Maryland free press., 1862-11-21
GER STOW Y,
Old whigs Of the North.

1B- A feature in the late Eorthtrn election
worth noticirg Is mention ed by the New Yoik At
la which paper say':-No. only has the Repub-
can vote, in tbis State and New J,rsey, fallen
off uDaccountaDly, even after allowing for all the
influences of the hour-but the Democratic vote
has increased to an extent which cannot be &C
o'unted for BY anything within the party, wien
the numbers of that party who have left these
States es tol liers for the are taken into con-
s:deratior. What is thu fecret Of those two q o /
discrepancies2 Something which lot oplysg YES
n w hop, for the pernanence Of tie servative
ascthdancy, but which sounds THE deatkne
OF iadicalsm for the balahc, of the GET tury.-
Vhe o.d Line Wings, tnany Cf these heretofore e
entangled in the m zes of Republican Abolition,
havs cut themselves loose forev,r. That Is the
story told in a word.
few figures from the New jersey elet ton will
illustrate this tetter Than anything from New
York could do, there being go mGch'le gruut d
to 20 over to reach the res1,t. There were @ree
countie in New Jersey horeessIy Whig in the
dsys when Tie eva, Whg party Th.se were
Essex, Bu. ling t)r, a7d the small county of o e,r.
1t wasitle to ruE d, mocratic candidate for any
aiding cfilcs in e. hsr. BdTlirg on could give
800 Whig majority whenever it cL oose, and Es-
SIX 2,o00; Will, little Ocean, though Giiordirg q
only few Hundred msjprity, voted nta ly three
Wings to one Democrat. At tie election on
TnstcaT, Ia r, the Demt cratic candidate for
Governor, had 400 majority In Essex (the home
OF his opponent, Ward), while Ward ,nly receiy ed
about 200 majority liz burlington, ard (six) in
Ocean. But the cxi lanatoa is given above
Until this year, the Old Line Wings, ler. withos,
RI ha ri w.
breaking up of their crgan'z,,i n, haze teen yo
ting with that Abolition wing of both the Old PAR.
ties which had formed itself in.o Republic nism.
To-diy they Fave suddenly remembered the
teachings Ttoth the old l. ad, RI ,boye laned
n,ither of whom had The fmell of abol tios on hil
gaIments-they hare saddenly seen the peril in Z
which the country had fallen by the mis conduct
Of others and their own supinenes,-andt they ha ve
cut themselves clear Of the radical rabbi. and
thrown In their votes with tn e conser7aive De
Gocracy, to which they havo really belonged in
heart ever s'nce the destruction ofthc:r own party
They do not btlieve in al things WITH the Demo.
Gratis, but they sec low ingo icus Is the opposite
heresy, and hencsforth, till some other great DO
htical change comes, they will be found battling
side by side with their true friends. Back Re
publicanism has lost them 70 ever, and it will
henceioith only number those who ire at hear
Abolitonists. And spoh minority as that will
be, no man need feir.
This applies, of course, not only 10 New Jersey
but to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indians
and Illinois, and to some extent even to Massachu
setts, where, however, the leaveen of aboltionsr N
has affected tie old rarty more deeply. Unless
some great political convusion should intervene
impossible to forsee at this distance, radicalisn
has seen its last victory and conser vatism ts Ia
defeat The last hope of permanent power fol
tho Republicans Porishsd with tho losa of the Ole
Line Wings, which this fall has put be yond recall