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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2668 - 2673
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - United States (Cont'd)
2668 - L Nov. 6; ed: 2/1 - "Although there is sti 11 a degree of uncertainty
respecting the result of the election. there is great cause to fear the
defeat of the Republican ticket. There has been little additional news
since our yesterday's reports, and nothing decisive. Indiana and Pennsylvania
remain uncertain, although there can be little doubt the latter
has gone for Buchanan. Although it is true that, supposing the remaining
returns from Indiana to be indicated by those already in, Buchanan will
have carried the state, yet we do not give it up. It is probably close and
wi 11 be doubtful unti 1 the full returns are in." (8)
2669 - L Nov. 7:2/1 - In a letter to the editor, C. M. Clay says: "I see
a statement in your paper, based upon my authority, about money being
brought to Pittsburgh for electioneering purposes, etc. The statements there
made, are in the main, true; yet justice requires me to say that Bishop
Hughes was not said to have made the contribution. I do not feel at liberty
to name parties." (2)
2670 - L Nov. 7; ed:2/1 - "Good enough to shout over is the news that the
recent triumph in Michigan wi 11 shut that old superanuated rat, Cass, out
of Congress. A man with a backbone in the place of that everlast ing old
hunker will be a change for the better; decidely. If Illinois has done the
same justice to Douglas, it is triumph enough for one campaign." (2)
2671 - L Nov. 7; ed: 2/1 - If Buchanan is elected, what then? Shall we who
fought on till our feet almost rest upon the point of victory, who have
just driven the frightened enemy to the last extreme, and caused him to
tremble beneath the blows of a power which he feels will, ere long, prove
too strong for him, shall we now droop disheartened because we have not
accomplished all that we wished and ever hoped? "No! There shines, not a
distant upon the upward path of the future, the starry good of victory.
When the next reveille of liberty shall call to the battle field the army
of the free, it shall call us to a triumph long hoped fur, struggled for
and prayed for, and which shall light the home of the freemen of the nation
with a glorious jubilee, by the light of which we shall dig deep the grave
of American despotism upon the field of political death." (10)
2672 - L Nov. 7; ed:2/2 - In Michigan the returns from back counties come
in more favorable for the Republicans. They claimed 10,000 last night, and
from 15,000 to 20,000 today. Howard, Walbridge, and Waldron were re-elected
and also D. C. Leach, (R), in the place of Peck, - (D). The state legislature
is largely Republican which insures a Republican U. S. senator in
place of Casso (2)
2673 - L Nov. 7; ed:2/3 - In Wisconsin, Walworth, Waukesha, Kenosha, Rock,
Grant, and Lafayette counties give Fremont a 6,900 majority. Tbis is a
Republican gain of 3,850. The state has gone for Fremont by over 3,000 majority.
Three Republicans were elected to Congress in Wisconsin. (1)
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