The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-10-19
nnr Stata Election.

With feelings of great satisfaction, We
chronicle this week. more fully. the great and
decisive Republican victory in Ohio 1t was
hard fought campaign. our opponents ex
erting themselves every where and at all points
With the utmost vieor. and in too many in
stances we may say, without due scr1ple as
to means. 10 sustain their sinking cause
Judge Douglas popular sovereignty dogma.
has received severe rebuke at the hands OF
decisive msjority of the intelligent electors
of Ohio. This dogma was made IN issue IN
the campaign, and Senator Douglas. himself
was imported into the State, to defend and
maintain it. and the Plain Dealer. his organ
in Northern Ohio. still claims, that if be could
have gone through the whole State to explain
his dogma, the Democrats would have tri
umpbed By twenty thousand minority l.! &
The issne thus presented was met by Mr..
Lincoln and Senator Trumbull. OF Mr. Doug
las own State as well as by our own able
speakers. and The result has been most disast
rous TO Mr.. Douglas Presidential aspirations
The fortunes of this arch traitor to freedom,
to free labor, and the true interests of the
North especially, and to the whole country
generally, are waning beyond recover. and
soon, very soon, there will be "uone 20 poor
az 10 him reverence" oE -}
Another gratifying result is attained in the
termination of Mr. George Z. Pugh's Senate
rial career. This man without dignity of
character. or integrity of aim. will no longer
be permitted to misrepreseni. and disgrace our
State. The waves of politi al retribu,ion
have rolled over him. aud he lies stranded up
ON the beach, seething in the feculent scum of
political corruption, whose offe siyeness should
be an emphatic warning to other demagogues
to flee from the wrath to come.
Again, the result is especially pleasing from
the fact that it is full and emphatic endorse
ment of the able, enlightened. patriotic and
useful State Administration Of Salmon P !.
Chase and from the fact that it also points
to him as the successor Of Mr.. Pugh.
We have not doubt that the Republican
Legislature, on joint ballot, will return Gov.
Chase to the United States Senate-the Re-
puhlicans demand 1.-THE Republicans of the
Union ardently desire and expect it. Indeed.
one of the issues of the campaign just closed,
was his return to the Seuate. and this consid
Grafton excited TO greater exertions tens of
thousands of our most devoted Republicans.
The just expectations of the people must he.
and we are sure will be fully me; in this behalf
Men of the dignity. capacity, integrity. and
craftsmanship of Salmon P Chase. are the
men we need at this important Gay in the SEN
ate of the United States.
As one whose name ia high on the list OF
candidates for the Presidential nomination. he
deserves this Endorsement from the State he
has so faithfully served, and whose honor and
interests he has SO heroically sustained .
Ohio is, from henceforth. a Republican State,
fixed, and reliable. The sham Democracy
with their most unexceptionable Guberna,orial
leader have made their boldest stoutest stand
and 10 IA decisive M jority of nearly twent,
thousand leaves them no hope of future sue.
cess
All honor to the faithful Republicans who
have contributed to this great result.
The warripg and factious sham democracy
must bite the dust. The next year, if the Re-
publicans are true to themselves and their
principles. will see the rens of government
pass from the hands of oligarchists and dough
faces, and will see the responsibilities of Ma
tional Administration, pass into the hands Of
the Republicans So mote it be.