Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-11-16
The Result.

The followingis an extract from lengthy
article published few day since IN the N. Y.
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Abraham Lincoln, then, is the next Presi.
dent of the United States.
This result is the consummation of the great
est political revolution since the organization
of the government. Its seeds were sown,
sixteen years ago, in the annexation Of Texas.
Whilst that project was ripening in the fast
years of Mr.. Tyler's administration, New
York headed protest against it in the famous
secret circular issued by William c. Bryant
at the head of it's electoral ticket, now decides
the contest, and completes the revolution then
begun. ,sstst ,,srgr rs..
The clearly forescen consequences Of the an.
nexation of Texas was the Mexican war. Mar
tin VanBuren predicted it, and lost the demo-
cratic nomination for the presidency. Henry
Clay predicted it, and lost his election. MI.
Polk, the candidate of the annexationists,
was successful. but the last formalities of re-
cieving Texas into the Union were gonc
through with day or two before his inamgu-
ration, under the auspices of Mr.. Calhou6,
the master-spirit of the Tyler administration.
Then came the war, and military laurels.-
Then peace, with great enlargement Of tho
national domain-the source of all our woes.
Then Wilmot proyisos, and Buffalo platforms,
and Martin VanBuren running for the presi-
dency, with the party war-cry Of" free speech,
free soil, and free men," There was brief
hull after 1850, till the territorial question
was reopened by the repeal of the Missouri
compromise; since when we have had con-
slant verification Of the apothegm that reyo-
lutions do not go backward The upshot of
these sixteen years agitation of the territorial
question is the triumph, now reached, of Q
policy by which slavery will be forever exclu-
ded from the national territory, and confined
to the states in which it exists. @
With this revolution, the country enters on
a new political cycle. The slavery question
must disappear from national politics. All
issues relating to it arc RENTED to the states
Immediately interested in the institution
The political waters, indeed, have been so vio-
lently agitated that there will be consider
ably ground-swell for some months to come.
But the storm is over. There may be indig-
nant protests, threats, perhaps, southern con-
ventions and secessions speeches; but there
will be no disunion. States inhabited by
American citizens gravitatc toward the Union,
as bodies near its surface gravitate to the
earth. 1t is because Texas was out Of the
Union, and wanted to be in, that we have gone
through all this agitation. Our territories are
so eager to get into the Union, that they take
upon themselves the cxpence of state gov
eminent before their population justifies it,
They are as proud to exchange their condi.
ton for full statehood, as young citizen is
to cast his first vote. Even Cuba gravitatcs
toward the Union. If any southern state
We're out of the Union to-day, she would be
knocking for admittance year hence. We
may have furry, but there can be no dis
union. On the contrary, the country gill 60
on, under the blessing of Providence, as it
has gone on hitherto, in career of prosperity,
freedom and greatness such as the world has
never seen. aa