The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-10
The Maine Election-Progress OF the Great
RevOluti0n-Clear the Track!

glorious popular revolution. Our returns from
the Maine election are decisive, magnificent and
overwhelming. In connection with Iowa and
Vermont, they show that this great Fremont
movement gathers strength as it goes, like a tor
nado, and that it is destined to sweep the entire
North in November, from Portland to San Fran
cisco. This grand result in Maine inspires the
constantly increasing legions of the Fremont par
ty with the prestige of victory; it extinguishes
the affected confidence and cool complacency Of
The Buchanan politicians at a blow, and it prac
tieally leaves Mr. Fillmore in the exact position
Of Captain Tyler in 1874.
Upon the democratic and Know Nothing wig
vans and lodges Of this city the news from Maine
| fell like the morning sun upon Jonah's gourd-i
| blighted and withered up their delusive hopes
| and calculations in q single hour. The great
| torchlight procession of the Empire Club, which
| it was hoped would be enlivened by little de-
mocratic music from the Kennebec moved last
night, IN its line of march, like the funeral pro-
cession of Tammany Hall and the defunct ruff
fan and spells democracy. 1t only needed the
visible presence Of Pierce, JEFF. Davis, Atchison,
Stringfellow, Buchanan and Forney to make the
pageant complete.
The following figures Of this Maine election,
and of the late elections in Iowa and Vermont,
as compared with the results of those of 1852,
Estate elections.) and those of last year. taken
altogether will show something of the tremen-
dous pressure of this movement in the North to
crush out this demoralized niger driving.
treacherous, bloody and debauched democratic
dynasty of Pierce, JEFF Davis, Buchanan and
Forney. Here are the figures
MAINE STATE ELECTIONS.
is55.... 4s2s7 1865 Repub 81, Ass
1855 Republican Fremont majority from l2to Is 900
VERMONT STAIR ELECTIONS.
1882 Dem. vote II 9ss Wing % ?q5 F. s. &c. o. 466
ls5U... eaOe 2s643
IOWA STATE ELECTIONS
s52............... Dem. vote IS, ssi Wing Is, OF
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. /" 5000 Rep. 1000
These figures show the violent death of the old
wing party the sudden uprising Of the Jack
o'lantern Know Nothing party, the demora-
lization and disintegration Of the rotten
Pierce and Forney democracy, and the power
full concentration Of the people of the North
into the new republican party, since the
nomination Of Fremont upon the broad and
comprehensive platform Of the constitution, State
rights, and free States Of free Territories, espe
cially Kansas, and new order of things at Wash
ington out and cut. Before this practical Fremont
movement we perceive, from the above election
records. that Know Nothingism disappears
like a morning fog. With the collapse of the Gid
wbig party and the Generalization of the de-
mocracy by this Pierce administration, vast
amount of political debris was thrown adrift
ard much Of it sought a temporary Judgment in
the novel ark Of Know Nothingism; but il was
crazy craft, and tumbled to pieces With the first
ruiIle upon the water.
A in the North. 20 in the South has this Know
Nothing will-o' -thewisp nickcred out before the
first practical tests OF this Presidential canvass
The late State elections in North Carolina, Ken
lucky, Arkansas and Missouri Indicate Southern
reaction IN favor Of Buchanan and the niger
driving democracy, which, II not a. enthusiastic
as the opposition Northern movement, promises
az decsively the solid vote Of the South upon
one Presidential ticket The very States in the
South upon which Mr.. Fillmore was taught to
rely In any contingency, have been the first 10
desert bin; and he H. for MI practical purposes
In this contest os clearly out Of The question as
Captain Tyler
Tie paramount issue in this canvass Is shall
Kansas De d free State!-as IL will inevitably be,
If the bayonet and burning policy Of JEFF. Davis.
Pierce and tic border rufians is suppressed; or
shal Kansas BE- a slave State even if to make il
80 Il shall require the slaughter or expulsion Of
every free white settler in the Territory? Upon
this issue there is no room for a man carrying
water upon both shoulders. like Mr.. Fillmore-no
room. North or South; and If he is not with
drawn be will be thrown on the track or crushed
to atoms under the locomotive. The Maine cleo.
ton j. but the premonitory whistle Of the APP
preaching train around the curve Of the White
Mountains Clear the track
Think Of democratic plurality Of over six
thousand in The Marie State Presidential test
election Of 1852 reyolutionzed to an opposition
majority Of from twelve TO fifteen thousand in
the state Presidential test election Of 1856.
These State elections, Immediately preceding the
Presidential election very seldom fail TO guide
correctly The party generally succeeding in
the state elections invariably not only car.
ries the same states in the Presidential
election. but carries them with largely in
creased m&oritics and other States besides
Thus, too, the State elections operate upon each
other. and the ball. from State to State, goes
irresstibly rolling on, with an increased mo-
mentum a, every bound, just o. o great rock. de-
tached from mountain top, increases in speed
and strength with every bound as It goes rushing
and crashing downward TO the open plain. In
this view. from the impulse Of Iowa, Vermont
and Maine We shall not in the least be surprised
to see Pennsylvania crushing down upon the rur-
fan and spoils democracy In October like an ava
lanche; nor will anything short Of seventy-llvc
thousand Fremont majority astonish us as the
October result Ia Ohio.
Where, in The elimination Of this grand popu-
tar Erauont fpovp4neaa for ti,a rr,taa c,t.4.