Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-17
ALABAMA ELECTIONS.
The Democracy Triumphant

The Montgomery Advertiser of Thursday says
The election news is so good that scarcely know
how to chronicle it, except thus:
Dowdell is elected to Congress over Watts!
Fielder (Dem.) beat Pratt Ok. NJ for the Senate
from the District of Autauga and Montgomery.
Jackson (Dem). elected to the Legislature from
Auau,ga over McWhOrter, * NJ
The Anti-Know- Nothings and Democrats have
carried Misunderstanding Bacon to the Senate
McLemOTe.
We carry Talladega by some three hundred for all
our candidates.
Indeed, it is useless to give particulars. Where
Sam" thought himself strongest, he finds that he
was weakest. His defeat in the State is signal and
overwhelming, Judging from the complexion OF the
returns so far received.
In Coosa county, the entire Democratic ticket has
been elected. Majority for Winston and Harris, 400
to 500.
In spite of the prophecies of the Mail, and the
boasts of the Know Nothings, the unterritied have
elected their whole ticket from Governor to Tax As
SCISSOR, by ma orty of three hundred in Taladega.
The most astonishing gains are shown, indeed, IN
every part of the State. The Montgomery Journal
K. NJ, makes the following handsome confession:
The Democracy-we must make the painful ad-
MISSIONS walking elate and triumphant, rough
shod, on soil never before pressed by loco foot
and in sections where counted ma orities by
hundreds.
in the Montgomery District, Dowdel is elected by
500 majority. The extent of our victory in this
Judged from the results of previous elections. In
1910, the Wing ma critics in the five counties was
1857 il 1914, eleven hundred and sixty nine, and
in Is 49, twenty-sY hundred and sixty! In 1852,
Pierce obtained ma ority of the votes cast but the
Wings did not bring their organization to bear IN
favor of Scott. The Democrats have always conce-
ded Wing majority in the District not less than
one thousand.
"Honor to whom honor is DUE adds the same
journal in another place. Much praise is due TO the
Wings of the old Clay school who fought with the
Democracy in the late contest for civil and reg
liberty against political and religious intolerance
They lave illustrated in practice the principles de-
clared by their illustrious chief in his speech on
South American affairs in the House of Representa-
tives and in speeches delivered IN the Sen
ate chamber and elsewhere.
We must also give all due credit to the numerous
supporters OF our ticket who seeded from the Know
Nothing Order after they had become convinced oil
its real objects and tendencies knowing, as they
did, the proscrptve and tyrrancal disposition OF the
controlling spirits of the organization, they eVnced
in their withdrawal patriotic frmness, fearless
ness of personal consequences, worthy OF all com
mendatOn.
Nor should we withhold from our adopted fellow
citizens the compliment to which they are justly en-
titled AS they were he predestined objects OF the
vengeance" of Know-Nothingism, we expected their
cooperation as matter of course. They did not
disappont US. They conducted themselves at the
polls in a quiet and orderly manner, and voted as
principle, selfrespect, and seltpreserVaon dictated