Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-20
NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

Frora every qnarter the intelligence ID
cheering and hopeful The cOlduess
With which the nOmination of Grant was
received has settled into apathy. Ia
deed, the Radical party throughout the
North is in a comatose state and the
leaders appear to have despairsd of
rousing It. Their canvass is markedly
feeble and inefeient0n the other
hand, while the absence of vigorous ops
position represses general political excite
ment, in that section, the Democracy are
enthusiastic and active, and are driving
steadily upon the stolid and unresisting
columns of the adversary. go "a liam
The New York World of the 10Th.
thus sums up it, budget of reports; Il,
The West is fairly aaame with Demo
cratic enthusiasm. Reports of the mass
meetings held there abound with proofs Of
overwhelming accessions 10 the party from
ihe other eide, and Of the ifealty of every
old campaigner who has held fast 10 Demo-
cratic principles through good and evil
times. The speakers are among the ablest
of American orators and statesmen. PEN
dIelon, Thurman, Ward, and others are
organizing victory in Ohio. The Germans
are among the 6rst TO join in the political
revolution, and il isclaime1 that the change
in the German vote alone viii secure the
State for Seymour and Blair Senator
Hendricks in Indiana, and Senator Doolit-
| tle in Wisconsin, are marching at the heads
of the eampAigners in those States, conquer
ing and inspiring public opinion wherever
they 60. Beth these States are counted, at
this stage Of the contest, as surely Demo-
| cratic by handsome, majerities. This will
| send Mr.. Doolittle back to the Senate, as
well as help TO elect our candidates for the
| Presidential and Vice Presidential chairs.
Michigan is another State, where, accord
ing to the voice Of the local press and ali the
news which comes to US, "the work goes
brayely on" The Detroit Free Press de-
cIares that ''neyer in the history Of politi-
cal contests have the indications thus early
been so favorable to the Democracy. We
have cheering accounts from all sections.
Our friends are active and determined, and
If the State is not redeemed from the blight
! Of Radicalism, which has SO long been upon
| il, il will not be for thewant of work." So
in regard to Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.
Eden and his co-laborers in Iowa are labor
ing with an ability and energy that cannot
fail TO break the large majority against us
two years ago, and that may yet succeed in
! turning the scale. The popular changes in
Illinois and Minnesota lead our friends in
those regions'to prophecy certain victory.
California and Oregon have already
proved the stuff of which their populations
are made. HeadstrOng and Radical at the
outset, like the populations Of all new and
ADVENTUROUS CommonWealths, they were the
first 10 resent, despise and rebel against the
false Republicanism which became tyranny,
and are now working with all their might
TO put down its leaders and its power. Pop
ular sentiment tlms reyolutioniZeda gathers
streDgth In such communities as it flows.
tits satisfied with nothing less thansviet0-
n, and a victory, in November, the people
Of California and Oregon are bound town.
q Here at the East we listen to and read
nothing but good news. Pennsylvania
might be ilikened unto q battle ground,
were it not that the war cry is the same
everywhere and the cheers nearly ali for
Seymour and Blair Pa The Radicals Of
the Keystone State are only less benumbed
and discouraged than thess Of New York
and New Jersey, who have given up the
gliost Of a chanceto overcome orcheck the
rising of the Democratic hosts. Their
public meetings are so SHINY attended in
the majority Of instances, that the latest
speakers are compelled to speak briefly, or
talk 10 the empty air; whereas not call
has been made for a Democratic gathering
which did not elicit response, according
to the size OF the place whence it was
issued,s from hundreds of thousands of
citizens.
New England aroused by the clarion
voice of Connecticut, the echoes Of which
have not yet.ceased, is reihVigorating her
self with sound political doctrines, adj
minislereds by Democratic campaigners
whose voices are full of hope and cheer.