Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-25
To the Republicans Of Ohio.
REPUBLICAN STATE cENT. Con-. RooMs
Colf1Bus, o., Oct Is, 1860.

10 tue AePuaaCtAuS "a OAaOs
REPUBLICAN, SrArE cRNr. Cox. Rooxs
CoIGBus, D, Octls,ls6o. &
The October elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, are over, and the result
has become significant fact in the political
history Of this Republic. Each Of these
great Central States has given most de-
cided and .emphatic expression in favor of
Republican principles. In each of them,
all of the elements of opposition to US
united to defeat our ticket, but the free
laboring masses came to our rescue. In
Ohio, the struggle was desperate, but our
triumph was complete. We have elected
our State ticket BY nt;least twenty thou
sand majority. We have again proclaimed
to the world that we are true 10 the prin-
ciples of our Fathers, and that, standing on
a soil dedicated to freedom, we do not
cease to proclaim our allegiance to the
doctrines of the Jefersonian Ordinance of
1857, 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 still more decided and i'm
portant; With majority of $4,000
against US in that State iu 1856, we now
have the election of Mr.. Curtin, our can
didate for Governor, by at least $4,000
majority. This fact becomes still more
significant yhen we know that all the fac
tions of the opposition, Douglas Brecken-
ridge and Bell, united upon Mr.. Foster his
opponent. We have triuphed over the
combined foe. We have elected twenty
five members Of Congress. We have cleo
ted a Legislature strongly Rupulican in
both branches, which secures us the gain
of United States Senator, in the place of
Of Mr.. Bigler, In Indiana our triumph
has been equally decisive and important.
In 1856, the msjority against us was A.
900. Now, we have sweptit in an open
fair issue between the Republicans, and all
their opponents united upon one State tick
ct, by at least 10000 majority. We cleo
ted eight of the eleven members of Con-
gress. We have elected Legislature, de-
cidedly Republican in both branches, which
secures the gain of United States Sena-
tor in the place ofDr. Fitch. This victory
is scarcely without parallel in our history.
Added to these splendid triumphs we have
the recollection of the recent elections in
Maine and Vermont to cheer US on TO
certain victory. In Maine, the most per-
sistent efforts were made to break our col
umn, but 10 no avail. The Republican
State ticket was elected by about twenty
thousand majority, and every one of her six
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-
publieans.
The Presidential election is substantial
" decided by these magnificent results
Each Of these States will cast their electo-
raj vote for Lincoln and Hamlin BY many
thousands ofincreased majorities in Noyem-
Der. The gains of the States of Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana, added to to the States
that cast their votes for Fremont in 1856,
will give Lincoln more than enough votes
to elect him President. We shall lose
none that were with US ip 1855, and we
shall also have with us New Jersey and
Illinois, which were then against us,
and we shall have Minnesota, which has
since come into the Union. We have a
rapidly growing Republican Party in the
border States Of Delaware, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, Kentucky and Missouri; and we shall
have open, as we now haze secret friends
in every Southern State, so soon as we can
dispel the illusions of prejudice and fanat-
icism, and estaplish free speech, and free
press on the basis of Constitution 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. Let us
struggle to maintain her pre-eminence in
the great Republican column of States, or
she will be outstripped on the 9th of No
vember, by Pennsylvania and Indiana
Our enemies are divided, distracted and
embittered against each other. They COM
bined against us not for principle, but for
the spoils, and they are badly beaten
They may attempt another desperate rally.
But they must be met and conquered
Our majority for Lincoln in Ohio must be
at least 10000. It may be more, if we
WORK. Let there be no disbanding of
our forces. Let every county committee
continue the vigilance that has already ac-
complished so much. Let meetings be
held in every township and school district.
Let documents be distributed, and facts
be presented to the people. Let the grand
Republican army of Ohio continue its on
ward march to still more glorious victory.
And when the 9th of November is past,
and ABRAHAM LINCOLN is elected Presi-
dent of the United States, let the shouts
of our victorious hosts mingle with those
which will 60 up from Pennsylvania and
Indiana, in proelaiming to the world that
our cause is triumphant and our nation re-
deemed. By order. a..a bia dg.5 +
5ro tm GEO. M. PARSONS, Chm.
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