Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1856-11-06
The Contest is over.
BUCHANAN rs ELECTED.


not disheartened, however, but continue t
fight in the good and glorious cause of Ere,
Speech, Free Labor, and Free Territory
Young as the Republican Party is, the re-
suit of Tuesday shows it possesses a strength
far more numerous and commanding than it,
enemies anticipated, and another such a stru.g
g1e as rne vnsE we nave JiIsr-Sassed thr4 ssh
would tend to utterly demolish the patent De
mocratc party of the North.
Let our adversaries beware how they use
their laurels, or they may not be able to re-
tain them long. The result Of the ballot-box
shows that the People are aroused, and that
the present party in government must not
trihe too much with their liberties
The following well made and forcible re-
marks we find in the Tribune of Wednesday,
and copy them into our columns in preference
to any we could give. Reader give them a
calm and attentive perusal
We have lost the battle The Bunker Hill
of the new struggle for Freedom is past; the
Saratoga and Yorktown are yet to be achiev-
ed. A party of yesterday without organiza-
zion without official power, without prestige,
and latterly almost without hope, has not over
borne the oldest party in the country, with its
hundred thousand office-holders, its eighty mil
Hons of annual expenditure, its million and a
half of voters trained by the habits of a life
time to vote without question or hesitation
whatever bears its label The Republican
party, called into being by the Nebraska In
iquity of 1856, having a substantive existence
in but sixteen states, has beaten the rival par
ties, which boast of their compact organize
tions in all the States, but has failed to beat
the other in its first Presidential canvass =
James Buchanan is our next President, and
John c. Breckenridge Vice President, and the
Free-State men of Kansas are temporarily de-
livered over to the tender mercies Of the Bor-
der Rufians.
It is well to state the case thus fairly in
its broadest and worst aspects. Practically, a
majority of the American people have indorsed
outrages more inhuman than Poland or Hung
airy ever endured, and yotedtnat II Is no-~roug
to shoot and scalpmen in Kansas forpeacefully
striving to keep theirs Free Territory, and
make it Free State Practically, the verdict
of Tuesday has enslaved Kansas, and made it
treason and rebellion for her devoted inhabi-
tants to struggle longer to avert that destiny,
Practically, it is settled that to loathe the de-
basement of Man to brute chattlehood, and
earnestly desire Freedom for all, is a crime in
Free America, to be punished by exclusion
from the National councils and denial Of any
voice in the direction of our public affairs
Such, we say, is the practical effect of Tues
days vote; yet it is one unintended by large
majority of the voters. Aside from the Mil
lion who vote any ticket called Democratic,
merely because of its designation, there are
hundreds of thousands who voted for Buchan-
an or Fillmore, hoping, trusting, praying $50
many of them as DO not rightly insist on the
divorce of Politics from Region) that their
triumph would not conduce to the enslavenlent
of Kansas or the extension in any respect OF
vote that Americans shall rule America
that no man should be prescribed on account
Of his religion or nativity-that the Union
should not be dissolved that Slavery should
not be disturbed in the Slave States that the
People of the Territories should have the priv.
ilege of deciding whether to have Slavery OF
not-they did not mean to indorse the series
Of frauds and crimes by which Kansas has
been put under the feet Of the Border Rufians
But no matter what they meant-the effect Of
their vote is to make Kansas this day Slave
Territory, in defiance Of the earnest struggles
of three-fourths Of her inhabitants, and place
her on the high road to become a Slave State
The Border Rufians Of Missouri have not
been able to subjugate her to Slavery; but the
people Of the United States are stronger, ane
have done it. 1t is constructive treason hence
forth to defy in Kansas the atrocous code O
laws imposed on that Territory by Missouri
invasion and ballot-box stufing; it is felony t.
say in Kansas that Slavery is not legally es
tablished there by this execrable and impuden
villainy. A hard Winter and fearful ordea
are before our already sorely-tred brethren il
Kansas. Heaven give them strength to en-
dure and outliVe their most unmerited suffer
ings.
For their sake, we mourn this result; 70
that of the glorious party which has sprung t
life under the inspiration of a generous indie
nation at their wrongs and sympathy with thei
efforts, we do not regret it. To that party til
future presents a cloudless. sky. All the poo
trash which has been used to blind and delud
the People--the babbe about Fremont's brit
place, cattle contracts, duels (unfought), RI
manism, &C., are henceforth lumber Of the pas
The base pretense that bleeding Kansa,
was an invention of the Republicans to carr
the election can deceive no one longer. Tho
sands who would not hear or read the tru
with regard to daily occurrences on the Nj
souri, border will hear and read it now, VIII,
they know that it cannot have been trump
mp to elect Fremont or defeat Buchanan
Those who did not mean, in votingfor Bucha