Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-10-20
The Election in Pennsylvania


however is ascertained to make it sure
that Government has been signally beat,
en-; and that the Opposition in the North
cru States largely outnumbers The friends
of the Administration. Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas, all speak &c
the same fact. The domestic policy Of
Mr.. BUCHANAN, and especially his man.
agement of partisan politics, are not 10
The taste of the people; and those who
have sustained him, have been severely
and emphatically rebuked. There can
be no Other moral TO this tale of disaster.
O~urspecial dispatch from the Capital in
forms us that the President was yesterday
startled by The news from Pennsylvania,
and confessed that he had been miSled
as to the extent of his popularity there
The confession is so truthful that we can
only regret it comes SD late. In fact
Pennsylvania affords an unmistakable
guage of the revolution from Mr.. b.
cHANAN and his course. In the present
Congress it is represented by fourteen
Administration Democrats and eleven
Opposition. The returns, as far as re-
ceived, indicate the probability that in
the XXXYbh Congress there will be but
three or four Administration members, TO
twenty-one or twenty-five of the OppoSi-
ton. Nearly every county, township
and village tells the same story of Admin
istration losses, and no word of Admins
tration gains. The defeat is a rout.-
The downfall Of Administration influence
is total and recoverable. Ii is the more
ignominious that every energy and aPpli-
ance of the beaten faction has been
brought into play. The State was the
native State and the home of the Presi-
dent. He had appealed with personal
directuess and feeling 70 his Democratic
supporters, who had never before failed
him, whether in good or in evil report, to
stand by him in this struggle, upon which
he had chosen TO stake the fate and the
fame Of his Administration. Never be-
fore had The Federal Executive so shame
lessly interfered 10 corrupt the popular
franchise. Never before had the resour-
ces of Federal patronage been brought
more powerfully 10 bear in a political
canvass. The sentence Of excommunica-
lion was suspended over the heads of all
Democrats who shrunk from the most
rigid conformity. 10 his own State and
home, among lifelong political friends,
after the most prodigal expenditure Of
priTonage. if not of money, and nOtwilh-
standing the official d~enunciation Of re-
cusancy, Mr.. Buchanan has experienced
a defeat unparalleled in the history of
his party. More than a defeat; it is a
revolution. His efforts have only avail
ed to drive into the ranks of opposition d
legion of Democrats, whom no art, or
intrigue, or bride, can, in all likelihood,
via back 10 old fidelity. In his futile
and scorned endeavor to conciliate the
South, he has completed the dissolution
of his party at the North. 1t will re-
quire some more potent enchantmen;
than is at the service of the Democratic
politician 10 reincorporale these scattered
fragments.
The lesson taught by this remarkable
struggle may be easily remembered. 1t
will not do TO trust personal favor too
far as a security from just punishment
The penalty of Mr.. BUcHANAN's fault is
inflicted by Pennsylvania. 1t willnot do
to turn ones back upon The pledges. pro-
LESSONS and principles of a party 10
which one belongs. and of a long pub
lie life-principles freshly reiterated and
strongly insisted upon-and hope to car
ry the people party and about the
same sharp angle. The vo:e of Pennsyl-
v8nia is a condemnation of Mr.. BUcHAN-
ANS Kansas policy. And ifa popular
candidate desires to insure the adhesion
of his constituents, he cannot 60 wider of
his aim, than while advocating measures
they abhor, TO omit all action upon meas
ures they regard as vital to their material
interest. The vote of Pennsylvania is a
demand for that protection 10 its internal
resources, which Democratic candidates
have promised over and again, but have
never granted. Its hardly possible that
these matters will be Inexperienced or
forgotten, after an enforcement so en-
phaiic.-N 7. Times.