Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-10-20
Pennsylvania Election:

The Auti Administration triumph 10
Pennsylvania is complete. Ths Pittsburgh
Gazette Of tbe 18th, states that the foot.
ings Of the vote on the Stats Ticket show
that Read, Republican. is elected Supreme
Judge by at least $4,000 majority, and
Frazer, Republican. for Canal OOmmis-
sioner by 10000. Philadelphia gives
Reed 5000. Lancaster $500, Allegheny
a7oO. Washington 400. Dauphln 100,
Lebanon HOO, Mifl;n 800, Blair 1900,
Huntington 600, Indiana l6OO, Arm
strong 500, and so on. .-.. -..
The Opposition have twenty one Of the
twenty five members Of Congress. The
Gazette states that the election Of LOnge-
neeker, Republican, in the l'ucks District
is now conceded.
The Opposition majority in the Lsgis-
lature on joint ballot will probably be
about 40. The Senate will stand Is Re-
publicsns, II Democrats. The Senators
holding over were 0 Republicans and ~
Democrats. The Gazette gives a table Of
the House as It will probably stand. The
fOotings are II Republicans, and 30 Dem.
ocrats. Opposition majority AZ.
Col FOney, of the Philadelphia Press, is
evidently we'll pleased with the verdict Of
the people Of Pennsylvania. The follow.
ing extract from tho Press of Wednesday,
indicates bis feelings:
YESTERDAY.
Two years ago, about the same hour in
which we are now writing, the editor Of
the Press, then the Chairman Of the Dem.
ocratic State Committee, sat down to ad
dress the Democratic party of the whole
country upon the election Of James Bu
chanan TO the Presidency and to congrat-
ulate the people upon the triumph Of the
great principle Of Popular Sovereignty,
without which Mr. Buchanan could not
have been elevated to that high position.
That was in October Of $50, be il remem-
bered, and that result was regarded as de-
ciding the Presidential contest in Novem.
Der succeeding. Since that period, the
same principle has been kept consistently
in view by the editor Of this journal, but
intermediately, between then and now, the
President Of the United States has prefer
ed TO discard the great principle which
made him President, and we have been
thrown, by series Of events familiar to
the peo le, into hostile attitude to bis
policy in this respect. Every effort which
has been made towards cancellation and
federation hos been hOughtily refused
An appeal was therefore taken 10 the peo-
pie Of PENNSYLVANIA. And new we sit
down, as we did in 1856, after the 0cto-
Der election, to chronicle The triumph Of
the principle which elected James Buchan-
an to the Presidency. But we deeply re-
gret to say that this trne we are called up.
on to rejoice over the triumph ofthe prin-
ciple, and the defeat of the man who was
elected upon it. Atthis writ ,g II looks.
as if almost every Congressional Lecomp.
tonile in Pennsylvania had been defeated !
So much for those who have preferred the
patronage and favor of the President to
ibe confidence Of the people. Thus much
for the Executive. who has chosen to turn
bis back upon The immortal doctrine that
the American people shall control their
own affairs In their own way, and who
has dared to erect, In every district in
Pennsylvania, an official influence at war
with the fundamental principles Of the
Consultation. Thus much for the new
and startling idea that not the Federal
Union, but that "the Executive must and
shall be sustained" But this result Is not
only attributable to the uprising Of the
people against the betrayal of their Rep.
resentatives and the gross desertion Of the
popular principle by The Chief Magistrate
of the Rupublic; but it IL at the same time
tribute to Pennsylvania feeling, and to
that idea which Is cherished BY all our
peopls--that Of protection to American