Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-10-05
DC EIections 10 Come.


The elections for State Officers and Members Of
Congress take place in several Of the northern
and western States this month and next The most
interesting Of these elections those to be heldiu
Pennsylvania next week, and in Illinois early in
November In the other States. the issues are gen
eral while in the two we have named the personal
considerations ataohingio The fact that one Of them
is the home of the President and The other Of Judge
Douglas, render the contests unusually exciting,
and strsct the earnest attention Of the whole cOun
try. Pennsylvania, in 1885, voted for Mr.. BUcHAN-
AN BY small majority. His vote was $50 40;
while the combined vote Of FILLMORE and FRE-
MONT was 229, es5. The majority for BUCHANAN over
both the other candidates was only 1925. This
year only two tickets the democratic ticket
and the peoples fusion of abOlitionsm and know
nothingsm) ticket The detection of FoRNKY and
his clique the Kansas issue, loses the democratic
party several thousand votes, and democratic sue
cess in Pennsylvania this year would therefore be
wonderful. We do not expect it.
In Illinois, in 1856, the combined vote for FRE-
MONT and FILLMORE exceeded that for BUCHANAN by
$4,000 The politics Of that State have since been
greatly complicated by the course of Judge DoUG-
Las. In this case the contest is between him and
the black republicans. The great mass Of the dem
ocrstio party will vote the DOUGLAS ticket. A few
will throw away their votes on true men. On the
other hand some Of the black republicans, grateful
for the aid extended them by DOUGLAS last winter,
will vote for candidates pledged to support him for
the Senate. We expect to hear Of the election Of a
black republican Legislature result, far as it
affects him, at which we shs grieve much less than
we should have done at any previous period of the
political life Of Judge DOUGLAS.
We are skstching the field for the information of
our readers, and stop to make one comment on the
aspect of affairs in the two States named: In Hi
nois, Judge DOUGLAS and his friends claim to be the
democratic party and to differ from the administers
ton only on single points Kansas policy. The
opposition to DOUGLAS is the black republican party
and the battle against him is fought by that party
with extraordinary zeal and venom. Whereas, in
Pennsylvania, FoKEEY, the right-hand man Of
DOUGLAS the leader Of the black republican forces
in their war upon the administration, and every
friend of DOUGLAS supports the black republican
ticket This is a curious state of thing, and is
perfect exemplifcatiOn of the dishonesty of black
republicanism, and its pimp-F0rHey
In most Of the free States, in which elections
have been held this year, the democratic party has
made large gains, and the prospects of our party
are brighter than they have been for some years
past. In the elections yet to be held in the free
States, with the exception Of the two named our
friends will do better than they have been able to
do since 1855 We may not succeed in New York,
but the vote poled for candidates will be twenty
per cent larger than any heretofore cast in that
State for a democratic ticket But for the unfortu-
nate and mischievous course of Judge DoUGLAs,
there was every reason to calculate on return Of
al the old democratic States of the north to their
ancient mOorings. The result is postponed by this
detection, but it is only postponed for few years