Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-11-29
From the New York Times.
What the Result Of the Election
Means.


s ING positive Of the result But the
Sprogrcss Of the canvass has established
Rcertain facts which may as we'll be sta
Hted now as by-and- bye.
! The heaviest load which the friends
Eof the Government have been com
Epelled to carry through this canvass
{ has been the inactivity and ineficiency
Got the Administration. We speak from
Ga knowledge of public sentiment in ev-
sery section of the State, when we say
Ethat the failure Of ihe Government to
Sprosecute the war with the vigor, ener-
egy and success which the vast resour-
kces at its command warranted the coun-
stry in expecting at its hands. has weigh
Eed like an incubus upon the public
hheart. With every disposition to sus-
ktain the governmens-wilh the most
Eprotound conviction that the only hope
sof the country lies in giving it cordial
Hand effective support-;ts friends have
i been unable to give a satisfactory an
Kswer to the questions that have come
Eup from every side: Why has the war
hmade SO little proggcsa? Why have
Hour splendid armies achieved such
sslight successes? VIZ, have they lain
idle SO long, and why have the victo-
Hrles they have won been so utterly bar
Hren Of decisive results ? The war has
adragged on for year and half. The
ncountry has given the government over
Ha million OF men, and all the money
Hthey could possibly use; yet We have
Hmade scarcely any progress toward
ncrushng the rebellion. The rebel ar
Knes still menace the capital. Their
Nprivatecrs defy our navy, aud spread
Hincreasing terror among our peaceful
Htradcrs on the seas. What is the use
Got trying to sustain an Administration
Z (which lags far behind the country, and
SSeems SO indifferent and incompetent
e. the dreadful task committed to it's
ahands?
4 1t has been impossibIcto to lift the pub
zIio heart out Of the terrible deSponden-
acy which such reflections, fortified bv
athe inexorable logic Of facts, have
I brought upon it. The people of this
State are thoroughly loyal to the Union
] and the Constitution. They desire and
sdemand that this rebellion shall be
scrushed. They desire no half way
] ameasures-they will tolerate no base
sand degrading compromise-they will
anever consent to any peace which in
Evolves the disruption Of the Union and
Z the overthrow Of the C0ustitution.-
1 aThey demand a vigorous prosecution
aof the war; and the fact that they have
snot had it, and that they have seen no.,
! fair prospect of getting it, has bred in
athem = degree of encouragement and
! despair which has left them an easy
aprey to the dcmagosues who are al
lways ready to profit by the calamities
5of their country. If the government
ahad given them sictories-if it had
{ seven shown any just appreciation of
sthe need of victories, and had taken
sthe most ordinary means OF cxacting
gthem at the hands of it's Generals in
I the field, the people would have rallied
Gas one man to its support. They would
shaye spurncd with Indignation the base
attempts Of demagogues to sap their
5 faith i'll the Administration, and to al
sray them in hostility against it.
& What may be the effect Of .H this
atapon the popular vote remains to- be
aSeen. We trust it will not have been
= sufficient to withdraw the Empire State
3 from the support Of the goveGnnlent.-
. Ii it has brought about this calamitous
Hresult, the Government has itself main
Ely to blame. If not, the Government
& had a very narrow escape. In either
cease it will have received lesson from
s Which, We trust, it will not fail TO prof
BIT. The Wiscst men may be miSled by
asucceSS; but that Administration mus,
be weak indeed which fails to be in
ssstructed by adversely. President Lin
sscoln is represented to have said that he
{ Eshould be greatly discouraged in his
EattemptS to crush the rebellion, If New
& \ ork should vote against him. We
shope he has said nothing of the kind.
6 We hope still more strongly that he
Ewill yield to no such unworthy ami I'M
smanly impulse. While an adverse vote
may be received as rebuke, it can
sneyer relax the efforts Of ruler tit for
Ehis place to save his inperiIed country.
The vote in this State, IS in Pennsyl-
Evania and the west, indicates u pro-
Hfound dissatisfaction with the method
Got the Administration in carving on
.this war-and peremptory demand
ator the adoption Of one better adapted
Ito the awful emergencies of the case
sI'he President must not hesitate All
shour to respond TO this demand. What
.e1er may have been the results Of these
seIections, all the powers of the govern
Sment are still in his hands-aIl the fear
stuE responsibilities Of the crisis still vest
supon his shoulders. He must not suf-
ier them to depress his courage or en-
Hfeeble his energies he must the rath-
Ger meet them with fresh vigor and re-
sdoubled resolution. Let the popular
Sverdict just pronounced dispel whatev-
ser Of hesitation or OF timidity may have
Ehalnpered his movements. He must
Shave more Of lf-contidence-more of
sthat reliance upon his own strength and
Eresources which, though it might be
sreckless audacity i'll a private indlvidu-
Hal, is only a necessary and becoming
sconrage in the ruler of a mighty nation,
siu q great and terrible crisis of its fate.
s President Lincoln has now in has
fhands everything which he can posi-.
! bly, require for the completion Of the