New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-18
Abolition Rejoiclngs.

The Abotionists generally are rejoicing over the
election of John Letcher to the Gubernatoria chair
of Virginia. The Boston Lberator (William Lloyd
Garrison's paper) says:
ABOLITION Victory IN THE SoUTH.-The tele.
graph informs of the election of Virginia Abo.
tionist to the Office Of chief magistrate of the Old
Dominion. We were not prepared for such cheering
news. His majority may be small, but we have
abundant cause to rejoice that saveocracy is the
wane in Virginia. and that so large portion Of her
people is mbued with the principles of the early, and
best, and purest statesmen The Governor elect
lives among the Scotch Irish in the heart of the
State and was the ardent advocate, few years ago.
OF the abolition of slavery in Western Virginia.
MThe New York Evening Post, a Democratic Free
soil journal, edited with marked ability and welding
commanding influence, says: "
1t fills us with joy to report the election of a Demo.
cratic Freesoer to the important Office of Governor
of Virginia. 1t justifies the policy we have sus-
tained OF refusing to join the Abolitionsts in invad
ing the institutions of the Southern States. With
agency of ours the black wave is receding to the
South Mr. Letcher was an advocate of emancipa-
ton in Western Virginia some ten or twelve years
ago and though driven by apparent policy to palter
to Eastern Virginia, it is well known that he cher
ishes his earlier opinions and will be encouraged by
his election to resume them at an appropriate season.
His Democratic Freesoil brethren at the North hail
| this victory with unalloyed pleasure.
And on the 1lth inst. the Evening Post gave the
following for the defeat of Goggin the Oppo.
sition candidate for Governor:
THE SACRIFICE OF GoGGIN The defeat of Goggin,
| the opposition candidate for Governor, by Letcher,
the renegade Freesoer whom the Administration
party set up generally considered to be due to his
shrewd attempt to out Herod Herod in the advocacy
of pro,slavery doctrines during the campaign. In
this way he gained largely in the slaveEoldins coun-
ties. east of the Blue Ridge, which OF course re-
garded with distrust candidate who had once been
infected with the Jetersonan heresy OF antslavery
while in the comparatively free Western counties his
vote noticeably fell off from the vote given to the op-
position candidate OF the year before In seventeen
Western countless for example, the returns thus Tar
IsssssF' sss 9Adm.' eoss5n, 81 eop'
Last year in the same counties the vote stood:
wsssi asi6 5Adm9 Flii%ss9y' isss l0po
Here is a gain for Letcher of 2OO9, which nigh,
have been avoided had Goggin only paid sufficient
regard to the freestate party to keep himself from
unjust and indecent abuse of its principles 1t Would
have been easy for him to have got votes enough
from the Western counties to have made up his def
cheney elsewhere, and insured his election. But n
has perhaps chosen the more dislnterested part o.
sacrificing himself for the instruction and warning
future aspirants for public office.
A few more such Pyrrhc victories as this, and tht
South will be transferred, bound hand and foot, owe
to the tender mercies of Abotiondom. Well, w
suppose otis all right The " Administration
triumphed in Virginia, according to political par
lance and the Baton Ronge Convention endorsed th
aforesaid Administration Consequently the elec
ton of quasi Freesoiler in the Old Dominion shou
be source of rejoicing in the al Sugar Bowl of tn
Union!' Therefore, let's all ego it with rush,
!, and when Seward is elected President, and Johl
Letcher is appointed Secretary of State under hin
let the faithful ~ make the wekin ring with lou
hossannas, testfying unbonnded joy.
SINGULAR MIsHAp-On Friday night last while