Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-10
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MONDAY MORNING, OCT. TO-
From The New York World.l
Good News from New England
The Victorious Advance Of the
Democracy.

Watchman, what of the night? It's signs
are all of promise! Wherever an honest
citizen, loyal to the Union and the Constitl-
ton, is working for the triumph of sound
principles, and for the salvation of the Re-
public, by the election of President deter
mined to preserve the Union by obedience
to the Constitution, let him take heart and
hope in his labor. Great is the power ar
rayed against us-a national treasury con-
trOlled by unscrupulous partsans, All army
of office-holders banded together ty the CO.
hesiye force of the public spoils, all that
fraud and corruption can brint and keep to-
gether of the worst elements in the State
with these we arc Going battle. But
wherever the issue mas yet been joined, vic
tory is with us; the hostile front wavers
wherever It has yet been struck; the col
1nlns OF Liberty and Law are everywhere
advancing.
In Maine, Democratic gain of five thou
sand votes attests the increasing vigor of
the truth. And now in Connecticut, where,
as in Maine also, every engine of official
patronage and social despotism has been
remorselessly set to work against us, town
after town records the swelling majority of
the people over the placemen, of the lovers
of the Union over the fetish worshipers of
Abolition.
in Connecticut, thirty have been carried by
the Democracy, and in all the others the
Democratic vote has been largely increased
over the vote of last spring, in many cases
doubling upon that votel
A cry of terror is going up from the as
founded partisans Of the Administration in
all quarters of the "land of steady habits"
The State has already repudiated Lincoln!
In seven towns alone a Democratic gain of
one thousand votes knells the doom of the
fanatics at Washington who have dared to
forget that the Administration exists for
the nation, not the nation for the Adminis-
tration. Bridgeport, for several years over
whelmingly Republican, gives this year a
Democratic majority of liz. Derby, on the
largest vote ever polled there, gives DEM
ocratic majority for the first time in fifteen
years; Norwich gives Democratic gain of
264 since last spring; Greenwich, Demo-
cratic majority of 1877; New London, q
Democratic gain of 1872; Meriden, Demo-
cratic gain of 200.
Everywhere" exclains. in alarm, the
Hartford Press, ''the Democracy have shown
united and determined 'front.'" Wherever
the Democracy thus move forward into bat
tie they may move forward to victory. From
Maine to Pennsylvania, from Pennsylvania
u the far West, they are forming thus to
meGOrss all the hopes of the Republic are
: moving with them. While the Abolition
mandaria3 aro wildly beating their gong
in city clu0- houses, and screaming them
selves hoarss ~ encourage the mobile army
of contractors," tn psople are gathering
far and wide thrOassn s4lthe country to the
rescue of the nation IN November. All that
we hear from Pennsylvania As cheering
all that we see in Maine anu + Comcc-
It. The tide that is lifting -yen New
land from the strained and parun
Of Abolition is setting in stronger
.3ager every day throughout the
~. - -3tes and the great West.
y rNt-o ranks then, friends of lib
erty -. ..y. Yet a few weeks more of
homes, -, manly effort-one final,
overwAo. -. y = for Mcclellan and Pen
dleton, tl u C, he Constitution, and
the enforce ~! Tvs, and the victory