Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-21

the Official ngureS Oh the electlonS helu
on Tuesday, the 18th inst, but the sum-
mary herewith attached will be found to
vary very slightly from the facts.
PENNSYLVANIA.
The election in Pennsylvania was for
Auditor General, Treasurer, Congress
men and Legislature. The average Rad
ical majority in that State since 1860,
has been $4,000. The returns, official
and estimated, in the Philadelphia Age
of the 18th inst. give a majority for
Hartrauft (RadicaD on the State ticket,
Of 1868. This will be increased, how
ever, and the majority may be safely
reckOned at 5000.
The Democrats gain four members OF
Congress-the delegation in the present
Congress being six Democrats to
eighteen Radicals. The next will
stand ten of the former aad fourteen OF
the latter.
The Radicals have q majority OF
twenty-four in the Legislature on Joint
ballot, and thus secure a United States
Senator in place Of Mr.. Buckalew,
Democrat whose term expires in March
next.
The Democratic gain is about 5000.
The total vote of the State is $50, 600 or
moro.
A partisan decision of the Supreme
Court of the State, at special term for
the purpose, unjustly excluded the votes
of about 1900 naturalized foreigners.
These would have changed the result,
and the Democracy Of the State are con-
fident and have entered the Presidential
contest with zeal and alacrity.
OHIO.
Ohio voted for Treasurer and State
officers and Congressman. The average
Radical majority in this State for the
past eight years has been $4,000. The
Democrats concede the State ticket to
the Radicals by 1900 majority, though
these figures will doubtless be reduced
by the official returns.
The Democrats gain four members OF
Congress, and about $1,000 in the general
vote in poll of $4,000, as compared
with the lowest Radical majority in the
last five years.
AS an evidence of the spirit Of the De-
mOcracy, the following is extracted from
the address of the State Central Commit
tee issued on Monday last -:
Without pretending to deny that the
results of the recent elections are lWurl-
GUS to the best interests Of the country
| in the defeat of local tickets and many
patriotic Democrats, a careful survey OF
| the field shows us that there is nothing IN
these results to justify dependency or
excuse any relaxation of the efforts OF the
Democracytin behalf Of the cause ofjus-
tice and Constitutional liberty, for which
| they so nobly struggled in Ohio.
Although beaten by a small majority
| in poll Of over five hundred thousand
votes, the result shows that the Democ-
racy have gained between ten and fifteen
| thousand votes on the State ticket, while
the enemy have been unable to maintain
their strength of four years ago, and have,
| in addition lost no less than four Con-
| gressmen; and their successful eandI-
| dates have such meager majorities as to
Justify the most strenuous efforts to carry
| their districts at the November election
In the Presidential year Of 1864, the
Democracy pOlled eighteen thousand
more votes at the November election
than they did at the October election, and
were then beaten over fifty thousand.
A similar gain this year will give Ohio to
Seymour and Blair-those last tribunes
Of the people and freedom. The means
and energies of the enemy, and their
facilities for the preparation of fraud,
| corruption and colonization were eX-
hausted in their desperate efforts to carry
| the October election, and will not confront
| us in November. These lawless impede
ments removed, the three great States OF
| Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, which
cast more than one million five hundred
| thousand votes, will be redeemed, and
\ the flag Of the American Democracy still
maintain in its supremacy as the standard
of liberty, honesty, and justice through
out the world.
| No cause is lost that involves such
gigantic interests, and is sustained by
such myriad of pure, patriotic and in
dOmitable men. The scale of many
battle has been turned at the moment
the enemy was most exultant History
is full of examples showing that the lib
critics of nations, and civilization itself,
have been preserved by gallant and
energetic struggle, made at a darker
time than the present is for our country
The cause needs but the unwavering.
courage, the indomitabls will, the tireless
energy, and the sleepiess Vigilance--such
as the Democracy displayed in the recent,
and in many a previous contest-to Sc
cure its final triumph.
| INDIANA.
The contest in this State in poll of