Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-12-10
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Tie Toronto Globe, than which no M
peroutside Of our own country is be,te
informed of its affairs, closed a long ane
ably written leader on the late yictorie,
as follows:
We have before remarked that # was
cIeditable thing o the American people
that in the midst of a cival war thew have
managed to conduct an election without
violence. Few circumstances can po fnr.
Iher Than this to prove their fitness fol
free institutions. We notice that a cotem
porary makes the extraordinary statement
that Mr.. Lincolns success is a triumnh nj
the ignorant and dissolule classes over the
intelligent and refined. Nothing could be
further from the truth. It may be III at
the Democratic candidate lad the snppo,t
OF he wealthy and aristccraiic people in
New YoIk city, but it is equally true that
den Mcclellan polled enormous moiorities
IN the districts of that city which are not
cd as The hauns of Ignorance and vice. -
Some OF the dirtiest and most abomipable
uelghborhoods 10 the city voted in the ra
tlo OF twenty to one in his favor. Mr.
LlDcoln, on the other hand, ran best in the
most enlighted sections of the country
New England, aud especially Massachu.
setls aud VermontAno,ed for the in,ell
gence of the people and the excellence of
the public School system-were overwbelm
ingiy IN his favor. So in the States fur
ther west. Wherever county or State
IS 10 be found which had been settled by
Inc intelligent people of New England, the
Republican ticket was strong. The tide of
emigration from New Engllng has usually
sought ths northern sections of the new
States TO which it was direc cd. Northern
and Western New Yolk, Northern Pennsyl
vanin, Northern Ohio, Northern Illinois.
and Northern Indiana were settled by New
England stock, and they furnish the ma. |
lorltleS which give those States to the
Republicans. -ts
In the other'ections of the North, in,
habted by more Heterogeneous popula.
ton, certainly inferior to the New Eng
lander in intelligence aud education. the
Democratic party is usually the dominant
one. Thus the race which has been not in.
aptly said 10 furnish the brains of the North
Is by an orerw helming majority with the
Republicans. In the same way Mr.. Liu- |
coin had In The recent contest the support |
of nearly all the eminent scholars and
authors OF The North II was said by his
opponents too, that nine.tenths of the
'iergy OF the country ranged themselves
lpon The same side, and whatever we may
lave to say against clerical interference in
'ol!iics in ordinary cases, we have to re.
member that the great moral principle in
ol'ed in one of the leading issues of the
ontest tended TO make the case an excep-!
ional one, and that ip supporting Nj. :.
lincoln because of his anti slavery policy
he American clergy were actuated by no
notiyes OF sectarian gain or advantage =
At all events, we are. entitled TO count
hem in an argument against The absurd
sumption that the rabble or the mob
lecled Mr. Lincoln 10 defiance of the will
ftherespectable portion of the community.
ten. Mcclellan, no doubt, had the votes
I a vast number of respectable people who
oted for him from honest conviction, but
Deaking OF the contest as a whole, there
as seldom been q great political struggle
nywhere in the world, in which success
as mole clearly on the side of the N orali,
7 and intelligence of,the country, and the
efeat on the side ofits vice and ignorance. /,
ian that which resulted in the re election
Mr.. lincoln to the Presidency of the
Fnited States. '''