New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-22
OREGON.

Our latest adyices from Oregon indlcate that
David Logan has been elected Representative to
Congress, but that Lansing StOut-a 10 Lane
Democrst-will get tie certificate aud retain the
seat. until the House shall GUST him, on proof by
the contestant of gross irregularities and frauds III
those counties where the Lane msjOrites are the
stoutest That such proof can be adduceo, cor
responderts assure us In the counties in question
the leading men of the Administration party have
uniformly upheld Missouri BOrder-Ruiii anism and
Lecompton iniguity From theory to practice 10
only Step from such theory of politics to cor
responding practices is very short step for men
Ike Gen Lane to take, apd step not wholly unpre-
cedented in the history of Territory in which the
dominant party has rarely been troubled by scru-
Piles of conscience.
Ii the seat be contested, as it probably will be,
we trust that the matter Will receive thorough
investigation. The loss gain of a single member
of the next Congress is matter of some import
ance; the loss or gain Of State may be, IN case
the people should fail to elect President in 1860,
of great consequence; and it is especially deSlra-
bic that we who live 10 the older States and have the
privilege of governing ourselves should learn as
much as possible about the communities which are
governed by the people of an adjoining State. In
daDs incompetent to vote, and especially by the
official returns" knowledge touching this last
election in Oregon may throw light upon previous
elections there, and faithful investigation will be
likely to show Gen. Joseph Lane and his myrmi-
dOns in their true colors.
Whether Logan be elected by Pas one
report has tor Stout by Al majority, the
opponents of the Administration, the oppo-
nents of Lane, who has so long carried Oregon
in his brooches pocket, have gaiaed VIC
tory. Every exertion was put forth by the
General, by lis brigadier, Delszon smith, and
BY his officers, commissioned by the Administration
or the party, to carry the State To l)se 1t
was to lose whatever chances for the Charleston
nomination Lane possessed. Even the support OF
| Mr. Buchanan, whose favorite candidate Tor the
succession lie is said to be, would not suffice unless
be were sure of carrying the Pacific States lie had
lattered himself that after his peculiar exertions
lsst Winter on behalf of Onegon's admission
into the Union, she woud not prove upgratefal.
He could not have foreseen that any con-
siderable portion of party TO advance whose IN
terests ia addition to bis own, he had pressed her
claims upon Congress, would turn the cold shout
der upon him. now in the hour of bis need. The
State could not, he thought fail to be, as the Ter
ritory had been, Democratic, LaueOcratic-aud by
an unmistakable majority On the night on which
the President signed the bill admitting Oregon,
Lanes star was in the ascendant and his pros
poets for the Presidency were the talk of Wash.
ngton.
Flushed with success, the demagogue returned
TO the scene of his lab)rs, intent upon fresh
trNmpbS The first thing TO compass was the
reelection of his friend, Delusion" Smith, to the
United States Senate The Legislature met met
and adjourned, leaving poor "DelGsion' out in the
cold. The second thing TO achieve was the choice
Of o convenient tool to the House of Representa-
tves. Lansing Stout, fresh from the secret con-
claycs Of the Know-Nothing party in Calfornis,
was imported; and what is the result L,ne' &
msiority for Delegate in 1867 was 2,l9i; Grovers
majority for Representative TO Congress in 1858
was 1, 660; Stouts msjority in 1859 is, according
to the latest returns, Al Where will Lane be in
1850 Where tie party, which be represents ?
Where the State, hurried into the Union because
tie South desired her electoral votes
VIII not California apply the lesson of Oregon
TO Senator Gwin, demsgogue elder and more
unscrupulous, il possible, than Laue himself San.
gUine letters come from the Golden State, aud we
are glad 10 believe thst they are no, without
foundation. At any rate. We find no omen of de-
feat in the speech of Senator Broderick, which our
readers peruse by turning to tie third page OF
this paper.