The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-12 00:00:00

TEE PROSPEI

( From the Anglo-American Times.)
Next Tuesday will be a great day in America.
The State elections of Vermont and Maine, of Ore-

gon and Kentucky, and the Territorial elections in
Idaho and Colorado were but the skirmishers put
forth to feel the enemy's strength, and force him to

expose his position. But on Tuesday will come the
shock of solid columns with a square fight and a
clear issue. The manoeuvring and the subterfuge,
the feints and pretences, will then be of no avail to
disguise defeat, or avert results. It is just possible
that the contest may be so evenly maintained that the
relative position of the combatants may not be ma-
terially affected, when the final issue will be delayed
till the beginning of November. But we believe

this to be a highly improbable contingency, as
American political contests at the polls are apt to
be decisive, and the chances are that Tuesday will
settle the question, who is to rule for the next four

years in the United States.
Indiana, strange to say, is claimed with con-
fidence by the Democrats. That Ohio should be
is not surprising, but that party seem to calculate
with most confidence on Indiana. Pennsylvania is

by both admitted to be the Key State. Even the
Tribune last Saturday week, in enumerating the Elec-
toral votes which are certain to be thrown for GRANT
and COLFAX, does not include Pennsylvania, though
it does Indiana and Ohio. It certainly states that all
its advices leave no moral doubt of the 26 Elec-
toral Votes of that State being given to GRANT and
COLFAX by a popular majority of not less than
20,000, and, it adds, that the verdict will be known
on the 13th October. We see no reason to change
the opinion we last week expressed, as the position
has not changed in any material way, unless the
popular feeling in the North be excited by the in-
telligence from Camilla, Georgia, of which the Re-
publican papers naturally make the most. It is not
easy to gauge the true measure of anger and alarm at
this news, nor v.iil it really be fully known till the
vote is cast. The indignant howl of the Republican
papers may partly express a genuine feeling of the
writers, and partly be feigned to create that feeling
in the States about to vote. But it cannot be
doubted that a dread did prevail before the extreme
action of the Democrats in Georgia was known, and
it is reasonable to suppose that it has been greatly
intensified thereby. It is probable that Pennsyl-
vania has been chiefly affected, and it is known that
Philadelphia, not many weeks ago, would have
given a Democratic majority, while now the City
at least is regarded by the Republicans as cer-
tainly theirs. Weighing the tone, the facts,
and the arguments of the Radical press against
those of their opponents, our own opinion is
that GRANT and COLFAX will be elected almost
to a certainty, and that the next Federal Legisla-
ture will be Republican only in a lesser degree
than the present. The signs are too numerous and
marked to be mistaken. The seeds of dissension
have shown themselves perniciously in the Demo-
cratic ranks, while the Republicans, if we may ex-
cept such cases as the opposition of Massachusetts
to General BUTLER, are united on the main issues,
and still more so on their candidates. Again and

again objection is raised to Governor SEYMOUR by
those committed to his support, as well as to
General FRANK BLAIR, while the former does not
even pull with the latter, and one of the gravest ob-
jections to SEYMOUR himself is that he was the main
supporter of another candidate who stood on a
platform wholly opposed to that of the Democratic
party. In itself, this is a pretty kettle of fish,
which our readers will readily believe has not the
elements of cohesion, when it begins to boil. The
essential difference between the tickets is that the
Radicals in face of depression and gloom would
have rallied with a dogged obstinacy around
their standard-bearers, whit the Democrats
under the same circumstances appear inclined
to turn upon their men and ask why are
they in the post of honour. GRANT derives
strength from his place in the national mind,
which the campaign and his own want of magne-
tism have only tended more clearly to display. His
personal character, his fame as a, General, and his
honour as a man have been bitterly assailed, and the
result has been to make every American know the
truth of what before they had felt assured that he
is among the few Generals of the century, possess-
ing some of the highest qualities with which men
can be gifted. Had it not been so, GRANT and his
fame would have vanished like a balloon ; for the
tests by which a candidate for the Presidency is
tried demolish pretensions and mere display, if
they do not even deprive the individual of the re-
putation for many sterling qualities he really pos-
sesses. It is amusing to see GRANT written of as
a" mere successful General," as if it did not take
the best man of the nation to make a great, success-
ful General, the post by far the most difficult known
to the world. The Northerners are a reasoning
people, and they believe in the honesty, good sense,
moderation, and ability of the Republican nominee.
They hold the nation to be indebted to his military
genius, and although as regards certain qualiti
they could not have selected in the Union a man le
calculated to arouse enthusiasm, he is in truth a tower
of strength to the Republican party. The masses
think that his election will have a quieting influ-
ence on the South. Personally, the Southerners
do not object to him ; on the contrary, they admire
and rather like him. There is a secret feeling
abroad, too, among the Democrats, that GRANT'S
proclivities are more Democratic than Republican,
and no President will ever have taken possession of
the White House less committed to opinions than
the great Northern General. SEYMOUR'S political
antecedents, on the contrary, form a source of
weakness to his party ; and although he is highly
popular in New York, the Western farmer is for
the most part a hard-headed animal, who will argue
the question out in his own mind, and obstinately
vote according to his conclusions. Doubtless some
will be affectedby the desire to shake off burdens by
raying the nationaldebt in greenbacks, and by their
aversion to negroes. But these are too shrewd men
not to know that the first savours of dishonesty,
and the second of an unworthy prejudice. State
rights they are conscious can be maintained even if
threatened in any State except those which had
openly rebelled. On the whole, there is reason for
concluding that the Republicans will eventually win
by an overwhelming majority, although the struggle
may be hard on Tuesday. If Pennsylvania, as we
have all along said, votes the Republican ticket, the
cause of the Democrats is next to hopeless ; but if
it votes the Democratic ticket, Pennsylvania must
be strongly backed by Ohio materially to damage
GRANT'S chance, and even then a square fight would
follow. But should the three States combine on
the Democratic side, our readers will know that we
are all abroad, that the Republican sources of in-
formation are unreliable, and that SEYMOUR and
BLAIR are the men.

A telegram from Bremen states that the postal
department of the North Confederation has concluded with
the North German Lloyd's a treaty establishing the sys-
tem of post-office orders between the North Confederation
and the United States of America, through the North
German Lloyd's.
It was officially declared at Paris last Sunday
that the French financial agents have been instructed to
favour the circulation of Pontifical coinage, as the Pon-
tifical Government will immediately join the monetary
union.

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