Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-09-17

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!. Tie returns " the Vermont eicesion ifdicate. |
~ ufual, decisive dc5eas 81 shs scsesxicn dem.
ocrAcy. A democsaiic 1e5eas IA the Green Noun. I
taim II what everybody expected; ard get the |
Tcsa't Of this vefncns election seegs 70 re 70 |
farnIsb he KEY 70 ~ Presidential ressit In |
Norcsaber Taking Il II connectson Win tie late
election in Iowa, and coAtusting tho figures Ia
bssinesa way, y rally books a. II Frcnnni wers
good fos eyefy N0stheru 6tase 10 the Union.
Ia 1854 fhs vose In vermeas. Of Scott and Hale
combined, am0antsd 10 . majority 0s Ii SEQ
over Pierce, the aggregate vote fsr Scott AMI
HiIe being 80, 600 10 round Numbers. sow, it
appears that the Fremont party have easried
Vermont by over 10000 majority, and il may be
over -, 900. Take the smaller number OF 90
00y, however, and Il shows gain to the msior.
ity Of the anti-Piercs Administration forces of
s,OOo, or = clear gain Of oser ten per cent The
Iowa election, in the extreme West, gives us
stiII larger ratio Of increased strrDgth against
the Pierce Democracy, than this Vermont cleo
ton In the extreme East.
From these two extremes. thon, we have the
actual data Of regular elections held since sbe
popular nomination OF Fremont, establishing
clesr gain 70 the great anti Pierce administration
party Of the North often per cent upon the pop
ular vote Of 1854 clear gain, TO gay nothing
Of tt,c terrible losses Of the democracy since the
election Of Pierce. This gain applied 10 every
doubtful State Of the North. carries it over into
the list for Fremont by handsome majority.
Since the decentralization of the Democratic
party by Mr.. Pierce, the figures Of ti,c election
OF 1889 afford no sort Of basis Tor an estimate
Of the present state ofthingsi In New York, Penn.
sylvsnta and Ohio. No dispassiona,e Individual
can, however, entertain doubt OF Frenioais
In Yne 1rAs t f,plr
shadow Of doubt resting over Pennsylvania IL
the Destination OF the Fillmore Know Notbings.
We suspect, though, that The pressure OF mr.
Pierces civil war In Kansas, will show us in the
Pennsylvsnia October election that that old COM
nonwcalth IL lost 10 N. Buchanan beyond the
hope Of recovery. We shall see. The fright
encd Democracy are ready for almost any bar.
gain for the Know Nothing vote but VIC fear
they have gone too far on different sides of the
road 10 sgrce now 70 ride.and-te with Mr.. For.
ney upon any terms. We shall see We are
rather sanguinc of Pennsylvania, from present
appearances
On Monday next the State election comes off
In Maine There the old line fogy wings, head
ed by Mr. George Evans Chairman OF Mr.. Fill.
morc's board on Mexican claims, which awarded
halt million dollars 70 that poor fellow Gard.
ncr, for certain estimated damages on account
Of the Mexican war, 70 his silver mine IN the
moon,) are attempting diversion for the ben
eft OF Mr. Blu hanan. in the way of a little o
line guerilla movement; but we guess IL will not
amount TO much. We arc prepared to sec
Maine going the Fremont ticke. as deeisisely as
Iowa or Vermont. Our obversations oil many
Presidential elections show that the first ssplp-
toms of public opinion expressed IN any prelfm-
mary election resting upon the Presidential tcs,
foresl,adow, with almost mathematical accura
oy the general rush Of the tide on the great day
of November.
II lie from these observations that VIC feel au.
thoriz to ray, from the late southern elections,
that IN all probability every Southern STATE viii
20 for Buchanan ]; and that from these recen,
northern elections, every northern State will
30 ,os Fremont. The issue Is shall Kansas be
made free State or Slave State! And the
battle is between the North and the South, aud
between Fremont and Buchanan, Tie Kansas
policy OF Ir. Pierce, the policy Of the Cincinnati
Convention, the platform. o! Mr.. Buchanan, and
the position Of the Southern leaders OF the Dc.
nlocracy, make the election OF Buchanan tanta.
mount TO the admission of Kansas as slave
Sta,e--not peaceably, il they can, but iorcibiy,
as they are now attempting % 9othcir work.
IIeace this tremendous Northern Jeyo.utiora.
~ movement for Fremont; hence these whole
sale accessons Of old line and soft shell Demo
Gratis, newspaper organs aud all, 10 the Fremont
grand army--hence the general cooperation o.
all the Protestant churches OF the North in be
half of Fremont; and hence the extraordinary
spectacle of the conversion of pulpits 10 the
cause of political sermons against the border
ruffian Democracy, there being .'no sahoaths il
revolutionary times" Very well. The work
opens anspiciously for a wholesome change il
the government, for statutory reconstruction
of parties, and for new epoch of national pros
peri,y and Of practical compromises between til
North and the South in behalf oithe Union.
The first skirmishes Of the elmpaign are sig
nifcant of n Waterloo defeat TO the rotten spoil
democracy. Let the Fremont men, therefore
here, there, and everywhere, so heartily TO work
clear the track, muster their troops, and pre-
pare for such grand charge along the Who'll,
inc in November, as will forever crush out thi
sectional and secession democracy, whose polio.
is rule or ruin. The people arc ready and nj
mistake ssf