The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-10-25
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF OHIO.
REPUBLICAN, STATE CENTRAL Com. Rooms

RgPUBLIcAS STATE CENTRAL Con-. Rooms |
CoLUMBUs, ONO, 10, 1860.
The October elections in Pennsylvania
Ohio, and Indiana, are over, and the re.
suit has become significant fact in the
political history Of this Republic. Each
Of .bese three great Central Safes has
| given most decided and emphatic ex
preston in favor of Republican principles
In each Of them, all Of the elements Of op
position to us united to defeat our ticket
hut :le free laboring masses came TO our
rescue. In Ohio, the struggle was deS.
pPrate, but our triumph was complete
We have elected our state ticket by al
least tDsnty thousand majority. We have
again proclaimed to the world that we are
true 10 the principles of our BaIheTs, and
that, standing on a soil Dedicated to free.
dom, we do not cease to proclaim our al
legiance TO the doctrines of the Jefferso.
nian Ordinance Of 1887, and our repro.
baton Of the traitors that would, in this
hour of trial, desert the cause Of free la
bOr and its attendant free Institutions
lii Pennsylvania, our victory IlaG been
still more decided and important. With
a majority OF $4,000 against us in that
State in 1856, we now have the election
of Mr.. Curtin, our candidate Tor Govern,
or, by at least So, 900 majority. This fact
becomes sull more significant when we
know that all The factions OF the opposi-
ton; Douglas. Breckiuridge, and Bell,
united upon Mr.. Foster, his opponent
We have triumphed over the combined
foe. We have elected tCenty -one of the
twenty-five members Of Congress. We
have elected a Legislature strongly Re-
publican in both branches, which secures
Us the gain Of United States Senator,
iu the place of Mr.. Bisler. In Indiana
our triumph has been equally decisive and
important. In 1886. the majority against
us in that Stale was $1,000. Now, We
have swept it in an open, fair issue be-
tween the Republicans, and all their op'
ponents united upon one State ticket, by
at least ! 1000 majority. We have elect
ed eight of the eleven members of Con
gress. We have elected Legislature
decidedly Republican in both branches
which secures the gain OF United State
} Senator in the place Of DR.. Fitch. Thi
, victory is scarcely WiIhouta parallel i
our history. Added to these splendid tri
, umphs we have the recollection of the re
cent elections in Maine, and Vermont t.
cheer US on to certain victory. In Maine
the most persistent efforts were made Il
break our column, bu; to no avail. Th'
Republican Safe ticket was elected By
about tueny thousand majority, and suer.
one OF her six members of Congress arr
Republicans In Vermont, the Republi-
can State ticket was electsd BY t,Oenty-on
thousand majority. and her members o
Congress are all Republicans.
The Presidential election is substantial
) ly decided by these magnificent results
, Each of these States will cast their elcctc
raj vote for Lincoln and Hamlin by man
thousands of increased majority in No
vember. The gains of the State Of Penn
sylvania and Indiana, added to the State
that cast their votes Tor Fremont in 1856
will give him more than enough votes t
elect him President. We shall lose non
that were with us in 1856, and we shal
also have with us New Jersey and Illinois
which were then against US, and we shaI
have Minnesota, which has since come in
} to the Union. We have a rapidly grow
ing Republican Party in each of the Dor
der Slave States of Delaware, Maryland
Virginia. KY, and Missouri; and we sha
have open, as we now have secret friend
in every Southern State, so soon as we ca
} dispel the illusion of rejudice and faDat
cisim, and establish free speech, and
! free press on the basis Of Constitutions
rights.
In this hour Of our triumph, both Stat
and national, while we congratulate ou
friends on the prospects for the future, W
: desire to remind them that there are col
responding obligations resting upon thel
which they must not fail 10 meet. OH
r must struggle to maintain her pre-em
uence in the great Republican column I
States or she will be ortstripPed. on Il
J 9th Of November, by Pennsylvania an
. Indiana. Our enemies are divided, diI
tracted and embittered against each Othe
d They combined against us not for prime
!, pie, but for the spoils, and they are bad
beaten. They may attempt another las
a desperate rally. But they must be m
o and conquered. Our majority for LincO
S in Ohio must be at least 10000. Ii m;
o be more, if we wOrk. Let there be no d
banding of our forces. Let every coun
l committee continue the vigilance that Ii
already accomplished SO muoh. L
= meetings be held in every township al
u school district. Let documents be di
le trbuted, and facts be presented to the pc
pie. Let the grand Republican army
D. Ohio nlinuo its onward march to a 81
moro splendid victory. And when I
is 9Th of November is past, and Abraha
0. Lincoln is elected President Of the Unit
Mt States, let the shouts Of our victorio
ly hosts miugle with those which will go
p, from Pennsylvania and Indiana, In pl
in claiming to the worli that our cause
n triumphant, and our nation redeemed,
If order.
GEO. NJ. PARSONS, Chr
n