Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-19
The Nrw DorcLAs PArrv.-Tr
Takn

ing inform Us of the public re- oicihgs
of the Douglas Democrats III '&aer-
ent parts ofthe Union. AT Boston,
Yesterday, they celebrated their de-
feat of the administration in Illinois
with the thunder Of canhou. The
eyes OF tne party are nqwtnrned to-
wards ths seating I'M, and Buchanan
blazeS UNDECIDED on the eastern 'hori-
zon, soon o set. We hear Of great
enthusiasm for Douglas in quarters
in which, a few days since, there
reigned only acold reserve, aad5rom
which, if he had failed in his effort to
obtain a majority in the Illinois Leg
islatures he would have heardbn no ex-
pressions of condolence.
Yet the triumph he has gained,
though a great n as regards the
Administration and the position which
Douglas IS to take in his own party,
is but an imperfect one as regards the
Republican party. He owe ft,s APP
parently, altogether to the in
which the State has been districted for
the choice of the Legislature. In IL
linois the aPportionment of Senators
and Representatives has been rmadey
and the boundary lines OF. districts
drawn, by the party hitherto doni-
nant, in such q manner as to give IL
self the advantage and secure a lar
| ger proportion of members than a.
perfectly equitable apportiopmenr
would entille it to elect. This is n
paltrv trick, 10. be sure, but ii has been
practiced elsewhere by different par
ties, and so frequently, that we are
afraid people are not SO much asham-
ed Of themselves forsbeing concerned
in it as they ought to be. Although
there is a Douglas majority in the IL
linois Legislature, the voice Of the
people at large isin favor Of Lincoln
against Douglas, The popular, ma
fiority for the Republican candidates,
taking ALI the districts together, rs be-
tween FIVE andien thousand. If the
several districts Of the State had been
represented in absolute proportion
to tile population, it l. evident that
Lincoln would have had the seat in
the Senate which Will now be assign
ed to bis rival.
The new party which will spring
from this defeat ofthe Administration
must take the field withva platform
of its ewn. 1t cannot stand4on-the-
one which has come to tn e ground
under Buchanan, and covered him.
with its ruins 1t is a difficult game
which this new aspirer TO tho Chief
Maglstracy has to play; he must satis-
fly the South, and yet be must court
the North He has TWO masters to-
serve-a task which, disintimated by
a certain venerable Authority, is aifn-s
possible. lie must. not Weld d single
pretence of the slave holders, and yet
he must stand up foE the rights of thSe
free states. Hereafter this great
power of public epinion'at the North
which has suddenly become so formi-
dable, which begins to feel and make
others. feel its streRgth> which has
Just overthrown the slavehoIding-
party by the most remarkable politi-
cal defeat that we remember, isaa0
powefeto be courted and propitiate9
"a power which ne-candidate for the
Presidency can neglectto conciliatsTT
or, il he does,-it is under penalty Oh
certain deteGt-
DuugiGs has yet to gain Illinois, he
has the legislature, butnot the people
The course he has hithe ITO tuisu hos
not secured him the popular majority
He mus take his POLITICAL creedto a
new draft IL he means To- satisfy the
people OF the free states. They will
hardly be. eontent with the bastard
dogmas, BY maintaining which tho,
e~quivocal tictory over the Rebublir
cans of Illinois was gained. To brave
the Administration successfully, in a
part of the country where II haa al
ready made itself detested, he will
find was a much easier task than the
one he has yet 10 Rerform.-N Y,
Eve. POST 4a s1 uuaad a.
TnE MORAL OF JONES DEFE&T.
The Washington correspondent OK
the New York Courier and Enquirers
writes:
loot mo, ,ha ratacfion of Mr.