The New York herald., 1863-10-05

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Fine Election I'm Georgia To-Day-Ths
Union Elements Of the South.
The rebellious States Of Georgia, Mississippi
and Florida hold their annual elections to-day.
In the two last named nothing but represen-
tatives to the rebel Congress and the ordinary
county officers are to be chosen; but in Geor-
gia, upon tho contest for the Governor, the
issue assumes some degree Of national import
ance.
The two candidates for the Office indicated
are Joseph e. Brown, the present incumbent
and Joshua HILL Brown is q notorious radical
secession fre-eater, Of the school of Yancey;
Hill is an old line Union whig or was to the last
hour in which he could avow such sentiments
without danger to his life or personal liberty.
II We are not mistaken he was among the two or
three members of the extreme South who still
continued to linger in the House Of Represen.
tatives at Washington in 1861, when the rest of
their colleagues from the seven original seced-
ing States had packed up and packed off to
Dixie, to serve in the cause Of JEFF. Davis and
his experimental Southern confederacy.
We anticipate the election of Hill. The fire.
eaters of the South, ever since our captures of
Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans and Norfolk,
have been losing ground in their. local elec-
tions. In August, 1862 Zebuon Vance, an old
line Union whig, was elected by large MAORI
ty Governor Of North Carolina, as conserve
tive candidate, against William Johnston, fire.
ofor hos VII hoa 6 l:.y.~A
was blazoned abroad in these words:-"An I'M
remitting prosecution of the war. The war to
the last extremity. Absolute independence.
Eternal separation from the North. No aban-
donment of Southern territory. No diminution
of Southern boundaries" This, throughout
the South, was, and is, the platform OF the ''last
ditch" Yancey, Toombs, Mason, Slidell aud JEFF.
Davis party. Vance and his party, as has SUBJ
sequently been abundantly proved, were, and
are, opposed to the war to the "last extremity"
not very particular about absolute indepen-
dence," and had very little faith In that extreme
ly absurd idea ofa Southern confederacy, bound
ed on the north by the Potomac river and the
Ohio and the northern line of Missouri.
The people of North Carolina elected Vance
their Governor last year, and now, with the
first inviting opportunity, they are ready, under
his leadership, to como back into the Union,
from which they were dragged off in 1861 by
fraud and by violence. Nor is this old Union
leaven of the seeded States now confined to
"the Old North State" In August last John
Gill Shorter, then Governor of Alabama, run.
ming for another term as q fre-eater Of the
exact pattern Of Johnston, of North Carolina,
was defeated by Thomas Fl. Watts, old line
Union whig; and similar result has lately oc-
CURED in Texas in the election of Pendleton
Murrah Governor over an intractable "last
| ditch" secession opponent
From all these suggestive facts we conclude
that the popular Southern reaction, first de-
veloped in North Carolina last year against the
secession destructives, has been spreading all
over the rebelous States, and that accord.
| ingly the conservative candidate. Hill, will
! be elected Governor Of Georgia to-day
| If not, il will De because of the dis
| turbing influences OF the great army OF
| Bragg The evidence we have produced is, at
all events, sufficient TO show that there is a
| powerful conservative party still existing in
the rebelious States which is opposed to fol
| lowing JEFF. Davis and bis ultras TO the 'las
extremity" What this great conservative par
ty wants, we think, was broadly and clearly
indicated in the late Kentucky election, in
which the people Of that State, by fifty thou
sand majority voted for the restoration Of the
Union, under the constitution, against the ex
treme war measures Of the abolition radicals
and the extreme peace projects of the copper
heads of the North, and against the imp ossibl'
absurdties of the reckless Southern confede
racy fre-eaters of the South.
Whatever, therefore, under extraneous inhu
ences, may be the result Of the Georgia eec
ticns to-day, the general drift of public opinion
throughout the South since last August yea
ago, has been sufficiently developed in the in
tervening elections in North Carolina, Ken
tucky, Alabama and Texas to indicate tn
true gnion saving policy for President Lipcolr
Let him make sure work Of captain Bragg,
and secure q decisive victory over the las
great army of the rebellion, which is now |
Georgia, and, with any degree OF encourage
ment TO return TO the ark Of the Union, tb
/ CoureTNuthe oouNutiu paiey' i'pi'c'h'ch ="
such men as Governor Vance, of North Care
lima, and Governor Watts, OF Alabama will
without mrsher bloodshed put an end to th
political career OF Jed Davis, (unless he sht
move of and set up his confedcracy in Mexico
an end to the war, and open tbe way 10
peaceable and satisfactory restoration OF ID
Union.
The leaders and managers OF the rcbellio
are intractable because they fear the cons
aucncrs OF their guilt; but the suffering peop
whom they haze betrayed. and who are not r
sponsible for The crimes of their masters, hav
, ceased to sympathizc with their hopeless caus
+ and, disgustej with JEFF. Davis cnd all b
d. works, are anxiously waiting their day OF d
j. livcrancc.