Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-10-20
To the Republicans OF Ohio.
REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL Cow RooMs,
Columbus, o., Oct. l3 1860.

REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL CoM. lkO0MS (
Columbus o., Oct. 13 1860. 5
The October elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Indiana, are over, and the result
has become a significant fact in the politi-
cal history of this Republic. Each of these
three great Central States has given most
decided and emphatic expression in favor of
Republican principles. In each of them all
Of the elements of opposition to us, united
to defeat onr ticket but the free laboring
masses came to cur rcsc5e. In Ohio, the
struggle was desperate, but our triumph is
complete. We have elected our State tick
ct by at least twenty thousand majority.
We have again proclaimed TO the world
that we are true to the principles of cur
Fathers, and that, standing on soil dcdi.
Gated TO freedom, We do not cease to pro-
claim our allegiance TO the doctrines of the
Jefersonian Ordinance of 1887, and our
reprobation of the traitors that would in
this hour Of trial, desert the cause of free
institutions. In Pennsylvania, our victory
has been more decided aud important.
With q majority of $4,000 against us in
that State in 1856, we now have the cleo
ton Of Mr.. Curtin, our candidate for Gov.
ernor, by at least $4,000 majority. This
fact becomes more significant when we know
that all the factions of the opposition
Douglas, Breckenridge and Bcl--united
upon Mr.. Foster, his opponent. We have
trumphed over the combined foe. We
have elected tpeAty-one of the twenty five
members of Congress. We have elected
Legislature strongly Republican in both
branches, which assures as the gain Of U
S. Senator, in the place Of Mr.. Bigler In
Indiana our triumph has been equally de-
cisive and important In 1858 the majority
against us in that State was 1900. Now
we have swept it away in an open fair issue
between the Republicans and all their op-
ponents, united upon State ticket, by at
least II, 600 majority. We have elected
eight out of the eleven members Of Congress.
We have elected Legislature decidedly
Republican in both branches, which secures
the gain of United States Senator in place
of Dr. Fitch. This victory is nearly with,
out parallel in our history. Added to these
splendid triumphs VIC have the recollection
Of the recent elections in Maine and Yer
mont to cheer us on to certain victory. In
Maine the persistent eff rts were made to
break our column, but to no avail. The
Republican State Ticket was elected by
about twenty thousand majority, and every
! ne Of her six members of Congress are Re-
| publicans. In Vermont the Republican
State ticket was elected by twenty .one
thousand majority, and her mebers of Cou.
gress are all Republicans.
The Presidential election is virtually de-
cided by these magnificent results. Each
of these States will cast their electoral vote
for Lincoln and Hamlin by many thousands
OF increased majority in November The
g ,ins Of the State of Pennsylvania and In
! diana, added TO the States that cast their
votes for Fremont, will Lincoln more than
nough votes TO elect him President, we
shall lose none that were with Us in 1856
and we shall also have with US New Jersey
and Illinois, which were then against us
and we shall have with us Minnesota, which
has since come into the Union. We have
a rapidly growing Republican Party in
each ofthe border Slave States Of Delaware
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Mis-
souri, and we shall have open, as WesnoW
haye secret friends in every Southern State
so soon as We can dispel the illusions of pre-
judice and fanaticism, aud establish free
speech and free press on the basis of Con
stitutional rights.
In this hour Of our triumph, both State 4
| National, while we congratulate our friend;
on the prospects for the future, we desire
/ to remind them that there are correspond
ing obligations resting upon them which
/ they must not fail to meet. Ohio must
struggle to maintain her pre.eminence in the
( great Republican column of States or she
will be outstrippe1 on the 9th of November
by Pennsylvania aud Indiana. Our enc
mics are divided, distracted and embittered
against each other. They combined against
us, not for principle but for the spoils and
they are badly beaten. They may attempt
another last, desperate rally. But they
must be met and conquered. Our majority
for Lincoln in Ohio must be at least Al, 900
1t may be more, If we work. Let there be
no disbanding of our forces Let every
| county eOmmitle continue the vigilance thai
has already accomplished so much. Let
meetings be held in every township and
school district Let documents be distribut
ed and facts be presented to the people
Let the grand Republican army OF Ohio
continue its onward march to still more
splendid victory. And when the 9th, Of
November is past, aud ABRAHAM LINCOLN
10 elected President of the United States
let the shouts Of our victorious hosts min
gle With those which will go up from Penn.
syiVanla and Indiana, ia proelaiming to the
world that our cause is triumphant, and oul
nation redeemed.
BY order GEO. N. PARSONS, Ch'n.