Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — The Late Elections. [ARTICLE]

The Late Elections.

Two years ago, Pennsylvania and Indiana, at their October State elections, stopped the victorious career of the Republicans and secured the election of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency. The Democratic majority in Pennsylvania over the combined opposition vote was a little over three thousand; while in Indiana it was about seven thousand. Philadelphia alone at that time gave some thirty-five hundred I‘emocratic majority over the united opposition; she now gives (Tver five thousand the other way. Pennsylvania gives about ten times the majority against Mr. Buchanan's administration that she gave to call it into being in October, 1856. So vast a revolution, quietly and peacefully effected, we are rarely enabled to chronicle. It has been effected in the face the most untiring assertions .of the placemen -and their journalists, not only that .the Kansas question is definitely and happily settled, but that the Administration has settled it; and that the idea of protection is obsolete—that no improvement in the tariff, with a view to the protection ot American labor, is now possible, and if it were, the only wa.y to secure it is to support the powers- that be, and thus earn the good will of the slave-breeding interest. All this, and much more in the same vein, has been dinned in the ears of the people since May; : and this response is given in the election returns we have thrs week published. The votes of Ohio and lowa, of Connec- ! ticut and even Delaware, demonstrate that the revolution of 1858 is not confined to the two States which elected Mr. Buchanan, though it is there most emphatic and unmis-j takable. In October, 1856, the Republicans carried Ohio by over eighteen thousand majority; yet tliey have just made gains on the members of Congress then chosen. The vote just cast would seem to have been but moderately heavy—quite below that, of 1856—and the Republicans generally appear to be equally surprised and. delighted'. by their victories. Can any rational being longer doubt that the policy of the Administration, alike with regard to Kansas and to finance, is condemned by a great majority of the American people!- Subtract that large minority who always vote what they con.-ider the “regular Democratic ticket,” and always will, no matter how flagrant may b„e the errors and malfeasance of its leaders in office, and there is no support left I in the free States for Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet. To illustrate this, let us post the. books showing the net result of the recent elections to Congress: 18;>6. Ofi’osiTioN. Democrats. Pi'iiiisvlviinia, ....10 15 Ohio. ’. . 12 9 Indiana,. 5 . . .-» 6 lowa.. •> 0 Total .29 ..'95 18;>8. Ori’OSiTION. I.’XMOCKATS. Pennsylvania, . . . .20 5 Ohio -.15 6 1 ndiunu,. . . 8 3 lowa 2 () ' Total 45. o 14 ‘56: Dem. nraj ... . 1 'SB; 1 )pp, maj ... .3 1 Let New York follow up these results in the spirit tliey cannot fail to evoke, and the overthrow of the Buchanan dynasty must be complete and overwhelming.— A r . Y. Tris,