, 1865-10-26

interest and Of deep significance. lam espe-
ciaIy Eratifed with the result Of the contest
because It's effect upon this country can univ
prove beneficial In very high degree, Per
NIT nc, In few words, to explain the nature
cud e1tent OF ne great victory Of Tuesday
chiefly indebted for that victory, and mention
few Of the lessons which It plnInly teaches
Last year the Senate Of our State q ,ood
nineteen Union to fourteen Opposition. Of
Me eleven retiring Senators seven were Union
and four Opposition: We hare not lost one
elected Union Senator In place Of stark.
Opposition, BY respectable majority, and in
Adams and Franklin our candidate iacks but
thiny-fouf votes Of an election by tho nome
vote. 1t Is confidently believed that the army
vote in that district will reverse this small
majority, and thus secure US q gain Of two
members In this branch of the Legislature,
and giving to the Opposition only Glntz Of
York, aud Wallace Of Clearhctd.
In the Lower House at the Inst session we
bad Eixty-three members md tho opposition
thirty-seven. This large majority, secured By
The popularity OF our late lnmented Presi-
dent, and after contest almost unequalled In
warmth, has been preserved intact. 50 far as m
known not single district of the sixty-three
carried last year has been lost in October,
1865 But On the contrary We have gained q
member in AdamE, enc In Armstrong, and one
in Perry and franklin. [Applause:] There
Is nlso strong probability that another mem-
ber has been gained in Luzerne, so that the
House will stand sIxty-seven to thirty-three.
The Senate being twenty-one TO twelve we
ehall have on joint ballot majority Of forty
three.
It Is asserted in some quarters that the con.
test Was devoid of interest, and that the vote
is small. It is true that In those counties in
which either party has vcry large majority
there has been falling of In the Vote, but all
in the close counties and evenly balanced dis-
trlcts the contest has been spirited, the llght
very warm ind the vote large. In some cases
il exceeds any yote ever cast, not excepting
that for President in 1861. ..
In all the counties thus contested, the
Union gains have been very large. It Is man
fest that all the changes in political scnsi-
to,rards and not from the organization OF the
tue want of . very large majority Is found in
The !act that tho Union vote was not fully
pollcd In counties giving very large majorI-
ties. Had the entire yose Of the State been
Poucd, 1t Is confidently believed that major
ity Of sixty, seventy or seyenty-Gye Thousand
would hare been the result.
The next valuable lesson to be gathered
from our victory is the fact which our advcr-
saIies have just learned, that the soldiers can
not be hoodwinked and deceived. tuproasi-
ous applause.l Thc men who during the
four years Of war never had kind word for
the Union soldiers, could not obtain their
votes BY nominating soldiers and pretending
TO be the friends of soldiers. [Cries Of ssthats
OPT It Is SO. Political leaders aud parti-
San presses, which spent much Of their time to
persuade the people that the wnr was nli
wrong and that soldiers were only the hire.
lings Of n military despot, could not convince
them In four weeks that all they had said and
done In four years must be forgotten lap
plause1 and q different aud opposite line Of
policy at once adopted.