The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-10-10
Frlght of tha DemoeraoY ln the

Frisht OF the Democracy In the
South.
From the o. neha Especial secession o,r,e
Of Jefferson Datisl.
| Il is idle, vain, nay criminal. Tor poE.
ticiaus in the South to try to disguise
longer the true state Of politics in the
North. AS Mr. Morse said not long since
in a speech, party leaders. interested in
preserving Northern connection aud lhe
Conference Of a national party. have eul-
phhly kept the Southern people i'm the
dark with rcgard to the real strength and
danger { & the anti.slavsfy element. Oe.
cupie' in patching up racketty platforms
aud treaoherohs compromises and in the
still mort agreeable employ mer oN diges-
ting the loayes and fishes, they have as-
sumed to despise the political element in
question until it has risen TO position
TO dospiso them and their conriyauces.
A Is Moses serpent swallowed the Egyp.
tiau's, this element now threatens to
swallow every other in the North, and
the politici us, for the FIRST time. seem
10 realize the voraUity OF It's a. petite and
lis wonderful powers of deglulition ID
is now no longer possible for them to dis.
guise It's magnitude, its power. It's pur-
pose, even II iley would They could
not, IT they Wis ed disguise the fact,
that II has been increased is increasing.
ard is not likely soon to be diminished,
II ever--a fact that has just spoken with
eight thousand voices in Iowa, 4wenty
thousand in Vermont, and fifteen thou.
sand in Maine In each oftthe States
named the Black Republicans have made
immense gains and lave decislyely esia.
blshed their supremacy. Lot US review
the result IL detail. In each OF the three
every member of Congress elected is a
"Fremout and freedom" man, namely-
Iowa. Samnel r. Curtis and Timothy
Davis; Vernon, Ezekiel p Walton, Jus
| tin :. morrill, aud Homer h. Royce;
Maine, John NJ Wood, Charles j. Gil
man, Nehimialr Abbott, Eietman H..
Morse. Israel Washburn and Stephen G.
Foster. The very names Of the majority
Of the above representatives have nasal
twang about them that is very suggestive
of the militant saiuhood which found
It's embodiment in Oliver Cromwell; and
no doubt they were very ready Ioaet upon
I the basis of Gro wells saints, and make
the special application ofit to the South.
viz: Resolved, That the saints shall 10.
herit tho earth, and that we are the
saints. sf
members nv e SatGa9lsYsq, ,gB Black sg;l., Republican
ginning, aud Two Of them, as the N. "
Tribune boasts, in place Of Pierce and
Buchanan men, elected in 1854 on the
heel Of the Nebraska bill In addition to
these we 6ud Francis 2. Blair, Fremon.
ter. elected from Missouri, Slave Stare,
making an even dozen for the Black Re-
publicans.
1t may be said that these najorities
aud these gains are not per Sc Of practical
Importance Very true; but as signs Of
the lime--as shadows which coming
events cast before--as parts Of the politi
cal diagnosis OF the free S,ates,they pos
sess the utmost significance. Like causes
produce like effects; and if the same or
nearly the same material exists in all The
other free States rs in those which have
recently held elections, by an inexowbe
law governing the moral as wenas natural
world. the result must be similar in all
Of them.
We see the Northern masses every day
Ignoring old issues, splitting upon old
platforms, and fusing together through
the medium Of hostility to the South and
her institutions. The Influences which
prevailed in Maine are active throughout
the North. and i, is perfectly logical TO
infer that the same or proximaie results
will follow in all the other Northern
States, Politicians may amuse or console
themselves, il thOy will, by casting up
visionary majorities but they should
bear in mind that the Maine election may
not be the only one--no, not By twelve
or thirteen--that may make O smash Of
their arithmetic columns We confess
the prospect begins 20 look gloomy for
any but the Fremont ticket in lhe North