, 1864-11-18
Nobody Hurt.

to a second term in the White House. The
dispatches of the 9th-the day after elec-
tion-give all the States to Lincoln, with |
the exception of New Jersey and Kentucky |
which are reported to have gone for Nc
Clellan. Notwithstanding the widespread
roorback that there was an armed consplra-
cy organized under the auspices of the Dem
ocratic party, for the purpose of destroying
by fire the large cities In the northern
States on the day of election, subsequent
news gives no intimation that anything OF
that nature had occurred. The suppositOn
is that the story had no foundation in fact,
and that it was manufactured for the ocea-
sion as an electioneering dodge-conceived
in the fertile brain of some industrious shod
dy Lacquer, to help re-elect Mr.. Lincoln
and thereby promote the "Union cause
The "Unionists" appear to act upon the
principle that Everything is fair in wa"
and any story that is likely to serve imme-
diate purposes, however false, is resorted to
as a dernier resort One would think that
these conspiracy" faDrications ought to be
discredited, when it is considered that they
have been all the rage for so long time
and none of them have proved to have had
any foundation whatever; but any cock and
bull story that is started, especially if it has
the bugaboo prefix of "COpperhead" at
tached to it, finds its believers with timid
and unrefecting people. The stale an
nouncement that ga copperhead conspiracy"
has Just come to light, sets thousands of
perplexed, fearing "oppositioners" to trem-
bling and shaking as if suffering from an
ague attack We know of some individu-
ais who have brooded over some expected
"copperhead outbreak" until they are wasted
away, bodily, to mere skeletons. Their fa-
ces wear an expression of gloom and fear
full apprehension, and their "pale cast OF
thought, sicklied Ger" with dreaded fore
bodings, finds expression in melancholy
gibbering that falls upon the ear like the
doleful sound of funeral dirge. Away
with your "Copperhead" nonsense ye lank
and hungry evil expectants and fear-berld-
den mortals there are no such things as
"Copperhead conspiracies" The Copper
head party is itself "myth," judging from
the election returns. To be sure the OBJ
seure city of New York rolled up its thirty
soven thousand majority for Mcclellan, hut
that City supports a number of newspapers
of Democratic proclivities, and the public
mind there has thereby, probably, become
"poisoned" by coming in contact with more
or less unaduterated truth; yet most other
localities have had an abundance Of Union
papers to the exclusion of the pernieious
Democratic prints, and the election results
show what mighty influence the public
press wields over the minds of men.
It is possible that the returns, when all
in, will decrease the reported large Repub-
lican majorities, but the result will not
be changed. Mr. Lincoln will occupy the
Presidential seat for another four years
term. We judge what his future course
will be by the past. By that light it will
be another term of War, of increased debt
and taxation, of public plunder and start
ling usurpation, of public mourning and ma
tional calamities, of confscation, aud subju-
cation or determination, of abolition and
renewed exertions to equalize the black and
white races. "Coming events cast their
shadows before, and already is seen in the
dim future, the policy we have named that
will mark the future course of the incoming
Administration If we are to get any of
that much talked of, much sung of, "Free-
dom" so eloquently and vividly portrayed
by all jealous 'Unionists, it will be welcomed
all the more graciously, because it will fall
upon US unexpectedly. We hope to retain
"freedom of speech" and "freedom of the
press" together with what other freedom
we have enjoyed, and if the future Admin
istration will award us any freedom addi-
tional to that, we certainly ought to be con-
tent But to acquire additional freedom we
shall not be so fanatically frantic as to be
willing to throw away that which we already
have We shall not be particular about
the manner in which the Administration
may choose to deal with the South or the
means it shall use toward the secessionists,
to punish them into submission; but while
it is operating against the secession mon
ster we may be permitted to hope that there
can, in no possible contingency, be 'neces-
sity' for striking down the freedom of
the citizens at the North. If our COnstitu-
tonal rights in the free States and Terri
tories shall remain unimpaired during the
next four years, we shall conclude that the
loyal people get off remarkably cheap, and
in the words that head this article, Democ-