Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-28
THE LATE ELECTIONS.

There is so wide diversity of opinion among
party papers in regard to the political character of
the recent elections SO disastrous to some party
other, (perhaps the Union tell US which, that
we think it right to give readers the nterpreta
tions furnished by the organs of all. So we sub
join that of the Secession organ Of South Carolina.
PROM THE CHARLESTON MERCURY OF OCTOBER IL.
The ELECTIONS We have returns enough from Penn
syvana Ohio and Indiana to show that in those States
the Democratic party has been defeated by great maori
ties This much is certain but it is quite appar
ent what party it is which has gained the victory
majority Of the successful candidates Whigsa sort
of Whgsand that party lays claim to the achievement
majority Of them also Freesoilers and we
oordngy assured that the result Is expression of the
North against the Nebraska bill But nearly if quite
all of these fortunate candidates were Know-Noth
ings the nominees Of that association and So with
still greater reason it may be proclaimed the triumph
Of the Protestant the Catholic and the native
the foreign elements of the Northern population There
still further the Mane-L -LiqucrLaS party, that
eugeress and effect and will
probAby>lay claim to full share Of the victory All
these elements that have worked together in the States
mentioned trying hard to amalgamate in New York.
and may achieve equally signal success there.
The moral of the whole is that parties at the North
utterly dsorganized that the factions led by
an infnty of hungry demagogucs, who, for the time
being have been able to coaesce and that sudden and
astounding has rewarded the most unprncpled
combination of factions that history has exhibited
But this combination has recognised leaders, acno-
edged common Objects and is held together By bond BAT
the desire Of 1t commonly happens that is
fatal to all organizations which not founded upon
great popular and enduring principles and is dangerous
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psrmanency Of this combination. But the discovery has
been made that by nominating set Of candidates who
court all the manysided weaknesses of the people
who burn incense before all the idols Of the day
who swallow all the pledges that voters choose to
present. who counterfeit every popular passion
grmace responsive to every prejudice of the mob there
certainty Of temporary success and this discovery
not likely to lie unmproved the waste Of political life
We shall next have candidate for the Presidency who
will represent the Governors of Maine and Pennsy
vana now do, the Wings, the anCatholics, the Native
Americans, the Abolitionsts, the Freesoers the Maine
Law folks, and perhaps the Spirrappers, Mormons and
Merites. Then, hurrah for the Union
| Now, with all due Difference, we think the Wings
have been sufficiently modest on this subject We
read many Wing papers in the course of day, and
yet we can scarcely remember one of them which
claims the overwhelming routs in the States men
toned as any thing more than Democratic defeats
If it required all the "odds and ends" in union
with the Wings to bring about result SO disas
trous to the Democracy, will it not require the same
sort Of materials to give that party victory? AND
if "a little eayen leaveneth the whole lump" and
brings odium upon the Wing name and cause
would not return Of these inconguous elements
to the Democratic fold-from which unquestionably
they have sprung produce the same deleterious
effects upon the old organization?
| Denuncation Of the people as factions" ever
for the indulgence Of whim caprice, is scarcely
gracious the part of those who have been so long
sustained by ad captandum appeals.