Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-17
The Election Results.

The Election Results.
The results of the present week promise
brighter days for the government and the
country. 1t is scarcely a year since deep and
impeuetrable shadows hung over both. There
was INDIGESTION in council, and disaster in the
field. The army, large enough would seem
to achieve desirable results, was scattered
over vast eXtant of country under expert
mental officers, who held various and
conflicting views of the rebellion, and of the
manner in which it should be fought, Fail
ure, repeated and next to overwhelming, fol-
lowed the incompetency of some generals and
the INSTRUMENTATION of others. Everywhere
there was doubt and anxiety,-not as to the
ultimate result, for faith in the triumph of the
right cause sometime in ''the eternal years OF
God" is imperishable-but as to the immcd-
ate future and the fearful magnitude of the
sacrifices it threatened to require.
1t was the dark interval of reaction against
hopes raised too high, against enthusiasm
which human nature was ot strong enough to
maintain. The administration seemed to share
in the general proStration, and lost the allcgi-
ance that was Justly its due. Some of the
great middle and western states turned against
it, and others hung in so even a balance
as to render worthless the qualified sup
port they rendered. But even at this time
the opponents of the government, whose cum
ming had not begun to desert them, made their
cause disgracefu by magnifying the acknowl
edge failures OF the government, and by per-
suading credulous people that their success
would in some inscrutable manner change the
fortunes of war. They knew too well that
while the people were VIGOROUSLY dissatisfied
with the way in which the war had been car
ried on, they were still resolute and unchange-
able in the conviction that it should be prose-
cuted to the bitter end. So with falsehoOd on
their lips and treachery in their hearts they
pretended to superior and more earnest patri-
otism and won the stake for which they
played.
The new year speedily reversed the condi-
ton of things. The administration lad
strengthened itself by the removal of officers
who had proved untrustworthy for great cam
paigns; and, by the introduction of new
army fresh from the people, which was divd-
ed and dispatched to every point of activity
where reinforcements could be Of service. 1t
had established itself again in the hearts of
the masses, and in the respect and CON
fdence of the enlightened world by with
drawing its implied protection from the sys-
tenn OF slavery, on the political and CONNER
cial power of which the rebellion relied for its
support. Then, too, began those important
military and naval combinations which re-
suited in the recovery OF the Mississippi river
to the uninn- and in narrowing the theater of
rebellion from the eleven states ever winch it
had assumed control, TO the five states in which
it is now struggling on the brink of certain
DEATH
On the other hand, proving again the mad
ness OF those whom it has been predesuned
to destroy, the opposition in the loyal states
threw off the mask they had assumed for a
false purpose, and took issue with the govern
ment, not because it had been dilatory and
unsuccessful, but because it had adopted new
measures OF war that meant death both to the
rebellion and to the pestilent political system
on which its life aud hope depended. If the
copperhead conspirators, who had secured
control of the democratic organization had
among them any man who had become con-
spicuous for his hostility to the government
and his friendship for its enemies, they flung
the afiront into the face of an outraged coun
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disloyal leadership. They did not get it. The
voters who adhered to them while they wore
the mask of simulated patriotism, melted away
like the frost of September morning, when
their treacherous leaders discarded pretence.
The result is in many ways significant and
encouraging. 1t secures sanity and vigor in
the administration of the states thus restored
to loyal faith and allegiance with the rest. 1t
furnishes an example of irresistible potency to
states whose elections are yet to be held. 1t
is pledge to the government of the ire
versible determination of the people to have
the war carried to a successful issue, what
ever impediments 90 down in the struggle.
The administration now stands firm and
strOng, anu sure. Slnce the fabulous EZRA OF
good feeling" no administration in the third
year of its power, when all restless and fe-
yerish elements were beginning to conspre
for the succession, was ever sustained by such
confident and unwavering trust. 1t cannot
now lose the prestige it has won but by its
own fault
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