Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-10-12
Correspondence of the Charleston Coulter.

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tious, which are valuable somewhat forecast.
ing future events, may be summed as fol.
lows:
| FIRST The Democrats expect to carry Penn.
syiVanla BY at least five thousand wholly ov-
grooming the seventeen Thousand Republican
majority Of last year
second, They expect to reduce Ohio's Re-
publican majority from iorty-two thousand to
i've thousand, and confidently expect to de-
ient the negro suffrage amendment
| lhird. The November election in New
YORK Is considered certain for the Democracy
ny about ten thousand with majority III the
Lower House Of the l.c.islaturc Tie Gov
crnor holds over this year.
Fourth. The Republican majority in Mas
sacl'nsctts will be cut down two-thirds. and in
that State the license party's success, which
lsnot Improbable, will considerably lessen Rad
zeal influence
Filth. In New jersey the negro suffrage
amendment will be lost, aud Democrats will
carry the State by about seven thousand ma
jority.
In short they confidently expect to make
heavy gains aud defeat nc@ro suffrage amend
heits everywhere. hut now comes the most
curiousPart of all. Democratic leaders here
are sharp enough to see that this does not in.
| hneacc the Presidential election Of next year.
In fact they really fear the effect of this years
successes OH the rank aud file Of The party.
Ii the Democratic masses, flushed with yicin
tory, should insist, as thousands of them viii
upon the nomination tn Offices Of pronounced
men, snch pendlcton, Nnllandieham
Thomas +. Seymour JAS. w. Wall, or other
well known Democrats, the Leaders feel
assured That certain defeat will await them:
TOR the most they rely upon is reduction O
the Republican vote net an increase in the
Democratic. The whiSkey corruption. other
revenue frauds. aud u,alulmnision of the g.
nance have brought apathy in the Republic
can ranks, and hence the latter will not vote
IN usual numbers during the coming elections
sut the question that next arises is. how will
th's large sllcnt mass OF cast their ballots next
yea, when political passions arc reused to
t.e ftI. s Utmost, The thug is clear a II other
cal tiekef-i fasaaa!IS isey vii ilyote thesR
who as above stated, held thoir col
recently. cannot by any possible means figure
out Democratic Presidential victory, no mat
ter what changes may tax. place duing Octo-
bcr and November. Or course, if the coun-
try goes from bad to worse; if the South still
remains unrcconstructc,l if the Radicals in
sist upon impeachment if the management
Of the finances should create panic, or some
other great administrative bIundcr be commit
ted, the Democrats certainly would gain adj
vantages but us said above all other things
hcing equal, Democratic leaders day be.
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Inc truth IS, the Democrats arc SO puzzled
"nout 'he i'r"s'arh'!a election, ana whom to
n"ln"te' that really the name OF General Me
Gieilah Is aSain mentioned III some quarters
II WAS Only the other day That Mr.. James
Iordon bcnnctt acknowledged his capacity to
forecast future political events, and stated that
during the past ton years nothing political had
been 40 puzzling to him than the present as
pect OF affairs Rumor has it, that at n re-
cent conference with Mr.. Selden, Chairman
OF the Democratic State Committee, tho
shrcwd editor expressed his opinion to the
same effect, and also counsclcd the Dcmocra-
cy again to take up General Mcclellan, cx
pressing his belief that the Conservatives
could elect him, aud that much better feel
ing toward the General existed throughout
the country, owing to his lons, absence, abroad,
and rnnclpaliy' n's"' because he had not been
mixed up with the vexcd reconstruction qucs-
tons
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