The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-15
WASHINGTON D. c..
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1853.
LEcoMPT0N IN THE ELECTIONS.

LEcoMPToH IN THE ELECTIONS.
The elections which have recently taken
place in all parts of the free States indicate
with clearness the sentiments of the people in
regard to the Lecompton Constitution, which
Mr.. Buchanan is trying to force upon Kansas.
TLey also indicate what the future results will
be to the Democratic Party in the free States,
if the policy of the Administration is persisted
in, and the Senate Kansas bill is driven through
Congress.
The Republican victories in New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, do not
in themselves measure the peoples will, or the
degree of their condemnation of the Lecomp-
ton juggle. These States were Republican
last year, but they now elect Republican Off.
GERS by greatly-increased msjorities. In New
Hampshire, the Democracy-so-called-w
into the contest upon an anti Lecompton plat.
form; but so intense was the feeling of the peo-
pie against the outrage which the Senate, by
Northern men, has voted to perpetrate upon
Kansas, that the people of the granite hills
would trust no man calling himself Dem
ocrst, unless he had been tried and proceed true.
Ia Connecticut, the plurality of the Republi-
cans is greater than it has been at any State
election for years and this, too, when the OPP
position forces were not well drilled, and, in.
deed, went into battle with wing disafected
and waveripg. The three thousand plurality
of the Republicans does not measure the
strength of the snti-Lecomptonites in that
State. The nominee of the Democracy, Gen.
Pratt, when in Congress q few years since,
voted against the Ksnsss-N Nebraska act, which
was then thought by his party friends to be a
bold act. In the late campaign, he refused to
commit himself for or against Lecompton-in
other words, stood on the fence. If he had
come out firmly in favor of the measure, as his
rival in the Nominating Convention, Colin In
gersoll, did, he would have received ten thou
sand votes less than he received because of bis
non-commttalism. In Hartford, the Republi-
cans elected TO the Legislature all Democrats,
but they are heartily opposed to the Lecompton
measure of the Administration; and we pre-
sumo, hat of the Democrats elected to the Lee
Mr.. Douglas and Popular Sovereignty, as he
explains it in his recent Senatorial speeches.
The Rhode leland election results in the
utter rout of the Administration. Such ter
rible condemnation of Lecompton and Mr.. AL
len, who misrepresents his State, must have its
1t shows conclusively that Rhode Island, hence
forth and forever will bestow her offices upon
the friends of Freedom.
Our readers will notice, in another column
the result of several municipal elections in the
West. Every one of them shows that the Ad
ministrstion is thoroughly unpopular in all the
great Northwest, for its outrageous and shame
full attack upon the liberties of Kansas. Wher-
ever city has been carried by Democrats,
there the Democracy stood upon an Anti-Le
~~r--r+-- r1-4I---- The snirit of onposition 10
the slave oligarchy is spreading into slave
States even, and we chronicle Anti Slavery tri
umphs in the capital of Missouri, and in her
great commercial town, St. Louis.
Blind is the politician, worse than blind the
statesman, whe cannot see from these results
the future Of this country in regard to Slavery
and the Slave Power. Doughfaceism in the free
States, and the despotism of Slavery in our
national councils, are upon the wane. 1t is
getting to be popular in the leading States Of
this Union to avow hatred of the Slave Power,
and to defend, in bold language, the principles
Of Freedom.
The last feather has broken the cameps
back. The North has stood up under Compro-
mises, Fugitive Slave Laws and any amount
of Slaveholding insolence, but this last attempt
to subjugate the whole people of Territory,
10 force Negro Slavery upon them against their
will, has been too heavy burden. The North.
ern Democracy, so faithful, SO submissive, here.
tofore, to their Southern allies, have now re.
belled, and are divided and disheartened. The
lesson is not only worth the consideration of
the Administration, but of every Democratic
member of Congress. This is foretaste of the
retributioD which arrests every man who has
been unfailhful in this contest, or who shall
prove so hereafter. 1t also affords the few tried
and possibly tempted, men who have stood
erect, with all the power of the Government
against them, the evidence that vast majority
of their constituents approve of their conduct,
and will sustain them hereafter.