Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19
Committee.
The Recent State Elections.

The elections which recently took place in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. are signif-
cant in their results. indicating rather
gloomy future for the present Administration
and its party. The Washington Union, in its
melancholy dilemma, referring to the late
result in the Keystone State says
1--WE have encountered heavy reverses in
Pennsylvania, which would discourage any
but the Democratic party. Excuses are not
| them. We have been sadly beaten by extend
| ed detection in our own ranks; beaten, we re-
greet to say, precisely at the time that the evil
| policy of the Opposition was most deeply felt
all over the country. Our friends have
struggled with intestine difficulties and with
the open enemy, who were encouraged to re-
! newed efforts in consequence of the quarrels
in our own party. 1t is undoubtedly true,
| too. that the question of a revision of the
tariff on the basis of direct protection to
special interests had much to do in procuring
votes for the Opposition
The Philadelphia Pe,nsylvqnian. Mr. Buch-
anan's pet home organ, and the only paper
| excepting Benefits Herald and the Washing
| ton Union. which it is said, he deliberately
reads. discourses thus
| at will not take many words to announce
the result of the contest in our City and State
| yesterday. That is the plain truth with re-
| ference to the matter. and the party must
| look ut it, and not finch. The causes which
| produced this result we have not time to
! indicate at present. They are mostly local.
Some of them we fear fraught with evil for the
| future. As to the general issue, that of IA
| change in the Tariff was the most potential
in the hands of the INSCRIPTIONS demagogues
who headed the Peoples movement"
Col. FoRNEY's Press of the 18th calls it a
Waterloo defeat and says
"There has never been in Pennsylvania a
political overthrow so overwhelming and
| complete as that achieved on Tuesday. Yet
| startling as the results are. they only family
| indicate the intense feeling of indignation
and hostility which the Lecompton policy of
| the Administration, and the proscriptve
means by which it has sought to enforce it
| upon the Democratic party, has awakened
They are tens of thousands of men who voted
for the defeated candidates from a feeling of
attachment to the Democratic organization,
per Sc, without reference to the infamous
policy to which. for the time being, it had
been committed by sinister Influences con-
trolled by official power and patronage, who
in their hearts, acknowledge the justice of the
decision of the people. and rejoice at it. The
truth is, that a Pennsylvania approver and
endorser of Mr.. Buchanan's policy who is
unintiuenced by personal or pecuniary con
siderations, and who has paid any degree of
attention to the political events of last year,
is a curiosity. There never was party more
completely and thoroughly Tylerized than
the Administration party in this State. The
wonder is, not that the Administration candi
dates received so few votes, but that they re-
ceived SO many"
This is strong language and candid
acknowledgement to come from one, who
only "A short time ago fought the battle Of
democracy, was chief instrument in eleva-
ting MIR. Buchanan to Office, and who still
processes utilization with what is termed the
Democratic party.