Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-17
rIafne ELECTION.

ing, prepared l0r the aSeociaJeu press, ahuOuHSi6
that the Black Republicans bad made gains over
last years vote in Portland, Bath, Bangor and Au-
gusts, the dispatch winding up with the intmstion
or prediction that Hamlin's majority in the State
would be twelve thousand.
I'VE attach very little credit to this intimation or
predction-parcularly in the lace OF the fact that
the Democratic strohgholds had not been heard
from Our friends should bear in mind that, by
some mysterious dispensaton or arrangement IN
the various State elections that have hitherto been
held, the telegrsphic agents generally manage to
make the first returns unfavorable TO the Demo"
Gratis. y Wash. Union Of oh.
Thus spake the candjd(O man of the Ohnon on
the 9th instant, still hoping TO receive more PRE-
vATE ADvIcxs," such as il received last week, and
on which this South quilting politician gave It as his
OPINION that Buchanan would carry Maine IN
NcvembeIl Wait JCait, WAIT, says the South CUTLER,
I'LL you hear from the Democratic stronghoids"-
for 'by some mysterious dspensation or arrange"
ment in the various State elections that have hi h
erto been held, the telegraphc agents generally
manage to make the first returns unfavorabie to the
Democrats" Do they, indeedg This was done
twas it?) in the Of the late Kentucky election,
10 which it made to appear that the sham Dem
ocrats had gained ten thousand votes in Kentucky,
when in truth there had been no political contest
in the election OF judges and county officers, in but
feW counties, and there were american gains IN
Well, Wednesday, the 10th arrives, and the
Union has 10 further "PRIvATE ADvIcKs" from
Maine, but reports the state of the case to be, on
Tuesday, p. NJ T., follows
~ Read its comments
According to the teegraphic dispatches which
reached this city yesterday from Portland, Hamn,
the Black Republican candidate for Governor, led
Wells and PAXTON some twelve thousand votes; 6W
as the mqjorities are loosely gtven, and an round
numbers these figures may b. considerably reduced
6y the official returns. Tile strong Democratic dis
tricts hare not been heard from; and although it is
not at all probable, even possible, that Hamllns
present reported majority can be wholly overcome,
no matter how favorable the return may prove TO
the Democratic cause from the fifth and sixth dis
.rics, We still believe that the result of Mondays
election will show that Maine cannot be placed
among what are termed the certain States for the
Black Republican candidate for the Presidency"
"The strong Democratic districts have not yet
been heard froml" 'Maine cannot yet be placed
among what are termed the certain States for the
Black Republican candidate!" "The majorities are
loosely given!n "These figures may be consdera-
bly, reduced by the official returns"
What happy faculty the South CUTLER OF the
Union has of poStpopiug thorough Waterloo dc"
featl But hear him further:
at should be borne il mind that the Democracy
of Maine entered into the canvass which has just
ly in the minority. The Black Republican candi-
date for governor was known to the whole State as
a long tried leader of the Democratic party"
Great disadvantages" indeed! 1t had the aid
of the General GoyerDment-t was supplied with
any amount of means speaking OF means, every
dollar that the sham Democratic Clubs in this city
had raised, amounting to fifteen thousand dollars,
ALL were sent to aid the cause in Maine! lit was
told by the Cobbs, Orrs, and Douglasses, that all
ID md fba
supposed success Of the harmonious democracy"
in its keeping-t had the aid of onerhdlf the wings
in the contest for Governor, and of all Of them in
the contest for COngress:-pray what more could
il desire, but a good cause! Aye, there was the
rub The sham democracy stands not only upon
the Cincinnati platform, which is bad enough in all
conscience for any white to swallow, but it
inherits by adoption the sins and iniquitles, the
blunders and foes of an administration, which has
had parallel in the whole history OF free govern
menu There is no party, 10 matter what its name,
its history, or its former achievements, that could
carry such load as has been placed upon the back
of this sham democratic partyl
-@"They were largely in the minority" quuth the
South guler When? In 1852 Pierce beat Scott
5000 votes in Maine In 1855 Morrill, Republican
received 54 4SS votes against As, S03 for Wells
Democrat, and 10, Gas for Reed, Wbig, leaving the
the Republican candidate for Governor in minor
ity of 7, 45l votes; whereas NOW the Republican
candidate is GA votes ahead of both the other
candidates!
But Hamlin was "a long tried leader of the de-
mocratic party" says the Union So he was, and
for that very reason admirably qualified to lead the
Republican party, which is composed in the main
of the late democratic party. Four>hfths OF the
present Republican party were democrats. The
leader, Fremont, was democrat Banks was de-
mocrat, Blair was a democrat and Hamln was
democrat, and he is still unchanged, except simply
in name.
So of the frank and file" Of this party-the for
eigu population. who have rushed into it, had al
ways voted with the democratic party, and the free
soil native democratic voters have also gone into,
and now compose with the foreigners) the mass Of
the republican party. Why, then, is it strange
I've do not so regard it) that Buchanan has lost
nearly all his party strength in the North? The
foreign element aud freesoil element, hitherto COM
posing more than half the democratic strength in
the North, have simply taken their true positions
they are where they beong-they always have
been, and ALWAYS will be- opposed to the rights Of
the South and have only waited for an opportunity
to take this position with fair prospect OF success
The Washington UuiOn closes its deceptious ar
ticle of Yesterday in the following strain:
at would be hazardous to indulge in comment
or speculation until the smoke OF the battle has
cleared away aud fair view of the field has been
obtained. A day or two must necessarily elapse
before full and reliable returns can reach this city;
and 10 the mean time, we sanguine enough to
continue in the belief that the star which once
of the brightest in the democratic constellation
of States will in November next shine with renewed
aud increased lustre"
The last branch OF this last extract Illustrating
one point as to the position of the Freeso De-
mocracy Maine was "once, ONE Of the brightest
in the Democratic constellation OF States 1t was
ONCE, and lately, too, one Of the strongest Demo-
cratic States. It's Democracy has not CHANGED,
but il is now DEVELOPED. Its Democracy neveT..Uds
anything else since the day it became State, than
it is NOW, But it not thoroughly developed be-
fore Freesoil Democracy and sham Republicanism
are the political "Samese twins"
II the Republican party in name had existed in
1852, when the Washington Union invited the
Free-soil Democratic leaders Of the North" TO come
up 10 the support of Pierce, assuring them that he
would know no difference between them and the
rest of the Democratic party in the distribution OF
Office, they too would have been "invited TO the
feast" in the same card, and would have walked in
and taken their share OF the spoils. Indeed, they
were the same men, under different soubrquet.
Union What is the difference, in principle or in
Hamlin is now denounced by the Washington
political purpose, between Hamln and John Van
BUREN, Will the Union answer! Not the slight
est. The Democratic party OF The North absorbed
by the Republicans.
Here and there, at the North, tide water, Gus
tom house appraiser, or postmaster, who is paid
for il, calls himseIfa DEMocRAT, and denounces Re-
publicanism Aud even those who still cling TO
the name of Democrat there for the sake Of the
wages they receive 1augh to scorn" the idea, that
they would ever consent TO the admission of anoth
er slave State into the Union The friends OF Bu'
cbanan, in the whole North, go Tor the Nebraska
Bill il is true, but they take especial care TO give
it the Cambreleng-Van Buren.DoUglas construction
to wit: Nebraska Kansas and no more slave
Statcsl"
The days OF this Northern sham Democracy are
numbered-it has fooled the South for years, and
has hltened on the spoils--its cloven foot is now
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