New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-28
THE ELECTrON-ITS BEARINGS
THE Union PARTY.

On Tuesday, Dec. 9th. the Electoral Colleges
will be organized at the capitals Of the several
States, prepared to cast. on the following day,
the votes which are 10 constitute AIILHAM
LINCOLN President and ANDREW JOHNSON Vice
President Of the United States for four years
from the 18th of March next. Tie formal count
ing Of the votes by Congress aud proclamation
Of the result Ivy Vice-president Hamlir will not
take place TIL the second week in February; but
the election will to all intents be con'ummated
on Wednesday Of next week, in accordance
with the popular verdict rendered at the polls
on tho sth inst. And thus opens new and
evcutlul chapter in the history of The Republic.
The party which has just Won 'be most de-
cisiye triumph ever achieved in q stubbonly
contested Presidential Election assumed the
name OF UyIoS in no proScriptye no intolcrant
spirit. II has never doubted that tho great
mass OF the American People Irrespective OF
party lines. desire the restoration and acknowl-
cdgmcnt OF the National authority throughout
the whole area Of the Republic. Those Ameri-
cans who opposed the yindication by arms of
the insultcd nag, the dcied authority of the
Nation did not mean thereby 10 indicate hos
tility to the Union. Even those Northern poll
ticians who grayely proposed that their respect
i've States should join the Southern Conicdcracy
are Unionists after their fashion. But the
Union party IS composed Of those American cit
liens, without regard to former differences, who
affirm and maintain tho de,irahity and the
duty of putting down by force all iorcible
resistance within the United Stats TO the Con.
siimtion and laws Of the land. lie who holds
this ground belongs properly tn the Union
party, and has rghtfully no place in any other.
Tic who holds that the Fedora. Government
ought to have exhausted "Gll thu resources of
siatesmanship' in pacific and pleading ovcrtureS
TO the Rebels after as well as beior. their lrcach-
erous capture OF our army in Texas and their
bombardmcnt OF Fort Sumter, belongs right.
fully to the Opposition.
The canvass between these opposing hosts
opened by the Chicago Convention and Plat
form was, though brief, the most thorough and
earnest that this country has lnown. The
teous in the numbers attending; they were gen.
orally distinguished by a sobrioty unusual on
such occasions, and the Election mat closed the
struggle was distinguished by gravity that
approached sOlemnity. And when the polls
closed at night on maiorites. generally large,
sometimes overwhelming, for the Union ticket
in twenty-One Of the twenty -four loyal States
leaving Tennessee aud Louisiana out of the
questionable verdict was the HDst conclusive
ever yet rendered by the American People. In.
contestably, the preponderance Of character, OF
intelligence, Of property was on the same
side with that of numbers snd Of votes.
The result being ascer.ained aid announced,
the acquicscence of the minority throughout the
loyal States was instant, perfect, and 1--WE doubt
mott sincere OF course, there arc secret traitors
in the loyal as there are open traitors in the re-
VOTED States; but We arc greatly deceived if
these can again attempt with any prospect OF
success, to control the action of the Democratic
party. The public condemnation Of their past
plottings is too decided, their ruinous influence
over the fortunes and prospects Of that party too
signal and manifest. The Democratic leaders
know perfectly, though the truth is still with.
held from the masses, that their unexpected and
terrible rout in Indiana and Illinois Is due, not
Ito illegal voting. MOI to suy thing else than o