The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-11-26
The Effect of the Election on Blu
siness Interests.

The election of Mr.. Buchanan will
not only restore quiet in the political
elements of the nation, but give conf
dence and vigor to its p~ecuniary anc
business interests. Capital, enterprise
and labor alike shrink from civil com
motion. The slightest apprehension.
sectional controversy, and the discus
sion of the question of the value of the
Union is sufficient to paralyze the bust
ness energies of our people and arrest
our progress 10 that career of Dationa
growth which usually attends political
prosperity. We do not doubt that the
peculiar aspect of the recent campaign
has checked, until its result should be
known, many enterprises which requir'
ed . large outlay of capital and q series
of years for their development, and has
chilled mauy departments of commercial
The result of the presidential strug-
Gle will quiet many doubts of the sta
bility Of our present federal government.
The gain of the Democratic party with
its conservative principles in respect to
national affairs, aud the selection for
the chief magistrcy, of such a prudent
and able aud safe statesman as Mr. b.
afordsa guaranty of the soaDdness of
the popular sentiment, and of the pre-
ssryation of our Constitution in it's spirit
and integrity and the adherence with
fidelity to the relative duties which It
imposes upon ali portions Of the Union.
All this is keenly and quickly perceived
snd appreciated by business men, and
Ill IL -o1;1lv pare4ntihlo
in the business affairs of the nation
We do not say that the marked improve
ments in the tone ~ofpecuniary matters iu
our great commercial emporium on
'Thursdayswas caused by the intelligence
of Mr.. Buchanan's election, but we do
say that it might well have given conf
depce in the future and that it can hard
ly fail to impart an impetus to business
affairs, and to exert q favorable influence
upon the pecuniary prosperity of the pat
zon. The fact that sectionalism has been
rebuked, that our people have recog-
mixed the binding force of their constitu-
tional Obligations, and are prepared to
live up to them aud thus perpetuate our
present form of governments, and that
the subject eff slavery-hitherto the
great disturbing element 10 the working
OF our political maehiuery-has been
banished from the capital Of the nation,
and RENTED to the adjudications of the
localities interested in the question of
its continuance, will not be unAeaded by
sharp-sighted, far-seeing business men,
and by the repose which it insures to the
country, will afford ample scope for cap
itai. enterprise and labor, to venture
forth, not only 10 their accustomed rou-
tine but upon new and unexplorea fields,
of the protection of a stable
government, aud safo from the shock of
rash and sudden political revolutions.
We congratulate our business friends
upon the suspicious result of the nation
81 election, and hope they may indiyid
ualIy reap their due share of the gener-
al prosperity which it ensures. The ad-
aninistration of James Buchanan will
ansare political repose to the country,
open to capital, enterprise and in
a fair aud clear field for u%nrival-
aed prcsperity.-Atlas and Argus.