Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-12-01

1i ny HORACE aRKsLKT
The Overland adyices from California
though partial and conflicting, leave the
Lincoln Electors ahead in the popular vote
OF that State, with less than one e.fourth Of
IT to come in, 1t is strongly probable that
Lincoln has carried it if not, Douglas has
10 by very small majority. Oregon is
pretty certainly for Lincoln New Jersey
gives four of her Electoral Votes for Lin
coin TO three for Douglas. We now know,
therefore, the result of the canvass very
nearly The several States have decided
to cast their Electoral Votes as follows;
For Lincoln and Hamlin, lS0 for Breck.
inridge and Lane, 70 for Bell and Ever
ett 80 for Douglas and johnson, r.
Lincoln over all Others, probably 81 GER
taiuly 49,
Substantially, then, it may be said that
the Republican candidates have made a
clean sweep of the Free States But this
naked fact does not show the full extent Of
the victory thus inaugurated. The Repub-
lican majorties in most of the Free States
are entirely beyond precedent, exceeding
even those given to Gen. Jackson in his
palmieSt days u
The majorities for the defeated candidates
are generally meager, though this is due to
their running against each other, Mr. Bell
carries each Of his three States by plurai-
ties only, and in Virginia he barely exceeds
Brcckinridge three or four hundred in near
ly 200 600 votes Douglas carries Nilsson
ri by bare plurality over Bell, and Sc
cures his three votes in New Jersey by the
fact that they were on both the Fusion aud
the straight Douglas tickets.
MessrS. Douglas and Johnson, who were
the regular Democratic candidates, bave
clear majority of the popular vote in no
State whatever, have carried but one State
and fraction, the former through the di-
visions, the latter by the aid of their an
tagonsts, and are not even second on the
poll in more than one or two of the Slave
States. Nominated by what has hitherto
been regarded as the strongest party 10 the
Union, and each stumping the States, yaunt-
ing their own Nationalit, and stigmatzng
their rivals as sectional candidates, their
failure is signal aud mortifying. lg
The total populargote must considerably
exceed -Four Millions, Of which Lincoln and
Hamlin have received over Eighteen HUI,
dred Thousand Alike in the Popular and
the Electoral Vote, they stand substantial.
ly where Buchanan did four years ago.
Such are the net results of this memorable
contest--a struggle second in its intensity
and Importance to none of its predecessors.
Never before were such vehement, persist
ent, determined efforts put forth by millions
as in this con est : never before were so
many meetings held, speeches made, nor so
perfect organizations effected and never
was the public attention so thoroughly fixed
on the main issue in canvass. Doubtless,
more votes were polled, especially against
the Republicans, than would have been
had there been two candidates in the field ;
while, had the Pro.SIaver parties been con.
solidated from the first, they would have
made the struggle a more equal aud doubt
ful one but it would be difficult to select
from their ronkS ticket which would have
beaten Lincoln aud Hamlin.
The contest is over: its fruits rema in
to be realized. Wheather they shall be
worthy of the generous efforts aud sacrifices
which gave us the victory, depends in some
part on the wisdom and frmuess of the men
whom the people have called to the chief
direction Of our National affairs, but still
more on the firmneSS and tenacity of the
People themselves. The Secession outbreak
now raging at the South, with the financial
Panic created by it in The great centers Of
Traffic. are engineered by bafflcd and venee.
full politicians intent on constraning the
North TO sacrifice its principles and its con-
victions to its momentary interests and its
fears. We are suffering the agonies of o
Political Panic, whereof the calculated end
is the surrender by the Free States of all
repugnance to the character, all resistance
to the extension, of Human Slavery Let
the North submit to be frightened or cozened
ont of is purpose of resisting and arresting
the diffusion of Slavery, Secession will
fade from view like a ghost at dav-dawn
Panic will still its croakings, and all be
sunshine and eSultatioH. ai s'IeH..u
And the danger is not so much that Mr.
Lincoln will be shaken or oveFborne. as tha,
the expiring Congress about to reassemble
will be induced to sacrifice the cause Of
| Human Rights to a reasonable terrorism
and wantonly produced financial conyul.
sion. There will probably be no Constitn
tional Convention, whether to facilitate
Secession or to avert it there will be NO
real and enduring withdrawal from the
Union but there is great peril that Pusil
animity aud Pelf will steal the mantle Of
Patriotism aud barter away the principles
of the Revolution and the dictates of Eter.
nal Justice fer profit on the resulting rise
in Stocks and refrigeration of Southern
traffic with Northern jObbers, The shane
which the slaVeholdng demand will irst
assmue will be that of unqualified and un.
euuivocaI surrender by the North of ali
right or claim to exclude Slavery from tht
Territories but the fnal exaction will bt
a restoration of the Missouri Compromis,
line, conceding to Slavery all our presen
territory south of 36o 3O' with all tha
may hereafter be wreStedfrom Mexico, Spain
and Central America Is there virtu,
enough in this expiring Congress to with
stand and defeat that exactio1 : Timl
viii show. V enr.-.I-. .e..
- H.r H.
y Georgia has given some 1000 less votes fo
the Breckinridge Electors than for the Bell an,
Douglas combined !; aud an absolute maiorit,
is here required to elect so that there is az
choice by the People. The Legislature, strong
4, pracLinr;doa choosqs Elecfors Ia caea - 2