The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-17
WASHINGTON. D. G..
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
From he Missouri Weekly Democrat, August 81.
THE RESULT or THE ELECTION.

The RESULT OF THE ELECTION,
To-day we give publication to what are put
forth from the city Of Jefferson as the official
returns Of the late gubernstorial election. If
we bad any doubts before Of the gross ard glar
ing frauds which have been practicsd in re
gard n the making mp Of the returns, ever
since eighty counties were heard from, we have
none now. The cheat is patent on the face Of
them, and we have entire confidence that it will
be made S, clear before the meeting of the Gen.
cal Assembly, By scrutiny, thorough aud Wig
liant. Of the poll books in each county, as to in
Validate the assumption that Stewart has been
elected. Correctly and truthfully, be has been
defeated by near seven hundred votes; official
". he is returned with 334 majority. We shall.
however take another occasion TO show the spe-
c.fc instances of foul play, from De Kalb county
down 10 Ripley and Reynolds counties It will
re1ain for the public to right such high
handed wrong and sfix the stigma where it
Justly belongs.
The election is our victory. No matter who
may eventually get TIE salary, tha moral tri
umph belongs 10 Major Rollins. he has made
= name in history, and has wrought revolu
ton IN politics that viii go down to posteriy as
bright examples Of lofty patriotism, heroic
canvass, and generous responsive supper
from large masses If the people impelled by no
party discipline. We deem it, obscured as its
lustre has been by frauds of the opposition, the
proud 4st achievement Of the century. A State,
amongst the largest of our Union in point Of
territory, central and almost potential with the
future 10 situation, rich in all physical re
sources. and thirsting for Industrial develop
ment, has been snatcbed from the rule of
party committed to disuuion and Slavery prop
agandism, and boldly launched forth into its
appropriate orbit of freedom, and prosperity,
and progress. Those who have contributed tc
s7ch an event have higher title to the esteem
Of msnki d and the applause of future ages
than al the vRssal minions who attach them
selves to the glittering stsgnation Of social and
political despOtsms. Putrid pools may be
sparkling and bright, bat it is the running
water that is healthy aud stronghold impsrts
nourishment and sustains vegetation-snd thai
ministers everywhere to the support of vigorous
and thrifty life. AnalogicallY, the same truth
obtains in the advancement of human affairs
1t Is the current Of events that gives vitality to
commonwealths.
The victory, we say, is ours; and it is ours
practically well as morally. The campaign
which has just ended has given US the State in
all coming time. The tide of immigration thai
will set into Missouri will more than compep-
safe for partial losses that may henceforth oc
from an incomplete organiza alton in the
present Those who may take fight and go off
fr IN not having fully apprehended the great
issueinvolved, will be replaced three-fold By
those attracted here in consequence of tina
issue. The uncast vote of the S.a'e-serenteen
fboUsand-is, nine tenths of it, our own, held
off in the Ia'e struggle by timidity and preiu
dice, but which will gather to the standard.
now that success looms up above the horizon.
Two hundred thousand men, the cream of the
industry Of the older States and of Europe
will take up their residence in Missouri in lees
than two years from this time. One hundred
millions of dollars will be added to the wealth
of our community by the influx of labor and
capital. Safely, then, may we proclaim tha'
the prestige of misrule, of intolerance, of dom
ineering serfdom, is past, and that the day foi
an enlightened policy has at length happily ar
rived, and with it the power to perfect and
elaborate its requirements.
But this Is not all. What has been accom-.
plished in the late gubernatorial struggle dec
not reduce itself to mere anticipation, however
cheering and we'll founded that may be. Facts
have also been achieved - facts that speak
more powerfully than mere words to the reason
of sll discerning men. If we take the table Of
returns ss 1t stands in another column, with al
the sinister dealings Of the nullifers credited tC
them, Il viii be seen that we have carried botF
branches Of The General Assembly. q majority
OF the judicial circuits. three Congressions
districts by large msjorities, and have CLOSELY
contested ihree others, e ,ving only one that tht
nu!llhers can with certainty call their own a
The next election. Thus, upon the present req
resentauon, We have carried, by reliable major.
ities, counties returning serenity memters
the House Of Representatives.. The nulifer
have only carried counties sending sirty O
those sixty. there are, moreover, the counties o.
Atchison, Ia &c, Camden, Clinton, Cole, Gen
try, HOlt, Linn, Madison, Newton. Nodaway
tka Ravt.ntdu CT
tor, sending eighteen Representatives, all OF
which can assuredly be carried by US with prop
exertiOn. The next House of Representa-
tives would then stand eighty FIVE for the-oppo
sltlOn 10 tOrty-hve for the nullifers Of the
Senatorial districts, we have carried those re
turning tIceHty Senators the nullifiars, thosf
returning ntirteen-and of those thirteen, the
first, sixth, sixteenth, twentieth, and twenty
fourth, can be changed by a full vote. The
Senate would stand then, twenty FIVE for tn
opposition, TO eight for the nulliGers We have
carried the first, second, and fifth Compression
al districts by msjOriries averaging over 6fteer
hundred; in the fourth and sixth, their MAORI
ties have been reduced to a few scattering hun
dred and In the third and seventh alone have
they any assurance OF making a contest here
alter. IL will be no matter of surprise 10 us
the next Congress- shall show not SINGLE mill
her elected from Missouri. OF the popular yot.
OF me state II may be said that almost all the
falling of Is seen to have arisen from the alb
sence If the Benton Democracy from the polls
Mr.. Polk (nuiLher) got last year 46 $50 votes
Mr.. Stewart (uullifer) this year gets 47.975
showing that he polled his full party strenotb
and that almost the entire loss of sufrage wa,
our loss. We do not think that the nullifiers
can ever again come within five thousand votes
CT tae number they have cast this year; but We
know that, in another struggle, with the full
consciousness which the opposition now has OF
its own strength it can rally more than ten
thousand add ional men to its standard We
repeat again, therefore, and with renewed EN-
Ptasis, that from mere inspection Of the re
turns 1t is selfevident fact that the campaign
which has just ended has given US the State in
all coming time. Nor is il III the power of AID
minlstratiOns, or political combination, or per
sonal Influence, to defeat this contamination
1t results from the very logic of events, for the
tide of migration will be as unceasing as tbs
roll of the Cc5an-and that tide is crested high
with the thought of free white labor.
From the Richmond Na.) Enqu rer, Sept. S
THE PRESIDENTS LETTER TO DEPUTA.