Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-11-13

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The Moral Of the lace Elections.
"Action and reaction are equal and
In opposite directions" says the old
rule in the works on Natural philoso-
ply; action and reaction are equal and
in opposite directions" says the politi
clan - hs reflects on the result Of the
late elections, and the causes which
have produced it. The strongest sec
tional party that ever existed is disin-
tegrated and destroyed by the rebound
Of that popular sentiment which itself
put in motion hardly year ago. Had
the last presidential contest been close;
had the Fremont majorities in Ohio,
Wisconsin and New York, been under
five thousand the probabilities arc that
those states would still be Republican
or II Democratic, so by meagre and
disheartening pluralities. Said We
tersn loco foco politician, if New York
IL 70 60 against US, II would rather
be beaten BY fifty thousand than five
thousand" The remark is founded in
the deepest wisdom. For the people,
susceptible of strong excitement and
prone to run to extremes, will in all
likelihood undo tomorrow what they
have done to-day; will rally under the
standard of Fremont almost unani-
mously one year and rush to the ban
ner OF Buchanan with equal unanimity
the next. In the State Of New York,
the Republican journals attribute their
defeat to "thc improvidcnt action Of
the last legislature" general apathy
"hcavy taxation" DC, and there j.
some truth in their theory. The course
OF the last legislature at Albany wa.
'improvident," not to rascally, anc
their rapacity carried with it its owl
punishment, but had bleeding Kansas
the magic power it possessed yea
ago, notwithstanding the gross usurpa
ton of the chartered rights of tn,
Empire City and the increasing of tax
alton OF l25 per cent in single year
New York would have given on tn,
third day Of November 1857, anothe
10000 majority to the Black Rcpubli
can ticket. Although the Republican
and Know Nothings were united al
over the State the Democratic part
has a majority Of 10000 showing con
clusively that the "Pro-slavcry Demo
cracy" are not merely conquerors c
Black Republcanism, but of its twi
brother Know Nothingism also. Tire
years ago Ohio was Black Republican
by eighty thousand majority; she i
now really Democratic, the Hepublica1
majority on the state ticket havin!
dwindled down to 500, and the Dem
ocracy have the Legislature. There
was no ''improvident legislation" there
except such as seems to be the insep-
arabic concomitant of Black Republi
can law-making, mo apathy for Chase
and his faithful German allies labource
late and early in their wretched cause
and yet the Black Republicans are ir-
retrievably ruined in the Buckeye
State. In Wisconsin the Republican
majority last year was 10000; this
year the Democracy have elected thei1
Governor. In California the Demo
cratic majority over both Black Repub
licans and Americans is 2,OOO-wher
their combined vote last year exceeded
the vote for Buchanan by 5000. Ir
Pennsylvania the Republicans have
hardly an existence, and even in Iowa
AFFECT As she Is, tho Republican major
ity IL 5000 less than it was last fall
II will be borne in mind that the Dred
Scott decision and Mr.. Buchanan's let
ter have been all the time before tn,
people, boldly and uncquivocally en-
dorsed by the Democracy and VIC
lently assailed by the opposition, and
those enunciations Of principles it was
threatened would leave the administra
ton without q corporals guard of ad
herents. The Black Republicans ar,
provertially false prophets, but neve
were they more more mistaken. Thu
bred Scott decision and Mr.. Buchan
ans letter, every line and every wore
Oft have received the endorsement o
the people in every great northern
State. Now, what does the result o
all the election teach us! 1t tcache.
that the Republican marty is shorn ~