The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-07
The Elections.

In the New York Herald Of the 21st instant,
I've find the following under the editorial head:
l AS the election returns come to hand the
overthrow of the Republican party at the polls
appears to be more overwhelming. It is, in
hct, the greatest political revolution that ever
tpok place in the country, not excepting even
that in Jackson's time, and at the election Of
Harrison. In Pennsylvania the State ticket is
carried by the, ,Deihocracy, and the, popular
\ branch of the State Legislature to such an ex-
tent as to secure majority on joint ballot, so
that the defeat of Wilmot for another term
in the United States Senate is foregone con-
clusion. To squcch the author of the freesoil
proyiso, which has had so much to do with the
calamities of the nation, is blow struck in the
right place-a retribution which harmonizes
with the fitness of things. Grow is. also fortu-
hately numbered with the defunct Thaddeus
Stevens would have also shared the same fate,
had not Mr.. Buchanan and the sympathizers
with secession appeared as his prominent oppo-
nents. The revolution in Ohio is still more
extraordinary. The Democratic majority in
that State is eighteen thousand-being gain
of fifty thousand. Among the defeated is
Bingham; and the notorious Wade has not the
ghost of chance of reelection to the United
States Senate-anothcr just retribution, over
(which the friends of law and order and of con-
stitutional rights will rejoice everywhere
throuhout the land. In Indiana the Demo
Gratis elected the State ticket and majority of
both houses of the Legislature, which will give
Democratic Senator for the vacancy caused
| by the expulsion of Bright. It is only in Iowa
that the Republicans have held their ground.
because, from the distance of that State, politi-
cal 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 indicated still more
clearly in November, when the elections in
New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Massachusetts will
take place.-There can be little doubt tha. at
least New York, New Jersey and Illinois will
follow the example of Pennsylvania. Ohio and
Indiana; and we would not be surprised to see
even old Massachusetts, reject Andrew for Gov
ernor, and elect such State Legislature as will
send Sumner to the tomb of Capulets. 1t is
beyond question that the next Congress will
be Democratic, and that there will be clear
conservative majority against the Republican
party. Is it not time FOR Mr.. Secretary Stanton
to be moving again in the work of arresting
heretical Democrats? He must begin this
work at orce, and not confne it to such intract-
ables as Horatio Seymour and Fernando Wood
but shut up in Fort Lafayette three hundred
and fifty thousand Democrats, or they will
seize the State of New York in November.
The PREss.-The Richmond Euquirir
speaking Of the common notion that everybody
has right to publish what he pleases, at the
publishers expense and not his own, says, very
forcibly:
The press is only free to it's editors, and to
those whom its editors believe to- have good
ground for addressing the public, and some
thing to say which the public has an interest
in hearing. We would recommend those who
labor under this mistake to consider the follow
ing fact: that newspapers are made for the
large class who read, and not for. the small
class who want to write. The idea that when
man subscribes for a newspaper, he lays its
proprietor under some obligation, or that he
has right to publish his communications
therein with the single proviso that they shall
be ,unoffensive, is popular fancy and most