The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-21
From The cinelnasu Enquirer.

EVERY STATE HAS GONE DEMoCRAflC.-Ap DEM
oCRATIC PRESIDENT CERTAIN TO RE ELECTED
IN 1856.
The results Of the State elections in 1854 and 1855 have
been of the extraordinary character witnessed
in politics Never before there such violent and
tremendous changes in public opinion In the hrt-named
year. by combination Of all the fanatea isms and dis
tarbng elements of society," by appeals TO popular passion
and prejudice the democratic party OF the country was
buried under the weight of such terrible adverse major
tiles that it seemed to be literally 'crushed out" From
Maine to Georgia all its stronghods had been stormed and
taken and OF some hundred and forty members Of
Congress elect but twenty thry-odd adhered to It's
apparently desperate fortune,
In the South although elections had been held the
indications about unpromsing and threatening to
political friends Dark and gloomy as was the po-
cal horizon in 1870 it blaeker and more threatening
in 1854 10 every lover of weegulated constitutional no
ery. Many of the friends of the Union and OF civil and
religious liberty looked aghas the prospect before them
Those fell political diseases abotonism and know-nohing
ISM had taken such deep in the public mind that it
seemed impossible to eradicate them in time to preserve
the democracy the integrity Of this Union San
guine and hopeful in temperament, and almost
unbonnded is confidence in the judgment and
capacity of the people, must confess that we shared
to some extent these apprehensons
The factions which riong in triumph over us we
knew to be the evil and perneious political oganz
tons that reared their heads in this land and their
leaders the most INSCRIPTIONS and infamous Foru-
nate it is for the country that the presidential election did
not take place in the autumn of 1854 for if it bad fna
cism would have trumphed the constitution been subver
ed and the land probably drenched in the blood Of civil
The years which interviewed before that event
have been the salvation of the country The public mind
has had time to revive from its political dsemper The
aroxysm of passion and prejudice which caused it 10 cut
such absurd political tanrums has passed away, leaving
the patient in reasonable and rejecting condition
The future historian will always down the result Of the
election in 1854 species of political lunacy which
prevalent in the land and which for time threatened the
drest consequences to the peace of the country
The first important ray of light which shot ahwart the
political sky the democratic triumph in Virginia in
May 1856 That the flag ship of the democratic feet
which had yet struck her colos and the capture OF
which would give the hosts Of fanacsm and error
plee and final victory With the loud vaunt of antic
pated success they rolled down upon her and prepared to
scale her hitherto invncble bulwarks Clear and shri
the note of defiance given by her democratic and
their gallant leader, Henry A. Wise When the smoke of
the contest had cleared away the banner of democracy
and Of civil and religious liberty still floating from the
masthead of the Old Dominion amid laundering cheers
while the hosts of bigory falling back, routed and
discounted, toward the North.
After this glorious and brilliant result the political sky
began rapidly to clear of the black elements of dnaic;
disappear from the heavens. The tide commenced
ming against the enemies of democracy ressessly it
had set in their favor in 1854 Everywhere their lcgions
Carolina staunc and true responded to the voice of Vr
gina and rolled up eight thousand democratic majority
Johnson democrat after desperate struggle carried Ten
nessea by two thousand majority Alabama thnn-
derng with eleven thousand for the Of civil and
gous liberty and the friends Of democracy carried Texas
by eight thousand Illinois had previously been
redeemed in june by majority amounting to many thou
sands
kentucky, the "dar and bloody ground only
red by opponents after the preparation OF atrocities
Louisville that made humanity shndder, and which strong
y contributed to roll with mphtier impetus the demo-
cratic ball that sweeping the country. Maine gave
fanaticsm Waterloo blow in what considered its
mpregnabe stronghold by elecng democratic governor
and legislature by sweeping majority. Georgia, the En-
pire State of the South has TO the with dem
ocatic governor by thousand majority democratic
members OF Congress, and democratic legislature. Ind
ana--saunch and UnionloviEg lndianaas lowered the
black flag Of the sms and up the democratic standard
with the shouts and the appreciation of the majority
of her population Pennsylvania, the "keystone of the
arc has been brought back to her position and the dem
ocratic fabric rests a solid foundation.
The democratic in Pennsylvania is the inn
portant demonstration yet and destroys every hope the
allied army Of intolerance and bigotry may have had of
carrying the presidential election in 1856. Without the
mighty voice of old "Penn the election of abolition
governor in Ohio will be but barren sceptre in their
grasp Let post the book of the elections in 1856
The following are the democratic States