The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-11-21
Republican Victories.

Notwithstanding the American party in
this State is dissolved, and the most Of its
members have joined the ranks of the De-
mocracy, the Republicans have carried the
election by nearly three thousand majority.
This Is the only fair contest since the last
Presidential election, and shows that Iowa
repudiates the efforts of Mr.. Buchanan to
ndtionalize the accursed system of forced la
Dor. She has again proclaimed to the world
the steadfastness of her faith in the doctrines
of the Philadelphia platform, on which Mr..
Fremont stood one year ago and carried
eleven States Of the Union. She goes for the
maintenance Of the principles promulgated
in the Declaration of independence and en-
bodied in the Federal Constitution, touching
human freedom ; and af6rms that Congress
has power, vested in 1t by the Constitution,
over the Territories of the United States to
prohibit slavery therein-just as Mr.. Buch-
anan maintained years ago, before his fall.
Ohio again makes the same declaration Of
her faith. There notwithstanding firm
union of all the opposition against Governor
Chase. he has been reelected, thus achieving
victory for which he is deserving Of the
acclamations Of freemen throughout the
land. For Mr.. Payne, the Democratic can
didate, had endorsed the doctrine of the
bred Scott decision; had shown himself, if
possible, more servile tool of the slavery
propagandists than Douglas and had all
the influence Of the National Government to
aid him iu his nefarious attempt to place
the Buckeye State in the lap of the harlot
Pro-slayery.
In Indiana the Republicans have achieved
signal victory in the election to Congress
Of Charles Case, to Eli the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death Of Samuel Brenton, in
the Fifth Congressional District. The ma
.jority for Mr.. q. is something like nine hun
dred, showing a great Republican gain in
that district since the Presidential election,
and indicating pretty plainly that Indiana
stands to-day on the Free Soil platform.
Minnesota has probably elected Repub-
lican Governor, and possibly n Legislature Of
the same complexion. One thing is certain
that the majority of the legal voters of the
Territory arc opposed to the National Ad-
ministration.
If n thorough sitting Of the votes in Kan
sas is had, the triumph of our party there
will be complete. Our readers are thor
oughly posted on the state of political mt
tiers in that Territory. e
AHAoiuVS A>O" AAHOuc
Island and Connecticut reiterated their ad-
herence to Republican principles months
ago, and Tomorrow we trust, Massachusetts
New York and Wisconsin will do the same.
Nor is it unlikely that Illinois will come in
to our ranks. '..5e. .'---7 "~ Il
Though California and Pennsylvania have
been carried by the Democrats, it is by re-
duced majorities, showing the wane Of pro-
slavery sentiment in both places. In the
latter State the Republican is the only party
which has held its own since the Presidential
contest one year ago. Its vote for Wilmo,
I is only twelve or thirteen hundred behind
that for Fremont, while the Democrats have
lost Al 800 votes, and the Americans 81 900
Could the full strength of Republicanism be
tested in the Keystone State to-day, II
would show large accession since Novem.
Der, 1856.
The contemplation of the victories wor
BY the Republican party during the last three
OF four months, affords rich pasturage fol-
the sympathies Of the patriotic heart, and
will strengthen every nerve of the arm Of
Freedom. Another year she will be ready
for heavier blows on the head Of the a-gres.
sive, pro-slavery hydra, s:Democracy."-
Dubuque Times. 9.