The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-10
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.


The n .nocrats everywhere are very confident
of vic,ary in the pending Presidential canvass.
Their eXultation may be premature, but it is sim
cere. They evidently believe they are going to
win. And they base their expectations of success
mainly, If not entirely, on the dissensions which
|preYsiI IN the Union ranks. They point to the
fact that whole classes of professed Union men
feel under no obligation to support the Union
ticket.
One denounces Mr.. Lincoln because he did not
abolish slavery soon enough--anothor because
he assumed 20 touch il az all. One refuses 70
vote for him because he keeps Mr.. Blair in the
Csbinet-anOther because he keeps somebody or
any body che. Fremont runs against him lcause
he disregafGs the Constitution aud Wendell
Phillips speuks against him because he recOg-
nizes that instrument at all. Some censure his
leniebt method of treating the people Of the
Souihtrn StaIes-others his barbArOus and
inhuman mode OF carrying on the war.
One set OF politicians Yitiy him for not admit
ting the Southern States at once into tho Union,
and WADE and Davis, with equal malgnity,
brand him as usurper for proposing 70 adj
NIT them at all. Every unsucce. sful ap-
whose counseis have been reiected,-
every wiseacre who fancles he was Gre
ated to conduct the Government, and who
dDds Mr.. Lincoln indisposed 10 accent his
dlctation,-the whole Of that countess brood
OF political seers who knew from the beginning
how "tbts thing was coming out aud who found
the PTesident incredibly aud idioticllly deaf 10
their warnings and their thrcats,--are all now
combined to Yindicate their pTescience aud crafty
their Teeentments by voting against him. And
upon this concurrence of disappointed and uu-
deTrated malignants, the Democrats base their
hopes of party success.
II may be that they are right. Possibly such a
! combination Of selhshness and reckless passion
may override the settled judgment and patriot
ism OF the people. IL would not be the first time
in the history of Republics that private passion
has proved too strong for devotion TO the public
good. Il Is by no means impossible that the
people OF this country may be betrayed by these
base and selfish intrigues into putting power into
hands which will use IL for the division and de-
struclion Of the country.
We wish now merely 10 remind those who
profess 10 be Union men that, If this catastrophe
should happen, they alone tciH be responsible for
the result. II will be due wholly and exclusively
20 their dlssensons; 20 their paltry, personal
chickering's, 20 their miserable, petty iealousie8;
to their intolerance of difference on minor points
and to the determination, cherished by many
among them, TO secure for their own personal
views predominanco in the public councils, at
whatever sacrifice of the public good. If they
aspirations, they maypossibly, by combination
OF their forces point 10 she ruin Of their country
as the monument of their victory.
The Democrats are quite right, In view OF this
state OF things, TO eXult In the prospect of an
easy triumph. They have good ground, In these
ditseus usiors among the Union men, for exulting
over their coming defeat. They do well, more
over, TO take time by the foreIock in these ex-
uitauons and 20 boast Of victories which they
expect 90 win for IL is possible that they may not
win them after ALL
II Is not wholly impossible that before the cleo
llon comes ronnd, Union men may see the folly
u S"D'eeins themselves 70 the Tale Of Q common