The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-27

TIE NovINBIR ELECTIONS As for any effect
to be wrought on the great work of emsncips-
ton BY any result of the Northern elections, we
may dismiss it from our thoughts. The present
Democratic victories 10 New York and else
where are just what might have been expected.
If the Republican party had been much more
worthy of power than it has shown ITSELF the
result of these elections would not have been
very different from what it is. It 10 impossible
that nation so heterogeneous, and, at the same
time, so closely implicated in great national
Gin and political anomaly, can become wise and
virtuous through one paroxysm of feeling Not
only this, but the whole Northern people did
not pass through that psroxysm. II it is not
true that Mr.. Lincoln was elected by minority
of even the North, it always was certain that
the virtuous policy represented by the election
was intelligently protested by q small proper
ton of society. 1t was always certain that amid
"the great uprising" of 1861 there was large
majority by no means prepared to assent to the
necessary conditions of ultimate Northern sue
cess.
There was considerable proportion which
fought "for EMPIRE" as Lord Russell wrongly de-
clared of the whole: some fought from pride
riding, by means of "the Constitution as it is"
the genuine Republicans of the North and the
insolent DULLES of the South. All these and the
better citizens, and the mere mercenaries,
marched under one flag; and the craft of the
one sort and the national pride of another, and
the sanguine faith of third, combined to keep
up the appearance Of unity az long as possible.
The time could not but come when the falseness
of the appearance must become evident; and ii
not sooner, the time must be when the elections
would bring the citizens to the test. The rup-
ture of the Democratic party in 1859 gave the
Free Soil party the victory. 1t was inevitable
that on the first opportunity all its antagonists
would unite to recover power, and stop the
process of dealing with the main cause Of the
civil war.
We see, accordingly, the lawlessness of New
York, it's official corruption, its municipal in
its slsve-trading interest. its immi-
grant ignorance and jealousy, uniting with its
Southern commercial interests to put down the
patriotic reformers who have at length made
clear to the nation the true road to the recovery
of Republican liberty. Partially, and temper
sriy, the coalition of illicit interests has sue
ceeded; but it is not true that the national spirit
and intelligence have therefore declined, or
that the rule of Republican principles is coming
to an end. On the contrary, the growth and
spread of Anti Slavery views and feelings are at
present rapid beyond all precedent. The pres
ent elections conclude nothing; they only indi-
cate certain facts, which may or may not affect
the choice of the next Federal Executive.
As it is plain on the spot that such change of
mind as there is in favor of Republican doc
trine and principle, while the Democratic ma
jorities consist only of the old elements 10 q
state of malignant activity, and it may be fairly
anticipated that the way to wise decision will
remain open till the effect of an Anti>Slavery
policy is ascertained. That policy cannot be
retrsced; neither can it stop halfway. If fer
the next two years it falsi6es all the fore
bodings of it's enemies. the Republic is safe
Not to despair of the Republic Is now small
merit. The wisest and best of the citizens are
those who perceive that it has made, and ia ma
king, rapid progress toward regeneration, and
that the concentration of the energies of iss
enemies is one of the evidences of its advance.
Time is what the youLg virtue of the Free
States needs tits making the most Of its time;
and the next change Of. Federal Government
will show (if events do not prove it sooner) whe.
ther the American nation will fulfill or disap-
peint the expectations Of the world.-London
Daily News, Dec 4.
PRosPEcrs ABOUT NASHVILLE Nashville is less
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