Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
The Result.

The Result
Therei Is no doubtthatJa James Buchanan
is elected 70 the Presidency. and tn.
manner of bis election, the states BY
whose v5te he has been elected, have
removed the last vestige of his claims to
be q national candidate. and of his rarity.
to be snational party. The slave States,
with one single exception. have cast their
votes fsLhim.. and the free States, with
two or three exceptions. have voted
against him, and in those free States in
which he has received a plurality of
votes. it was only through the interposi-
ton of a third party. In not a single
free State has he received a majority
His election could never have been SC
compfished by his own party alone. He
owes his success to Fillmoreism in Penn
~syivania. In the free States there has
been Steady and persistent evasion and
cncealment of the tue issue. by the
leaders of tue Buchanan party, and more
than half of the votes cast in those
States for Buchanan, have been given ia
The belief that he would favor the admis-
sion of Kansas as a free State. Ii has
not yet passed from the recollections of
the people, how on a former occasion the
rallying cry of the same party in Penn
sylvania, was "Polk and the tariff of '42''
10 this campaign. it was Buchanan, aud
Free Kansas. The past has shown how
false their promise in the first case; and
the future will show how baseless are all
hopes for freedom founded upon the same
promises, in the last. This Kansas
question, Mr.. Buchanan will find difficult
TO settle. To the north be has been
pledged by bis adherents. to make Kan
sas a free State. To the south be is
bound by stronger oath to open it to
slavery. The idea that the people of
the Territory may decide for themselves,
bis party ignored long ago. He cannot
facilitate long. His southern lords will
demand at once that he fulfill his pledge
10 them, to the bitter end. They demand
the pound of 6esl. Let him concede it,
and the cheated, hood viuked. rank and
file OF his party in the north, will have
their eyes opened, and the last vestige Of
q Buchanan parry in the free States. viii
be swept away, i'll an instant.
NominalIy beaten we are, but not sub
dued. Far from it. The Republicans
may well be proud of the result. Out
of the large cities, wherever are the most
free schools, the most newspapers. the
most churches, and the most intelligence,
there has Fremont received majorities;
and wherever there are the most slaves,
the most crime, the most political corrup-
ton, the most men who cannot read and
write, the most ignorance, and the most
Catholicism, there has Buchanan been
triumphant. In the large cities, those
hot beds Of seething political putridity,
where money has been layished without
stint. there Buchanan received majorities.
The vote of Philadelphia, gave him
Pennsylvania. and New -Yory City gave
him a large majority.
That The future Of the Republican
Party win be glorious. is certain. It is
founded upon the Eternal Principles of
Freedom and Justice. Upon its side
IRE arrayed the patriotism. the i%nlelli-
gence, the ~religiouof the land. 1t is
consistent with the teachings Of the i'm
mortal Washington, and the Declaration
Of independence. 1t combines within
itself more elements of true and endur-
ing strength, it has attained a more rapid
growth and greater strength in the short
est time, OF any political party, the
United States ever saw. Fillmoreism is
dead. buried deep beyond the hope of
resurrection, and henceforth there will
be but one party to fight. There will
be two parties, advocating Numerically
opposite principles. the parties of Free
dom and Slavery. HencefOrward there
will be no lodging of questions, no
false issues. but each will stand upon
ns-oRn merits, and the issues be plain
and unmistakesble. Buchanan and his
party will be forced to take sides openly
for slavery. the south will compel them
i.to,it. and then the future is In the hands
Of the Republican party. =
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