Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-11-06
The Late Election.
| From the Washington Union


We have Published pretty full reports of
the elections of Tuesday last Oar readers
will have learned from them the general fact
that the democratic party ba. sustained i'm
portant losses in all the States where the elec-
tons have been held, except only in the State
in which its leaders have denounced It's ac-
ton az fraudulent and 10 violation of its faith
and its principles. With few exceptions
the party has been beaten wherever, in these
States, it's candidates did not endorse the
action of the black republican party in Con-
eress last winter, and condemn that Ct the
| good aud true democrats in that body.
If the democratic party has triumphed 10
! Illinois, il has been at It's own expense, 10
consideration OF joining in the black.repuoi-
can clamor against the "Loc1mpton fraud
and swindle." 1t is q triumph barren and
ignomiDious; it is a triumph over which
the black-reoublicans have reason to exut,
and d. exut more than the good and true
dem 1cracy. The platform Of the party IN IL
linois, on the great slavery question, IN the
CANVASS lust ended, differs bat little from the
Buffalo platform of 1913 1t was the leading
tenet of the Buffalo platform that Congress
might prohibit slavery 10 the Territories and
debar from these common possessions OF all
the States, the citizens Of half the Union. Ii
is the leading tenet Of the Illinois platform
that the subordinate agent of Congress, the
territorial Legislature, may d. this thiug-in
the manner most becoming an underlIng aud
tool, by indlrecton, bad faith, and perjury
We repeat, that a victory, won upon q
charge OF fraud and delinquency of princi-
pie against the DeMocracy-a victory won
upon platform of doctrines differing but a
shade from the odious platform of Buif!lo,
ia not victory over which We can rejoice, or
from which we can expect any Advantage or
honor to the great party 10 whose service we
labor.
1t is notorious in Illinois that an anti Lin.
cou majority in the legislature just elected,
10 not Der sc ID ,uglss ma ority. 10 letter
from a correspondent who had just trsversed
| the whole State, written on the lst inst, the
day before the election. he sets forth the tue
state of the case 81 have Ist returned IRON
a trip through the State. | fad that thera
are hosts Of good democrats who will vote
for Douglas candidates to beat Lincoln, al,
though they have DO confidence in the "Llt
tie Giant" The election returns will not
therefore give very good indication of his
strength. Ut was the impression amor lead
ing democrats at Springfield that d uglas
will not, under any circumstances be returned,
even though his friends be 10 apparent ma
iority 10 the legislature. They believe that
among them will be found sufficient mum
Der of mem bers elected to beat Lincoln who
will refuse to vote for D)u, las, and thus pre-
vent the election Of either"
The returns which have reached US are not
Sufficiently definite or positive to admit Of an
accurate and certain estimate of the complex
ion of the next House OF representatives -
There is no doubt that the House is lost by
large odds, if we count as of the party only
those who support the uational platform and
endorse the action of Congress last winter on
the Kansas question. The only doubt seems
to be, whaber there is majority over the
black republicans and tine Americans who
act With them, counting with the democracy
those " BIO denounce it's action last winter, ns
a fraud, ard subscribe to the Illinois plat
form. We fear there will be a majority OF
the opposition, even exclusive OF euch men as
Thomas l.. Harris, OF Illinois, aud Horace L
Clark, of New York. At all events, the bal
ance lie 90 even that it is impossible 10 the
present state OF the returns to reach salts
factory conclusion even on this question:
The question, however, is OF little practical
i'm portance; for if the democracy shall have
control of the House only By the aid of such
democrats as the gentlemen we have men
toned, its tenure will BIO slender and I'M
certain one indeed.