Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-20

Total


adult population is 92,505, showing that
about one in forty cannot read or write.
Of the 7s6 ignoramuses in Cuyahoga, SCI
are foreigners, nearly every man of whom
voted for Buchanan.
In the New England States, in New
York, in Northern Ohio, Indiana and Hi
nois-in short, wherever the people are in
telligent and educated-where schools, col
leges and newspapers are found, there you
find the people voting the Republican tick
ct; but where ignorance fosters mere an
imal existence-where schools are almost
unknown, and the people are degraded
where election day is whisky saturnalia
there you find the pro-slavery Demo
cracy triumphant. ~
| 1t is stated that the democratic majority
in the 9th district of Illinois is actually
larger than the entire legal vote of the
whole district in 1854.
Where there is Ignorance, there will be
corruption. There is no doubt that if the
fraudulent votes returned from Egypt could
be got at, the erpose would be astound-
ing. s ''ae
AT the Democratic convention last spring,
a leading Douglasite remarked in boast
ing manner: "Just let us know what ma
jority Egypt must give to elect the Demo
cratic ticket; and il shall be forthcoming"
That fellow knew his party well.
The N. Y. Tribune says that in that ci-
ty, the thieves, gamblers, brotheI keepers
and rum-sullers almost to q man, went for
Buchanan, and quotes in corroboration, the
votes of the notorious "Five Points, which
stood 574 for Buchaaan-25 for all 9th
erst
| The number of newspapers and periodi-
Gals published in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Illinois, stands as follows:
Papers and Periodicals. Adult Pop.
Ohio 26l ss9,593
Pennsylvania 1919 l,Os6,OO5
Illinois 107 371,275
New York 42s
The principal part of the journals in Il
Enois are printed and read in the northern
part of the State, where Republicanism
carries all before it. !.
All we have to do is to educate the
masses scatter light through the agency
of common schools and the free press, and
the entire North is with us. Light and
truth go hand in hand-oppression and
darkness are inseparable. Steadily and
ceaselessly the waves of enlightment are
breaking brightly against the crumbling
bulwarks of ignorance. These dark spots
will ere long be inundated with the glori-
Gus tide and the last vestige of pro-slavery
Democracy will be swept into oblivion
Clevelnnd Leader.
The ALLIES OF BUcHANAN.-A Although
all our readers are fully and firmly corr
vinced of the fact that the Fillmore and
Buchanan men were allies in the late fight
Bishop Hughes leading one wing of the ar
my and the K. N. Fillmoreites the other
we yet wish to put on record the admis-
sion of the parties themselves to that end
The following from the Louisville Journal
is just the point:
'"Although unsuccessful in the election
of its candidate, the American party de-
serves the gratitude of the country for
what it has done in the recent contest
The supporters of Buchanan may rejoice
overtheir success. They may shout loud
ly over their victory, but the fact is plain
that, if the contest had been single handed
between Fremont and Buchanan, Fremont
would without doubt have been elected
Fremont has been defeated and the Dem
ocracy owe their success 10 the fact that the
Fillmore party was in the field. To its eff
forts the country is indebted for the defeat
of the Northern sectional party"