The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-05
From The i I. Herald lE.h.
THE LATE NORTHERN ELECTIONS AND
THEIR SIGNIFICANT RESULTS.

THEIR SIGNIFICANT RESULTS.
| The late local elections in pennSvlyanla,
! OHIO. Indiana. Iowa and Minnesota, uniln-
! pOrtrnt and ndecieiye as they may be re-
gArdel touching the momentous question Of
the next Presidency, are pretty conclusive
upon three points. \: all events we draw
from them the following important conc.u-
I sOns-
! Ftrst.-That the Democratic party Of the
northern States is in that melancholy con-
dition of IA sick man which affords no symp-
toms Of convaiescence.
! Second. -Tha, the late great American,
or third party Of the North, has disappeared
and ceased % exist and
! Third. That henceforward, to the close
Of the Presidential campaign of 1860, there
vii! be on Y two parties in the North-the
d Republican and the DemOcratic-and that
into the one or the other Of these two par
ties all the loose materials Of the North.
with s0me tr!6!Dg exceptions, will BE alb
sorbcd.
! Upon the first point-the melancholy pros
tratlon Of the northern Democrncy-very
little is needed to explain the causes and
character of the disease. 1t may be traced
to that death oil cold" which the party con-
tracted from that desperate southern Presi
Dental experience of Doug las and Pierce in
loj+--the repeal Of the Missouri Compro-
mise. The instantaneous and 0yerwhelm
ing northern revolution which fol owed that
repeal will explain the whole mystery. The
violent and lmpractIcul movements of the
southern pro-slavery Democracy in the way
of retaliation have only contributed fresh
fuel to the fire from that day to this.
. Under this terrible pressure from both
sides, the Democratic party IN 1856 would
have been crushed tC atoms but for the saw
ing interpos,tion Of Mr.. Buchanan. 1t was
are>cue rs from the very JAWS of destruction
and ii lesson which should have taught some
thtng OF wisdom to the various factions and
leaders OF the party. But instead of this,
they commenced the game of rule or ruin
with the new administration from the day it
came INTO power ami so, while on account
OF these tatthtess and rebelllous leaders and
clIques. the Democracy of the North have
been beaten and trampled under foot. from
the lakes Of Name to the lakes of Minnesu-
IN, the Democracy of the South have been
degraded to mere sectional faction upon
the zone idea" Of slavery.
Our second consideration-the disapnear.
ance Of the late great third party of the
North-on!y darsens still more this other
wise sufficiently gloomy prospect to the de-
m0Ta!IZed Democracy: The materials of
this late third party, upon the broad, gene
raj and practical issues of the federal gov
eminent are the natural allies Of the Repub-
ilcans, and as the American party has died
natural death the bulk of the loose mate
rails of the latter will be. absorbed by the
former for such ara the manifestations of
these October elections
Thus, with the people of the North divided
between two parties in 1860, instead of
three, as in 1876, we may say, from the
northern elections of the last and present
year, that in every northern State this side
Of the Rocky Mountains the Democracy will
enter into the contest as a demoraised mi
nority party. How they viii! emerge from
the battle is another question; bat from the
general drift of the tide of these October
elections, the dulest politician cannot fail
to perceive that an Opposition President
may be elected in 1860 without the electoral
vote of a solitary southern State.
To this complexion of our political affairs
have We been brought by that desperate
southern electioneering experiment of Doug
las and Pierce in 1854, the Kansas Nebraska
bill, and its appendages of sectional agita-
ton. The Democracy of the North are
Frustrated and broken up by one sectional
party, while the Democracy of the South
are themselves reduced to mere sectional
camp.