New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-11

Look at MAINE" exclam, among others, that
mistaken and misleading class who cherish and prop
agate the illusion that the triumph of Free Kansas
and Fremont is beyond contingency. Had Maine
gone wrong, this sort would have wept and re-
manned out Of sight, insisting that no efforts would
ayail-that we were beaten beyond remedy. But
Maine has gone Overwhelmingly right, and now the
same spirit which would have been absurdly de-
spending is unwisely exultant, and intent on san
guine aDticipatons of victory rather than devoted
to the work Of securing it.
The triumph in Maine is the fruit Of months of
earnest, comprehensive, persistent excrtion. The
State has been contested by the square inch. In
the first place, it has able, vigant and faithful
Delegation in Congress, all but unanimous on the
right side, who have sown it broadcast with docu-
ments, whereof the result is now manifest. The
wrongs of Kansas, and the ruthless means resorted
to by the Slave Power for her subjugation, have
been brought home to every fireside. Everybody
reads in Maine, and they have been well supplied
with the material There the canvass has been ar
dent, resoute and thorough. Senator Hamlin has
himself been on the stump for weeks, and, though
no orator, has simple, earnest, straightforward
way of setting forth his convictions that is very eff
fective with plain men like himself Everybody in
Maine knows him to be honest, genuine Demo-
crat, and that he would have still chung to his old
party if his conscience and his love of country
would have permitted. He is a host in him
self, while his colleague, Mr.. Fessenden, with Mr..
Washburn and other Members of the House. are
able canvasscrs, familiar with the facts in the case
While these were detained at Washington the
State was already alive with Republican meetings,
addressed by Van Wagner and others from abroad,
and by hundreds Of their own citizens. In short,
all has been done that should have been, and the
result is an immense, unprecedented vote, and an
annihilating triumph. In Maine, the struggle of
1856 is substantially ended.
Pennsylvania and New-Jersey have delegations in
Congress of whom a majority are nominay hostile
to Slavery Extension, and were elected on that
-Nothings, and have been afflicted ever since
with fancied necessity for so balancing themselves
as to carry water on both shoulders. Down to this
hour they expected by some of their constituents
to support Fillmore instead of Fremont. In con-
sequence, even when their hearts were right, their
arms were paralyzed. To food their Districts with
Stewards and Summers Speeches, Kansas lnvesti-
eating Committees Report, Colfax's Speech, Bor-
der-Ruffian Laws, &C., was to overslaugh the
American" issue and excite grave doubts of their
fidelity to the "Order" There are earnest and
faithful men in these Delegations who have refused
TO be thus fetered but we state what is VIGOROUSLY
true of the majority. We are confident that fewer
documents of the right sort have been distributed
by the twenty odd professedly Anti-Nebraska Mem
beers from Pennsylvania and New-Jersey than by
the seven who represent Maine. Hence whole
Districts in those States whose Anti Buchanan
journals are mainly if not wholly American" re-
manned up to recent day as ignorant of the wrongs
inflicted on Kansas as are Mississippi and Texas.
And it is only by systematic and self-sacrifcing
efforts to difuse the truth through those Districts,
BY printed documents, journals and speeches, that
their Anti Buchanan majority can be concentrated
on Fremont and their Electoral votes secured to the
cause Of Free Labor
These are simple truths. They must be under
stood and acted on This day, whatever vitality is
exhibited by the Fillmore party in Pennsylvania and
New-Jersey, as in Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, is imported and fostered by the engineers
for Buchanan. They send their followers to swell
the Fillmore meetings. They incite and magnify
those meetings in every way, They gave the
straight Wings" of Maine four out of the six can
didaes for Congress supported by their joint abors
and votes, with as many of the Legislative chances
as they would accept. And We have no doubt that
their money pays the expense of half the Fillmore
gatherings that they so generously patronze.
Let there be no pleasing delusions-no bssking
in the sunshine OF. victories unachieved. WORK
carried Maine, as WORK will carry Pennsylvania
and New-Jerscy. Without determined, well-di-
reced persevering eXertions, both States will yet
be lost Let there be resting fsncied security
before sunset on the 4th of November
Some time last Winter, or Spring il may have