Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1860-10-25
The Great Result. .

The Great Result.
While the Old World trembles with the
throes of incipient revolution, whereof devas-
tation and bloodshed are inevitable concom-
itants, says the New York Tribune, our own
more favored land is passing through cor-
responding crisis in manner which she may
forty-eight hours, our streets have reverber-
ated to the crash of dynasty. yet no one has
suffered or feared bodily harm, and the show
of anxious or melancholy faces is limited to
few Office holders. Gladuess beams from
million eyes, and joy glows in the popular
heart for it is felt and known that our peace-
full convulsion BODIES simply that replacement
of the bad by the better which is the inevi-
table condition of Human Progress aud the
manifestation of a genuine National life.
1t was every way fit that PENNSYLVANIA
and INDIANA, clasping hands across ONO,
should claim and enjoy the proud distinction
of innugurating the National renovation. In
the first place, those two States justly share
between them the honor of having made
Abraham Lincoln our standard bearer in the
nomentous contest now so near its clearly
foreshadowed termination. Indiana-which
had previously inclined to and was conf,
IDENTIFY and reasonably counted on for Judge
Bates-was the first State at Chicago to take
her place firmly and ardently beside Illinois
in supporting Mr. Lincoln's prstensions, and
thenceforth her delegation was most vehe-
ment and untiring in commencing her new
choice. Pennsylvania, which, unlike Indi-
ana, had candidate of her own besitatcd
and debated long; but, when pressed at
length to say decisiyely, In case you can.
not have your own candidate, who is your
next choice?" she, too, designated Mr. Lin
coin; and her decision, in effect, impelled
that of the Convention. All wary politicians
were aware, before 1860, how crushing is the
weight wherewith the October Elections fall
upon the party which they declare against
in the very agony of Presidential canvass !;
and when Pennsy lvania and Indiana said TO
the Convention, give US Lincoln for Presi@
dent, and you shall bear Republican thun-
der from us in October !" their appeal could
hardly be resisted, even had the convention
been stubbornly hostile to their preference.
Moreover, the choice of their Delegations
was heartily seconded by that of their res
spective candidates for Governor, Col. Curr
tn and Gen. Lane, who were both On the
ground, and who-their personal fate being
at stake-could not be suspected of favoring
another than be who was, In their judgement,
the very strongest man. How well founded
was that judgement, the shouts of Two MILL
ions of Republican voters are now proclaim.
ing.
1t was especially desirable that Pennsyl-
of the Republican array which she so nobly
justified on Tuesday. There never was i'm
aginsd more conclusively an answer than she
has furnished to all the wretched driyel of
the day about " Fanaticism," " Niger
Equality" % Putting the negro above the
white man," &C., &c. The whole country
does know Pennsy lyania as an eminently So
Der, conservative. Union-loying State of
whose Five Hundred Thousand Voters not
Fifty Thousand have any desire to interfere
in any way with the Southern States, their
' institutions" or their negroes They are
for Free Labor; they believe in it; they live
by it; they wish to see it protected, encourag-
ed, developed they insist that the Terrific
ries-since they came TO us SO free-shall be
conseerated to it; but they are willing that
the South shall take her own time wherein
to be convinced of its immense superiority
to the wretched system, inherited from Pagan
barbarism, to which she SO insanely clings.
The fact that Pennsylvania has declared for
Lincoln, by majority which puts her vote
in November beyond all cavil, is certain to
exert tremendous infuenc in quieting the
fears of the timld and assuring the thrifty
and cautious that the new era now opening
upon us is destined to be emphatically one of
order and peace.
The election Of Tuesday spanned the Slave
Border from the shore of the Atlantic almost
to the banks of the Mississippi, embracing
the three Free States next after New York
in population and power. and unitejly east
ing sixty.three Electoral Votes-more than
oRe>third of TIE number required to choose
President by the people. That those six
ty.three votes will be cast for Lincoln and
Hamlim, nobody doubts any logger, more
than that the sun will rise Tomorrow. Add
Pennsylvania and Indiana to Col. Fremont's
vote in '56, and they elect President, say.
ing nothing of Illinois or the new States of
Minnesota and Oregon. Is it possible ary
longer even to affect not to discern the hand
writinr IN kha wall