The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-15
ELECTION RETUKNs.

ELECTION RETURNS.
The result Of the election in Alabama is thus briefly
summed up in the Montgomery Advertiser Of the 18th
| instant:
Our last issue contained sufficient returns TO assure the
reader Of democratic victory in the State We have now
the proud satisfaction of presenting returns which show
triumph to unexampled in the political history OF
Alabama The nothing party ID complete
and overwhelming. f#Nst
swnston elected governor over shorrdge by major
ity of not less than THorsAsol
Dowdell beats Watts for Congress 10 this district by
500a district which, the presidential election of
s4s gave nearly three thousand majority for the whg
ddae.
Shorer beats Afford the Barbour district by large
msoritythe tremendous exeriions OF the War Horse Of
Troup and his friends the contrary notwithstanding.
''Harrss majority Martin in the Coosa district is
overwhelming.
Cobb Is elected Adams in the Madison dsrct-both
anti know nothing democrats.
Houston (an know nothing democracy is elected in the
Lawrence district without opposition.
The -nothng have elected Walker Stalworth
in the Mobile district and Smith Moore in the Tusca
oosa drceo of the delegation of the State instead of
free of them confidently claimed during the
.The returns for the legislature yet incomplete, but
enough is known render certain that majority
joint ballot will be sufficiently large for all useful purposes
We have undoubtedly carried both houses but by what
majority each this days paper. In
next hope to give complete table of the members
elect, their politics, &c.
We will let opponents tell the tale OF their
The Journal of yesterday has the following frank acknow
edgment
.'The rout, sorry to say, has been almost COM
pIete and the SMOKE continues to lift from the field
casualties come to light on all hands.
The delegation from Alabama to the next Congress is
composed follows
| /. Percy Walker, know-nothng
i 2. Eli Shorter, democrat
3. S. w. Hsrris, democrat
4 4. W. r. Smith, probably
i 8. G. S Houston, democrat
/ 6. W. r. w. Cobb democrat
i Z. j. +. DowdeI, democrat
We have nothing additional, by mail or telegraph from
Tennessee Kentucky. The Louisville Times is of the
opinion that Morehcad majority win be il the neighbor
hood of FIVE thousand.
Since the above in type, have received letter
from correspondent in Richmond, Madison county, Ken
lucky (sixth congressional dstric) He that Hon.
]. NJ Elliott democrat is reelected Congress by
ority Of at least five hundred The sixth time
regarded of the strongest whig districts in Ken
lucky.
| THE CHAMPIONS OF PRINCIPLE IN THE FIELD.
we glance the results Of the late elections in the
South there one feature that will fill the heart Of every
democrat with joy-and this is the prominence in the
heat Of tho contest, of the wel-known champions of
WIG uemocIdHC CIeeu IHcre HAS Deen uo uouplHB Oh
their part From the that intolerance upfurled
its black standard, which, like hundercloud, has swept
the northern States every of them with few
expected ercepoas) found his post Some gallant
spirits have been defeated even in the South but many
have noby triumphed 1t thrills with the recollecons
of the days of Old Hickory to see coming back into their
the national legislature such heroes of hegood
George W. Jones of Tennessee Benjamin Fitzpatrick Of
i ~ Alaho Cob &c
Georgia. Burton Crage of North Carolina John s. Phelps
of Missouri, James L. Orr Of South Carolina. Nor are
these the only the Congress of the nation by
the orthodox and Unionoving people of the South Their
efforts viii be aided by young energetic spirit who
been taught their political lessons in the school,
who for the with their Nor
have the free States been backward in their contributions
Richardson again from Illinois, Florence and Jones
from Pennsylvania, English from Indiana, Fuller from
Maine, Vail from New Jersey Wells from Wisconsin;
and these in turn supported by numbers of anew
men, in the political ready for the engencies of
future
But where the leaders of opposing crceds who,
in former times glad to recognise in these men
1foeme worthy of their steel ~ They either left out
OF the count else have sold themselves society
of consprators. The patriots of the wing party have
tween who falsely lead that party and
the high priests Of the midnight lodges Those who af
feet to represent that party either ncapabes or
T fanatics either the abolitioniss of the North the
know-nohings of the South John L. Taylor, of Ohio,
refuses sanction the attempt and his example is that
Of E. Wilder Farley and George Evans, of Maine w.
B. Reed of nsylvania and host of others could
name in the free States.
Such is the contrast between those who adhere prn-
f cple and those who desert it.
4 FALSE DEMOCRATS WANDERING AFTER FALSE
n GODS.
We have disposition to exult beaten PROSTATE
foe; but when prominent democrats upon whom honors
and rewards had been heaped with lavish hands, repud-
ae principles, ties and forsake associations in the
expectation that they bright future Of their
the expense of the party which had warmed them
into political existence it would be well inquire
how they have fnred in their wanderngs after strange
gods. At time there few which stood
higher and brighter than the of Hon. Jeremiah Glenn
ems, of Alabama Brilliant talents, and supposed devo-
ton TO democratic principles elevated him in the
United States Senate at time OF life when cand-
dates for public honor passing through their novita