The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-11-06

900 10
10000 Democratic MajOrity--A
Democratic l. gisl0tuIe--The Re
pubIica N Party AnnihiIated--The
Peoples Parry Scattered--O Over
100000 DemOe tic Gain Simce
1850. It W ~
1t is now apparent that at the late election
the Democracy carried the State BY from thirty
to brtY thousand mojority In one short year
after The triumph OF sectionalisCD, the RepublI-
can party has been compelled to abandon its
name and repudiate its sectional principles to
escape popular condemnation. With defeat and
disaster staring them in the face, the Republi-
can leaders sought TO identify Republicanism
with the Government, and called their party
the Union party hoping by this popular name
to escape the defeat which seemed inevitable.
They branded every man as a traitor who re-
fused to desert the Democratic party and meek
ly bow submission to what they called The
Union party. sl -|
Butthe gallant Democracy Of the keystone
State were not to be deceived or intmidated
into desertion Of the principles which they
had revered for years, and which they felt as
sured must predominate in the Government to
insure the peace, the prosperity and happiness
of the Republic. They trumphantly pointed
to the Democratic party as the true Union par
ty oi the country--always for the Union and
the Constitution, in peace and in war, in pros
perity and adversity--and boldly declared that
while they were willing to make any sacrifice
for the Union, they would as zeaously stand
by the national flag Of Democracy, and eDdeav'
or to restore to power the good old party which
has 20 long aud so ably administered the Gov
ernment Of the country. They held their con
ventions, passed Union resolutions, nominated
| Union Democratic candidates and triamphanHs
elected Memi .-
The people of Pennsylvania have lost all con
fidence in the Republican party, and decided BY
their tallots that even the sacred name o
Union should not save that party from defeat
| The Democratic counties aoheeled gaNantly int
line, and although they had an late years yielde.
to the storm, IN The late contest Hey rolled up the
ancient mGjoriheS. The Republican counties
saw the folly of their course in the last Presi
dental election, and aone Of them gaze anyttin.
like their usual mqjorities. In Lancaster, Leb
anon, Huntington, and other Republican coun
ties not only no Republican majo,1teS ,Cere giOea
but the legal Democrats and conservative Re
publicans Joined land elected Union men, de
feating the ultra Abolition wing of the Repub
lican party. Thus, with small majoritics, o
no maorities at all in their own counties, ant
large majorties against them in the Democrat
ic counties, the Republican party has been thor
oughly overth,o'0n in our loyal patriotic State
The lower branch Of the Legislature for sev
eral years overwhelmingly Republican, is nov
Democratic by small majority counting th
Democrats elected against the ultra wing {
the Republican party, and the State Of Penn
sylvana, which in November, 1860, gave ma
Ijority OF 10000 for the Chicago Platform nom
jinees, NOW GIVES A DEMOCRATIC MA
JOBITY NEARLY AS LARGE IN 1851
The patriotic people of Pennsylvania, immova
bly, attached to the Union and the Constitutio
have once more manifested their confidence
the Democratic party, declared it the tru
Union patty OF the country. and nobly rebuke
its sanderers. The triumph is complete-ti
old Keystone State is redeemed, and no cour
ty has contributed mere largely to this glorior
: result than "old Democratic York!'- Eo'
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