The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-14

can party. The World says:
The result of yesterdays election is
shcwc, even by the partial returns re-
ceived up to the hour of going to
press, to have been Republican VIC
tory. We have no desire to count
our wounds, nor to conceal them.
They are the witnesses of q manly
struggle, against odds. Nor would we
conceal their disastrous consequences
not SO much to the party, which
will outlive and outlast and bring to
the dust these victors of to-day, and
whose principles being true are i'm
perishable F.; but, in the defeat of the
Democratic party, President John
sons plan for the immediate restora-
ton of the Union is defeated also.
The tide of fanaticism which has
swept over the nation, engulphing its
laws, its liberties, and its material
prosperity, though visibly abating,
has not yet reached its ebb. Every
hour it falls, and the time cannot be
far distant when the people of the
North, so long led through deep wa
ters by blind guides, will search for
dry and other leaders. That day will
see the triumph of Democratic prin-
ciples and of those who have faithful
ly upheld them.
In the election just closed, the
Democratic party has been faithful to
its time-honored principles. 1t has
sought nothing less than the good of
the whole country. It did not hesi-
tate to endorse the measures of an
Administration whose election it had
opposed, for those measures were well
adapted to the end which it never lost
sight of through four years of war
restoration of the Union and its laws,
of peace, of our civil liberties, of
local self-government, and of fraternal
goodwill between all sections of our
common country. And to-day the
chief regret of every intelligent Demo-
crat will be, not that local election
has been lost, but that Mr. Johnson's
political measures for the early resto-
ration of the Southern States to their
co-equal and normal relations in the
Union, which was the chief and
almost the only national issue at stake
in the late canvass, have not received
the weighty endorsement of the EN-
pire State.
The Ne,rs has the following com
ments on the result:
At the hour at which we go to press
this morning, there can be no doubt
that the great State of New York has
again been lost to the Democracy.
The result is entirely inauspicious, as
we feared from the outset it would
be. And yet there are features in the
canvass--some marked features
which show the fight to have been n
gallant one, where the party lines
were distinctly and visibly drawn
The Republican candidates are un-
questionably elected by handsome,
and to the party itself, an unc1peci-
edly large majority. We have no
room Or inclination at this moment
for comment.
We fear that our friends in New
Jersey have gone down in the general
melee, and that they will have to
bnrnish their armor for another and
more hopeful conflict. Beyond New
Jersey and New York we care not, of
course, to look for results.
AS we present the returns from the
interior of the State, in the shape in
which they were received by telegraph,
without any attempt at classification,
word Of explanation may be neces-
sary. Early in the evening we were
advised by the Associated Press that
they would prepare tabular state
ment of the vote in the State as the
returns came in, and that we had bet
ter hold on to our scattering despatch
es in the early part Of the night, as
they would be fully covered by
the tabular statement This we did.
But at late hour this morning, we
received second note, stating that
they had found it impossible to make
such Il statement of the vote, and they