New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-18
ssar NEcENr ELECTIoNs.

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FsrN RECENT ELECTIoNs.
~. ,vcent elections have resulted somewhat
tnxulasiy, although he Dsmocfscy are IN the main
triumphant. 10 some respects, however, they have
III ths principal fuits q victory, which renders
sheir triuruph barren ons In North Carolina the
a. coai delegation h reported 10 be equally
divIded. Nov, 10 intelligent man doubts that the
Democracy can carry North Carolina, yet this divis-
ION. Ii case the Presidential election goes into the
House Of Representatives for determination and
there y prospect that II will-destroys the Demo
cratic influence Of North Carolina. It will be Of nc
benefit that the Democracy have the Governor, the
Legislature and the two Federal Senators, II the
Opposition members of the lower House stand true
10 their colors. It will be in their power to render
the vote Of North Carolina nothing more nor less
than q blank.
The same thing may be said Of Tennessee, where
the Democracy have lately carried the Governor and
majority Of the Legislature, but only three out OF
the ten Congressman. So, in case the House OF
Representatives should be called upon to choose
Chief Magistrate, the vote Of Tennessee will be cast
in opposition to the Democratic candidate Yet, We
suppose no one questions the power OF the regular
Democracy to carry that State in fair, hand to hand
contest before the masses.
Consequently, when considered in this connection,
Tie Democracy have lost In national point Of view,
rather than gained in the recent State elections 10
tic States named. Their local triumphs are more
than oyerbalanced BY their national losses and II
they should happen to lose control Of the Federal
Government in lS60-an event BY no means improb-
albeit is very likely u will be many years before
they regain II. uninterrupted possession Of power
has emoraixed their ranks and caused their leaders
to rely upon nominating conventions, instead of the
people for preferment To such dimensions has this
unpatrotc practice grown that the masses are rare
", ii ever consulted, and those who manage the con.
vention wires most sdroitly, usually succeed. All
the voters are expected to do owadays is to raty
the cntanddried edicts Of partisan leaders, as form
ally promulgated in regularly cutand dried conven-
tons.
Speaking Of the late elections, well informed
contemporary observes: The elections in Kentucky
and Tennessee have added ten or twelve Opposition
members to the House Of Representatives, and in
creased the strength Of the conservative balance Of
power in that body to about thirty Representatives
The Democrats have elected ninety-two Lecompton
ites and six anti Lecomptonites 10 all ninetyeight,
and the Republicans have one hundred and fourteen,
and of course neither can control the House nor or
ganixe it under any ultra Speaker. The result will
be the selection Of some moderate man, who will
frame the committees fairly, and do much toward al
laying The feelings Of sectional asperty which of late
years have rendered the House Of Representatives
one scene OF rude confusion" combination Of the
Republicans and anti.Lecompton Democrats would
bring one hundred and twenty votes to elect q
Speaker one more than is necessary to choice, and
it may perhaps be the policy Of Senator Douglas to
ofct the IN nhov the extv odd Eouthern Democrats