Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-10-23
GBe Dtrmont pBenir.
BRATTIEBORO VT;
SATURDAY, OCT. 28, 1858.



The result of last weeks voting in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, and Indiana, carries with it lesson
of greater significance than mere party defeat
or party victory. 1t is solemn protest against
the ultra and entire subserviency of the adj
ministration of James Buchanan to that power
which holds colorcd men and the democratic
party in an equally abject bondage. Coming as
it does from men who have been loyal to party,
even when their loyalty obliged them to ignore
their convictions, until the despotsm of power
had become too grievous to be borne, it is re-
bukc that will dcscrvcdy tell with whitening eff
feet upon the administration of james Buchanan.
In Ohio and Indiana the democratic party has
met with damaging, disastrous defeats, but in
Pennsylvania they are routed, horse, foot, and
dragons. In that great State, where even the
enthusiasm for the Republican candidate for the
Presidency, in 1856 so general and permeating
as it was, could produce no effect, but where the
democracy rolled back its surging waves and
erected barriers that no assault could weaken
i'm the very home of the President, where
State pride, lifelong friendships and family as
sociaiions all cluster and combine to make a
party strong and poweriul-thcrc, and notwith-
standing all these influences singly and COM
bined, and aided by the most liberal dispense
ton of public patronage the administration has
suffered a more ignominious defeat than ever
before sent President or a party from public
to private life.
The Republicans have laborcd in season and
out of season for this victory the Quakers have,
we are inclined to believe, pretty generally yo-
ted but these combined could not accomplish
such a work. Thousands of democrats, who
have been time and again cajoled into the belief
that democracy, as cXpounded by its latter day
apostles. was only another name for the equal
rights of man. and tina; the President was a
friend Of free institutions and protective tariff,
have had their political eyes now opened for
the first time. aud have voted as they never did
before. against the democratic candidates. This
change is without parallel. Take the District
now represented by j. Clancy Jones. Two years
hc was elected 10y 600i majority. and now he is
defeated. For fiity-cight years Bucks County
Has 'iill tb l'lI "a AiUbtlhlll VI tlltt
to four thousand. Some Of her voters have just
awakened to the fact that Andrew Jackson is
not the President
This election has settled the fact that the next
House Of Representatives viii have large OPP
position majority. This gill render the admin
istration poverlc>s in It's attcmpts to make Ee-
comptonism practically available, during the
two remaining years of its existence, and it will
materially prepare the way for the complete
overthrow Of the democracy 1t will do more.
II will furnish lesson for future executives who
undertake to make the will and wishes of the
people subSer,ieni to their own uuhallowed am
bi,ion, and who make use Of the entire patron
age of the government in attempts to perpetu-
ate and extend their despotic power. 1t will
also supply food for reflection to those who base
~ betray their trusts and violate their most sol
emn pledges.