Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-15
From the Auburn q. " Daily American
A brilliant Triumph.


ABriIIiant Triumph.
The Americans of Auburn fought a tremendous
battle yesterday, aud won splendid victory. They
took the field with a strong and popular ticket,
and were met, at every point by fearful odds.
The enemy put up bis best men and exercised
ceasing efforts to elect them. The fat had gone
forth that Auburn must be redeemed" from Ameri-
cdnism. hr. Seward commanded it. Hon Chris
topher Norgan-an old politician, and personally
a popular man, and the most formidable it was pos
sible for Fusion" and BLACK Republcansm" TO
put on the course-was nominated for Mayor Mr..
Morgan has held high places of honor and trust in
this State and in his whole political career has been
almost uniformly successful. He is now, as he has
ever been, the embodiment of Sewardism. He
faithfully represented Mr.. Seward and the blacklist
shade OF "Back Repubcanism." That party con-
centrsted its entire strength upon him. Their Ut
most efforts were put forth in his behalf Money
was poured out like water. No stone was left un-
turned-Voters were bought like cattle. Voters
we're raked out of the jail We believe Fort Hill
Cemetery was the only place that was not ransack-
ed for voters. But il all in vain The Amer
lean phsan1 was inVincible, and breasting the
shock of battle" manfuIly without the use Of
money, with ouly bon fde American electors met
the enemy at every pOInt, and gloriously oVertame
him.
so Auburn comes out Of one of the. most 6ercely
through, most gloriously American! The triumph
is a great, brilliant, and substantial one. The
men elected to fill the different City aud Ward ots
fees VINO are Americans, amoeg our ablesL aud
best mrn
Our friends, here and throughout the State and
the country, have abundant reason to congratulate
themselves over this signal result. The home Of
Mr. Seward, represented in its candidate for chief
magistrate by one OF his Oldest and strongest
a.. NJ vic md
principles aud his former law partner, has molly
and triumphantly res-ted the very head and front
of BLACK RepublicaEism," aud upon almost exclu-
sigely National issues has come out OF the contest
triumphant Four times successfully has Auburn
declared herself American. She is permanently,
thoroughly, nvincIby, American, The result
Yesterday is full Of hope aud good cheer for the
future. Il as the first gun ia the PresidsntiaI con-
fest +! and i. sounds well IL has a clear and un
broken ring to it, and will not fail to animate the
hearts of our friends everywhere,
At every poll our friends worked steadily and
faithfully all the day long, although it was stormy
and tempestuOus one. They stood manfully by
their party, their principles and their candidates
and closed their labors with the proud satisfaction
of having won a victory Black Republicans,
conyicts, paupers, aliens and money.
AUBURN Is STILL AMERICAN -!
Glory enough for one day!!!
She sends greetings to all her sister cities, andto
the Americans everywhere. Brethren-Three
times three for Auburn aud the home of Mr.. Sew
ard, il you pleese
The result is thus summed up:
An American Mayor9
An American City Clerk.
An American Police Justice.
An American City Marshal.
An American Collector.
Two American CITY ConstAbles.
Three American Supervisors.
Three American Aldermen.
In fact, the Americans swept nearly the whole
board So much tor Auburn