The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-10-25
The Great Result.

....... II hc UEett IteSuEzs
While the Old World trembles with thu
throes Of incipient revolution, whereof de
vastation and bloodshed are the inevitable
concomitants, our own more favored land i,
passing through corresponding crisis in 6
manner which she may proudly claim as he,
own. Within the last forty eight honrs, oul
streets have reverberated to crash of dy
nasty, yet no one has suffered or feared bod
lily harm, and the show of anxious melan
choly faces is limited to few Office holders
Gladness beams from a million eyes, and joy
glows in the popular heart, for it is felt and
known that our peaceful convulsion bodies
simply that replacement OF the bad by the
better, which is the inevitable condition o
Human Progress and the manifestation Of q
genuine National life. ........> .......
1t was every way fit that Pennsylvania
and Indiana, clasping hands across the Ohio
should claim and enjoy the proud distinc
ton Of inaugurating the Nationalrenovation
In the first place, those two States justly
share between them the honor of havin.
made ABRAHAM LINCOLN oui standard bear
er in the momentous contest now so neal
its clearly foreshadowed termination. Indi
ana--which had previously inclined to and
was confidently and reasonably counted or
for Judge Bates-was the first State at Chi
cago to take her place firmly and ardently
beside Illinois in supporting Mr.. Lincoln:
pretensions, and thenceforth her delegation
was most vehement and untirng in com
mendnng her new choice Pennsylvania
which unlike Indiana, had candidate o
her own, hesitated and debated long; but
when pressed at length to say decisively, "Ir
case you cannot have your own candidate
who is your next choice?" she, too, designa
ted Mr.. Lincoln; and her decision in effect
impe!led that of the Convention. All wary
politicians were aware, before 1860, how
crushing is the weight wherewith the Octo
Der elections fall upon the party which they
declare against, in the very agony of Pres
ldential canvass; and when Pennsylvani;
and Indiana said to the Convention, "Give u!
Lincoln for President, and you shall hea
Republican thunder from us in October!
their appeal could hardly be resisted, ever
had the Convention been stubbornly hcstil,
to their preference. Moreover, the choice o
their delegations was heartily seconded by
that of their respective candidates for Cover
nor, Col. Curtis and Gen. Lane, who wer,
both on the ground, and who-their person
al fate being at stake-could not be suspect
ed of favoring another than he who was, il
their Judgment, the very strongest man
How well founded was that judgment, th'
shouts of Two Millions of Republican voter:
are now rroclaiming.
1t was especially desirable that Pensylva
mia should take that position at the head o
the Republican array which she so nobly
justified on Tuesday. There never was i'm
aginel more conclusive an answer than sh,
has furnished to all the wretched drivel O
the day about "Fanticism,' "Niggcr equal
ty," Putting the negro above the whit
man." &c, &c. The whole country doe
know Pennsylvania as an emlnently sober
conservative, Union loving State, of who's
Five Hundred Thousand Voters not Fift
Thousand have any desire to interfere in an,
way with the Southern States, their "inSti
tutions," or their negroes. They are fo
Free Labor; they believe in it; they live b,
ii; they wish to see it protected, encouraged
developed; they insist that the Territories
since they come to us Free-shall be conse
Grated to it; but they aie willing that tn
South shall take her own time wherein to be
come convinced of its immense superiorit
to the wretched system, inherited from p;
gan barbarism, to which she so inSanel
clings. The fact that Pennsylvania has Dc
clared for Lincoln, 10y a majority whi.h put
her vote in November beyond all cavil,
certain to exert tremendous influence i
quieting the fears of the timid and assurin
the thrifty and cautious that the new er
now opening upon us is destined to be en-
phatcally one of order and peace.
| The elections Of Tuesday spanned tn
Slave Border from the shore of the Atanti
almost to the banks of the Mississippi, en-
bracing the three Free States next after Me-
York in population and power, and unitedl
casting sixty-three Electoral yotes--mo,
than one third Of the number required
choose a President by the People. Tn,
those sixty three votes will all be cast f
Lincoln and Hamlin, nobody doubts an
longer, more than that the sun will rise t
morrow. Add Pennsylvania and Indiara
Col. Fremont's vote in '56, and they elect
President, saying nothing of Illinois or tn
new States of Minnesota and Oregon. Is
possible any longer even to effect not to di
Germ the handwriting on the wall g-N.
Tribune.
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