Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1855-10-18

turned a second time to the heading of
the paper to see if there was not some
mistake about it. And the reader will
he no less as'onishcd than we wore to
learn that it is from the old Boston Cour-
ier, of the l7lh inst. Such truths from
such "A source are among the wonderful
things of the age. The Courier is deul-
INC tusionisn some pretty heavy blows
nowadays .-ED.
The ELEcTioNs AND THEIR CoNsE-
,ouENcEs.-It may be as well for those
persons who watch the reiluXcs of the
oolitical tides TO mark the returns Of the
October elections. In Indiana we have
full returns from II couutlvs, all but
two of which give large maJor',les for
the Democratic candidates, aud of these
two ono throws fusion majority of 200
and the other of 50. The Democratic
maiorites in the other Is counties heard
rom amount 10 1859. Last year the
| Democratic maj oritles in these counties
amounted TO 0lS, while the Fusion ma
ioriies in the same counties last year
we're Alb, aud the Democratic relative
grin is SLY.
Pennsylvania has been battle ground
for many years between the wings and
democrats Sometimes one party pre-
vailed and sometimes another, but the
! Democrats were the strong party IN the
State, and they have generally been IN
the ascendancy In the late election,
the Democrats adopted the national flag,
while their opponents took the tri-color-
ed signal of Aboltionists proper, W hls
Fusionists and Native Americans. This
latter combination was defeated, and
the Democrats triumphed, as triumph
they always will, in most OF the States
of the North, when there is question
brought up between the friends and OPP
poHents of the Union.
In Ohio the Fusionists triumph, ba a
decreased majority. They carry every
thing before them in the Buckeye State
and in all the October elections Ohio
alone sustsins the Fusion flag and the
Abolition doctrines of the Fusion party
The new party has no back to 1t al
all when it is deprived of the assistance
of the great states of Pennsylvania ant
Indiana. And besides this, the party
has no bottom anywhere at the Nortl
: which it can reckon upon as stan'
point. Maine has already decided
against fusion: .N'ew York, with thu
straight Wings, Hard Democrats ant
Philadelphia platform Know No,hings
will decide against it; New Jersey will
, decide against it, for there was neve
an Abolition party in the State which
, could throw respectable vote; Cali
fornia is opposed tooth and nail, to tn
, whole Abolition concern. Michigan an
r Illinois would without doubt go for
5 Democratic candidate for the Preslden
cy in a straight vote between Democra
cy and Aboitonsm.
Here is plan ofthe campaign OF lS5t
+ IL the Democratic party 90 into ina
, campaign with the Union on their side
4 and the Aboltionists on the other, the
= will beat the latler as badly as they boo
Gen. Scott at the last election. Th
Know NolhlnS party Is no halio''d' P"''
o at all, and it will not be alive yea
; hence for any purpose of good or evil
: There is nothing which the which tn
l Wings of Massachusetts can stand
: honorably, except their own faith an
I their own principles, There is noth'n
, which they can look to with hope {
ultimate success, outside of their ow
: party. The factions will be broken
pieces, for they cannot unite together,
The idea of creating great Norther
party passes away with the elections !
y Indiana and Pennsylvania. No sue
party can be formed which has the elt
msnts of any strength within 1t, and tn
i men who join in it are sure to be IN
& minority in their day and generation