Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-29
The Election Prospect.


The signs Of popular feeling every
where point to an overwhelming victory
of the Union party in the pending cleo
tons throughout the North, and to an
emphatic verdict of the people that the
constitutional division Of the powers of
government must be maintained, and that
the Congress shall make the laws of the
land. Without the use of any artificial
or laborious means of excitement, the
people are everywhere thoroughly srous-
ed 20 the gravity Of the issue aud deter
mined to sustain the Government accor-
ding to its constitutional organization in
administering the country's affairs.
Maine is but the head of the grand
column, which will be kept up by the
same increased majori,ies throughout the
free States. With Jess than the usua !
amount OF campaign literature ia the po
Iitical papers, the people are aroused as
they never have been before. There is a
depth of conviction and an earnestness
Of purpose on the part of the Union
masses, before which the Democratic
party will go down in ignoble aud de
served defeat.
No sophistry can blind the people to
the moment Gus issues involved in the
coming elections. No art can delude
them into the belief that the interests of
the country are safer in the hands of Mr..
johnson, than in the hands of their own
chosen Representatives. They do not
believe that the wisdom or patriotism of
the President surpassas the collective
wisdom and patriotism Of a loyal Con-
gress.
The relative position of the two great
parties has not changed. The attempt
to form a johnson party is already &C
cepted as a failure. The great Union
party which carried the country tri-
umphantly through the war and num-
bers among its members nine-tenths Of
the late soldiers, again asks the support
Of the people, and proposes to adjust our
national matters on the basis Of substan-
tial justice, aud on the assumption that
treason be made odious, and the Govern
ment honor and protect those who we're
faithful to it.
The supremacy of this Union party is
contested by one party ouly-that same
old Democratic party which fought it
during the Var, and now, leagued with
all that is disloyal in the late rebel states
= fighting it again; that party which be.
trayed the Government into the hands Of
the secession conspiracy; which disarmed
the nation before treason, raised the re-
bellion, and for four years carried on
war to destroy the national Union and
constitutional government; which has
drenched the country with the blood of
the patriotic sons of the North and the
helpless cOuscripts of tn g South; which
has heaped taxes upon the people, and
loaded them with an enormous debt;
which, while it was waging savage war
n the South, in the North opposed every
measure for the support and defence of
Government, and for feeding paying and
recruiting our patriotic armies; which
declared the war for the Union to be
failure, and demanded the disbanding of
our troops and the recognition of the
Confederate independence; which sought
10 bring in foreign intervention to crush
the independence of this great Republic;
which tried to cripple the sources of de-
fence BY declaring for Reputation of the
national debt; which tried to shield the
rebels frsm the just consequences of their