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((Eastern fames.BATH, SEPTEMBER 14,1854.The Election.The returns of tbe votes polled in this State at the election last Monday, come in rather slowly. They arc, however, so far as wc have been able to learn, of such a character as to render it prohahle that the combination of free suiters, Mornllitcs, wliigs and know-nothmgs have succeeded to a considerable extent in temporarily deluding tbe people. The first returns sec in to be of so unvarying a character, that many persons of intelligent minds incline to the opinion that Morrill is elected Governor by tliu people. At this present moment we are not so well satisfied L _. lt;• .1The Nebraska Bill—it works gloriously and triumphantly for Freedom.All the great measures of the democraticparty, from tbe time of Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana to the present, have been subjected to the fiery ordeal of misrepresentation and condemnation from an excited and revengeful opposition. But iu every instance lime has wrought out a deliverance, and opposers themselves have been obliged to bow before the sober, second thought of the people as they have witnessed the beneficent result of those measures. It was not only so with the Louisian^ purchase, but with the U. S. Bank, l the Sub Treasury, the annexation of Texas, our acquisitions on the Pacific coast, and thesteady policy of tlio democratic party to re-j duce the revenue to a point to meet the wants of the government. That such will be the result in relation to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise by the admission of Cali-nent and glorious, such as no single act of Congress has ever before secured. But then they say no thanks are due to G^n. Pierceand I he administration ; all the thanks belong to God's Providence, which overrules, and from evil often brings good, contrary to the intent ol those who do the evil. It would be better, if, instead of this shallow evasion, they were to admit their own ignorance and confess that (ien. Pikrck saic further than they did ; for it is certain he expected this very result which is now apparent before the eyes of the people. The Nebraska bill tcorks gloriously and triumphantly for freedom. No act of any President or any Congress has secured so much, and so suddenly, and so easily for liberty, and men of all parlies will be obliged to acknowledge, with the intelligent and honest National Intelligencer, on the day after the passage of the bill, that though they opposed it from beginning to end, for the sake of peace and good feeling throughout the nation, yet truth and honesty required them to confess that in their belief the North and South should change their positions, and the North go for the bill and the South oppose it.If in nililitiiin In this nuiililv tirritnrv tn l,lt;
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