Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-10-14

The Election in Pennsylvania

and that the Opposition IN the Northern states
~outnumbers the friends Of the Admin
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and
Kansas, oil speak to the same fact. The do
nesticfpolicy Of Mr. Buchanan, and especially
his management of partisan politics, are not to
The taste Of the people and those who have
sustained hin, have been severely and emphat.
ically rebuked. There can be no other moral
20 this tale of disaster.
Our special dispatch from the Capital in
iorms US that the President was ) esterday
startled by the news from Pennsylvania, and
confessed that he had been misled as to the
extent Of his popularity there. The confession
s SO truthful that we can only regret it comes
SO late. In fact Pennsylvania affords an un-
mistakable gnaga of the Revision from Mr..
Buchanan and his course. In the present
Congress it is represented by fourteen Admin
~stration Democrats and eleven Opposition.
The returns, as far IS received, indicate the
probability that in the XXXVIth Congress
there will be but three or four Administration
members. to tKenty-one or twenty-five of the
| Opposition. John NJ. Read. the candidate for
the Supreme Bench, and William e. Frazer,
the candidate for Canal Commissioner, upon
the Oppositipntickct, are both chosen by large
majorities, while there is little room to doubt
the choice of An Opposition Legislature, in
both its branches There is, indeed, but a few
very trlHing defaults to save the election from
being a clean sweep. Nor is this general sur
vey the most suggestive. Examined in detail,
the character of the defeat is exhibited in a
light still more disheartening to Mr.. Buchan
an. The men VINO were most active in sup
porting the L~ecompton business, who preferred
the wishes Of the Federal Executive acting
under P~ro-Slavery imgnlslol, to THE wishes OF
an offended constituency, are either retained
at home, or returned BY majorities SO dimin-
ished as to mark their course with disgraeeful
reprobation. Thus Florence, in the First Dis
triet, who took his seat last Winter backed by
a majority Of 2,220, goes back with only 493,
Landy, in the Third, who had | ,l47 majority
year before last, is beaten by Verree, (Oppo
I%sition,) by l,QS7 Phillips, al I~sraellte attor-
ney, who had 1872 majority, now suecumbs tc
Millward, Opposition, who has a majority Of
i2,257. Paul Leidy, III the Twelfth, who was
backed by 1904 majority, now yields to Col
Scranton, who has probably $500 majority
The two Ioneses -Glancy end Qwen-we are
E told, stay at home very severely. CLANCY
carried his District in 1856, by 1914 majority
It gives in 1859, according to present indica.
tious, a small majority for Schwarfz, his antag-
onist Owen is beaten by Wood, Opposition,
with 1000 majority. So throughout the
State. Nearly every county, township and
village tells the same story of Administration
losses, and no word of Administration gains
The defeat is a rout. The downfall Of Admin
|istration influence is total and irrecoverable
1t ls the more ignominious that every energy
and appliance Of the beaten faction has been
brought into play. The State was the native
State and the home of the President. He had
appealed with personal directness and feeling
TO his Democratlc supporters, who had never
before failed him, whether in good or in evil
report, to stand by i'm in this struggle, upon
which he had chosen t. stake the fate and the
fame OF his ADMINISTRATION. Never before had
the Federal Executive SO shamelessly ~interfer
ed to corrupt the popular franchise. Never
before had the resources of Federal patronage
been brought more powerfully to bear in a DO
rUIcaI canvass The scutcucu vf cxcUunu1duf-
cation was suspended over the heads of all
Democrats who shrunk from the most rigid
conformity. In bis own State and home.
among lifelong political frienda, after the most
prodigal expenditure of patronage, if not of
1 OhC iDlobduQlu& IuC OllCldI UC-
nupciati0n of recussancy, Mr.. Buchanan has
experienced a defeat unparalleled in the history
of his party, More than a defeat; it is a rev
%oiution. His efforts have only ayailed to
drive into the ranks of opposltiop q legion of
Democrats, whom no art, or intrigue, or bride,
can, in all likelihood, win back to old fidelity.
In his futile and scorned eudeayor to c~onciii,
ate the South, he has completed the dissolu-
ton of his party at the North. 1t will require
some more potent ~enchantment than is at the
service Of the Democratic politician to ~reincor-
porate these scattered fragments.
The lessons Taught by this remarkable
struggle may be easily remembered. 1t will
not do to trust personal favor too far as q Sc
curity from just punishment. The penalty of
Mr.. Buehalan's fault is inflicted by Pennsyl-
%yania, 1t will not do to turn ones back upon
the pledges professions and principles of . par
ty to which one belongs, and of a long public
life-principles freshly reiterated and strongly
insisted upon-and hope to carry the people
and party abont the same sharp angle. The
vote OF Pennsylvania is q condemnation of MI.
Bucla4an's Kansas policy. And if a peculiar
candidate desires to insure the admission of
his constituents, he cannot go wider of his aim,
than while advocating measures they abhor,
to omit all action upon measures they regard
as vital to their material interests. The vote
OF Pennsylvania is a demand for that protec-
ton to its internal resources, which Democrat
lc candidates have promised ever and again.
but have never granted. 1t is hardly possible
that these matters will be Inexperienced
or forgotten, after an enforcement SO emphat-
ic. -~ -
The Ohio State and Congressional elections
have gone against the Administration. The
whole Republican State ticket is elected by
ten thousand majority Returns have been
received from seventeen out of twenty-oue
Congressional Districts, and the result is
largely in favor of the Republicans. They
show the election of twelve Republicans. four
Lecompton Democrats, and one ranked as Or
position.
The returns thus far received from Indiana
Indicate the election of eight Republican Con-
gressmen, the entire Republican State ticket,
and a majority of Republicans in the State
Legislature. Another defeat for Lecompton.
All the returns yet received from Iowa in
dictate the success of the Republicans.
The ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH A !" Slow CoAcH.u
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