Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-09-02
MORAL OF THE RECENT ELECTIONS.

MORAL OF THE RECENT ELECTIONS.
The damaging result Of recent elections up
on Democratic prospects for the next Con-
grcss has had proceptiblc effect upon the
two great parties Although no Member Of
Congress chosen in August is ranked amongst
the Republican members of the next House
of Representatives, portion, if not nearly
all the Opposition candidates chosen in Ken
lucky. Tennessee and North Carolina will be
found in constant hostility to this Admins
tration. This the Democrats confess. Their
leading newspapers have given up all hope.
They know and feel that the Administration
of their choice stands rebuked before the
country They know and feel that no test is
so sure as Representative elections by which
to ascertain the popular desires and the pub
lie temper and that as recent Congressional
elections make it certain the Administration
will be in hopeless minority therefore the
judgment of the country is that the Demo-
cratic party has failed to administer the gov
ernment in way to meet the public wishes
and to promote the general welfare.
There has been nothing in the way of a
successful administration of national affairs
since Mr.. Buchanan came into office. An
honest party would have found no difficulty
in satisfying the country. Its outward cir
cumstances have been pacific, and the Gle
ments of internal thrift have been abundant
as ever Mr.. Buchanan has had Senate
ready to confirm his nominations and other
wise facilitate his public labors. He did not
obtain his thirty millions with which to nc
gotiatc for Cuba, because his request was un-
reasonable, and the purposes for which the
money was asked we're presumed to be such
as made explanation impolitic if not unsafe.
But he has had all that was needed for the
prompt payment of national Indebtedness and
current expenditures, and majority of Dem
ocrats in both Houses 10 sustain his Admin
istration. Where. then, the delinquency that
has ailenatcd a majority of the people
What deed or deeds of the President, or the
party, or both, has wrought the change
What arc the causes that have lost the Dem
ocratc party a decisive majority in the House
of Representatives, and sent it into the next
Congress with reduced majority in the Sem
ate and no majority at all in the House?
To go into a consideration of the topic sug-
gested by such interrogatorics would be to ex-
tend this article to undue bounds but. first
and foremost, the Administration alienatcd
some of its friends and inccnsed the Repub-
lican party by its perverse course in Kansas
affairs, and upon the Slavery question gener-
| ally. The procedures of Mr. Buchanan in
his Kansas governors, and his Kansas policy.
was intolerable--aye, outrageous and such
as justly make him amcnable to public re-
proach long as he lives. And in the Slay-
/ cry Question generally this Democratic Adj
ministration has not been content to stand
neutral between the decisive auti-slavcry sem
timout Of the Free States and the pro-slavcry
sentiments of the South 1t has aimed ia
/ please one portion of the country. and take
its risk with the other, and the consequences
arc sufficiently visible in those elections of
which mention is made in this Article The
| Northern, Middle and Western States send
/ up decisive majority Of Representatives hos
tile to the present National Administration
and even the South which Mr. Buchanan has
taken special pains to conciliale, increases its
number of Representatives chosen in opposi-
ton to candidates of his own party The
Administration of Mr.. Buchanan has been
pervcrse and dishonest, and is reapng the in
evitablc reward. BE it the wisdom Of thr
!, Republicans to profit by the disaster which
has overtaken their foe, and practice the for
bearance and exercise the prudence that are
necessary in order TO dislodge a corrupt party
and put honest men in power once more. Tn,
country has pronounced sentence against thi,
Administration. What is now wanted is
verdict against the party which put it int,
power. A sontance conforming Mr.. Buchan
an is not one in favor of the Republican party
But it is in fair way to obtain it.-Neu
Hampshire Statesman