The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-09-08
HILLsDALE, MICH, TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1857


Tne Ltte EIect1Om In MtsSOurt ana 1ts mOr0Is
To-day we give publication to what are
put forth from the City of jefferson as the
official returns Of the late gubcrnatorial elec-
tion. II we had any doubts before of the
gross and glsring frauds which have been
practiced in regard to the making up Of the
returns, ever since eighty counties were heard
from, we have none now. The cheat lie pat
ent on the face Of them, and We have entire
confidence that it will be made so clear be-
fore the meeting Of the General Assembly
by a scrutiny thorough and vigilant, of the
poll books in each county, a. to invalidate
the assumption that Stewart has been elected
Correctly and truthfully he has been defeated
by near seven hundred votes; officially he is
returned with ss4 majority. We shall, how.
ever, take another occasion to show the spe-.
cific instances Of foul play from DeKalb coun-
ty down to Ripley and Reynolds Counties;
it will remain for the public to- right such a
high. handed wrong, and affix the stigma
where it justly belongs.
The election is our victory. No matter
who may eventually get the salary, the NOR
al triumph belongs to Maj. Rollins. He has
made name in history, and has wrought a
revolution in politics that will 90 down to
posterity as bright examples of lofty patri-
otism, heroic canvass and generous respon-
sivc support from large masses Of the people
impelled by no party discipline. We deem
it, obscurcd as its ustre has been by frauds
of the opposition, the proudest achievement
Of the century. A State amongst the larg-
est Of our Union in point of territory, CEN
trail and almost potential with the future in
situation, rich in all physical resources and
thirsting for industrial development, has been
snatched from the rule Of party committed
to dsunion and slavery propaeandism, and
boldly launched forth into its appropriate or
bit of freedom and prosperity and progress.
Those no have contributed to such an e.
vent have higher title to the esteem of man.
kind and the applause Of future ages than all
the gttering stagnation of social and politi-
cal despotisms. Putrid pools may be spark
ling and bright, but it is tho running water
that is healthy and strong-that imparts
nourishment and sustaius vesetation-and
tia; ministers everywhere to the support of
vigorous and thrifty life. Analogically, the
same Truth obtains in the advancement Of hu-
man affairs. 1t is the current of events that
gives vitality to commonwealths.
The victory, we say, is ours, and it is ours
practically rs well as morally. The campaign
which has just ended has given us the State
in all coming time. The tide Of immigration
that will set into Missouri, will more than
compensate for partial losses that may hence
forth occur from IN incomplete organization
in the present. Those who may take fight
and go off from not having fully apprehended
the great issue involved, viii be replaced
thrcc-fold by those attracted here in conse-
quence of that issue. The uncast vote of the
State-seventeen Mousoad-is, nine-tenths Of
it, our own, held off in the late struggle by
timidity and prejudice, but which will gath
or to the standard now that success looms up
above the horizon. Two hundred thousand
men, the cam of the older States and Of
Europe, will take up their residence in Mis-
souri, in less than two years from this time
One hundred millions Of dollars will be ad
ded to the wealth of our community by the
influx of labor and capital. Safely, then,
may we proclaim that the prestige of mis-
rule, Of intolerance, of domineering serfdom
is passed, and that the day for an cnlighten.
ed policy has at length happily arrived, and
with it the power to perfect and elaborate its
requirements.