The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-10-27
from the CINCINNATI Enquirer

The Result Of the Election in;
Ohio Pennsylvania and Indiana
The result Of the election in Ohio
affords.a marked contrast to those Of
.Penpsylvapia and Indiana, and it Is one
over which Democrats may be proud
Pennsylvania aud Indiana are natural
Democratic States, aud so proved them
selves in all contested elections between
the Democracy aud the Wings of olden
Not so with Ohio. She vas
always decidedly Wing, and whenever
the Democracy achieved success it was
either owing to the divisions o f~the OPP
posiiion- or to some other fortuitous or
extraordinary circumstances. The Alb
clifton or anti slavery feeling has also a
much stronger foo.b1id in Chic than in
either Pennsylvania or Indiana. Years
ago the Abolitiohists were a powerful
party in Ohio, before they even had an
organization in our sister States. The
recent political antecedants of the State
have been infinitely worse than those of
Indiana aud Pennsylvania. Even in
1852 if the Opposition" had been uui-
ted against US, they would have carried
the State against General PIERCE by
fifteen thousand majority. Tho vote
then was in round numbers as follows /:
Pierce l69, 900
600
/ ,O09
Majority against the Democrats 5000
That was in the paimy dais of Dem
ocratic str ength, before the Anti Ne
braska and know-Nothing excitements,
aud when our party was victorious in
twenty seven of the thirty one States.
In 1854 the Democratic ticket was bca,
ten in Ohio eighty thousand. We were
beaten by thousands in every Congress
ional district of the State. 1t seemed
hopeless to expect that it would ever be
revolutionized. In 1855 the OPPOSE
tion had a split upon the Governor, but
united upon the rest of the State ticket.
The Democratic candidates for Lieuten
ant Governor, secretary or State and
Treasurer, were beaten some thirty FIVE
| thousand votes. On Governor, MEDILL
(Democrat,3 was fifteen thousand behind
CHASE, the principal Opposition candi-
date.
We were again beaten by the united
Opposition 10 all the Congressional dis
4 tI1CLbY III LOOOr SANORe WV w
tober election, of that year, the Opposi-
tion were divided, twenty thousand votes
being thrown for the Know Nothing
candidates Nevertheless, we were bea-
ten twenty thousand by the Republicans.
The Democratic minority in the State
was forty thousand. We were in a
minority in every Congressional district
in the State, save the Fifteeneb, which
chose General Burns. We elected
eight Congressman, it is true, but not
by the Democratic strength, All we're
chosen through the Opposition divisionl
In November, 1856, at the Presidential
election, the vote stood Illus
JUN
ISL, 900
The Democratic minority in the State
therefore, on this decisive trial of
strength, was quite A. 900 if the Oppo
sition had been united. In 1857 our
State ticket was beaten We thousand
votes by the Republicans, while ten
thousand FIVE hundred votes we're given
to the American ticket, headed by Van
TRUMP. Our minority in the State was
twelve thousand five hundred. We then
enjoyed ex raordinary advantages. The
Americans to the number of many
thousands staid at home, being unwillr
ing to support CHASE, and knowing it
as useless to vote for their own candi-
dates. At the late election in-LS5S, the
late Opposition cordial y united " on
one Congressman in each of the districts.
The american" and Republican or
CARNATIONS melted together, and were
called the Fusion party. According to
past elections, it seemed impossible for
the Democrats to elect more than one
member of Congress, or to escape defeat
on the State ticket by less than forty
five thousand, which was the Presiden-
tial figure against US.
But what were the results? The
Democrats nave elected their candidates
for Congress in six of the Congressional
districts, against the American and Re-
publican vote combined, while they lose
three other districts by less than five
hundred votes in the aggregate.
We have not :he figures on the State
ticket, but We believe that it is not bea-
ten by more than 1900 votes. In
other words, although all that remains
of the old Fillmore party, went for the
fusion State ticket, it got bat aboat the
same majority that FREMONT rcceiUed
7ver Buchanan 1Citkout 1t. Two thirds
Of the Opposition majority piled up
US on the President, has disap
We get six Congressman by
The Democratic votes over an undivided
Fusionn--a thing which has not hap
pened since 1852. Indeed We stand
the State quite as well as We did then,
save our loss in this county. We have
a fne vantage ground for the future.
The Opposition can make no more
f%usions to increase their strength and
the steady Democratic gains, which We
have been making every year will soon
bring the Opposition majoritysdown to
nothing, even if it continues united. 1t
is only superficial observers who con-
found pluralities with majorities; aud
who arc unacquainted with the political
condition of the State in former years,
who fail to perceive that, at the late
the Democrats have done bet
ter, far better, than they did in 1856,
when we apparently emerged from the
with more l@aurels # victory.
Acknowledging the Corn The Re,
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