Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-08-13
The Late Elections.

JOHN WADDELL, of Ross County.
The Late Elections.
The result of the elections, SO far as
heard, is such as to FIJI with Joy the heart
of every freeman. In Iowa the triumph
of Republicanism has been greater than
we had dared to expect, for scarcely a
State in the North did the Democrats
claim with more assurance than they did
Iowa. Sufficient returns have been re-
ceived to warrant the assertion that the
State will give from 5000 to 5000 ma
iority for freedom, which will doubtless
be doubled in November. OF the two
Congressman, one is elected in place of
Republican, and one in place of an Ad-
ministration member, thus giving US a
gain of one, in a district where we least
expected it. Of Col. Curtis, the member
gained, the Chicago Journal says:
He has been a gallant soldier, and
viii prove himself equally as gallant a
statesman. He commanded the Third
Ohio Regiment in the Mexican War.
Politically, be was formerly a Demo-
crat, and like thousands of other good
Democrats, is now a Fremont and Day
ton man. Border Rufianism and Sla-
very extension have not a more decided
opponent, and will not have a stronger
one in the next Congress"
In Missouri, three tickets were in the
field, American, Bentonites and Admin
istration. Thus far, Ewing, the Ameri-
can candidate, leads off, but the proba-
bility is, that the counties yet to hear
from, will give Polk, Administration,
large msjorities. The election of FRAN
CTS P. BLAIR, Jr., 10 Congress, from the
St. Louis District, is an event Of which
his supporters may well be proud, and
n which speaks volumes in favor of
the progress of free principles amongst
that class of Southern men, not under
control of the slave-drivei's lash. Of
lis election, the N. Y. Evening Post,
says:
"This is an important triumph over the
administration and over the Cincinnati
platform, for Mr.. Blair is not only an
avowed opponent of the squatter sover-
eign doctrines of Douglas and Pierce,
but has for years been the eloquent
champion of the Jefferson proviso against
slavery. He is a son of F. P. Blair of
Maryland, and one of the ablest and
most popular young men west of the AL
legheny Mountains. He has contested
tie Atchison democracy of Missouri inch
by inch for the last five or six years, on
the stump, in the legislature, and through
the press, and at last has triumphed. He
goes to Congress the first avowed oppo-
mem of The extension of slavery which
has ever been chosen by a slave State
since the modern system of propagan-
dism was preached. His advent at
Washington will mark an era in the his
tory of our federal Legislature not less
momentous, nor less suspicious TO the
cause of freedom, than the election of
Mr.. Banks, which a few months since
gave the slave power in this country its
first substantial check. Mr.. Blair is a
southern man, is a STAKEHOLDER, and in
no sense of the word an abolitionist; but
he knows, and no one better, what a ca
lsmity the use of slave labor has been 10
Missouri and to every other State where
it exists, and he will spare no exertions
to prevent its extension beyond its con-
stiiutional limits"
Forty-one counties in Missouri. elect
FL Americans, 90 B~entonites, II Demo-
Gratis and 6 Wings, to the House.
In Kentucky, forty-nine counties have
been heard from, giving a Democratic
gain over last year, of some seven thou
sand, swallowing up the majority of 44oO
which the Know Nothings then had, and
leaving a large surplus /; thus proving
the falsity of the claim that the old wings
are Fillmore men, and entirely destroy
ing all hopes that Fillmore will get a
single electoral vote ; for no state was
considered more certain for him than
Kentucky.
In North Carolina and Arkansas, of
LIS the administration party gain
largely, as we suppose they will in all
Southern States. This was TO be expec-
ted. and proves most cOnclusively, that
they regard the present conflict as one
in which their power is at stake, and one
in which all minor considerations are to
be swallowed up in their struggle to
maintain the supremacy of slavery. Let
the North profit by their example.