The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-11-08
The Result of the Election-The De-
mocracy Defeatsd-Douglas in 1854.

The election returns from all
parts of the Union, published in the
Enquirer this morning, indicate
that the Democracy have been de-
feated, butthey ARE not conquered
The news was not unexpected. The
disasterous result Of the October
elections in the great States of
Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania
had prepared the Democratic mind,
to a great extent, for the more gem
eral rout ofyesterday. 1t is easy to
assign the cause, and put the re-
sponsibility of this disaster upon
the right parties. The honor be-
longs and will be divided between
the Administration of JAMES b.
cuANAN-who, false to the princi-
pies which had elevated him to
power, turned his ~ungrateful and
malignant hand upon our organiza.
ton, and used all his patronage and
power to break it down-and the
Southern Seceders at Charleston
and Baltimore, with John G.
Breckenridge at their head. I'M,
partial history will so write it down,
We shall now see what these
men who have been instrumental in
the disruption of the Democratic
party, and who have declared that
they would not submit to the cleo
ton of a Republican President, will
do. The test-the dread test which
they have courted-apparcntly is
upon them. They would not have
DOUGLAS and Congressional non-in'
tervention they have got Lincoln
and Abolitionism. Will they sub
nit, or will they fulfil their threat
of seeding from the Union. The
"trial of their backbone-of theiI
sincerity'-has got to be made. /
their loud vaunts of resistance il
not carried into effect, and proved
but empty boastings, public con
tempt will be visited upon them
Their cry Of disunion will be dca'
in the future, or will be receivec
with n laugh of derision. In any
event, and whatever they do, tn
power ofthis pestiferous faction TO
evil has passed. 1t can neveragail
crush the Democrats to the wal
by the imposition Of extreme an'
offensive party t(stI upon them
tests which always brings defca
and disaster in their train. 1t ca
, never again ruin politically til
brave and gallant spirits at tn
North, whose former services i
has repaid with such black ingrat
itude. Southern DiSunionism ha
now come to q head, and we shaI
, know hereafter its exact strengt
=, in american politics. They wi
be remembered-we mean the lead
ers in the Charleston and Baltimor
Bolts-by an indignant and betray
5 ed people, as long as they aspire t
take part in public affairs. Neve
-. will they be forgotten or forgive
. by the great and generous organ
: cation which they have in tn.
t election, to crafty revengeful pa:
h sions, so fatally stabbed. The
and their political heresy will /
. alike repudiatOd and condemned.
The masses in the South-w
It confne to that section ofthe Uniol
because its'fcw mercenaries in tn
= free States are not worthy of thu
application-will ere long retur
J to their allegiance to the Dem'
cratic organization, from whic
j. they have been so unhappily mi
!. led; but Its leaders will be turne
over to the enemy, where the
: most emphatically belong. TT
n Democratic flag, which has been
it gallantly borne aloft in this can
It paign by STEPHEN A. DOUGLAs, ar
around which a million and a ha
of Democrats have rallied-near
d or quite as large a number as b
a long to;the Republican organic
d tion-has only been temporari
% lowered by this defeat. 1t will CO.
= tinue to wave in the future, al
Is the principles of which it is II
symbol, as we'll as the organizatic
/. that upholds it, are bound to II
T. lumph IN 1851. Yes. not only Il