Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-11-22
The Lesson of the Elections.

The overwhelming popular verdict just
rendered at the elections of n half dozen
States in favor of the policy and meas
ures of the Union party. affords intense
satisfaction to the friends of free princi-
pies and National progress everywhere.
The people that they viii take
no step backwards The attempt of the
Democrats 10 deceive the masses into a
support of their party in New York. by
plausillv endorsing the administration
in the State platform, and nominating a
soldier for the highest Office on their tick
et. was an entire failure. After obsequi-
ously doing homage to an administration
that despises them, hoping to win IFS ar
proval, they found they had not only
compromised their political principles,
but lost thousands OF honest voters by
their apparent d~emagogueism. That par
ty has less vitality now than ever before.
1t is sinking lower and lower; and al
though it clings TO life tenaciously, it is
nevertheless dying. A slow. gradual and
uncurable consumption IS destroying 1t,
and like the victims of that insiduous
disease, the Democratic party, allows IL
self to be fattered at each succeeding
election with a hope of success; that 1t
will yet recover lost power and reputation.
1t can never again command the conf
dence and support of the American PEG
pie. The course taken by the Democrat
ic organization all during the struggle
with the rebels, was unpatriotic and
.reacherous. The people fndingit faith
less in war, will not trust the nation to
its control in time of peace. Not only
is the Democratic party Of the North re-
alizing the ~fullness of the popular con-
tempt in which it is held, but the impu-
dent, presumptious, unprincipled politi-
clans of the South can learn by the result
of the late elections that they are not to
nave matters all their way just yet, and
that dictation on their part is premature,
to say the least of it. The rebuke which
the ~pro-slavery spirit of the opposition par
ty, North and South, has received this fall,
isa blessed thing for the Nation. Had the
Democrats triumphed in four or five
Northern States, the very air would now
be filled with blasphemy of Abolitionists
and vulgar defiance of the Government
and its policy. The rebels would have
taken great encouragement, and not sat
isied with saving their necks, would
have insisted on the Democrats usurping
power and wiping out every disqualifying
statute against traitors.
But the VISION, virtue and intelli-
gence of the pe7pia," were equal TO the
task of saving the country st the polls, as
were their endurance, bravery and sacri-
fees in the nsI,-. The nation is safe so
long as it rejects he degrading oyertures
of the pro-slavery party, and stands faith
full to true r aubrean principles-equali-
ty before The -aw -equaland exact justice
to all men. Tn csc grand principles are
every day be@Dw SIG better appreciated
and dearer to il american people. The
time is destiri2A 10 come when they will
be sanctioned at the ballot-box in all
their height. inngth, breadth and depth.
To this glorious consummation let the
true and the faithful bend their untiring
energies. The great bdlwark and defence
of oppression and class prejudice in this
country, the Democratic party, is now
leveled to tb q dust, and free principles
will henceforth flow VIGOROUSLY onward
from sea to scr