Washington telegraph., 1856-11-19
THE RESULT.


sylvania, as the President elect for the
ensuing four years frOm the fourth day of
next March,
There is an italian saying-"che seru,
seru." What will be. will be. We are
free to confess that we were altogether at
fault in our calculations. We never have
believed that Mr.. Fremont would obtain
the electoral votes of more than three or
four States. And the result as regards
the number of votes which he will have
in the Electoral College, surprises us in
finitely more than does the election of Mr.
BUCHANAN.
This result-the election of Mr.. BU-
cHANAN-opens up before the rejecting
mind an illimitable field of speculation !;
it is convenient stand point from which
We can contemplate the future destiny of
our country.
For neutrality-suspicious. having taught
us that it is always best to look on the
bright side of affairs-we are disposed to
augur well of the verdict which has Just
been rendered, We do SO, however, with
many saving clauses We regard Mr.
BUCHANAN's election neither as a rebuke
or sentence of condemnation against Mr..
FILLMORE, nor as verdict against the
principles of the American party. We
must look under the surface for the causes
which conspired to bring about this result.
And in so doing We do not wish to be un-
derstood as confessing that these causes,
when properly understood and fairly
brought to light, will reflect unsullied
honor upon the victorious party. Far
from it. Here, rallying under the banner
of the Union, that glorious flag which, in
the eloquent language of CHoATE, Will
float from the masthead of our ship of
State 'while the earth bears plant or the
sea rolls wave;" there, greeting with
rapturous applause the miserable victim
of delusion who recently said: 81 must
confess | have been a disunionist from the
time l could think y elsewhere proclaim
ing the necessity of making Kansas a
Slave State, sending at the public expense
bodies of armed men to effect this pur-
pose, and in the same breath declaring the
adaptability of the Kansas and Nebraska
bill to subserve this peculiar end; and In
yet another place asserting .&l.:. & .l.e Kan
sas-Nebraska act would work with such
powerful force and effect as to keep all the
territory which the United States might in
any manner acquire, free, even to the 18th
mus of Darien; while the candidate for
the Vice Presidency himself, eondescend-
ed to stump the free States, confessing to
be the chosen representative of body or
party as practically Free-Soil as any man
not an ultra Abolitionist could desire to
belong to-we do not think the triumph
ant party can congratulate themselves up
on the purity-nO matter how great may
have been the effectiveness-of the means,
by which they compassed their victory
But the contest is over, and with the
gaudy trappings of the late contending
hosts, the devices, the transparencies,
campaign documents, and all the other
etceteras of the canvass, it is well that all
harsh feelings which may have been en-
gendered in the heat of the conflict, should
be buried. The American people-peace
being secured-should now address them
selves to the cultivation of friendly senti-
ments among each other; to the advance
ment of the gentle, refining, ennobling
arts which should mark the progress of a
free people to greatness; /; to the further
anee of those great schemes of national
improvement which will, when completed,
advance us immeasurably in the estima-
ton of the world, give us true conceptions
of our own greatness, rivet more closely
the bands which unite this Union, elevate
the character of the American nation So
cially, morally, Intellectually aud political
ly, and thereby secure to us the perpetui-
ty of tie institutions under whose bene6-
cent workings, guardianship and infuen-
ces we have achieved the position which
we to-day occupy before the civilized
world. Of the ultimate triumph of the
distinctive principles of the American
party, whether by incorporation in the
creed of the party now dominant, or by
the reorganization of the American party,
we have no more doubt than we have OF
our own existence. The preservation Of
our liberties depends upon the success Of
these principles But we need say nc
more upon this point at present
And whatever may have been the mean:
to which the friends of Mr.. BUCHANAN
resorted to secure his election, let US hope
for the best, and trust that he, duly re
garding the solemn duties and weighty re
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