The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-10

srcely for about ton minutes when the rowdics were
driven away, carrying with them about dozen injured
Asatctel containing eighty thousand dollars yes
terday stolen from express wagon in Chicago.
The stock market unsettled yesterday but closed
steady Governments were depressed Gold was dull;
and closed at146h 1893.
There no especial activity in commercial matters
yesterday and foreign merchandise was, the whole,
rather quiet Domestic produce in fair demand
but Irregular Groceries quiet Cotton continued
dull and nominal. Petroleum rather Hrmer On
Change flour was lower. Wheat and corn were armer.
Oats were frmer for sound, while unsound neg
lected and shade weaker Pork was dull, heavy and
lower Beef steady. Cut meats we're very quiet
for want, Of stock. Lard quiet and unchanged
Whiskey was fryner.
The Recent Elections and che Condition,
OF the Parties.
The result of the elections in the Northern
States this fall furnishes new landmark for
the politicians and statesmen in shaping their
future course. The triumph Of the republicans
everywhere has placed that party in position
to retain control OF the national government for
the next twenty-five years. provided that they
rightly interpret the verdict of the people and
act uponp it. But, in order to retain their
counsels of all such men as Ben. Wade, Sumner
Chandler and Stevens. II, upon the heels OF
the recent triumph, they allow the policy Of the
party to be controlled by men of that class, it
will soon' sink into hopeless minority The
defeat of.t6s democracy has crushed that party,
and it now depends upon tho republican man
ayers whether it is again revived or not They
hold the. Key to the political situation, and II
they wisely direct their policy they can retain
undisputef possession of the field for long
time to come.
To, accomplish this they must throw over
board the radical and Jacobin' disorganizing
element in their party, and turn a deaf ear to
their schemes If there is one feature more
marked than any other in the result Of the cleo
\ tons in this State during the last four years
1T is. the. unpopularity of radicalism in any
direction. Whenever the republican party has
laid down an extreme radical policy in the
Estate it has been defeated. On the other hand,
: on all occasions since the commencement of
the war, when it has gone into the contest on q
conservative and Union platform, success has
i followed rs certain as election day came. Thus
| in 1861 the republicans discarded all isms, ap-
pealed to the people on the, cry for the Union,
and swept everything before them with
Out am effort But they permitted the
extreme men Of the party to adopt this
victory as their own, control its policy
and Commit It to all manner Of excuses. The
resuls was hat in the following year q reaction
took place throughout the North. and the de-
mocracy were once more victorious In all the
Central States. The democracy, misconstruing
the verdict Of the people, permitted the copper
head element to control their policy and sp-
pose the war. The result was that they too
were everywhere disastrously defeated the fol-
lowing year.
But it is not alone In the result Of the cleo
lions since the commencement Of the rebellion
that this feature has been prominent in our
political affairs. u has for years been the key
note to the success or defeat Of both of tbs
great political parties Of the country. If we
turn back to the time when poor Pierce was
elected President, we find that the country had
Just settled; down after long agitation, and
that the people supported Pierce for the reason
that they believed that the compromise
measures Of Fillmore's administration were
less liable to be disturbed under de.
mocratic than q whig administration But
no sooner was he elected than be called
| around him as advisers those great Marplots
JEFF. Davis and Marcy, and through their disor.
| ganizing influence the Pandora box wal
reopeaed and .ae country plunged int
an excitement->the very thing that people
hoped to prevent by the election OF Pierce
Tho democratic party had been so lont
in the supremacy that this blow, although
severe one, did not destroy the party a
once. The people Of one State after anothe
repudiated this course, but the party retaine'
it's infuence long enough TO elect James b
chanan at the next Presidential contest. Blu
in pursuing the same line of policy he so aisir
tcgrased the party that there was nothing lei
| Of Il at the close Of his term but miserabl
fragments here and there. Thus we find tbs
the results Of the important elections In tn
country, both prior to and since the rebellion
reveal the fact that the popular heart Of u
country is for maintaining the supremacy
the Union free from all exciting and disorga
izing controversies a. much ~ possible; th