The daily union., 1854-11-21
From the hississippi Free Trader. Nov. 10
THE LATE NORTHERN ELECTIONS.

THE LATE NORTHERN ELECTIONS.
The States OF Maine Rhode Island Connecticut Penn
syani ONO, and Indiana readers fully aware,
have already voted and the has been an overwhe
ing defeat of the democracy in each one Almost the only
note OF rejoicing has from whg If not know
nothing PRINT OF this city Throughout the South all is
quiet while this tempest RACES the North but if may
Judge from the tone Of the southern press il is not the
quiet Of apathy spiritless indifference to the menacng
condition Of affairs but the repose of the great heart of
gallant people who cooy watch the progress of the foe
and are serny resolving of manly and brave
resistance On Tuesday New York. Illinois, and be-
eve Michigan, voted. In the first there is ray of
hope for the triumph of the friends of the consttu
uonj and If they secure members of Congress
in Illinois and carry Michigan of which they sangune
all will be accomplished of which there be any
able expectation.
To the patriot who regards this condition of affairs
without regard to paryism the prospect is Of
gloom and calculated to fill the coolest intellect and
heart with the greatest appehensons for the
curly OF the constitution the peace of the country and
the continuance of the Union.
The first prominent feature of these overwhelming defeats
is that they universally claimed and acknowledged
triumphs the administration the next that
party can claim their honors pos exclusively but that
they are shared by combination fusion such has
never been known before in the annals of party
Against the friends of the administration of the Nebraska
BILL of the fugve-saye aw,of State rights of the constr
party avowedy So composed of every possible shade and
variety of political opinion animated by common
grand resolve the overthrow of the democracy. They
have triumphed They have lashed the popular into
fury of passion intolerance, and anaticism and have
achieved such maores have been known before
They themselves lost in the grandeur of the victory
and that the tempest is settling down into compara-
tive repose the shr voices of the partisan hucksters Of
each of the robberbands heard squcaking through
the tin trumpets Of their ignoble and bastard
fare, each claiming for his own band the glory Of
the triumph. And who compose this now towering
fusion party which for the time to sweep away
every vesge of the constitution Need say that they
the whg party proper of the North the freesoler the
temperance fanatics and the know-nohings with a flu
sion, perhaps, of womans srghts men, Merites, and spirit
uass? This is the combination which has beaten down
the true democracy and raled its banner in the dusths
the party which the constitution and threat
consummate upon the South fell swoop the
boarded vengeance of the tanacism of years In
party sense southern democrat look back upon the
history of that without feeling manly throb of
joy at the proud and patriotic position Of his political
brethren in the North who have noby fallen with their
coors in their midst flying and torn to shreds and aters
in the stormwhose defeat is glorious them their
victory disgraceu to their flushed and braggart foe
But when he considers it with reference to its bearing
upon the preservation of the constitution and the Union
he shut out the apprehension that the proud pman
of that triumph is the death-knell Of the Union.
/ We have wish TO wound the sensibes of southern
whgs but the great fact sernly in the face that
the whg party of the North in its desperate endeavor
retrieve its fortunes has become the real abolition party
that with such party southern man. WITH perhaps
two gnoble exceptions, longer be connected
that has fallen from national position into the gulf
treason and tanacism. 1t useless to denyoy and
crime attempt dsguise-thesc facts The great fact
is of historical record and ignorant recrean il
he who refuses TO shape his political accordingly
uc.
heard from raorous southern whig organ and from
the may be heard occasional taunt at M
prooundcr the result than the mere unscrupu
ous partisan teach them They will inquire by whom
and Why has this extraordinary combination or fusion beer
resorted to to break down the administration? The an
swer to the first has already been made and it involves
the answer to the second. That is impregnabe
The administration has been thus assaled and thus over
whemed because it has been true the loest spirit
Roman Grecan patriotism, to the constitution to State
rights to the rights of the South We defy its bitteres
opponent to point to any diplomatic Legislative or admin
srative measure of the administration which does not
challenge the highest approval Of every southern patriot
1t has from the beginning labored for the magnificent
southern acquisition of Cuba it has steny enforced the
fugvc-save law it has in defiance of the almost unani-
nous North given its great and influence in favor
the repeal of abolition prohibition which for thrtyour
existed in large portion of territory These
are claims to southern confidence not to the warmer
term Of gratitude which should forever close the lips of
the southern partisan who it. in the hour of its
own and of the countys gloom and it is precisely these
claims southern confidence which have the abo
ltion storm which threatens ovcrwhelm it, and with it,
| the constitution of the Union.
This is great theme for southern to ponderthese
great facts which they cannot ignore without fatal fol-
y perhaps worseecreancy their NATIVE land Per-
haps here the knownothngs may find something for their
consideration which, in the crisis that threatens may
become of primary Importance.
But what if the unpatrotic be true that the ad-
mipstraon IS overwhelmed? The democracy have the
proud reflection that it has been principles on
which II was elevated to power that it is because that
fidelity that it has been overwhelmed in the North and
that those glorious principles eernal-worh living
for, battling for, and, if need be- dying for.
From the Presbyterian.
MINISTER'S AND POLITICS.
The good people this country have usually been great
ly union of Church and State From present
Indications it would that of alliance is
in progress between the two powers The pulpit in
tain sections has certainly put its fingers very deep into
politics of late New York writer in of the morning
papers states that there less than nine
versed to be preached in that city late Sabbath in
reference to the then approaching State election and
among the speakers at political meeting held in New
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