Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-11-12
The Press on the ELECTIONS.


gives expression to Its viWs of the late State
elections, most of them readily aeknOwledg-
ing the Significance of the evidences agains.
adicalism-thOugh some of the radical iOur-
mails endeavor to ignore it.
From the Washington Chronicle.
With the exception of New York. vbere
in all probability. We shall lose a United States
Senator, the results Of yesterdays election
present an aggregate of substantial encourage
ment to the radicals We have carried Mas
saehusetts high and dr., triumphed in Kansas.
and in Michigan secured the ratification of
the new constitution, which abolishes ali dis
tinction of color in the exercise of the cleo
tive franchise. The eOpperheads carry one
branch of the Legislature in New jersey, and
the rebels hold Delaware and Maryland
Of the Commonwealths that have elected
State officers, New York is the only one that
has gone against the republicans, with the ex-
oeption of MARYLAND, which remains in the
hands of the rebels. Such is a brief summa-
~ of yesterdays work. 1t dissapOints no.
body, and leaves the great party of the
Union certain of success in the presidential
election.
From the Washington Intelligenecr.
In the election on Tuesday the people of
New York have announced that they have
done with radicalsm. There Is hardly
town or county in the State that has not sigui-
he'd its disaPPrObatiOn of the radical pro-
gramme of destruction. While Connecticut
and California have beaten back the wings.
New York has pierced the centre of the
cohorts of radicalism, and written upon their
beaten banners the taIismanic words. THE
constitution and the laws shall be obeyed."
Even Massachusetts, radtcal-ridden as that
noble old Bay State has been, wheels into line.
and shakes off the shackles of radical despo-
tism. New Jersey and Wisconsin follow. and
gallant old Maryland, always for the Constitu
ton and the Union, whether against Southern
orNOrthern rebels, gives almost an unanimous
support.
a servey of the field is gladdeninc to the
heart of every friend of republican iustitu-
tions and democratic government We we're
upon the verge of an abyss, into which the
passions and reckless madness of radical rulers
threatened to plunge US aud involve us all in
irretrievable ruin. Thank Heaven, we have
escaped. The Summers and Wilson's of Mas
sachusetts, the Stevenses and Forneys Of Penn
sylvania, and Wades and Ashleys of Ohio,
and their satellites of lesser notoriety, were
able for awhile to blind and mislead the peo>
pie; but the people have at last become
aroused to their own interests to a sense of
the thraldom that radical fanaticism was weay-
ing around them; they had begun already to
hear the clanking of the chains and shackles
that had been imposed upon their brethren of
the South, and were ready to be placed upon
own limbs; and in every State of the North
and West, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
they have risen in their might aud confronted
the tyrants and traitors who sought to euslave
them and bid them avaunt with their base
nf
From the New York World.
BY Tuesdays WORK the Empire State pIac
ed herself at the head of the noble army of
commonwealth whose mission has been here
and now to stay the hands of the architects
of ruin, and whose mission will be in the year
aud the contests that are to come to redeem
and restore the Union, and to establish peace
and representative self government through
out all its borders. The victory is worthy Of
the State. 1t crowns and completes the tri-
umphs of the democracy in California and
Maine, in Pennsylvania, Ohio aud gallant
New Jersey. Deep answers to deep. The
city surpasses itself, giving a democratic ma.
jOrity of over 81 900, The State rolls I'D a
minority of nearly $4,000. The Senate we
shall come close to gaining; the Assembly
we have rcvOlntionized.
In no section ofthe country has the success
of the democracy been more gratifying than
in the State of New Jersey. The issue was
made squarely by the republicans in their
State convention pledging the party to the
enforcement OF negro suffrage, not only in the
South, but in their own State The democra-
cy met them on their issue and have glorious
ly swept everything before them The result
against the radical party on that issueis over
whelminS. One third of the members of the
Senate in that State were chosen. and all the
members Of the lover house. The returns
show that the democrats have swept the field.
They will have majority in both branches
of the Legislature
From the New York Tribune.
We are beaten by republicans this year.
and the work Of reconstruction is thus prac
TALLY delayed if not arrested To let the cleo
ton go by default, was held and argued by the
trimmers and camp>foliowers, would crush
out what they are pleased to stigmatizc as rad
icalism and render inevitable the nomination
Of General Grant for President Such con-
sideratiOns and calculations have kept fifty
thousand voters from the polls and insured
the overwhelming defeat OF our State ticket
From the New York Herald.
The returns are sufficient to show that the
State of New York has been carried by the
democrats by majority probably larger than
that obtained by Governor Fcnton one year
ago. The radicals who controlled the repub-
lican nominating convention chose to exclude
from their councils the conservative element
Of their party and to 20 before the people on
the issues Of negro supremacy and a national
bank OligarcLy; and the people of New York,
like those of California, Ohio and PeunsyI-
vania, have rspudiated them and rendered
an emphatic verdict against their violent, rev.
OlutiOnary policy.
In this city, the great commercial centre
of the Union, the majority against radicalism
amounts to over sixty-one thousand, although
the radical press and politicians cxerted their
utmost energies to avert such resnlt Nen