The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-27
THE RESULT IN THE STATE.
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Our readers doubtless already aware that the de-
mocracy OF Pennsy sustained defeat at tho ste
election and that the mongre opposition rleood their
State ticket and mjory of their candidates. for Con
gress State senator and assembly For three successive
yeas the democratic organization had been triumphant
at orr State elections, and its victory OF last year
OF the most splendid achievements that adorn the long
and brilliant record of democratic rulnphs To add
victory unto victory and TO peIpcnate the democratic
policy In legislative and affairs 1t Was
but necessary that the democracy should remain
their principles and that the whom they elected to
Office should faithfully represent them and stand by the
party The great body the organization felt this to be
vital necessity and therefore, stood firm and unwayeng
around the democratic banner. No matter how furious
the onset OF the enemy--no matter whether fanatics
shreked traitors rebelled tho OF the den-
ocratic party foun Rllying around the good old
flag, which ii has been, and ever shall be. their
delight and their glory TO preserve unsnied But what
Of the leadersthe ambitousspirits whose isante
whole treasures could not surfeit the Forneys the
Webhs, and the Nebingers, who must either rule
ruin Like so many infatuated Don Quixotes, We find
them running tilt with democratic President demo
cratic Congress- and with the great bulk OF the democratic
party They reYiie the very men whom they f,in
would have us believe infallibe They strike at
the very party which they have assisted ia building up
and with the praises OF which they filed the ears OF the
people They join hands with the bitteiest and most
uncompromisng foes Of every democratic principle and
exert all their powers to elect candidates who represent
doctrines utterly at war with those they profess TO cher
ish And we are told by these that their nfdelity
to the democratic organization, and their combination
with political adversaries all intended to sve
the party pretty salvation they have made OF il,
surely
As the smoke of the battle disappears we look over the
field md find that John M Read, aoiona Is elected
supreme judge William H. Frazer abolition know-noth-
ing canal commissioner and that about tweny-one OF
the twenty five congressman opponents Of the demo
cratic party. This is saving the democracy with
vengeance. We look again and we see Mr. Nebnger
the antiLecompton candidate In the first district beaten
several thousand votes We Mr.. Cake another anti
Lecompton democratic candidate, in the Schuylkill dis
ct in minority Of several thousand We see Henry
d. Foster, of the Wcstmoreand district very popular
man, who also ran anti-lecompton candidate dc.
feated by from 200 to 500 In fact we find but two
antIecompton democrats elected to Congress- and thse
two IN districts where the opposition desared of ceeng
men of their party We see also that Reilly Fisher
jones, and other regular democratic nominees are beaten
by but triing maorities Has not anti -Lecoptonism
therefore, injured rather than benefited the democratic
candidates that professcd it.?
In connoxion with this subject We cannot refrain from
referring to county which in the general wreck
looms up erect and unscathed q democratic county,
showing the same unbroke front ii has always present
ed In February last the democracy Of old Bedford in
mass meeting assembled resolved to stand by the nation
al administration and proclaimed their determination TO
cling to the regular democratic organizations And what
Is the result Whilst the democracy of sister counties
that wavered the subject of Kansas have suffered
disastrous defeat we have won victory Of which
may well be proud And would it have been in every
democratic county in the State had the party stood firm
ly and unfinchingly by the President Of its choice
Therefore, let the result Of this campaign be warning
to all democrats who may hereafter be foolish enough to
suppose that their principles will be established main
ained by opposing democratic administration and the
regular nominees of the party Let it teach us that we
gain nothing but lose all by arraying ourselves against
the masses of the party a. insisting that WILL as
minority should be done in preference to that OF the
majority whose is the unquesonable prerogayc to say
what shall or shall not be the principles and policies Of
our organization.