Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-10-25
The Presidential Election.


reversible decision upon the great ques-
tion Of the Presidency. OF the character
of that decision, there is scarcely nation
al doubt Every election which has re-
Gently come off indicates that the dynasty
Of modern democracy" is at an end
Mr. Buchanan retires, under the Constitu-
ton, on the 4th Of March. The popular
voice has foreshadowed the election Of
Abraham Lincoln. Even the southern
politicians, much as they dcprecate such a
result, admit that the defeat of Lincoln is
not to be hoped for. 1t is natural that
this fact, staring them in the face, with no
power to avoid or prevent it, should cause
the political traders in that section-as
as we'll as many honest men whom they
have induced to believe that the Republi-
can party vas sectional party-no small
degree Of alarm The fre-eaters, of course,
threaten to 90 right out Of the Union,
while conservative and moderate men have
their fears, and express the earnest hope
that something may yet turn up to avoid
SO great calamity. Knowing, as we do,
that these fears are groundless--that
thoughtless or designing men, have excl
ted them for political and selfish purposes,
we look forward with full confidence, that
the Inauguration Of Lincoln will put them to
fight, and forever place sectionalism at
rest, north and south.
In the North there has been faint
hope of defeating Lincoln, by fusion Of
all his opponents. But even that hope
since the elections in Pennsylvania and
Ohio-does not exist. Fusion failed in
Pennsylvania at the October election, most
signally and overwhelmingly. It was in
deed political blunder. as the result show
ed 1t involved a sacrifice of all political
principles-by the Bell men, the Douglas
men, and the breckenridge men-but
while it had the sanction of the leaders.
it was repudiated by the People. The
North American says Of this fusion scheme
that the several factions opposed 70 Mr.
Lincoln and his cause, mistook the princi-
pies which guide the age onward. Some
times an Austrian regime will break up
and go to pieces without anybodys help
as we have seen in Europe, and it is not
unlikely that here the people will at inter
yals take some great step forward, with
nobody's procuring.
1t is time that the dead aud corrupt body
IN power was buried out Of sight, and the
people can no more be persuaded to uphold
the old order Of things, when labelled fu-
sion, than when under the old style and
title.-All men instinctiycly feel that re-
form and advancement are on one side. and
insutferable degradation on the other. The
people being free, are satisfied only with
that which is in harmony with an adyan-
cling age. They are not revolutionary in
this, but conservative in the best and only
meritorious sense On this subject hun
dreds of thousands, who are usually slow
to move in purely political matters, are now
vigorous and wide awake
Let every freeman prepare to do his whole
duty by the election of Lincoln. The
threats Of shareholders may keep down the
spirit of Republicanism at the South but
it ought not and cannot keep it down at
the North-where the voters are yet free.
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