Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-10-25
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESULT.

The following article from the Patsbarg
Commercial, on the result of the recent e.
lection, is worthy perusal by our readers
The result of our State election has
rather astonished both sides. The politi-
clans had less to do with it than with any
election within the recollection OF the pres
ent generation of voters. There was little
of machinery or other appliances. none of
the usual clap-trap to which parties some
times resort, to produce excitement-con-
sequently there was none. The result is
significant one-not alone for these features
of the canvass-it is significant for the large
majority by which the State has been car
ried, more especially for the motives which
supplied the place of the usual appliances,
and for the end which the people had in
view.
These motives and this end can be ex-
pressed in no way so well as by saying, that
the people intended to Sustain the National
administration, particularly the President,
III his efforts to restore the Uaion. This
purpose was first instilled by no Convention
or speeches-it was original with the people
themselves, and neither Conventions nor
orators could have defeated it, The Demo
cratic party claimed to be devoted to it. but
the people did not believe it; and one sig
nifcance of the result is, that this party is
regarded as having deliberately undertaken
to befool the people into the belief that the
President and his policy could be supported
through it-a pretension which has been re-
pudiated in the splendid victory which alike
indorses that policy and the Republican u
MON party as the only party which can be
trusted with tt Ee management of momentous
concerns f the Nation.
''For this result we are in very large
measure Indebted to the soldiers, who, though
returned to civil life, do not regard them
selves as having been mustered out as guar
diaRs of the holy cause for which their
brothers died, and they, on hundred fields,
periled everything We cannot place too
much emphasis on this-and we take this
occasion to thank, as the Republican party,
not only while rejoicing in its hours Of tri-
umph, but as it ever will thank them, the
soldiers, for the part they bore in the con-
test on Tuesday the 10th of October To them
the honor of the victory belongs-a victory
supplementary to those won on many
bloody field, where the same principles
which have triumphe2 now were at stake
In plain terms, the soldiers approve of the
course of ANDREW JouNsoS, and recog-
nizing the grand fact that the Republican
party is of him and he of it, they followed
the direction of principle, marched right on
as tn " have hnan marching for four long
bloody years, all the while keeping step to
the music of the Union.'' and the conse-
qucnce is, the administration has been nobly
sustained i'll splendid Republican Union
victory. Let the President be encouraged
in his efforts; let him be admonished that
the people of Pennsylvania, more especially
the splendid aggregation of patriotism and
intelligence represented by the soldiers, re-
turned to civil life, confidently hold that
while the Union must be restored, and the
triumph of freedom made perfect, the crime
of treason must be punished.
''The effect of this victory is neither local
nor transitory. 1t will avert happy IN
fuence, not only on elections yet to take
place, but it will strengthen the President
and his Cabinet-it will instruct Congress,
give tone to public sentiment, and make
certain the future To the Democratic
party it is a complete and lasting over
throw. That party, bankrupt and broken,
undertook to recuperate its fortunes by
drawing large drafts on the credulity of the
people, and it has gone to speedy protest
under an accumulation of sins and debt.
from which it cannot hope to recover. The
miserable shift it undertook to play off be-
fore the people will prove to be the last
spasm of an object, which, after coalcing
for four years with treason, undertook to
c!othe itself in the garb of loyalty, and to
be the supporter of the President, who, in
his efforts for the Union he loves, abhors it
for undisguiscd completely with It's baff1ed
enemies
THE ENGLISH CONFEDERATE CoTToN
LOAN TAKERS. Paris correspondent
of the New York Tribune says: L think it