The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

The elections last Tuesday proved, as we antici-
pated, decisive. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana,
which, with Nebraska, form a Northern tier of
States, running almost from the Atlantic westward
to the Rocky Mountains, rang out on that day no
uncertain sound, and with the night, closed SEY-
MOUR'S last hopes of success. Of the 24 members
of Congress elected in Pennsylvania, 18 are Re-
publicans ; of the 19 from Ohio, 13 are Republi-
cans ; of the Indiana 11, 8 are Republicans ; while
Nebraska has done for that party all she can, elect-
ing from it her Governor, and her single mem-
ber in the Federal House of Representatives.
Governors were elected in Indiana and Nebraska,
but not in Pennsylvania and Ohio, for GEARY was
chosen in 1866 Governor for three years in the for-
mer, and HAYES last autumn for two years in the
latter, and both therefore have another year of office.
The Auditor and Surveyor-General were elected in
Pennsylvania, and Senator BUCKALEW will be re-
placed by a Republican, as well as Senator HEN-
DRICKS, of Ohio. In Pennsylvania the reported
majority—the returns being still incomplete—
was 10,000, and in Ohio one telegram announces it
to be 20,000, and another 30,000. The first ma-
jority reported from ludi tna was 8,000 in favour
of the Republican candidate for Governor, Mr.
BAKER ; but a later return reduced that to 2,000,
a very probable result, as Indiana is bounded by
Kentucky, and it was said that the Southern dis-
tricts would be inundated by Democrats from that
State. The Democrats have elected 'l'. H. HoAG
' for the Tenth Ohio District to Congress, defeating
the present Republican Representative of Impeach-
ment notoriety, J. M. ASHLEY. General SCHENCK
has secured his re-election against C. L. VAL-
LANDIGIIAM for the Third District of Ohio,
and Judge BINGIIAM for the Sixteenth District.
It is acknowledged in the United States that
GRANT will, to use an American term, run a long
way ahead of the State ticket, which means that he
will command votes in thousands withhell from the
Republican candidates for State appointments, and
even many cast for Democratic candidates under the
influence of personal and local feelings. The Eng-
lish do not distinctly separate in their minds the
State and the Presidential Elections. Throughout,
the Republicans have calculated with confidence on
some States voting their Presidential ticket, wlio
might defeat their State tickets, as they regarded
the Presidential ticket as far stronger than any
State ticket could be, GRANT being the most fa-
mous, and COLFAX among the most popular of their
public men. These majorities, then, the Republi-
cans expect to be doubled or even trebled in the
Presidential Election next month. The elections
have therefore lost all the interest of uncertainty,
the remaining excitement being wholly centred in
the comparative strength of the present and the
coming Republican majorities in Congress, as well
as in the Legislatures and Executives of the different
States. But beyond all question the fast is con-
ceded that the Republicans are to rule in "Wash-
ington, in the White House, in the Senate,
and in the Representatives. The importance
of the decision is but little understood in Europe.
General GRANT'S election now so assured that no
man could change it except himself is decisive of
many events. It secures for the United States a
strong, undivided, and permanent Government.
We say permanent, because GRANT, now in the full
vigour of his physical and mental faculties, but
commences in all probability a long reign, which the
people every four years will be asked to continue
or to change ;—undivided, for he is in accord with
Congress, therefore there can be no duel between
the Executive and Legislature—strong, because
permanent and undivided. The effect will be to
soothe down the South, as weakness and uncer-
tainty evoke lawlessness and opposition. Even
Tuesday's decision will have a tranquillizing influ-
ence, for these distracted States will know that the
reconstruction policy of Congress must be carried
out, and their leaders are not disposed to resist
fate. Few will dispute the assertion, that it is
better with vigour and honesty to reconstruct these
States even on a bad principle than to let them drift
into anarchy, servile war, and chaos, on no principle
at all. Once settled, beyond cavil the Southerner
will turn from politics to agriculture, trade, and
labour. Money will be forthcoming in his aid, and
the South will rapidly resume its productive place in
the world. The next point in importance is the re-
form now certain in the Civil Service, for it includes
not only the honest levy of the national imposts, but
the annihilation of such gigantic systems of fraud
as the whisky ring. We have so often discussed
this subject that we need not here pursue it further
—but touch on a topic intimately connected with
it and of general interest to Europe. It has been
again and again repeated that the Chicago plat-
form, when properly interpreted, means repudia-
tion, but if we desired to bring forward an instance
of the impossibility of so framing a resolution that
it could not be asserted to mean the exact reverse
of what its authors intended, -we would select this.
Not many months ago we took some pains to explain
how the article came to be worded " not only ac-
cording to the letter but the spirit." It arose from
the anxious desire of some of the delegates to place
beyond question their intention, which appears im-
possible to do, although every man who supports
GRANT clearly knows the platform upon which his
candidate stands. Not only then is GRANT pledged to
a Civil Service Reform, emphatically the platform he
has distinctly laid down—for people must not:"orget
that a trusted friend announced the objects GRANT
would endeavour to accomplish if elected a people's
President, and not that of a party—but through
the Chicago Convention, he is pledged to an honest
discharge of all national obligations. The one fol-
lows directly on the other, for the reform is but the
first step in a policy which will enable the United
States to bear with ease its financial burdens, and
with that ease will disappear the desire to evade
any partion of the national obligations. Thus the
execution of his own intention will best enable him
to carry out the Republican policy of good faith.
Broadly, GRANT'S election will be but the sequel to
the surrender at the Appottomax Court House. An
interval of years will have elapsed, chequered by
changes and misfortunes, but the nation will have
come round to the same position, with GRANT in
the front, demanding the fulfilment of the terms
the North fought to accomplish in the civil war.
Essentially that object was the maintenance of the
United States as a nation, and the election the
Republican candidate will be the emphatic de-
claration of the Northern people that they
intend to maintain the objects contended for
in the war, and uphold the sovereign power of the
Union, in contradistinction to the principle upon
which the South justified secession. Great as are
these considerations, there are others only of lesser
importance ; among them the individual characteris-
tics and aspirations of GRANT himself. As a tried
and famous soldier, like all who know war best, he
hates it most. One motto he has already engraved
on his shield, and earnestly is it to be hoped he
will emblazon it in letters on the walls of the room
wherein he sleeps that it may be the last words on
which his eyes rest, and the first which greet him
in the morning, " Let us have Peace."

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