Year: 1859

pfthe Republican Party seem to be exceeding
ly delighted OF the issue of the election on the
1lth day Of fOctober. Having won the race such
persons are content to exult at the success of
their party, without looking over the field and
Rscertaining how the result was achieved or in
what condition it leaves the victorious party
They have carried the day; retained or obtain
cdpossession OF the offices; have the disposal Of
theofical patronage of the State, and that is
enough for them. 1t is perhaps as much as the
class of persons to whom we refer can compre-
hend, and hence they ought not to be expected
to note the condition Of the contending parties
on the day of battle, the manner in which the
victory was won, or the effect it is to have up
on the (now) triumphant party in Ohio. We
propose to offer some thoughts upon the result,
its causes and the effect it is likely to have
hereafter upon the political parties in this State.


The Legislature is Republican in both branch
es, and on joint ballot will present more than
80 majority In the last Legislature the Dem,
ocrats had more than twenty majority on joint
ballot. By tho disposition of the floating
members" the Republicans gain some nine,
which being taken from the Democratic and
placed on the Republican side, makes differ
ence in favor of the latter ofeighteen. In ad-
dtion to this the returns show that Republican
Senators were elected, on Tuesday last in five
districts in which the Democratic State ticket
carried q majority. These Districts are, Rich
land and Ashland, Butler and Warren, CoShoc-
ton and Tuscarawas Guernsy and Monroe and
Muskingum and Perry. The same result has
happened in two or three Representative d is
tricts. Had these Districts been carried for our
Senators and Representatives and the floats re-
fnaned as they were in the last General Assem-
bly,, the Republican majority in the legislature
would be very trihing in Numbers. The saga
cious men OF that party, would, no doubt, pre-.
fer that it was so, as in that event the ultra and
controlling element in the party, could be kept
in check, whereas with the large majority
which they have, it will be impossible to re-
strain it. Giddings and his adherents will be
enabled to control the legislation of the ap-
preaching session, and make it conform to all
their peculiar notions.


The State ticket has a majority of some II,
600 votes, which is a reduction of the majority
oflast year of some 6,000. In some sections Of
the State the vote was very full. In other quar-
ters the turn out was unusually meagre. As a
general thing where full vote was out the
Democracy made very satisfactory gains, where
as, where the vote was light the gains were in
favor of the Republicans. The day was an un :
usually fine one for all kinds of out door labor,
and in order to avail themselves Of it, many far
mers and other persons engaged in necessary
fall work, denied themselves the exercise OF the
elective franchise. The Cleveland Hc,uM esti-
mated that from this cause alone, its party had
an advantage of 5000 votes, and we think il
was within the mark. More than that mum
Der of another class Of persons who were at the
polls. voted the Republican ticket, who it may
be very safe to say will never support that par
ty again, with the record which it will make
for their consideration and approval or rejec
tion, at the next session of the Legislature, We
mean by the persons last referred to, the mer
whom it was the special mission Of Tom Cor
win, in the last campaign, to keep within the
pale Of. the Republican organization, by the as
surances which he made in a dilligent canvass
through the central and southern parts OF thc
State, that he was the true exponent.of Repub
licanism, and that Giddings and his men wert
the teachers OF false doctrines, which were no
approved by the Republican party. Such wa
the distaste to the actual Republican doctrines
as they will be fully developed in the southern
counties, that it was necessary in order to re
tain in the ranks and secure the votes Of tn
class Of persons referred to, as in Hamilton, Sci
oto and other countess to abandon the name o
party. In such counties it was further neccs
sary for Corwin to openly denounce Gidding
and all his followers as men who were guilty c
treason, and whose heads ought to be brough
to the block. The efforts Of Corwn the expe
dent OF changing the name Of the party, an
the former prejudices of the class of voters re
ferred to, were sufficient to induce them, The
not without distrust and under q sort of mentt
protest, to vote the Republican ticket. Scarce
ly have the votes been counted and the resu
proclaimed, bofore the leading Republican pa
pers assert that the election is a complete an
thorough Republican triumph, and such voter
as we have referred to, are given to understand
in no unnistakable language, that they an
their conservative notions, are to have no cor
sideration from the triumphant hosts Of Repul
licanism. Take from the Republican party ii
conceded advantage which it received on az
count Of the weather. and take from it the Fl,
thousand votes referred to and which it Obtain
cd by false pretences, and add them to the D.
mocratic party where hereafter they will |
found, and we place the parties. in Ohio upc
an equal footing, to commence the Campaign


1860, into which we are speedily to enter
But the Republicans had another advantage


the contest, the cause of which will disappei
very soon. Many men who are inclined to a


with the Democratic party were made .jealol
and deciired to do so, by the, foolish indiscr
ton Of q few. Democrats in this State, who


mount to nothing from their numbers, but fro
their position are capable of doing mischi'
and who took such position on the slave


question, as to induce the voterslast re farT'


to, to believe that il was the intention oft


Democratic party to aequiesco in the demal


for and to institute and adopt a congressior
slave code for the government of the territori
of the United States and the protection o slay
ry in them. What number to fix the voters


this dascrintinn at WIZ caIlnht SthLa 9hnt II w