Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-08-05
Defeat of Frank BIair-No surrender:


BLAIR out of Congress viii be BLAIR at home
and he viii devote his bestenergies 70 the great
work in hand in the great State of Missouri
For over twenty years the EEnancipationists Oi
England batlled on to final triumph-so will
BLAIR and the noble men who rally around the
standard of Free Labor and Free Soil, CALAMITY
planted, but now partially borne down, in the
Metropolis of the West. That banner viii yet
wave over redeemed, regenerated, and disen-
thralled" Missouri. 1t is only a question OF
time, and FRANK BLuR's defeat will hasten it.
Blair's vote is larger now than in the last
Congressional election Then he received s.
100 votes in ST. Louis city, and SIS in the
country-making a whole vote of 6,035. Now
incomplete returns give Blair 6,II2 vOtes-a
grand and true Free Labor Army in Slave
city. The American vote for Breckenridge is
$3.50; the Lecompton Democratic vote for Bar
rett 6,7Is. The American vote is as decidedly
Anti -Lecompton as the vote for Blair, making
the combined Opposition vote exceed that for
the Administration candidate 4, 6s3.
The St Louis Democrat, the morning after
the election, shows no signs Of striking the Free
Labor colors, but announces that it "yviH run up
the ensign in gun boat if need be" Itsays;
The result of the election in our city on yes
terday, discoses that the Free Soil vote of St
Louis county has divided itself into its original
component parts, that is-Democratic and Wing
the former going for Mr.. Blair, the latter for
Mr.. breckenridge, and thus, perhaps, entailing
a defeat upon both The vote is the largest
ever polleJ in this city, and from the complex
ion ofthe polls at certain precincts, it is evident
that much fraudulent voting was Perpetrated.-
This is known TO have been the case to a GER
tain extent, for rowing parties of Nationals
throughout the day promenaded from ward to
ward, pOtiag as they iceHt
Again the action of 4 corrupt County Court
imposed upon us judges of election, large ma
jOrity Of whom were IN the interest Of the Pro-
Slavery minority, and nus no check was had
upon the election, such as would have resulted
from fair selection of one from each party. If
TO this we add the unsparing use of treasury
money, scattered with reckless profusion in
every place of low resort throughout the city,
We shall not have so much cause TO wonder
that the party Of the President has succeeded
in polling something over six thousand votes.
This result, it is needless to say, has been
both unexpected and disastrous. Our conf
dence was never frmer than on yesterday, for
we could not conceive 1t possible that men hav-
ing the interests of great cause at heart, could
draw of and stand alOof upon a third eandi-
date. OF the effect the election is likely to e1-
ert upon Missouri, at home and abroad, we can
only conjecture but fear that plurality tri-
umph will be accepted in the most unfavorable
light against US From lands end 70 lands !
end, ths news WIN Be teieerspbed Is rotirminy
our StaIe, if avoided by Immigration, will drop
back into the ruts of stagnation from which the /
victories ofthe last two years had only partially
relieved it.
In the resume of the campaign. we cannot /
but feel that where the battle lcds fought it was
done CALAMITY. For our own part, we have |
every foot Of ground, every point of |
every legitimate appliance OF politi- |
cal warfare. If defeated, we kave only 10 say |
that IS pant of the fortune that attends every /
contest We do not for that reason |
either despair or surrender. We have unfnrled |
the flag for 1850 and come veal come woe, this |
journal will not strike its cOlOrs in the conflict
We shall fight for the last plank in the ship and
run I'D the ensign in a gunboat if need be-