The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-09
POLITICAL NEWS.

Ia in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, for
-,smbers of Congress-25 in Pennsylvania,
81 IN Ohio, and ii in Indiana. In Pennsyl-
mia a Canal Commissioner, Auditor, and
c,-vsvor. are to be chosen, and State Legis-
,.t,re. which must elect United States Sena-
.or There are but two State tickets in the
esI-the Buchanan and the Opposition, the
latter embracing Fremont and Fillmore men.
In Ohio Judges of the Supreme Court, an
Attorney General, School Commissioner, and
commissioner of Public Works, are to be
chosen and there are three tickets, Republi-
can Buchanan, and Know Nothing. A Gov
arnor and State officers generally are to be
elected.
We have no doubt that the popular vote in
Indiana and Ohio will be largely Republican;
br, owing to the distracting element of Know
No,b;pgism. some of the Buchanan candidates
f,r Congress may succeed, especially as they
are cool enough to pretend to be Anti-Nebras-
ka. and TO claim the nomination of Buchanan
as 4 triumph over the Pierce dynasty.
We have great hopes of success in Pennsyl-
yania The Buchanan men, having got over
the shock of the Maine election, have been
encouraging themselves with the notion of
reaction in the keystone State; but there is
more desperation than confidence in their
lrasging.
Three weeks from next Tuesday, the People
will decide the great Question whether Kansas
!, 70 be Free or not-whether Slavery Propa-
ganiism is to be perpetuated as the ruling
Power OF not-whether the Disunionists are
10 control the Federal Government, and use it
for the advancement of their reasonable de-
signs. or not-whether, in a word, Buchanan
or Fremont is to be the President of the Uni
ted States.
The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer October 4th)
prophecies the growth and permanence of the
Republican party, should it succeed in the
coming election, and is sure it will resort TO
extreme measures. "Shall she 1.-THE South J
wait the onset" it cries, "hampered by a Con-
stiiution which sits light as air on her adverse
ry? VIII it be compatible with her honor or
safety to remain subject to that Government +"
Why ask these questions, Mr.. EnquirerP We
thought you had decided it long since. Are
sou shaking in the wind?
The same number of the paper has long
article announcing settled opinion, entertain
ell for some time by the editors, that Buchanan
and Breckenridge will be certainly elected. All
yonr Disunion thunder, then, is only for Bun
combe, after all
Mr.. FoRyEY, according to the New York
Hsf,Id, has been making a speech at Reading,
Pennsylvania, in which he told his hearers that
the only way to save the Union was to vote for
Mr.. Buchauan-that the South would not con-
sent that Kansas should be free State, or any
other man I'll the Presidential chair-and they
might therefore just as well make up their
minds 10 vote for him. Mr.. +. must have a
high idea of the people of his own State. Next
Tuesday will show how far they can be bullied.
The Georgian Journal, (Georgia,) Oct. ID,
after a most fiery diatribe against the Republi-
ems aud the Union, thus evaporstes:
Now, ii asked what ,oiU the South do in the
event OF FremOnt's election2 zoe haze no ans,oer.
II asked what oUght the South to do, we reply,
unhesatngly, sunder the connection with her
foes. and hold them "a We do the rest of man.
kind, enemies in war, in peace friends"
The ought and the wiU do not always go to-
gether.
The New Orleans Daily Bee (La.) scouts
the Dsunion humbug:
The people of Louisiana are not to be dra-
gooued into the support of Buchanan by threats
Of breaking up the Confederacy. On the con-
trary, the masses, whether Wings, Americans,
Or Democrats, are firmly attached to the Union,
and numerous enough to overwhelm the
feeble but noisy crew that send forth the traitor
Gus cry of disuuion.' Once let the citizens of
Louisiana fully understand that the Buchanan
leaders are in earnest when they talk about a
dissolution Of the Union as the inevitable con-
sequence of the defeat Of the Democratic nom
NEE, and announce that it ought to be dissolv-
ed, and We shall behold such a stampede from
the ranks of the Disunion Democracy as has
not had its parallel since 1840."
Fremont Electoral Ticket in Virginia.
The JpetIsburg (Va.) Herald, of September
%, cont>ins a full account of the proceedings
Of the Republican Convention, which met in
the Melodeon Hall, Wheeling, on the 18th ult.,
for the purpose of fGrming an electoral ticket.
The prominent actors in the Convention were,
it is stated, formerly members Of the Demo-
cratic party. The Convention repudiated the
democratic and Wing nominations, and en-
dursed not only the nominees, but the platform,
Of the Philadelphia Convention.
"Aler the adoption of the resolutions, a let
'er from Hon. Cassius NJ Clay, of Kentucky,
announcing his Inability to be present at the
Convention, was read. The noble and patri-
olic sentiments of the letter were received with