The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1854-09-16
TIE RES/LT or TIE ELECTION

The returns are so complete of the voting
on the 9TH, that final results are easily attain
able. The rout of the NcbraSkals is complete
Overwhelming Vermont has rendered :
verdict that will prove potential upon the
main feature Of the issue. She has Spoken
in loudtcncS against the leading measure of
the Pierce Administration-thc extension Of
slavery. In this she follows in the immediate
footsteps of her Young sister, Iowa.
THE STATE TICKET. Returns from al
but II small towns give STEPHEN RoYCr
26,S73; Merritt Clark, 1856, and scattering
about 100 making Eoyce's majority ovcl
all, NINE THOUSAND SIN HUNDRED AMI
TwENTY-sEvEN, which will doubtless be in
creased by the remaining towns to about TO-
900!
THE SENATE. TwENTY-NINE nti-ad-
ministration men are certainly elected to the
Senate, and perhaps the whole number of 30
1t is feared that Lawrence Braincrd, in
Franklin County, is defeated. Indeed, we
deeply regret to say that report defeats him
by four votes. If this proves true, Mr.. Iloyt,
locotoco, will, SOLITARY and alonc," occupy a
seat in the Senate due to a m:n of better
principles. The defeat of Mr.. l'raincrd is in
no way connected with politics. II is alto
gcthcr attributable to other causes local bus
mess matters connected with lawsuit in re-
gard to land titles, banks and railroads. Some
OF those most prominent in the scheme which
brought about this probable result are active
free soil politicians, who sacrificed party for
interest or prejudice.
The HOUSE,. Returns from all but two
towns make Tie House stand thus: Admins
tratlon, %; opposition, III. The opposition,
c!a<scd according to ,'ci: party 'antccc.!cn,s''
"a word hardly allowable these times -
stand, wing. 100. free soil. 81 MANY of,hosc
cla>sc,l as wings were elected hv tic united
vote o. free sellers and wings. an! many of
those clas>cd as free sellers were sustained bv
wings. Great harmony characterized the az
ton Of both in the choice Of members Of the
House. There are If towns reported as hay
INC made nochoicc.
C"NoEr>>. JAMI> MrACuAN and Al
VAN SAEiH are elected in the 1t and 81 dis
trIct> 10y large maioritics. JUSIIN $. Mon
EIII, in the ID district if elected at all. viii
90 in 10y small majority. 1t will not lc
strange il the on,al returns. embracing all
the scattering votes. >hou,I defeat him. His
defeat will be attributable To- III. uuwarran-
table, unmanlv and inc!lablv mean course
pursued towards him hv Dr. Powers In lis
NnnIu,I. issued the week before election. hc
stepped out OF his way 50 much as to cnioin
it upon his followers 10 Give ,hcir vote, to Mr..
Shattcr, who declined the nomination tender
cd to him. I he few hundred votes riven Nv
DIR. Powers friends in the district NAV have
defeated Mr. Morrill,! The Doctors motive
mast have been something else beside de-
sire to promote temperance. for M Morrill,.
in theory and practice. is all tina, any sane
Temperance man could ask
1t was not expected tina, all the free >olcr>
in the district would vote for Mr.. Morrill,. for
they were not even asked Ca mistake. in our
.iudg mcnt) to participate in The Convention
hy which he was nominated: vet many of
them did chccrtully vote tor him. Mr. Nor
rill's plurality is about 1000
s. j. s. Morrill, is elected hv 300 mai
4 TINE FOH ALL THINGS
Election is over The cxci,cmcn; raise!
by the warfare of parties and the antagonism
Of principles will very soon sub>idc .\ltcr
a momcn:ary pause men will pursue their
customary avocatons, buy, sell, and Get
gain as usual. Newspapers perhaps, more
than any other opponents of the public tenn
per, feel the force OF the current. 4 great
draft is made upon their columns, often to
exclusion Of much important and Interesting
matter. But Politics, in Republic, taking
State, and dealing with what concerns the
welfare, the freedom even, of every citizen,
stands out prominently as the wcishticst top
ic which can be brought before a people. 1t
ought, therefore, on the regularly recurring
periods when the trccmcn are called upon to
act as legislators, to receive a consideration
corresponding with the magnitude of its
claims.
But in assigning to politics prominent
position, other things fscarccly inferior i'm
port ought not to be excluded Politics are
accorded higher place, and Justly, but the
interests Of society in its thousand relations
should not be put aside by it. All names
that represent the manifold phases OF life can
not be spelled out of the letters that compose
the word. All the complex obligations which
environ mankind-all the oraclcs of Proy;- |
dcncc which shape his destiny-all the max
inns of wisdom which point out the relation
of thngs-all the experience of age which
tcdChcS MN Tie great lessons OF lIfc-thc as
pcct OF humanity in its unnumbcrcd mani
festations,-alI things, in short, which con-
Germs man and the world he lives on-whicb
vii. serve to point moral or adorn talc"-
need to be illustrated Ivy all the wit and the
logic that the strongest and the most cult;-
waited minds can command. Here is \ field
OF vast extent, stretching indefinitely in cv-
cry direction; bounless territory which no
man has taken possession Of; on which no