The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-06
Yesterday.

Tyn result of the election yesterday is such as
20, Generally anticipated. In the face Of the
Ootober disasters it was vain to expect to hold
,be Republican column entirely mistaken.
In New York State we are overwhelmed by
the unprecedented and largely fraudulent
Dsmooratic vote in the city. The contest in
that state has come to be one between the
country and the city. Outside of the city the
state is reliably Republican by very large
majority; but New York city, with three
fourths of all its voters foreigners, with its
hordes of paupers and criminals, with its
public thieves and plunderers, who have
made 1t the most corruptly governed city in
the world, gives regularly from thirty
TO sixty thousand Democratic majority. We
are Overborne, therefore, in that State not by
its intelligence, not by its moral worth, not by
its thinking men, but by the ignorant and de-
graded masses of its great city--its "maoke-
rels" and its ''dead rabbits" its shoulder
hitters and its thieves-the same population
that appropriately send a professional gam
bier and prize-fghter to repres ent them in
Congress. We must be excused from accept
ing the voice of majority thus made up as
authoritative upon anything. 1t is entitled
merely to the influence it can WELD in Con-
gress through the men it sends there, and to
nothing more.
Opposed to this crushing weight of the
enemy in New York city, we have feeble and
lily managed Republican organization, COM
posed of warning factions clustering around
rival leaders, and utterly incapacitated to stem
the tide of force and fraud by which it is pc
riodiOally overwhelmed. The frauds perpe-
trated at the election yesterday were notorious
and unblushing, and account in good part for
the increased Democratic vote.
Added TO all this, the Tribune distinctly
charges that there was a general detection of
conservative" Republicans, who determined
to let the election 60 by default, so as to force
the choice of General Grant as the Republican
candidate for the Presidency next year. The
falling off of the Republican vote in the city-
some eight thousand from last year-and the
general course and tone of the conservative
Republican journals, lend plausibility to this
charge. Whether in the end they will really
accomplish the object sought, remains to be
seen.
So far as national questions are concerned,
our enemies have raised false issues. The
Reconstruction law has been purposely and
persistently misrepresented. 1t was held up
as disfranchising the entire b. dy of white
voters in the South, and as placing them
under the domination of their late slaves.
The pride, prejudice, and passion of race were
appealed to in every possible manner; and
those most likely to be reached by these in
fuences were too ignorant to read or under
stand the law for themselves. 1t is fortunate
for the country that no immediate change il
public policy can be secured by verdict thus
obtained. Time and experience still remain
to show that the Congressional plan of recon
struction is both just and wise. The logic o.
events will dissipate these mists of falsehood
and those who have been misled will see with
clearer vision.
So far as the ultimate triumph of Republi
can principles in this country is concerned,
we are not in the least cast down. These
principles are the basis of free government
and, unless the experiment of free government
is to prove failure, they must in the end
prevail. The country is still, to certain ex
tent, under the deadly influence of the system
Of human slavery that SO long cursed it. The
virus is not yet thoroughly eliminated from
it's veins. The public conscience has not ye
fully recovered its normal tone after its lont
debauohment. There is still great work o
popular education and enlightenment to b.
done. But all the tendencies of the times ar
in our favor. The tide of the worlds though
is all towards freedom and enfranchisement
These temporary defeats are but eddies in tn
current that sweeps irresistibly onward T.
every true Republican-the same in defeat a
in viotOry-we say, therefore, grid on you
armor anew. Be not dismayed. Truth, tn
dictates of justice, the principles of free gov
eminent, the hopes of human progress AM
elevation, are all on our side. Permanent de
feat ls impossible. We shall yet behold tn
full realization of our highest hopes and tn
complete triumph of our glorious cause
Yesterday is already behind our backs. Th
future is ours
Straw Rail