Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-10-19


While the Old World trembles with the
tkfoes Il incipicnt revolution, whereof devas-
tation and bloodshcd are the inevitable con.
comitants, our own more favored land is pas
sing through corresponding crisis in .
manner which she may proudly claim a her
own. Within the last forty eight hours, our
streets have reverberated tn 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 Gladncss beams from million eyes,
and joy CLOVIS in the popular heart, for it is
felt and known that our peaceful CONFUSION
bodies simply that replacement of tn. bad by
the better which il the inevitable condition
Of genuine National life.
II was every way fit that Pennsylvania and
Indiana, clasping hands across Ohio, should
claim and enjoy the proud distinction Of in
augurating the National renovation. In the
first place, those two States Justly share be-
tween them the honor Of having made Abn-
ham Lincoln our standard. bearer in the mo-
mentuous contest now 50 near its clearly
foTeshadowed termination. [ndiana--which
had previously inclined to and was confident
~ 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 prctensions, and
thencctorth her delegation was most vehe-
nent and untiring in commencing her new
choice. Pennsylvania, which, unlike Indi-
ana, had . candidate Of her own, hesitated
and debated long; but when pressed at
length to say decisively, :" 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 Pennsylvania and Indiana said to
the Convention, "Give US Lincoln for Pres
ident, and you shall hear 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 respective
candidates for Governor, Col Curtin and
Gen. Lane, who were both on the ground.
and who-thcir personal fate being at stake
--could not be suspected of favoring another
than he who was, in their Judgment, the
very strongest man. How well founded was
that Judgment the shouts of Two Millions of
Republican voters are now proclaming.
1t was especially desirable that Pennsylva-
mia should take that position at the head of
tie Republican array which she so nobly JUS
titled on Tuesday. There never was imagin-
ed more conclusive an answer than she has
furnished to all the wrctched drivel of the day
about /" Fanaticism," 'Nigger equality"
" Putting the negro above the white man."
DC, &c. The whole country does know
Pennsylvania as an eminently sober, conscrv-
alive, Union-loving State, of whose Five Hun.
dred 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, encouraged, developed;
they insist that the Territories-since they
came to US Free-shall be consecrated to it
but they are willing that the South shall take
her own time wherein to become 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 a
majority which puts her vote in November
beyond all cavil, is certain to exert tremen.
Spus influence in quieting the fears of the
0mid and assuring the thrifty and cautious
that the new era now opening upon us is des-
tined to be emphatically one Of order and
peace.
The elections 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 pop
ulation and power, and unitedly casting sixty
three Electoral Votcs-more than .one-third
OF the number required to choose President
by the People. That those sixty-three votes
will all be cast for Lincoln and Hamlin, no.
body doubts any longer, more than that the
sun will rise tomorrow. Add Pennsylvania
and Indiana to Col. Fremont's vote in SO.
and they elect President, saying nothing Of
Illinois or the new States of Minnesota and
Oregon. Is it possible any longer even to ef.
feet not to discern the handwriting on the
wall?-N y Tribune.
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