Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — The New Hampshire Election. [ARTICLE]

The New Hampshire Election.

[Prom the New York Sun—-Democratic.

Nfw Hampshire h°ld her State election on Tuesday, <nd the result was. aa everybody anticipated* another triumph of the Republicans. But, wtiut whs not anticipated by many oVer-s.inouine Den in the success of the Republican* thi3 year by an increased majority. New [lamps' ire, which some years ago was sound’y Democratic, has, like our own Empire State, experienced a political revoluti n. In 1852 Ne W Hampshire had the honor of furnishing a candidate for the Presiden y, jn the person of Mr. Pierce, i e was rioted by such sweeping rrojorities that the old whig party was almost literally swept out of existence. It was then supposed that the Democracy had secured an unlimited lease of power throughout the Union. But, in the intoxication of victory, they forgot those principles upon which their party was founded. They grasped eagerly at “the spoils,” and the «olt. ish rivalry of their lenders and the utter micompetency f the man whom they hadplaced in the Presidential chair, to direct the puitr cy of a great nation, soar introduttyd demoralization ami broke them up Into Nfaotions. Upon the ruins of the Whig party t>c>v the Republican or Northern party, ami taking advantage of every blunder of Mr. Pierce’s Administration, and exposing tho disgrace* ful sycophancy of Its satellites, the Republicans soon won to their support a majority of the people of the Northern States.

Mr. Pierce’s election was indeed the culmination of the glory and the power of the Democratic party. Within a year from bis inauguration, his acts, his appointments,and his policy— if policy he could be aaid to hav* had—caused a complete revulsion in the popular mind. When he entered upon the Presidency, he was sustained by an overwhelming majority in Congress. Before bis term closed the Republicans had gained a majority in the popular branch of the Federal Legislature. Tfre misconduct and meannes displayed by the Administration Dem- : oci acy. and the arrogance and violence of j ire Southern friends during the Kansas-Ne-braska agitation, completely cisgusted the Northern people. They had not only been deceived by the men whom they placed in power, but the attempt was made to trail pie upon them as the spiritless slaves of a Southern ohg rchy.

So strong was Northern feeling and Northern resentment in 1856 that the Democratic Convention, which assembled at Cincinnati, found it necessary to put aside all the promin ret actors in the Kansas Nebraska contest, and to adopt a platform which recogni7. -d the righ of the people of the Territories to fashion their own domestic institutions, .-object only to the Constitution of the United States. Upon this platform Mr. Buchanan, who, by his absence frera this country, escaped beirre involved in the controversies wiii. b bad so much agitated the Fre« States, was nominated for the Presidency, snd by tue votes of citizens, who confided in bia cau> on mid expetience, he was elected. But all the high hopes which were entertained ot Mr. Buchanan's administration were speedily extinguished. Instead of reviving and elevating the Democratic party from the j regrace into which it find fallen under hie predecessor, he has sunk It into a lower degredation, and made its success In the next Presidential election almost hopeleea. He 'res n •» only violated the principles of the .platform upon which he was nominated aud eiewteJ, but has been false to the territorial policy which he him-elf enunciated in his ifcugurai. He has best »W3d his patronage in a manner that has disgusted and divided the party, and bus succeeded In giving the control of every Northern State to Lh9 Opposition. Such are the reflections which naturally ariae out of the result of the New Hampshire election. It is but an augury of wlit iis to happen in all the Northern States next November.