Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-11-08
THE POPULAR REVOLUTION AT
THE POLLS...W HAT ARE THE
CAUSES THEREOF

ton that ever took place in the country,
not excepting even that 10 Jacksons
time and at the election Of Harrison. In
Pennsylvanian the State tickle, is carried
BY the Democracy, and the populsr branch
Of the State Legislature, to such an extent
as to secure a ma ority on joint ballot, SO
that the defeat of Wilmot for another
term in the United States Senate is a
foregone conclusion. To squelch the au-
thor Of the free soil proviso, which has
had so much to do with the calamities of
the nation, is blow struck in the right
place-a retributiou which harmon
with the fitness Of things. Grow is also
fortunately Numbered with the deflnct.-
Thaddeus Stephens would have shared
the same fate had not Mr. Buchanan and
the sympa,hizers with secession appeared
as his prominent opponents. The revo.
luton in Ohio is still more extraordinary.
The Dem 1cra:ic majority in that State is
18,00O-beiug a gain Of 10000. Among
the defeated is Bingham, and the noto-
rious Wade has not the ghost Of chance
of re election to the United States Sen
a.e-auother just retribution, ever which
the friends Of law ard order and Of cor
sti'utional rights will rejoice everywhere
throughout the land. In Indiana the
Democrats elected the State ticket and u
majority Of both houses Of the Legislature,
which will give a Democratic Senator for
the vacancy ceaused by the expulsion of
Bright 1t is only in Iowa that the Re
publicans have held their ground, because,
from the distance of that State, political
light reaches it more slowly, and because
its frontier is more distant from the seat
Of war
The strength, volume and rapidity of
the popular current will be Judi Gated still
more clearly in November, when the elsc-
lions in New York, New Jersey, illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Mas.
sachusetts will take place. There can be
little doubt that at least New York, New
Jersey aud Illinois will follow the example
Of Pennsylvania. Ohio and Indiana; and
we would not be surprised TO see even
old Massachusetts, reject Andrew for Go.
ernor, and eject such a State Legislature
as will send Samner to the tomb of the
Capn'e;s. 1t is be5oad question tina,
The next Congress will be Democratic. and
that there will be clear conservative u a.
J.
Now, what are the causes Of this won
derful revolution? There had been little
or no canvass; the press and free speech
had been under rigid restriction or censor
ship. The influence Of money and con-
tracts was ell on the Republican side
Yet the people voted on the opposite side,
and that Of their own accord, and without,
persuasion or inducement Of any kind -
Why have they done so7 Because the
Republican party, which ousted Democra
cy from power on the ground Of its cor
ruption, has proved itself ten times more
corrupt, while at the same it's tyranny and
utter incapacity for rule have brought the
nation to the verge OF ruin. The venali,y,
Ignorance and despp,ism Of Congress, VIC.
lating by it's acts the clearest provisions
cy Of the War, the Navy and Treasury
Departments, have filled the people with
intense disgust, aud alarmed them for the
safety of the republic.
And those revelations have been made
by the Republicans themselves, one Sc, of
them laying bare the iniqui,es of another
set. Witness the reports of the nves,i-
eating committees, in which the frauds
and extravaganza at St. Louis, under the
auspices of Fremont, we're exposed, the
shoddy and shoe contracts; the delnquen.
ces OF Senator Simmons Of Rhode Island
the course Of Secretary WelIes in giving
a two and half per cent job to his broth
er III law, amounting to some 800, 900.
for doing what could be executed equally
we'll without charge by some officer of the
navy; the failure Of The Navy Department
to cooperate with General Mcclellan in
his advance on Richmond; the misman.
agement and blunders OF the War Depart.
ment IN causing premature movement
of the army of the West before the ad.
vance Of the army of the East; dividing
the Army of the Potomac, and afterwards
failing to effect junction of the di>join,ed
corps at the critical moment; refusing to
send reinforcements to General Mcclellan:
the appointment to important commands
Of such incompetent generals as Fremont,
Hunter and Phelps; the neglect to pro.
vide the army with clothes, shoes and
tents, and surgical attendance for the
wounded and medical care and other ne.
cessares for the sict-ali Of which has
been duly communicated by the soldiers
letters to their friends at home, producing
q most decided effect Add to these caus
es Of the popular revolution the suspension
of habeas corpus in the loyal States; the
summary arrests and arbitrary imprison.
ments without trial the programme Of
universal emancipation and servlIe insur.
rec,ion in the South, and the extermina-
ton of the whole people; the apprehen
sion of the Northern States being overrun
with the negroes of the South the aboli
tlonzing Of the Republican party, and its
rapid development as party of blood;
lastly the breaking down of the financial
sehemes OF Secretary Chase, partly thro
a want of practical acquaintance with
such business, and partly through wilful
disregard OF measures which would have
prevented disastrous arrangement of tn,
currency, amounting to depreciation of
thirty per cent and 10 person need won.
der at.what has happened a. The polls
indeed, the wonder might well DO if the
result were different.
For the honor Of the country and for
our hopes Of its future, all who value free
institutions will hail with JOY this great
OF the people 1t viii enable