Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-20
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Bennett and Greeley Give 1t Up-Ben'


b.ns--,,ar mobile fratrunu who forgetting old
animosities have lsbored side oy siae luz
bleeding Kansas through the campaign
each in his last issue virtually gives up the
con,sst and comedies the triumphant election
Of Rncbanan in November next. Yesterdays
Sunday Herald says:
&c The late result in Pennsylvania, in con.
nection with the unexpected success of the
Democracy in Indiana, indicate pretty clearly
the election of James Buchanan as our next
President, by q handsome majority of the
Electoral Colleges.
Bennett, under the caption CT "Serious
blunders of the Republicans during the pres
emit canvass" goes on to lambaste the self
constituted leaders of tho Fremont party, and
their silly biographies of their candidate,
filed "with the most absurd and ridiculous
stories in relation to Colonel Fremont, recall
ing all the forgotten errors of his boyhOod and
other absurd details which have nothing to
do with the questions at issue in this canvass. I"
Large numbers Of these biographies (says
the Herald) have been purchased by the Op
position, and the Democratic speakers in Penn
sylvania, numbering from fifty to one hundred
have each two or three of these volumes, and
used them in their speeches as electioneeriDg
documents against the Fremont party. They
found them better than any documents which
had been issued by their committees 1t is
probable that two-thirds of the biographies of
Colonel Fremont have been bought up by tho
opposition for the purpose of being used to de-
feat his election We see that new brochure,
which has been issued by one Of our cotempO.
raries, under the title Of the Two Fremonts,
has become a subject for the ridicule of the
Democratic press and We are credibly in
formed that this brochure has been purchased
literally by the Democratic committees for
the Democratic orators who intend to use it
against Colonel Fremont in every State Of the
Union"
In the concluding paragraph, Bennett, it
will be seen, hits most palpable lick at bro
Their Greeley, Of the Tribune, and his double
Fremont pamphlet
The Tribune of Saturday announces to its
followers their defeat in Pennsylvania in the
following lachrymose style:
"Republicsns! the last reports from Penn
sylvania leave no doubt of buchanan ma
jority at the State election. The State ticket
OF that party is chosen by some five thousand
majority in between four and five hundred
thousand votes. That majority can be over
come at the Presidential election just Mt hand
we do not say that it ,ciN be-
And again:
Republicans we would not if we could
conceal from you our disappointment in this
result, nor the magnitude OF the disaster, We
ought to have carried Pennsylvania at this
election--with fair play and honest voting, we
mast have carried it. We have been beaten
by a combination Of treachery and fraud
beaten because our adversaries were deter
mined to win at any rate, and some who pro-
fessed to be with US in this contest were equally
resolved that We should lose. Between the
two, their object is attained
And yet again:
Let US look misfortune full in the face.
IL there were any hollow hearted, venal, self.
seeking knaves following our camp last week,
they will now skulk out of it and 20 over to
the enemy All such will suppose our battle
lost, and will be in haste to place themselves
in position to share the plumber Of the field.
Let them 60 In welcome, and let the cowardly
and timorous 60 with them"
In fact, the Pennsylvania Waterloo has com.
pletely disorganized as we'll as routed the Re-
publican army, and the allies have entered
upon general set-to amongst themselves,
each accusing the other Of blunders, coward.
ice and treachery.
The Contest Not 0ver.-No course could
be more fool-hardry on the part of our friends
than that Of relaxing their efforts because
forsooth, We have so brilliantly carried Penn
sylvania and Indiana. The enemy are dss-
pefate. Each army opposed to us struggles
now for existence, and they will struggle on
until the sun goes down on the general cleo
ton day. as men never before struggled in a
political contest. They have vast means to
expend, and their managing men are utterly
without scruples. They are preparing to take
advantage OF US wherever our friends show
the least disposition to relax their efforts. We
know that they are already connecting schemes
to induce the Democracy of Pennsylvania to
sleep on their arms. If they succeed in effect
ing that object, the reader may depend upon
it, the renewal Of the fusion which Thaddeus
Stevens, Thurlow Weed. Horace Greeley and
VIM. +. johnson seek to compass will surely
be brought about; the Fillmore leaders hest
talng only because, SO far, they do not COM
prehend how, by pursuing that policy, they
can rob Buchanan and Breckenridge Of the
electoral vote Of Pennsylvania. Surely, the
result Of intense and increasing exertion, as
exemplifed in the recent vote of the State,
will teach the democracy of Pennsylvania not
only its value, but the vital necessity for per
severing in it throughout the next fortnight
Congressional Nominations. follow
ing nominations for Congress have been made
by the Democrats of the State of New York
Viz; Col. W. Z. Paine of Rochester, for that
district; Hon. S. g. Hathaway of Elmira for
the twenty-seventh district; Hon. b. F. Angel
OF Livingston for the twenty-eighth district.
We know the last named gentleman we'll.
he 10 the same whose nomination as United
States Consul for the port of Honolulu was
defeated in the Senate through false rep.
reservations with reference to his sentiments
upon the slavery question made to Senators. |
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