The Daily Madisonian

From the Old School Republican.

THE ELECTION—THE GRAND RESULT.

The battle being over, and the smoke cleared away, we have now leisure to look at results and count causes and consequences. The Democrats have carried the State by a majority of about 3,000 for Governor, and count 18 on joint ballot in the Legislature.

Two years since, the Whig majority in the State was about 20,000 for Harrison and Tyler. There have been great changes, but their character is not understood at a distance. A majority of the old Whig party have changed by deserting Mr. Tyler, while a minority of the same party, believing Mr. Tyler to be honest, capable, and faithful to the Constitution, have refused to desert him, and voted with the Democrats, who sustained him. The result is a signal triumph of Mr. Tyler over his enemies who were aiming to head him, and should be remembered and referred to in all coming time as illustrating the truth, that "iniquity can seldom triumph in a free country."

Local causes, it is true, also conspired to produce the defeat of the Whigs. They had madly undertaken to vindicate the indefensible conduct of their late minority in the Legislature, and they succeeded but too well in convincing many of their men who seldom think for themselves, that it was right for legislators to run away in open defiance of the Constitution—to put an end to the Legislature and legislation, contrary to all law, precedent and propriety, simply because it suited the sovereign will and pleasure of a Whig minority.

Some even thought that it was right for Whigs, but would be wrong for any other party so to conduct.—Right for Patricians—wrong for Plebeians. Any individual who could express such a sentiment, is unworthy the appellation of an American citizen.

The resignation of the Whig members was a bold, daring, and desperate move; and has, as it ought, overwhelmed the actors in it with shame and confusion of face. The authors of it are yet to receive their merited doom, for let no person suppose that a project so treasonable, originated with the late Whig minority. No one who knows them, would ever suspect them as the authors of a scheme so stupendous. Had they originated it, they would have had the tact at least to have made a plausible defence of it; and this they could not do. We have our doubts whether it originated in Ohio. Time, the tattler of all secrets, will one day tell whether it had not its origin in the unholy aspirations of an arch demagogue, who himself even declined the task of defending it. The advisers and abetters of it in Ohio are known, and will go down to their graves as "marked men."

The day is not distant when a seceder or adviser of secession, or the son of the man who participated in, or counselled secession, will barely dare to show his head as a politician.