Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-17
The Pennsylvania Election.

On Monday night last we witnessed beautiful and
aImostgcom plete eclipse of the moon. Tuesday night
presented another very beautiful eclpse-that OF the
combined and amalgamated Fremont and Fillmore
Abolition Know othins FuziOnlsts Pennsylvania.
n,u.y .om combined, every element of opposition
fused together against Democracy went into the con-
test on Tuesday morning, confident of their calcula
tiona, glorying III the successful contamination of
their bargains and inrigues, and Boosting of their
ability to carry the State by majority of at least
fifty thousand against the Democrats. But their
hopes were doomed to q terrible reverse Alone I'M
aided, single handed the glorious Democracy of the
Keystone State fought this unhoy alliance and con-
quered it--roued it--whipped it-drove it from pill
lar to post-and the work of Burlingame and Will
mot, and Bots, and Winter Davis and Sumner and
Banks, of North Carolina, was all in vain Verify,
the route of this confederation brings fCrcby 10 mind
the destruction of the AssYrian hordes
Like the leaves of the forest when is green,
That host with its banners at sunset seen;
Like the leaves of the Forest when autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay wthered and srown.
The moral effect of this election can hardly be es
tinated, neither can It's value indication of
popular sentlment-an evidence Of the reVulslon
consequent upon the undue excitement gotten up by
the Northern Sectionalists. The world is weary Of
new tangled notons new named parties, and unprin-
cped coalitions and turns to something national,
stable, apart from and above all the dangerous and
unreliable " isms' and orders" of the day.
From information before US, derived from private
source in which we placed confidence, we had every
reason for anticipating Democratic victory in Penn
sylvania, and we so stated in our issue on Monday
last giving the language of the letter from which
rS,,AI lint ;oFo~
edge that even then we felt anxious in view of the
vast coalition-the perfect fusion against us. But
the crisis is over Pennsylvania the battle
ground-the Sevastopol of the campaign-the battle
has been fought and the victory won. The Demo-
Gratis have pOled clear majority of the 1vhoe vote OF
Pennsylvania.
letter from Philadelphia to the National Tntelli-
gencer copied in the Wilmington Herald on the 10th
inst after referring to the state Of things in Penn
syYana, and the confidence entertained by the Fill
moreites of overwhelming success under the combi-
nation of all the elements opposed to Democracy in
the State says;
g One thing, however, is very obvious, that if, I'm.
der the above circumstances, the Democracy do car
the State election, the State will 60 for BuChan
by untold ma jority in November. There will
in fact be fight, for the moral effect of such vic
tory over the allies combined in their full strength
would perfectly paralyze any further effort to agar
take the field and that, too, upon divided tickle
against foe concentrated on one ticket and flushed
with victory. The election in November in snch
result would go by detaultin favor OF Buchanan"
And so it will. And New Jersey will 90 likewise
and Connecticut, and New Hampshire, and Delaware
and Illinois, and Indiana and California, and there
are even chances for Michigan and New York anC
Wisconsin, and, in fact, States are hopeless but
Vermont and Massachusetts and Iowa.
But 10 return to the returns There is no doubt O.
twelve fifteen thousand majority plurGIay-ir
the State. So far as heard from, eight Democrats
and one fusionst have been elected to Congress- Th
Legislature will be Democratic, and national Sena
tor will be sent to Congress, and not David Wimot
the bargained for of the fusion.