Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-10-23
The Greut Opposition Triumph

The results of the elections in the great back
bone States Of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana,
are even more suspicious than the most san
gune hopes Of the Opposition To the Ad-
ministTatiOn, they arc as the handwriting on
the wall, which makes the weak knees of Bu-
chanan smite each other in terror, and stlrtles
him with a consciousness of his near impend-
ing doom.
In Pennsylvania the rebuke to the Lecompton
cOnspir4tors is specially emphatic and cutting.
In the Presidents own State, the great battle
ground on which the canvass Of 1856 was de-
cided in his favor, now he is repudiated by a
clear popular majority, which will fall little
short Of 10000. Then Pennsylvania elected
fifteen Administration to ten Opposition men,
bers of Congress. Now the opposite scale kicks
the beam-the fifteen Administration men be-
ing reduced TO fhTee-all told One Of these
montgomery is an Anti Lecompton man,
while the seat of another (FlOrence) will prob
/ ably be successfully contested From having
majority Of five in the delegation from his
own State, Buchanan will therefore find, in the
next Congress, a majority of at least nineteen
against him. Well may the Washington Union
eXclaim, with terror and dismay, " We have
suffered severe reverses" in Pennsylvania.
In Ohio, where the Democracy took refuge,
/ SO far as they dared, under the mantle Of Doug
las, and privately declared everywhere their dis
appreciation and disgust with the Adminstra-
ton, the result has nevertheless been over
whelmingly disastrous TO that pIrty Though
privately muttering their discomfort, they had
| rashly committed themselves in public, through
the Columbus platform TO the policy of the Ad-
ministratiOn. The people OF Ohio have repudi-
ated Buchanan, and all who cling to his skirts
The Republican State ticket last wear received
bare plurality of less than 1000, being in a
minority of several thousand, Of the whole vote.
This year our State ticket has received clear
majority of from p, 900 10 $4,000 The OppO-
sition elect fifteen OF the twenty-Oue Congress
men, while in the present Congress our delega.
ton stands twelve TO nine-a relative gain o
SIX In Hamilton county, for so many years
the Democratic Gibralter, the Administration
party, fully united and thoroughly organized
has b6en beaten, by an average majority Of l, 400
and the Opposition has gained the ascendaney
We trust, for years to come. Well may Bucha
mans hired jeremiah take up his lamentation
: also, over the severe reverses" in Ohio.
Indiana has made her verdict but little lss
emphatic than that with which Ohio and Penn
sylvania have terrified the conspirators at Wash
ington. y clear majority against the Admins
tration in both branches Of the Legislature give
the people of Indiana an opportunity to put tn
seal of their dIsapprODation on the Bright an
Fitch usurpation, and upon the outrage com
mitted BY the Senate in foisting upon that State
as their Senators, two obnoxious individual:
who never had the least constitutional right I
I the places they assumed to I'LL. The Leoomp
ton members OF Congress, with two exceptions
l were defeated, and these two barely escspeC
I. by greatly reduced majority. From having
. m5iority of one in the delegation from lndiani
. Buchanan has now 4 majority of FIVE agains
E him. On the State ticket the OPPositio
; gain some four or FIVE thousand votes. On
; more such stride will place Indiana in th
: column Of reliable and invincible Opposite
a States.
= Iowa does not lag behind her sister States
e the West Her voice will be unanimOJ
against the Administration in the next Coz
p gress- Even the Democratic candidates con
= mitted themselves substantially TO Repubiica
n ground. The returns which have been receive
from Minnesota indicate a revolution IN til
State also.
, Such are some Of the glorious results Of u
I elections of the first week in October. II
II Ides OF November are approaching, when mol
., thunder of the same sort may be confident
anticipated.-Cm. GG=.