Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-19

l1th FalrnelQ, Gc.s v. ID. nOIIOn,
18th 81 Franklin, &C., S. Galloway,
18th o. Richland, &C., J. Sherman,
18th {" Lorain, &C., Philemon Bliss,
18th " Knox, &C., W. R. Sapp,
18th +" Muskingum, &C., E. Ball,
18th T" Belmont, &C., C. j. Albright,
18th 80 Stark, &C., B. F. Letter,
18th =" Cuyahoga, &c, E. Wade.
goth +" Ashtabula, &C., J. R. Gid
E dings,
21st Harrison, &c., J. A. Bingham.
1t viii be seen by the above that Ohio
sends an, undivided Anti- Nebraska Dele
cation to Congress. The triumph has
been complete.
The State Journal gives the following
on the causes that have produced this
great change;
1t would be idle to claim for mere
party any of the great results of the
late Election. The causes that have
moved the public mind lie deeper than
the allegiance to party. There has
never been felt in any election In this
State less of what is understood by drill
and discipline than in that which has
just passed, and yet we have never wit
messed among the people on any occa-
sion more thorough determination to
change their rulers and the public poll
cy.
Our good friends of the Slave De-
mocracy-(we use the term in no often
sive sense, but as one expressive of their
principles and conduct )-may try to
evade the true reading of the verdict,
by charging their defeat to this imagina-
ry cause, and to that secret influence;
but they should recollect that every ef-
feet has real cause Men are not
aroused to action-persevering and con-
sistent aetion-without a good reason
provoking them. An imaginary grieV-
ance, mistake, may produce a spas
modic movement; but we do not see a
whole people-by townships, by coun
ties, by States, thrown into violent COM
motion without serious cause moving
them thereto.
While we claim that the monstrous
Legislation in Congress has been mainly
instrumental in arousing the public in
dignatlon in this State, we are bound to
admit that other causes have operated
largely in bringing about this great
revolution. The repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was the crowning act of
series of movements on the part of the
Slave power; and in claiming for it the
chief influence in arousing the conserya-
tive Republican spirit of the country,
we are supported by the effect which
that act has produced on all the nom
Slaveholding States of the confederacy.
But, in this State, the unwise Legis-
iation of the two last years; the waste
full management of our Public Works;
the radical and nullifying decisions of
our Courts of law, have each had their
effect in bringing about the present
change. The popular mind is easy
under a good administrator of public
affairs; it becomes careless and indiffer-
ent, and suffers demagogues under one
specious pretext and another to displace
tried and faithful servants. There is
no excitement in such changes; they are
accomplished because of the absence of
excitement, or if any should be at
tempted, it is got up on some abstrac-
ton, some immaterial issue, and the
people are never enlightened as to what
great principle has been established or
what public interest advanced by the
change. Nor is it necessary. The
Democratic party" has triumphed,
and is not that enough?
Not So on the present occasion. The
causes that we have enumerated had
been silently operating and doing their
perfect work, and when the blow was
struck in Congress which broke down
the compromise between Freedom and
Slavery, there had accumulated griev-
ances of domestic kind sufficient to
have brought about change of State
Government at the next election of State
officers. Should we wonder then at the
whirlwind which, under this accumula-
ton of abuses by our State and National
Governments. has swept everything be-
fere it? The rejecting mind connects
the cause and the effect. and renews his
confidence in the intelligence of the
people, and the perpetuity of the princi-
pies of Republican Government.
What then has been decided by the
late contest?
lst. That the Federal Government
shall return to the policy which was in
augurated by the adoption of the FEEDER
al Constitution in relation to Slavery
and its adjuncts, and that the Legislation
OF Congress shall conform to the prin-
ciple that this Government was estab-
lished to promote Freedom, and not
Slavery.
I'd. That in relation to our State af-
fairs. we shah return to an economical
expenditure of the public revenue
that the burdens shall be reduced, and
taxes equalized--that our legislation
shall be directed to Development q