Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-03-15
New Hampshirs,


N b. Baker Democrat had ............. 2703o
Majority az aiust Democratic parry. 1889
The number of members Of the House of
Representatives was 81.
Ofthese the opposition had. 226
And the Democratic party ................. So
Making majority in that body against the
Democrats Of. ..................... l4l
By a telegraphic despatch received from.
Concord, New Hampshire, late last evening,
We have returns Of the election Of Tuesday last
from one hundred and eighty towns, which
give Wells (Dem.) 2S,0l3 !; Metcalf, abolition
Know-nothing,) 29,03l; Goodwin, (Whig,)
2, 087. The despatch proceeds: Correspond
ing returns from the remaining towns would
give Wells $4,000; Metcalf, $4,000; Goodwin,
2,400. AS far as heard from, ll9 Democrats
have been elected to the Legislature and l42
Abolition Know nothings; 80 Democrats and
% Abolition know-nothings will probably be
elected in the towns which remain to be heard
from"
1t will thus be perceived that The democrats
have made net gain Of 5000, and balanced
the abolition know nothing strength in the popu-
lar vote and have made net gain OF 26 in the
popular branch Of the legislature.
While the democratic candidate for governor
is not elected, the abolition known othing candi.
date is certainly defeated
This battle has been nobly and brayely
fought by the sterling democracy of the Granite
State, single-handed, against know nothingism,
Maine-lawism, and the now Insignificant frag-
ment OF what was once respectable whig
party. The democratic gain in u single year,
we repeat is more than eight thousand votes
The democratic gain in the popular branch Of
the legislature is more than one hundred and
twenty-five members, and if The victory has
not been mplete-which we are not permitted
to anticipate-the power of sound principles,
sustained by an intelligent, intrepid, uncom-
promising advocacy, las been signally illus
trated
We are enabled to announce that, upon the
direct national issues presented in the Presi.
dents recent messages to Congress, the Ner
mpshire democracy has polled a larger yote
than erer before IN the political history Of the
STATE. General Pierce's majority in New
Hampshire in the presidential election was
more than thirteen thousand, and yet,the ag-
gregate vote cast for the democratic candidate
for governor (Col. Wells) on Tuesday, will ex
coed that of General Pierce in 1852 by at least
two thousand.
All honor 10 the patriotic. Union.lovipg De-
mocracy of the land of John Langdon! The
doom Of isn,s in that State is evidently sealed
The handwriting is blazing upon the wall! No
intelligent man can doubt that the vote Of New
Hampshire for the Democratic nominee of the
| Cincinnati Convention, whoever be NAV be- is
as certain as the recurrence Of the day of cleo.
ton.
1t is very curious that the editorial ear marks
Of the Washington Union are SO plain that it
is next to impossible for US to mistake their
author in almost every instance. 1t possibly
may be owing to our own peculiar sagacity in
the detection Of style. We once had occasion
to term the editorial department Of the Wash
ington Union, kaleidoscope, of so many hues
and colors did the illusions from it consist. We
are now quite convinced that we have done it
no more than justice. One day we are over.
powered with the ponderous, heavy laden car
of learning and lore from the inexhaustble
brain Of the erudite Attorney General Another,
we are favored with the grave lucubrations,
replete with solemn nothing from the serious
and consistent senior-while in the absence OF
the dramatic junior, we are treated to a gay
holiday by the refreshing vivacty of its So.
phomore contributor. We are so pleased with the
creditable rhetoric and comforting arithmetic
Of this last, that we insert it for general edifca-
ton, particularly, too, as we are led to suppose
that an absence Of three years from his granite
home, has not, in the least degree impaired his
intimate acquaintance with its political con.
dition.
We will not follow the Soph through his
arithmetical calculations, for he is too fresh
from the fountains Of learning, for Us TO enter
the lists with him-we will content ourself
with comment or two On his conclusions.
The Democratic gain in a single year is
5000 y Be il so. But where are the many
thousand that constitute the deficit between
this late GLORIOUS DEMOCRATIC triumph, rhict
still leares the Satefn MehdndSo Of lheenemy, and
that genuine and unmistakable victory achieved
in the election Of Franklin Pierce in so?
Where are they and why are they not now
doing battle, as in the last quarter Of century,
in the cause Of Democratic principles? Is this
sad loss to our party subject for the impious
invocation to the spirit Of John Langdon II
that great and good man could return to his
earthly home, and find it desecrated by the un.
principled and ruthless party who now hold it
in the hollow Of its hand, what would be his
emotions2 New Hampshire = Democratic
New Hampsbire-in the hands, and under the
dominion Of wicked Abolitionists and crazy
fanatics In three short years, too.
THE handwriting is blazing on the wslln
Aye, and sad to tell, it is blazing on the
wall, in living letters Of light, that the Demo.
cratic State fNew Hampshire is Abolitionized,
and that, too, under the rule of her long.fa.
vored SON Is. this the cause Of your extacy,
gentle youth? Alas you little ken, as we Of
| older heads, that you are innocenty fiddlinp.
while Rome is burning. "No intelligent man.
concludes our editorial Tyro," can doubt that
the vote Of New Hampshire for the Democratic
nominee Of the Cincinnati Convention. who
ever he may be, is as certain as the recurrence
Of the day Of the electionl u That is to say.
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