
in Philadelphia, in which the Nebraska Qncs-
ton being one Of the main issues if not the
principal one, the Administration party was
totally routed, and that too, in one Of its
strongholds
These judgments of the people only fore
shadow the retributions that await the perpe-
traitors of the Nebraska outrage. II is now
certain that the Question is to form the issue in
every State election in the North and West
and in every important local election. The
Inteiligencer and few other Conservative
journals may cry peace, peace, and preach sub
mission to the fragrant outrage, but they may
as we'll sing lullaby to the tempest They may
publish extracts Of fraternal letters from the
South, condemning the outrage but invoking
Northern men, now that it is accomplished to
let it alone, to be aoquiescent They may cling
with doting fondness to the dream of = Nation
al Wing Party. The men of the North and
West now know what ia necessary to their
rights, their honor, and their security. Their
first duty is, to punish treason and reward
fidelity--ther second, to obtain indemnity for
the Past and security for the Future, by filing
Congress with honest, steadfast clear-sighted,
liberty loving Representatives their third, to
elect an Anti Slavery President And, mean
time, to keep the great Question before the
People, to keep alive their sense Of the wrong
done them. and to prepare them for the ac-
complement Of the purposes specified, they
will make this Question an issue in the cleo
tons that arc to be held in the remaining thir-
teen free States between this and the close Of
the year.
Elections for State officers will be held in the
following States, at the dates annexed:
Iowa-first Monday in August.
Extraordinarily after first Monday in
September.
Maine-second Monday in September.
Vermont first Tuesday in September.
Pennsylyania-seoond Tuesday in October.
Ohio do. do
Indiana do. do
Observation-Disclosures Monday in Novem-
Der.
New York--Tuesday after first Monday in
November.