Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-22
THE LATE ELECTIONS.

The latest reports from Pennsylvania, Indi'
ana, and Ohio, do not in any respect lessen the
republican triumph in either of those states.
Curtin will have about 30 900 majority, Lane,
in Indiana, about 10000, and in Ohio the aver
age majority on the state ticket will reach
$4,000. Some Of the democrats and Bel. Ever
etts have hoped to see these majorides very
much reduced but they have not been graft
fled. On the contrary, the figures became
more and more imposing, as the returns came
in, until our opponents shut their eyes and
turned from them in despair. Such figures are
too potent to be trfed with,-too serious for
denial. They make it useless for anybody to
overlook the fact that LINCOLN HAS CARRIED
THE DOUBTFUL STATES. The New York
Herald gives up the contest, and says New
York, too, will vote for Lincoln; and if by
majority equal to the whole population of
Kansas 100000 it will not surprise us.
There is no genuine fusion between the Breck-
nridge and the Douglas factions. The breach
has widened between them since these late
elections"
The moral effect of the late elections is won.
deltul. To ''fusion" it has been like stroke
of lightning. That fourishing ebay tree"
has been suddenly "withered in all the leaves
of its spring" 1t died Immediately in Penn
sylvania and in New York it has become so
weak and woe.begone as to be the common
laughing stock, and to the Douglas men both
a nuisance and curse. The thing might have
undertaken other demonstrations if it had not
been so completely stunned and reduced to
an absnrdity." Here and there it makes an
effort, in small way ; but its dream OF being
able to defeat Lincoln and carry the presiden-
tia election into the house of representatives,
at Washington, has entirely disappeared
The Lincoln victories in the doubtful
states" have been extremely disastrous to the
hopes of the Bell Everett party, especially in
the southern states. They have probably
transformed Delaware into Lincoln state,
and their influence has been very powerfully
felt in Maryland, where, report says, the Bell
Everett party has become demoralizrd while
voters are going over to Lincoln and
Hamlin by the thousand. Neither the
Douglas men nor the Bell Everett men
hope any longer to carry a majority of
the southern states; and there is every
where changed tone, which indicates a
general conviction among our opponents that
the presidential election is settled. The vot-
ing for president takes place two weeks from
tomorrow. We shall all look eagerly for the
returns, but not with such doubt and anxiety
as when we watched the voting in Pennsyl-
Yania.
The election of Lincoln and Hamn ill not
be mere party triumph. 1t will be triumph
OF freedom and civilization over the barbarsm
that has attacked our political institutions and
corrupted the administration of the govern.
ment. There can be but one issue to contest
between right and wrong,-between the higher
and lower sentiments and tendencies of human
nature. TO those who contend for the right
it may seem to be-
"A friendless warfare lingering long
Through weary day and weary year.
but the right must triumph in the end, for the
laws Of things, and all things pure and good
in the universe, are on its side. Therefore no
power has been able to repress in our politics
that mighty force of sentiment which has
forced men and parties into opposition to
slavery propagandism. 1t has worked steadi-
ly, surely, irrepressibly, and now its great tr.
umph is at hand.