The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-12

ThS results Of the elections n P,

sI -. The ENctonA
ThS results Of the elections IN Penn.
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, were
more favorable TO the Presidents policy
than We had expected them to be. The
entire vote cast 10 Pennsylvania exceeded
FIVE hundred thousand, whereas at the
election In 1865 Il was only about four
bundled and hfty thousand. Tho Radical
majority nou n some fifteen thousand
againsf over twenty thousand last year.
1t Is plain that although Pennsylvania has
gone for The Radicals, yet the Conaerva-
tive strength Is on the increase.
But this Is not all. The proportion Of
Radicals 70 Conservatives b only as a61a
TO 25tS-a difference so small that We
have nothing to fear from Radical measures.
The South really has cause to congratu-
late herself upon this state Of things. 1t
is much better than the tone Of either the
Conservative OF tho Radical journals had
led us to expect. Aud 50 long IS fifty-one
fifty-thirds Of the northern people are op-
posed TO con6scation, hanging, and dis.
franchissmeut, We have nothing to fear at
the hsnds Of the Radicals. A small change
in public sentiment would throw the bal
ance If power on the other side; and no
aspiring Radical would undertake the &C.
complement Of schemes which would rem
der his position In public life insecure.
So far VIC have accepted the returns al
ready received rs decisive. But the fact
is that the Radical reports are those upon
which We have been basing our calcula-
tons. II would not surprise us to learn
before our paper goes to press tonight
(Thursdsy) that the Democrats have six or
seven Of the Congressman in Indiana, or
that GEARY's majority has been reduced
below $4,000. The first news Is always
Radical news. Upon this point the New
York World of Wednesday remarks:
"The returns OF the elections yesterday are
too meagre for one TO state positively the full
result in each State. Moreover, little reliance
can be placed upon the first dispatches that are
hands, and are octored by them 10 suit them
selves, as was done in the case Of the Vermont
and Maine elections last month. But the netcs,
,aeagre as Il 10. indicates Democratic gains erery
snhere The very paucity OF reports received
last night augurs well for the Democrats for
had the Radicals achieved victory they
would have spread the news far and wide at
once
The sentence which the World italicises
is the one which affords us grounds for
hope. The fact that Conservative feelings
are on the increase and Radical sentiments
on the wane is surely good foundation
for hope that call is not lost"
Again: Every one knows how hard it is
for party TO work against the influence of
anticipated defeat. Well, the southern
papers, and the National Inteuigencer, the
National Republican, and many of the
JOHNSON organs elsewhere, including, We
are afraid, the Richmond Dispatch, gave mp
the contest before the day of election. The
New York World stood almost alone in
speaking words Of encouragement to the
Pennsylvania Conservatives. The very
small majority Of GEARY might perhaps
have been overcome If we had all afforded
the Conservatives the encouragement which
they needed. When we look at the returns
and SEQ that there are all over Pennsyl-
vania fifty-one Conservatives to every fifty
three Radicals, 1t seems absurd that any
one should have pretended to foresee that
the result would be in favor of the Radi-
Gals. Our Responding articles were repro
duccd in Pennsylvania, and there is no
doubt that some men who might other
wise have supported the Conservative can
didates were induced by what they sup
posed to be impartial opinions to believe
that there was no chance for the defeat of
the Radicals, and so either absented them
selves from the polls or, in the case Of the
timid and time-serSing, voted the Radical
ticket.
New York will elect HOFFMAN if the
southern States stand firm in their opposi-
ton to the ratification of the constitutional
amendment. Before the elections Of Tues
day last We thought his prospects by no
means fsttering. Now, we think that If
HOFFMAN, the gallant, whole-souled,
lion-hearted friend and advocate Of the
Presidents policy, shall be defeated, he
will owe his defeat to the fickleness Of the
southern people. Nothing else than their
desertion Of the President on the question
of restoration, or the failure Of the Presi-
dent to adhere to his own policy, can pre-
vent the growing conservatism of the north
ern people from resulting in triumph Of
the Conservatives IN the Empire State.
Let Us wait In hope.
The whole Union Gerrymandered.
= Some fifteen years ago ANDREW JOHN
II