The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-10-12

Lincoln our Next President.
The news from the election in Pennsvlva-
hia on Tuesday, is particularly refreshing
1t is joyous glorious The telegraph reports
that Curtin, the Republican candidate for
Governor, is elected by from $1,000 to $4,000
majority. The Republicans claim some TWEEN
ty out OF the twenty-five congressman elect
ed.
The most intense excitement was manifest
ed in all the cities and large towns in regard
to the result Of this election. Telegraph and
newspaper Offices were thronged ill midnight
to hear the "latest despatch" 1t is sufficient
to say that the news is satisfactory to every
Republican. The national contest is virtual
" at an end and the election of LINCOLN
and HAMLIN sure
The election in Ohio was for members of
Congress, Supreme Judge. Attorney General
and Superintendent of Public Works. There
tain result, bu: there are no doubts enter
tanned but that there is a complete Repubi-
can success.
The latest despatch from Indiana indicates
Republican gains, and probability that the
same fate awaits the Democracy there as in
Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA
The following article upon the Pernsylva-
MIA election is from the Boston Journal Of
Wednesday
Pennsylvania All Right.
Pennsylvania has spoken the word that
makes Abraham Lincoln President of the
United States.
That is the substance Of the welcome re-
turns. which will be found in another column
and which proclaim a regular Waterloo de-
feat of all the aati-repubIican forces. The
precise footing of the figures cannot vet be
predicted, but it will be safe, we think. to
say that Col. Curtin is chosen governor by
10000 majority.
OF the twenty-five congressman TO which
the state is entitled, the republicans claim to
have elected twenty; but the votes are so
badly scratched iii some localities that sever
al days must elapsc before an!tEing decisive
can be astrrtaliicd.
Ii Gen. Foster had been elected, it woulI
have been dstinc,ivc;y The triumph of fusion.
All the haters OF repubiiclnism would have
felt that they had hit upon the clue that was
to conduct them out OF the labyrinth into
which they have been consigned by their own
msdeeds. L.; every doubtful state fusion
would have been cxtemporized, warranted TO
run for the space OF one month, and all the
elements Of the NOS. desperate political en-
ginery would nave been rou>ed into acton
Everywhere the cry wou,d lave been raised ::
"Oh, it is 1886 over republican vic
tories to begin with. but now. as then, Penn
sylvanla turning the tide and finishing the
contest Before that CRY many republican
would have faltered and lost his energv-and
many more that have been waiting to join us,
and now will Go SO. would have stood a.oof
We might, We probably should, have succeed
ed, but the struggle would have been hard
and apparently doubtful This would have
been the case with Il slight majority for Eos
ter: but had it been large, the deadcnins
force would have been we'll nigh Irresistible,
and this mere apparltIon Of a once live De
mocracy might have secured four years lease
Of worthless power.
But all that is changed now. With the
loss-and Surh a los>-of the keystone state.
the last chance Of the foes of Abraham Lin
coin is gone. hey may not ack,icw ledge it,
but they feel it in their bones. because the
country feels it to be so. And ri9htlv-tor
the fusion in Pcnns, lvania was the best spec
linen eXtant-the fruit of many tayoring cir
cum,tances to be found nowhere c,se-and
If that was miserably defeated. what hope can
there be in reserve for the programme in any
other state? Has fusion in Newly ork Il
1.-THE of the chances that attended fusion in
Pennsylvania Every man knows to the
contrary In what free state east of the
Rocky Mountains can successful stand be
made against the republican forces? Echo
will have to answer the question. In the
meantime. the republicans will be strength
enins their organization and steadily ncreas-
Ing their efforts under the Frightening au-
spices of success. The different clements of
the democracy will change their contest into
one of rivalry for the leadership of the party !;
and the cOnStltutIonal-u nlon men, eXerting
no appreciable influence at the north, will in
a few southern states resume :heir true posi-
ton, as honorable and effective allies of the
electors of republican President.
Such will be tie glorious results wrought
out in great part by the Pennsylvania cleo
ton of yesterday. The various modes in
which it will operate, we have not time t.
point out. While it will disorganze the
anti-republican forces, it will also-what is
better-give the country at large a healthier
feeling. Pennsylvania is the most conacrya-
tive state in the Union; and wher she leads
the republican column, all classes of our fel-
low citizens may feel assured that the public
peace. good order and prosperity will follow
in her train. The paniemakess and the
whole tribe of active and passive alarmists
will now find their vocation gone. The pulse
sof the country will only beat with steadier
and stronger thgob as the present indications
1Ipen into an assured fact. and great be re-
ticent revolution is inausurated in the poll
tics Of the Union. All honor, then, to the
keystone State.