The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-10-10
VOICE OF THE n. z. PRESS.
THE TIDE RISING (:

The Maine Election adds to the unmis-
taxable ENTHUSIASTICALLY palpablo on cvcry
sidc-that tho Presidential contest Is no
longer in the hands Of pollticians,-that the
PEOPLE have taken hold Of the matter them
selves, and that Popular tide Is rising
which will sweep the whole country, and
rrostratc every obstacle and every barrier BY
which party politicians may attempt TO bar
It's way. .--...
Iowa, Vermont, Maine, have oil given
prodigious majoritics for the cause Of Free
dom. Their votes are not Of special i'm
portance per @,-but, as indications Of pub
lie opinion,-as demonstrations Of the course
and tendency Of the political sentiment In
all the Free States,-they are Of the utmost
significance. The great mass Of their voting
population,-immensc majorities Of their
pcople,-arc trampling upon all tho old
party divisions, isnCring all other issues,
and rallying in defence Of the Constitutional
liberties of the Republic. They have been
reused to energy and life, and united action.
by the unparalleled outrages Of the Federal
Governmcnt,-by the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, by the INVASION and conquest
of Kansas, by the enactment Of the Infamous
laws which blot her Statute book, by the
employment Of The Federal Army In tho en-
forccmcnt of those laws, and tho horrid
murders, robberics, and nameles outragcs,
which have ravascd the plains and dcsolatcd
the new homes Of that vast and fertile terri.
tory. Their instinct traces all these enor.
mites to their rightful cause.-the deter.
mination 10 ertend Slarery, and to make tho
Slave power supreme.
The same influences which have moved
men in Maine must move men everywhere.
Precisely the same convictions prevail, with
equal strength, among the frecmen Of I'LL.
nois, Of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, AMI
they will be followed by precisely the samo
results. housing politicians may count
noses, AMI figure out results, and predict
great victories on this side or that but
the swell of the tide will blot out oil their
landmarks, tho election returns will de-
molish their arithmetic and confound all
their cxpectations.-N. Y. Times.
The Editor of tho New York Tribune Is
jubilant. lie commences an article upon
this subject as follows:
"'Maine has settled the boundary qucs-
ton between Liberty and Despotism, said
Judah Hammond in 1910, announcing In
National Hall the Harrison triumph at tho
Maine State Election Of that year. Then
Maine was barely carried, whether at the
State or the Presidential election.
The influence Of this victory on other Free
States must be great. We need no longer
distrust Illinois or Indiana. The ball is
rolling irrcsistibly, and will gather force up
to the dcs Of November. Clear the way"
The New York Herald says:
"This result is another great fact showing
the drift Of the current now rushing for.
ward in favor of an entire revolution in tho
present wicked government Of this country.
All New England, New York, and the en-
ire Northwest, may now be set down IN In
Gor of Fremont. There will ba no contest
anywhere in tho free States except IN Penn
,ylvania or New Sersey, and these can DO
:iiumphantly carcicd for Fremont by action,
,ction, action. SO We CO."
The New York Courier says
$50 much for the isnominious union OF
hc Straight Wings with the Bogus Demo-
,rats-and so much for the letter Of Rufus
Choatc, and the Missionary labors Of Spca.
GER Cobb and ScnatoI Benjamin. Bclshaz-
ar had not clearer warning Of his ap-
preaching doom, than has the covenant
,rcaking. slavc.driving Democracy Of this
present day."
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