The New York herald., 1862-12-28

Inoludng soldiers vote.
Thus it appears that m aggregate republican
majority, exceeding quarter Of q million of
votes in 1860 In tho States indicated, was com
plstely wiped out In the elections Of last Osto-
Der and November. And yet, in the face Of
these actual returns Of positive results, the
republican journals, in various ways, have been
consoling themselves with arithmetical expla-
nations which exhibit . hopeful improvement
upon the republican State msjoYities Of 1860,
State by State.
Thus, the chief organ in this city Of the mig
ger-worshippers, by voluminous statistics
largely made up from speculative estimates,
has repeatedly endeavored TO show that there
has been anything but . popular reaction
throughout the North against the party in
power at Washington. True, . very conclusive
exhibit Is thus made ont in favor Of the repub-
lcans; but the deception Is too shallow to de-
csive intelligent men. For instance, taking the
returns In these late elections Of the vote Of the
soldiers in the Union army from two or three
Of the Western States, and the vote cast last
year by portion Of the soldiers from Pennsyl-
vania, and applying the general average, rspub-
licans and democrats, to all the loyal States, an
overwhelming aggregate republican majority
appears. But conjectural majorities made up
from such loose and struggling data are of little
value, and are ha11ly entitled to an elaborate
refutation.
But there is another popularity in these cal.
culations Of our nigger-worshippng contempo-
rary which il entitled to a more particular no
tice than III conjectural vote Of the army. We
allude to its ingenious dodge Of counting in the
elections Of last spring and summer with those
Of last October and November, in order to show
that instead Of political revolution In the
elections Of 1862 we have had in them steady
increase upon the republican majorities Of 1860.
molish this fallacious idea.
The Northern State elections Of last spring
and summer have had nothing to do with this
political revolution of last autumn. II was
brought about by the rspulse of Gen. Mcclellan
from the very gates Of Richmond last July, by
the disastrous retreat Of Gen. Pope to the forti-
neations Of Warrington last August and Sep
tsmber, and by the first positive pressure upon
the people Of war taxes, war prices and de-
prsciated paper currency, resulting from ex-
hausting war expenditures, and by the war
draft, and by the arbitrary arrests Of the War
Department, and BY the radical abolition mea-
sures Of the last session Of Congress, and by
the stupendous corruptions connected with war
jobs and army and navy contracts; but, above
ell, by prevailing conviction In the public
mind Of the North that under the present dis-
cordant and dineompetent Cabinet the war would
not be ended during the present administration.
From al those causes the Northern popular
reaction Of our fall elections against the party
in power at Washington was developed, begin
ming with the disheartsning disaster Of last
July and August to the Union army in vir-
ginia The first symptoms Of this popular re-
action appeared in the Maine election Of Sep
tember but what We may properly call the
Northern political revolution Of 1852 was not
broadly made manifest until the October elec-
tions Of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana In
these elections the results were sufficiently
broad to indicate that even New York would
70 by the board In November We must, there
fore, hold our igger.worshipping organs to the
record. We must tell them that IL will not do
70 10 behind The record and the facts to make
MP plausible story that the great political
Northern reaction Of 1862 broke out in Octo-
Der that il is still going on, and that the New
England State elections Of the spring OF 1868
| will show that 1t is not temporprS nalitinal