The true Democrat., 1855-06-05
The Democratic Triumph.


 The election in Virginia has passed over and the telegraphic reports we have, leave no doubt of the triumph of the democratic nominee, over the midnight consprators, by a tremendous ma- iority. Never was State election looked to with deeper interest than the one just holden in Virginia The stake was a great one It was the first bold and real issue with Know Nottingham. It was the first contest wherein the true issues were laid bare to the popular eye and freely discussed. It was the first real trial of the principles of Know Kothinglsm.- It was the first real trial of their strength. In no previous election had their creed and articles of belief been canvassed. In all prior elec- tions they had won by their silence. Under the cover of secrecy and midnight conspracies they had carried their tickets The public knew nothing of their principles and they knew not whence came the blow. All was dark, un- certain and mystical.
 1 In Virginia from the very outset the issue was made. The democracy put their candi- date early in the field. They selected Henry A. Wise as their standard bearer, and sent him forth to the conflict with their endorsement and their prayers He took the field and from every stump were heard the clarion tones of his eloquent voice i'll exposure and denuncation of the dark lantern conspiracy. Heriddled Know Nottingham on every feld-he overwhelmed the conspirators in every conflict.
 The result is now known. The democracy, true to the old land marks-true to their prn- ciples and their national organization has come out covered with glory. The race is won the victory is theirs. They have conquered, as of yore, by the force of the justice and truth of their principles. They have laid Know Nothing gism-this otf-shot of northern abolition ism-forever on the shelf
 The Virginia election has, from the first, ex- cited the deepest interest, because It gene rally conceded that, upon the issue there, de- pended the future existence of Know Nothing ism. Though We looked forwarded to the con- test in Virginia with great interest, we did not attach to 1t the importance given it by the Know Nothing papers. True, we knew that defeat there would prove fatal to the order, but we never, for one moment, thought that a victory could save them. The seeds of their dissolution are already taking root. The order is already divided into factions bitter and unre- lenti' z. Its efforts at standardization had fail cd. Uncompromsiug abolitionists in the north sending to Congress nothing but free soil Se- nators and members of the lower house-it was H., forr r,nb la terogeneous mass to haug together long. They were already doomed party. Their midnight pledges and oahs could not save them. South em men will not cooperate with northern abo- ltionists.
 But while we protest that a victory could not have saved them, we must confess that their defeat in Virginia has wonderfully accelerated their downfall. They have now lost that pres tage of lnvinclbility which they before enjoyed. l They now stand before the world as fallable beings, subject to all the casualties that flesh is heir to-" They have lost that terribleness which mystery always threw around them.- The Virginia democracy have stripped them of their mysterious garments and held them up to the world as samples of weak human nature. Their day is over-their race is run. Long be- fore the next Presidential contest, for which they were 50 busily preparing, scarcely corpo. ral's guard will be found to announce the cXis- tence of mysterious Know Nottingham. ! The contest in Virginia and the contest now waging in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and other southern States, show the firm, un- yielding and stubborn devotion of the great de- mocratic party to it's principles It is never car rcd off by ew-langlcd notions or new hedged isms. In every contest, it has remained true. It has not even descended to change of name Under the same banner the same name and the same principles, it has fought every ism started, from the days of Jefferson down to the present tme It desires no conceament and it requires none. It has never attempted to deceive-it has never resorted to humbuggery. Open as the day, with its principles blazoned upon its banners the democracy have entered every contest and come out--almost invariably the vctors.
 The Virginia election has settled Know Nottingham. Wise rides over the ruins of their hopeS into the Executive Mansion of Virginia. there to carry out the motto of "Americans should rule Amcrica''-not however in the mar row, bigotted and contracted sense of the Know Nothings-but in the broad liberal interpreta- ton given it by the democracy making this a land of freedom and religious toleraton, and an yum for the oppressed.
 United States Mediation.
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