Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-09-27
MAINE AND VERMONT.

Anson p Morrill,, Abotionist, Maine-law man,
and Know-Nothing, has been elected Governor of
Maine by large majority. The Augusta Age thus
sums up the result in that State:
" The ISSUES DECIDED. In the election of last
Monday the people of this State have virtually repu
dated both the democratic party and the whig par
ty, and declared in favor of coniding the destinies
. OF Maine to the hands of AnsOn P. Morrill, as their
chosen chief and Neal Dow, Wiley, Peck, & Co., as
his trusty subalterns
They have also declared in favor of prostituting
the Maine law as a political hobby:
They have declared in favor of know -nothingsm.
They have declared in favor of fusionism.
They have declared in favor of Morrillism.
They have declared in favor of abolitionsm.
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 humbugis ism in all
its protean shapes.
They have declared specially in favor of the repeal
of the fugitive-slave law.
They have declared in favor of the restoration Of
the Missouri Compromise.
And, finally, they have declared in favor of bar
gain and corruption generally.
Maine has fallen from her high estate Her cit
have proved reckless of her reputation and un-
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:
cit has been most singular affair, most unprn-
cipled most ridiculous, and most contemplate. The
mongrels have fought the battle, under many
names 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 so on, and
the returns they come in would raise a smile on
the face of block of Barre granitc-Union, repub-
lcan, freeso freesoil whg, free soil democrat, free
democrat independent, whig, republican, being a
few of the names used to designate the motley
throng. No pains have been spared to coax demo-
Gratis and freesoers into the tumble, and success
has apparently crowned these efforts 1t is quite
apparent however, that the face of the result so far
as the legislature is concerned, has an ugly look.
The few I" national wings" returned begin to feel
uneasy, while the striped wings" and the " sca-
wags" are fearful of trouble from the they have
attempted to swallow
There will be some fifty or sixty straight-out de-
mocrats in the house, who will compel perfect fusion
of the stripped forces of the opposition or defeat
and the disunion forces will fnd 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 majoritcs. Clark will have, for governor,
vote much higher than even the monsrels antici-
pated, and one that will count higher than any we
have pocd 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
thing, and that is, that the Wings of the free
States are more embittered than towards the
Southern people. They are perfectly willing in Or
der to achieve a triumph at home, and to secure
more strength in Congress- to coal esce with every
ism, matter how pernicious in its purposes and
character