New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-15
" WAS NOT THAT THUNDER :"

"wAs NOT THAT THUNDER
Tho returns of Tuesdays State Elections in
PENNSYLVANIA. Ono, INDIANA and Iowa are
all alike All these States but Iowa went OPP
position last Fall; all Of them now go Union.
In Indiana, only County and local officers were
chosen. but the result is such as TO leave no
room for doubt that, if her Members of Con-
cress had been chosen this year instead Of last,
the Vnioni.ts would have had seven or eight
of the eleven instead of four. Iowa is
Of course all rght--more so than ever
beforehand Pennsylvania, though dcs-
perately contested by the Coppcrheads,
who have poled immense majortics in
all their strongholds, has still gone Union by
an ample majority. Gov. CURTIN is reelected
over Woodward by majority ranging from
Ten to Twenty Thousand Judge Louvre
dem. is beaten and succeeded on the Supreme
Bench by Daniel Agnew of Beaver County,
who was assaicd as having voted for Negro
Suffrage in the Constitutional Convention OF
1875; and we have no doubt that the Lcgisla-
lure is also right. Had the Soldiers been at
homo Curtin'S majority must have exceeded
Fifty Thousand.
Yet the Coppcrhcads had the advantage on
everything but the main issue. Some recent
legislation at Harrisburg is not merely unpOpu-
lar--it is absolutely odious with the great body
of the People, and Gov. Curtin-whether justly
or uniustly-was damaged by it. We believe
Union candidate for Governor might have been
selected who would have obtained greater ma
jority by Ten Thousand.
Judge Woodward. though politically wrong
as can be- is an able, respected, and popular
citizen. We doubt whether another man of
like principles and sympa,hics could have polled
so heavy a vote. And his Importers were care
m to ignore TO the utmost the National issue,
and 20 make their fight wholly on personal and
local issues. They siGmatizcd GOV. Curtin "a
I" the shoddy candidate" charged him with
every sort Of pcculalion aud malyer alton, and
in every way oyinccd their cOu-c business thai
The Main Question was one they could not
abide. Bui the People would not be diverted
from rs earnest contemplation. The canyass
was unoqualcd in animation, and the vote
when fully cauyas.cd. will be found uuprcoc-
IDENTIFY heavy. considering the tens of thousands
absent in The National armies, and on that ac-
count DISTINGUISHED.
The OHIO result surpri.cs Us by h. OYER
whelinine competence. There never was a
more arduous or deent canvas than that made
in behalf Of Nallandieham. H. enforced alb
sencc was worth more TO h, party than his pre-
encc and best efforts could have been. The
People love to rcbuke any arbitrary exercise o
power, and To turn the tables ou it, conlriycTs
Besides, Val. j. ~ loyal a. any Coppe.head
and a. much entitled 10 votes ~ Woodward OF
either Seymour. And The spccchcs Of Pugh,
Cox, voorhees,, +. H. Seymour, Mcuick Of Ill,
&c. &c, in his behalf, were good a. they
make on that side. The mectinel Of his sup
porters were immensely large and enthusiastic
larger, in the average. We think. than those of
his opponents, though these were al.o vast. W.
did certainly presume, therefore, that hc would
receive such a vote a. T. II. Seymour did lat
April in Connecticut. aud be- beaten but little Il
any more than the Soldier vote. We cculd not
realize that q candidate 20 impoFingly supported
was not really running al oil. Iher were
hardly any soldiers IN the sinic-iheir votes
count elsewhere than in The reported comfy
majortics. We knew that the Soldier
vote would bea; him-ai IL would that
Of Coppcrhead candidate for Governor IN ANY
loyal Statc-bui a majority o! Fly Thousand
ribom the Soldier vote h. an a.tonlshcr
Peace candidate are hcncclorth al dis
count in the States which adhere 10 The Union.
as a-pirants vii henccfolth understand VAL
marlyrdom j. a lesson which All who run may
read and viii heed.
lcllow-countrymcn the American Union is
fully resolved not TO give up The ghost. II will
not commit suicide 10 please anybody. II any
body flncics 4, WILL lei, him Just mount the
yallandipham platform and run for office any.
where. one experiment viii alisfy him.