Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-11-14
BURLINGTON
The Election.

The Election.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey decided the
fate of Col. Fremont in the Electoral College.
The b,re possibility still exists that the official
returns from Tennessee Illinois and Louisiana
may throw the election into the House but
there is little. il any, room for doubt of the
election of Mr.. Buchanan by the people.
Whatever were the causes Of the failure nv
the Republicans to elect their candidate for
the presidency, one thing is sure beyond all
dispute, riz, that in no respect is it charge
nhle to him. If any believed before Mr.
Fremont's nomination that some other man
wou d be more acceptable to the people. none
believe so now. The enthusiasm with which
his nomination was greeted went on steadily
increasing till the day of decision. Every
day his friends increased in number and in
their confidence in him, and never since the
DAYS of Washington did a candidate pass
through the fiery ordeal of q canvass for the
presidency so ~tr,umphantIy for his own honor
and the justification of those who nominated
him. Take all the indications of his position
prior to the nomination and his acceptance OF
the honorable position in which he was
placed before the nation take the countless
interviews had with him, by individuals of all
conditions, friends and Toes alike, by cou
mittees of young and old,-the frankness and
ability with which he conversed with the
thousands who sought his presence on what
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introduced-take his absolute disregard of
the incessant and shameless attacks which
we're made on him. and on members of hs
family living and dead-in falsehood, foul,
ness and malignancy absolutely unapproach-
able by any thing ever witnessed in the most
rated canvass before known in our or any
other land.-in all things he came out ns fine
gold from the furnace. Were the canvass to
begin anew this day, to a man would the vast
multitude who threw their votes for him on
John c. Fremont as their candidate, before
all other men in the nation.
We do not wonder that many already re.
neat his name as their candidate for 1860.
As nm expression of their abiding confidence
and respect that is all we'll Practically, il
cannot he taken for much beyond that. 1860 il
too Tar ahead to make positive arrangements
for, in the way of nomination, under all the
uncertainties of human life and the changing
conditions Of public %afflirs. The great cause
in which the republicans are engaged en-
dures. nor dare any man to hope that there
will he less occasion to labor in 1t and t.
make sacrifices for it in 1850 than there ha'
been in 1856. Happy will it he for those
who stand together for that cause then
if they shall have a name to rally arounc
equal to the one which has been their prid'
and their rejoicing for the last few months
and which they now hold in surprising honor
The future is uncertain. for that. os for all
things else. But our history shows tina
more than once has a candidate for the Presi
dencv. defeated on his first trial, been born'
triumphantly to victory by the people on hi
second. Jackson in 1925, received hut 9!
electoral votes out of 26l. In 1895 he re-
c.ived l79 out of the same number. Harri
SIN in 1897 received 10 votes out of 294
II le4l he received 234 out Of the same mum
Der.
Mother has WV. L.. D.YroN's name beer
in the wav Of victory TO the Republican cause
Naturally less was said of him than of th'
candidate for the Presidency only her,
and there was an arrow Of detraction aimee
mt him, and from him. as from Col. Fremont
every arrow fell rointless TO the ground. NJ
candidate for the Vice Presidency was eve
held more in honor hv his friends from frs
to last than he has been.
We must look for the cause of defeat. too
outside of the Cause for which the Repuhli
cans went up TO hattle.-fcr it was the caus'
Of Justice. of humanity. of national honor, o
the rights Of free communities, Of all, politi
cally speaking, that is worth living for b,
free men IN a free country. We must lool
beyond the platform Of princiI les on which
they based their action. No weak. decep
tive or useless piece was to he found in that
Not n sentiment in that formula which tn,
nohlest, purest and most christian patrio
could be ashamed to call his own before tn,
whole world, or regret on his dying bed tina
he had adopted.
Neither is the cause Of defeat to he fount
in any lack of ability in the speeches ant
publications put forth by its advocates be
fore the nation. Never in this country O
any other was seen and heard within n,
equal period of time, go many and go master
" speeches and written documents, containin,
such a breadth of pa:rioticview and statesman
like exhibition of truth and argument, as hav,
appeared on the side of the republican caus'
since the day when the proposition was frs
made in Congress to break Town the sacret
clause in behalf of free Territory, which wa,
contained in the Compromise Act of 1852
All the speeches and arguments of all tn,
previous presidential compaigns of the coun
try cannot show their equal.
The causes of the defeat are to be soueh
outside Of all these. What they wer
we shall speak of hereafter.