Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-10-19
TO The Republicans of Ohio.
REpUB. STATE CENTRAL Con-. Rooms,
Columbus, o., Oct. l3, 1860.

Columbus, o., Oct. 10, 1860.
The October elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana are over, and tho result
has become 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 favorof
Republican principles. In each of them,
all of the elements Of opposition to us,
united to defeat Our ticket, but the free la
boring masses came to our rescue. In Ohio
the struggle was desperate, but our triumph
is complete. We have elected our State
ticket by at least taoenty thousand majority.
We have again proclaimed to the world that
we are true to the principles of our Faith
ers, and that standing on a soil dedicated
to freedom, we do not cease to proclaim our
allegiance to the Jeffersonian Ordinance Of
1887, and our reprobation of the traitors
that would, in this hour Of trial, desert the
cause of free labor, and its attendant free
institutions. In Pennsylvania, our victory
has been more decided and important
With a majority of $4,000 against us in
that State in 1856, we now have the cleo
tion 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 Bell-united
upon Mr.. Foster his opponent We have
triumphed over the combined foe. We
have elected t,0enty of the twenty five
members of Congress. We have elected n
Legislature strongly Republican in both
branches which assures us the gain of a
United States Senator in the place of Mr.,
Bigler. In Indiana our triumph has been
equally decisive and important. In 1856
the majority against us in that State was
$4,000. Now we have swept it away in an
open, fair issue between the Republicans
and all their opponents, united on State
ticket, by at least $4,000 majority. We
have elected eight out of the eleven men,
bers of Congress. We have elected leg
isature decidedly Republican in both
branches, which secures the gain of United
States Senator in place of DR.. Fitch. This
victory is nearly without parallel in our his
tory. Added to these splendid trumphs
We have the recollection of the recent cleo
tions 10 Maine and Vermont to cheer US on
to certain victory. In Maine, the most per-
sistent efforts were made to break our
column but to no avail. The Republican
State ticket was elected by about twenty
thousand majority, and every one of hersix
members of Congress are Republicans. In
Vermont the Republican State ticket was
elected by twenty-one thousand majority,
and her members of Congress are all Re-
pubicans.
The Presidential election is virtually de-
cded by these magnificent results. Each
of these States will cast their electoral
vote for Lincoln and HamIin by MANY
thousands of increased majority in Novcm-
Der. The gains of the States of Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana, added to the States that
cast their votes for Fremont, will give Lin
coin more than enough votes to elect him
President. We shall lose mono that were
with us in 1855, and we shall also have
with us New Jersey and Illinois, which
were then agaisnt us; and we shall have
with us Minnesota and Oregon, which have
since come into the Union. We have a
rapidly growing Republican party in each
of the Border Slave States of Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
and we shall have open, as we now have
secret friends in every Southern State, SO
soon as we can dispel the illusions of pref.
udce and fanaticism, and establish free
speech and a free press on the basis Of
Constitutional rights.
In this hour of our triumph both State
and National, while we congratulate our
friends on the prospects for the future, we
desire to remind them that there are cor
responding obligations resting upon them
which they must not fail to meet. Ohio
must struggle to maintain her pre-emlnence
in the great Republican column of States
or she will be outstripped on the 9th Of
November, by Pennsylvania and Indiana
Our enemies are divided, distracted, and
embittereed againsteach other They com.
bined against us, not from principle, but fol
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 $4,000. 1t may be more, if we
work. Let there DO no disbanding Of oul
forces. Let every county committee con.
tnue the vigilance that has already aeon.
plshed so much. Let meetings be held in
every township and school district. Let
documents be distributed and facts be pre-.
sented to the people. Let tho Republican
army of Ohio continue its onward march