Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-10-25
Pittsburgh Gazette-Clevelana Leader

onunues cheeflngs Chase IS eleCNd Governor,
n despite Of Know Nolhings-and is therefore
loudly triumphant And this is endorsed by
he Leader as An Homes. Opinion.
Save us from our friends. We can over.
ome our Slave Locofoeos, but when such I
riends as the Gazette steps in to help us, we
,eg leave to decline such assistance. As the
election is now over, We wish TO be a little
Jlain and candid in the outset. as the next
campaign will soon begin: And we want to
snow where we stand and who our friends are:
We often regretted the course pursued by The
Gazette. and sometimes by the Leader in the
late campaign, but refrained from saying
much for fear Of giving an advantage TO our
opponents, save TO predict the success Of the
Slave Democla acy Of Pa, owing to the Repub-
lican leaders fighting windmils But as the
Ohio battle has been fought and the smoke
clearsd away, we desire to take retrospect
tive view of matters, and, if possible, we hope
a better understanding may pref all in the next
campaign between Editors who claim to be or,
gans Of the Republican party.
We would ask the Gazette, the Leader, and
the New York Tribune, where Mr.. Chase
would have got his support without the Know
Nothings? Such folly as the Gazette and Tri-
bune has pursued; has lost them Pennsylva-
mia, and unless they have good luck, it will
lose them New York.
To charge that the Trimbe vote 10 Ohio
was the Know Nothing vote, is untrue, ridic-
ulously SO. 1t is well known, that most of the
Trmbe vote came FROM the pro-shvery Union
saving Wings It's a fact too, that the Know
Nothngs of Ohio are full equal in strength to
the Slave Locofoco party all iod-and that
the great body of Know Nothings merged or
fused with the Free Soiers and Liberal Wings,
which now constitute the Republican party Of
Ohio: And the reason Of our late brilliant sue.
cess is. that all our Republican papers, with
the exception Of the Leader, took conciliatory
course toward the Know NoLhings, indeed re-.
eelved all who opposed the extension Of Sla-
very. Had the Gazette, the Tribune and 9th
er professed Republican papers taken similar
cOuse, there would undoubtedly now be a
better state of things in New York and Penn.
lsylvania--And unless wiser councils prevail,
during the next campaign. we are lost.
The Tribune and Gazette have done their
utmost apparently 20 drive the Know Nothings
| from the Republican ranks-No opprobious
epithets lave been spared-and had not they
possessed the meekness Of Moses, they could
not brook such insults, s,--Oanton Repository.
We adopt the above both in word and in
sentiment. These papers in their zeal to find
fault with the American organlz ltion have o.
vershot the mark. They are not disposed to
give any credit to the Know Nothings in the
late triumph. But it as a fact beyond dispute
that Chase could not have been elected with
out their aid. In fact no State officer can be
elected without the Know Nothing vote. 1t is
more formidable than these opponents are will
ling to believe, aud they need not flatter them
selves shat the American organization has
donO its mission and is derunct, The N. Y
Tribune in speaking Of the result in Ohio
says:
Freedom is triumph ant; Salmon P, Chase
is chosen governor by majority set down at
ten thousandl We had almost concluded to
announce his probable defeat, when our even.
ing dispatch from Cincinnati dispeled the
doubt, and vindicated the loyalty of the Re-
Ipubcans of the Buckeye State in the great
battle where Sham Democracy, Know Moth
ingism and Slavery combined for their defeat.
10 view of the large vote drawn off by Trim
BILE, great portion of which would have gone
to Chase on a straight pull with the Black
Power, this result is most glorious. Set down
the young giant of the " est as good for forty
thousand majority against Slavery extension" :"
What sophstry-ln truth the Tribune is
chargable with downright falsehood or rs
constable ignorance. 'Whero Sham Democ.
facy, Know Nothingism and. Slavery comb.
ned for the defeat of the Republicans. Aston
ishingl 1t well known to every intelligent
citizen in Ohio, that the contrary is the fact,-
The leaders Of the Trimble Movement labored
hard to identify the American Party with them
claiming that it was exclusively an American
organization, but they did not succeed. Mr.
Trimble stood in the same relation to the or.
der that Chase did. And the members of The
order were left perfectly free to act as they
chose in the.premises. The result is the elec.
ton OF Chase and the entire Republican State
Ticket. This looks like Sham Democracy,
Know Nothingism, and Slavery combined
does it? Trimble was not the nominee of The
American Party; But Of boter's convention
composed of Union saving, pro-slsvery Wings
and dsadected Know Nothings--aud received
l'is support from that sOurce-a large majority
Of which were of the former. An analysis Of
the votes of the different counties will sustai n
JUS in this assertion. We claim that Chase is
indebted to the Know .NOthings for his election
aud the American Party in Ohio have pro.
claimed to the world that they for freedom
Fldedom OF conscience-Freedom of Speech
Freedom of the Press--Freedom from the ty
ranny OF Roman Catholicism and Freedom