Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-24

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"Here are just votes enough to elect, will
regard to which there should be no doubt
But Ohio and West Virginia are desperate
| ly contested; and, while we have most vo
ters in each, our adversaries seem for tn,
prt sent to have the best workers. And
while Wade Hampton boldly proclaim
that every black who works for 'Demo
cratr' must give his vote to Seymour ant
Blair, or be deprived of work, bread, ant
home, how can we feel sure that any rebe
State will vote for Grant? We know righ
well that thirty thousand majority of thu
legal voters of South Carolina will hop,
and pray that Grant may be elected, bu
twenty thousand of these may be con-
Strained to vote for Seymour, or not to vott
at all. So of other rebel States. We can
not rely on one of them till the votes shal
have been polled and the result declared"
Deduct from the above calculation th'
electoral votes in what the writer calls thu
rebel States, which he admits cannot be re
lied on (tour votes in South Carolina, nin'
in North Carolina, six in Louisiana ant
ten in Tennessee), and it makes total o
fifty-eight votes against GRANT, making his
electoral vote but 100, when 159 is neces
.sary to elect.
But even these Southern States are moi
all that Mr.. GREELEY thinks are in danger
OF GRANT the writer, in the same letter
says: 1es
ssHe not only can, but will be beaten, un.
less the Republicans work with more energy
and efficiency than they have thus far done
Indiana is the only doubtful State which
seems to be contested by them with ade-
quate zeal and industry. trust that Ohio
cannot be lost; but if there be no revival
on or1r ci6a ho hollnf- -hnvoa will alncQ
the night of the October State election with
at least 10000 more Republican than Dem
ocratic votes unpolled. Perhaps we can
stand that disparity, and perhaps not. 1t
is not safe to take the risk.
6 So of Pennsylvania. We were heavily
cheated there last October; we are likely to
be worse cheated now. Her election laws
are tolerably good; but the judges in strong
Democratic districts set them at defiance,
taking all the votes that are offered-espe-
cially the bad ones. They will cheat us at
least 10000 in October. We can beat them
still, if every Republican vote is polled.-
But will they be? Will Allegheny give
her 10 900, Lancaster her 5000, and others
in proportion? Will Berks, Northampton,
Monroe, Columbia, ETC.. give no more than
their legal majority against us? hope,
but fear. u
Now let us suppose that the enemies OF
human rights should-no matter by what
means-carry Pennsylvania and Ohio in
October, winning likewise some local tri-
umpbs in other States; what then? Shall
we not see the very men who now shirk eff
fort, on the plea that Grant cannot be beat
en-, lying down in inaction because (they
will say) he is already beaten, and cannot
possibly be elected? How swift will be
their transition from blind presumption to
cowardly despair!"
Mr.. GREELEY concludes his letter with an
exhortation. He says to the Radicals:
'sMen and Brethren We must carry Con-
necticut, New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania tor Grant and Colfax. With these
-or even half of them-there can be no
mistake as to the result. Without at least
two of them, all is in doubt. We can car
ry every one of them except possibly New
Jersey, if we begin at once and resolutely
try"
The chance is just as good for the Radi-
Gals carrying New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, as it is for Mr.. GREELEY to
stem Niagara's tide in hand basket The
torrent created by Radical
and mismanagement, the inn
mediate cause of higL taxation, will over
whelm them in the States named, as it will
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and many Of the
other States claimed for GRANT.
The Ne,o York Herald, sheet always
prompt to see the coming events which
cast their shadows BEFORE" says of Mr..
GREELEY's estimate, as above given, that it
''admits the failure of Radicalism in the
great States that have heretofore given it
force in the nation" sh e le
The Uo,.o15 odda. --a.l
"But what right have they (the Radicals)
to count even the States they name? They
count them on the strength of past votes;
but this is time in which people go COM
pletely over from one side to the other of
political divisions, as we recently saw in
Oregon. From the fact that we are reason
ing for such period, we should be very
slow to project the future from the past.
New York is not counted for Grant, be-
cause OF recent changes; and how can any
man say that changes of the same tendency
will not drop from the Grant list several of
the States given?
"Ho,o many of the States named dboue are so
positiuely strong in the radical faith that they
can be counted upon despite contingency? ONLY
TwO-MAsSACHUSETTs AND MAINE. THESE
ALONE ARE SURE. 1t is, however, in the
very highest degree probable that Grant
will carry seven other States in the list
Rhode Island, Vermont, Kansas, Minneso-
ia, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin. New
Hampshire is not by any means certain
ty for Grant, while Indiana and Illinois, in
the absence of slavery and the broad war
issue are Democratic States, and will in all
likelihood indicate well defined sympathy
with the reactionary movements against
the party they have acted with for the
last two Presidential elections. No man
has any right to count West Virginia for
any party. 1t has no recorded predilec-
ton. 1t has only voted in one Presidency,
and then it decided for the war, and for the
simple reason that its right to decide at all,
even its existence as a State, would at that
time have been denied by the other party.
"Ohio is somewhat in the same position as
Indiana and Illinois. 1t was Democratic
State in the old days, but went with the
Republicans on new issues. Can Republic
canism count on the continued support of
a people that keeps its eyes open for new
issues-that can separate itself from party
as it sees occasion. and never permits a
party to outlive its crimes against human
ity?
Grant list; but we need scarcely say that
that is founding Grants chances on very
shaky foundation.
''0fthe one hundred and .tifty-nine Uotes abovt
estimated as nearly certain for Grant. u IS quite
ARE EQUALLY LIKELY TO GO FOR
SEYMOUR"
If that is not cold comfort for the Radi-
Gals, we know not the power of language
Two States" only two, Massachusetts, and
Maine, alone are sure" the Herald says, fol
GRANT. Some other States in the list
"Rhode Island, Vermont, Kansas, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin," the
Herald thinks, are in the highest degree
probable, but even in these States, the De.
mocracy, we know, think it more than
probable that SEYMOUR will carry a ma
jority.
Mr.. GREELEY's calculation gives GRANT
just enough votes to elect him-159 in all
Of this number, the Herald thinks sit il
quite safe to say that at least one hundred are
,<..,>,1J,, J;EoI,, tn rote for Se,n,ao7trn