New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-16
CALIFORNIA ELECTION -spIENDID TRIUMPH.


splendid triumph at their recent State election
Their victory, on the 9th inst, was complete and
overwhelming utterly routing the Antics ana
driving them from the field upon which they
| entered with exultont and defiant boasts me
| Americans have elected their candidate LOT
Governor, Mr.. J. N. johnson, by cyer hye thou
sand notes.-the largest majority ever given IN
California for any political officer They have
1 elected their State ticket by about the same
average majority They have elected a majority
| Of the Senators and large majority of the
Representatives, which give them undisputed
control of the Legislature, and secures the
election of an American United States Senator
These are results very valuable in themselves,
and very gratifying to the mind Of every pa
triot. They would warrant o shout Of en-
thusiasm; but, as Americans are little in
cHned to noisy demonstrations, or obstreperoua
rejocings, zoe are satisfied with merely recording
| the fact that our golden and glorious sister on
| tho Pacific slope Of the continent-the youngest
| as we'll as the fairest daughter Of the Confede-
racy--sends back 10 Louisiana high aalntations
of cheer and encouragement, and bids her good
speed in the noble work in which she is engaged
| There is meaning and an application in this.
| to the Americans of Louisiana, which does not
apply to the Americans Of any other State.
The Americans of California received their rit-
1 ual from the Americans of Louisiana! Under
it they organized under it they have worked
and under 1t they have triumpked! That ritual
asserts absolute religious tolerance, and halls
every native as brother, who acknowledges no
| authority on earth superior to the Constitution
Of the United States, and the Constitution Of the
State in which he resides.
| Except in California, the question Of Ameri-
canism has never been brought fairly and
squarely before the people for determination
we mean in States where elections have been
held. In Virginia, sthe fanaticism Of Flournoy
| caused thousands to vote against him. It was
not so much the strength of Wise that elected
him, as the weakness Of his opponent. In Geor-
gia the party was sold by Stephens, Toombs 8
Co., although it made such a showing as clearly
indicates victory when it has fair chance, as
II will have, next year And in Ohio and Penn
sylvania, there were so many combinations and
issues that the main question exercised little or
| no influence The Abolitionists, and all the
isms and factions, united against the Amer
| loans!
But, in California, where the principle,
whether Americans shall rule America was
plainly put, boldly argued and defended, we
have triumphed beyond our most sanguine
expectations The inherent strength of the
principle carried it through, as would have
been the case in many other States had it not
been hampered and weighed down by extraneous
issues. The victory in the one case is due to
the doctrine-the disaster, in the other cases,
to the circumstances we have mentioned. Our
friends will avoid these Scyllas and Charybdisses
in future. @@
We send back cordial greeting to our Califor-
MIA friends. and beg to assure them that Louisi-
aua will be all right in November that the
American flag will foat in Respondent triumph
throughout our domain-fulIy vindicating aud
sustaining the noble principles we transmitted
10 them, which they have so gloriously enforced
Of this there is no doubt Our Order now
numbers a large majority Of the legal voters Of
the State, and is daily, hourly augmenting.
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ABOLITION AND DIsuSroN.-The following ex-
tracts are from that ineidious Freesoil organ Of
Seward & Co, the New York Times.
sThs cause of Abolition will be saved centuries of
struggle and toll by tha secession of South from the
Union should that ever occur.
g The Union dissolved, the black blood of slave
States adjoining this Northern frontier would instantly
experience ruinous depletion, In such condition Of
thiDgs slave property be roo fugitive valuable
The institution must die Of exhaustion. Emancipation
and the introduction Of free labor will be necessary
measures and as there longer be any bonds Of
unity with the seryie system the proongato of which
the Southern organization designed should have all
these frontier States Virginia included seeking
sion the Northern alliance For fugitive slaves we
should have fugitive States az the process would
tend constantly push the beratng line nearer TO the
water line Of the Gulf of Mexico, it would be merely
question OF time to the entire reabsorpton Of the
ding soveregntes and the refrigeration Of the Union
the sound basis Of real freedom aud equality,
A ootemporary says, let the South read and
ponder these outgiyings we'll May it not be
that the Abolitionists Of the North are endeay-
oring to sggravate the South to the point Of se-
cession, as the initial step toward the ultimate
contamination Of the abolition Of Southern sla-
very, in the way here.plalnly indicated And.
may 1t not be, after all, the true policy of the
South to stand by the Federal Constitution and
laws, as prescribed in the American platform Z
Certain we are that, if the whole South and the
conservative constitutional men Of the North
will place themselves upon that platform, there
will then be no danger to be apprehended for
the rights Of the South--no danger Of disnnion
mo danger Of the triumph Of Abolitionism-
no danger of the election Of Seward to the Pres
idency--and no danger but what the good old
fraternal feeling will be speedily restored
The path Of duty, the path Of patriotism, and
the path Of safety is open to the Southern peo-
pie. That path leads them directly into the
American ranks Every true southerner should
seek to tread in that path.
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