The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-29
The ELEcuoNs-THE QUESTION TO BIZ DE-
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/ 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
ma iority Of nearly twenty thousand of the pop
ular vote over General Scotland in all Of
them the result has been disastrous to the Ad-
ministration.
In 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, as is proved by the fail
ure to elect Its fAvorite candidates to the Uni
ted States Senate, and to pass resolutions sane
tioning its policy on the Nebraska Question
! 1t must be recollected, too, that the election
took place in March, before the passage of the
Bill, and while the Administration papers were
strenuously insisting that it was not regarded
! as a 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 the Administration, and
in the return Of Legislatures which passed deci-
ded Anti-Slavery resolutions, that OF Connect
cut at the same time sending to the United
States Senate two Auti-Nebraska and Anti
Slavery Senator'S.
The only other important election was that
| in Philadelphia in which the Nebraska CUES
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 1t 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
! InteLigencer and o 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, condemGing the outrage, but invoking
! Northern men, now that it is accomplished, to
let it alone, to be acquiescent. They may cling
with doting fondness to the dream of a Nation
al Wing Party. The men Of the North and
West now know what Is necessary to their
| rights, their honor, and their security. Their
first duty is, to punish treason and reward
| fdelity-ther second, to obtain indemnity for
the Past and security for the Future, by filling
Congress with honest, steadfast, clear-sighted,
liberty loving Representatives-theirt 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 &C
complishment of the purposes specified, they
will make this Question an issue in the cleo
tons that are 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-frst Monday in August.
California-Tuesday after first Monday in
September.
Maine-second Monday in September.
Vermont-frst Tuesday in September.
Pennsylvsnia--sccond Tuesday in October
Ohio do. do.
Indiana do do.
Massachusetts-second Monday in Novem-
Der.
New YOrk-Tucgday after first Monday in