Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-12-18
The Result in Ohio.

IStsn6enville Union. It declares the
truth. and nothing else but the trulhs-
The Union is<conducted by Hon. An
DREW SruART, a member OF the XXXllld
Congress; and true man as walks
the enrth today:
In looking oyersthe field, the Democracy
have nothing with which to reproacli them
selves. They fought the battle with vigor
and energy seldom eequalledr and never sur.
passed. Such exertion could not have failed
10 bring us such success in ordinary times -
The cause of o,r success lies outside and beyond
| the limits Of this State and is to be attributed
solely to TIE action af tie National Administra
tion. TO Franklin Pierce and his foolish 0dri
sers, do the Democracyof Ohio ope their reper.
ses for the ftco past elections. In defiance Of
his own pledges, and of the pledges Of the
| party which elected him, without petition
IRON State, local or municipal body, or from
single individual, they caused the clause
prohibiting slavery in our western territories,
contained in what is known as the Mlssonr
Compromise, to be repealed. Worse still, they
permitted their own humbug OF "popilor SOY.
ereipnty' to be rendered by-word and re-
proach b. Missouri mob without attempting
to raise finger in It's defence. They removed
Gov. Reeder on the ground of specuiatng in
Indian lands. nine months after those specula-
tions had been vainly urged upon them as good
reasons for his removal; and when finally re-
moved. that the real reason was because OF MS
sympathies for the Free State party. They ap
| pointed an Ohioan in his place, who had vo'
| ted for the repeal OF the Missouri Compromise,
against the wishes Of his constituents; and
worse still, man in whom The people ol THIS
State had no confidence, and who was there
| fore generally believed to have made the Tool
sh declarations which our opponents per,iiac-
ously, though falsely, ascribed TO HIM
| These things were to much Tor the people
of the north to bear. They took fire, and no
reasoning trouM conpince them that the Admin.
iskration eieciedas Democratic ,cas not the Dem
ocyuiie PARTY. The party was held responsible
| for the acts of its agents, and the north was
carried against il by unprecedented mai critics.
| In Ohio the legislature was Democratic, but
the outraged feelings Of ou- people could find
no voice through it TO speak word OF reion-
STRANGE and warning 10 the powers al wash
ineton. Certain aspirants after federal patron
age managed 10 silence il. and also 10 control
the action of the sth Of January Convention.
That Convention, under pretence OF condenil-
| ing the Nebraska bill, for the first lime put
the party in Ohio on the Baltimore platform
not fairly, not squarcly, but in w'ily-wonty.
canny- -canty, ridiculous way-one resolution
pledgng us to agitate the slavery question and
another not to ag,tate it! The election came
on, and the splendid Democratic majority OF
90. 900 the year previous was buried under the
unheard of majority Of $1,000 for the oppos
ton Congressional ticket. That certainly
should have taug hit our platform makers that
| the people would not anctlOn what was al
most UNANIMOUSLY believed to be great wrong
| lust because they and the Administration salt
so but it did not. The eighth Of Januar,
came again, and again We had the Baltimore
platform. This time there was no pfetcnce
| that it's adoption was 10 censllre The Admins
traton, but in the same hash with it came
resolution endorsing franklin Pierce. We
have mads the race-made it with herculear
! exertion-and the result is seen.
We shall probably be met here with the as
serlon that the know nothing organization.
has beaten the Democracy, That is parill
true !; but the knop nothing organisation is itsel
the effect of the causes zoe hape been enumerat
ing. lT GREW oUT OF THE INTENSE SLAYER
EXCITEMENT so pantoniy created BY Presiden
Pierce. Had the public mind been at rest
had the Administration pursued the straigh
path marked out in the pledges upon which
came into power, and those which il snb;e
Quently made-the proscfiptives and bigot
could have made no inroads upon our solit
ranks. The moment was propitious one 70
the know nothing leaders. They found mel
anxious to give the Administration crushin
rebuke, put forward their lodges as the means
and without considering, and sometimes with
out understanding. the scope and bearing O
the obligations imposed. the people rushed in
| Whatever Of importance the know nothing or
ganization has attained in the north, may there
fore be primarily traced to the Administration
We might amplify proofs on this point, bl
shall only direct public attention to the south
That portion of the Union was satisfied wit
General Pierces Nebraska policy, and the
know nothingiSm, notwithstanding the man
advant ages Of sectional nature which it hold
ont to the southern peopie,-has sustaine
crushing reverses nt nearly every eleclion.-
81 far from know nolhingrsm having been tn
means of our defeat. we MAINTAIN that til
gains Of the Democracy are to be attribute
to the existence of that organization. In tn
contest Just closed the republicanS and kno'
nothings coalesced, presenting the singuia
spectacle Of an opposition laborlns at one an
the same time for the prospective elevation
negroes in Kansas, and for the immediate deg
radiation of all the catholic and foreign whit
men in our midst. The Democracy dlstovere
} that the know nothngsm was the weak pom
in their delences Of their opponents, ana cel
tered their fire there: while the opposlllo
, Just as clearly saw that Nebraska was our wea
point, and held US responsible for the SINS {
The Administration. Our handsome gains
this state are to be attributed to the popul;
detestation Of know nothngism that we di
not carry the state is TO be attributed to the dc
testatlon of the people FOR the Kansas .NebrasR
iniguity. Had know nothinglsm been kept er
! 1v NJ of hn 10 th,.