Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1859-04-16
The Moral of the Late Election.


The Moral of the Late Election.
When our democratic friends had
comprised the nomination Of Mr. w.
P. Lynde, of this city, for Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, and learn
ed that the Republicans had recon-
mended Byron Paine to the sut1rages Of
the electors of Wisconsin, for the same
office, they We're jubi!ant in the extreme.
They did not doubt-indeed they ex-
pressed the most entire confidence
that Mr.. Lynde would be elected by
from three to five thousand majority,
and they looked upon the anticipated
result as the prelude to a long series of
''Democratic" victories in the Badger
State. So sanguine were the Demo
Gratis OF this result, and SO persistent in
claiming it as one of the certointies,
that not few Republicans awaited, in
fear and trembling, the returns of the
election. But those returns speedily
dissipated all doubts and confounded
the Democratic prophets. Mr.. Lynde,
instead of being elected by 5000 ma
jorlty, is beaten by 10000; and now,
our Democratic contemporaries are ad-
dressing themselves to the unpalatable
and Improbable task Of explaining to
their trusting and deceived readers,
how all this came about.
The Wisconsin (hybrid) which dis
played remarkable sagacity all through
the canvass, and damaged Mr.. Lvnde,
by its support, to the extent of it's linli-
ted ability, attributes the result to ''the
extreme opinions" of Judge Paine, and
expresses the profound conviction that,
in order to win in future, the Republi-
caI's- have only to nominate candidates
OF like views. The Meas, which had
staked its political reputation on the re-
suit IA very small wager, to be sure.)
and will not bc comforted. in view of
its sore defeat, is strongly of opinion
that the 8" Farm mortgaee'' question
killed Mr. Lynde. The Madison Pit
= OF, the official State paper and central
organ of the Democracy, charges the
political homicide Of Mr.. Lynde upon
Judge Miller's Court, and though it
grieves over Mr. LIS defeat, it rather
rejoices in the popular verdict against
the Z. S. District Court. The Chicaco
Times, through it's Milwaukee CORES
pendent, incllnes to the belief that Mr..
Lynde died of Buchanan-ism-an epi-
demc which has carried off hundreds
OF ambitious aspirants for the popular
favor III all sections of the Union.
No doubt, each and all these things,
affected, IN a certain degree, the result
OF the late election. But, after all, they
did not swell the majority for Judge
Paine, tor they were all subordinate to
one chief cause of Judge Paine's cleo
ton, and Mr.. Lynde's defeat. This
was the instructive love Of Freedom
which animates the great mass of the
feople OF Wisconsin, and their deter
mined and unyielding hostility to the
oVershadowlng pretensions of the Slave
PoWer. The overwhelming vote for
byron Paine among the yeomanrv of
this State implies no distrust of the
Union, no disloyalty to the Constitution,
no spirit of resistance to Law, no desire
to lntermeddle in the domestic affairs
Of Southern States. It is, as we stated
before the election more than once. the
protest of the Freemen of Wisconsin
against the Fugitive Slave Act: aga;ust
the bred Scott decision; oqoi,ast Fed
eral usnrpation, Legislative, Executive
or Judicial against the exactions and
aggresSlons of the Slavery Propaganda:
against the extravaganza. corr1ption.
and seetionalisln of the BIZ
chanan dynasty; and agui,ast the unau-
thorized and unconstitutional DEGREES
Of a partizan bench.
Such zoe hold to be the moral of the
ate Election, and Wisconsin, in our
Judgment, will maintain, s'full high adj
the standard thus set up. I'M
i'll RIGHT, JUSTICE and FREEDOM shall
have triunphed throughout the Union.
An EDITOR IN LucK.-S D. Carpen-
Ter OF the Madison Patriot, sold last
week quarters interest in his railroad
break, for $4,000 1t is to be used
On road IN Canada, and the sale we
understand is made to parties who
we're at Madison last fall, experiment
ng with Pumps model, or miniature
break. Pump is in luck this time,
sure, whatever may become of his
printing contract W1uEfebn De,no