Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-01
From tho New York World, Aug. 17. Highly Gratifying state Of the
 Canvass.

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 If it were not that the Democracy were SO wide awake and hard ut work everywhere, we should have some fear least they might be lulled into apathy bby the quiescence of the Radical foe. INThe Tribune calls this a desperate conflict" yet the thinned majorities who read the Tribune and papers of its sort appear, instead of making it a conflict at all, to be paralyzed by the vigor and enthusiasm which is manifest North, South, East and West among Democratic voters. Appearances indi- cate that
 ..Our enemies have fallen, have fallen"
 already, before the breach has been as- saved. Yet their flight seems to be regarded, by the friends of the Union and the Constitution, as a fresh incen- tive to make their punishment greater, and the triumph of the Union cause more complete.
 The West is fairly aflame with Demo cratic enthusiasm. Reports of the mass meetings held there abound with proofs of overwhelming accessions to the party from the other side, and of the fealty of every old campaigner who has held fast to Democratic principles through good and evil times. The speakers are among the ablest of American orators and statesmen. Pendleton, Thurman, Ward and others are organizing for victory in Ohio. The Germans are among the first to join in the political revolution, and it is claimed that the change in the Ger man vote alone will secure the State for Seymour and Blair. Senator Hem dricks, in Indiana, and Senator Do oolitle, in Wisconsin, are marching at the heads of the campaigners in those States, conquering and inspiring public opin- ion wherever they go. Both these States are counted, at this stage of the contest, as surely Democratic by hand some majorities. This will send Mir. 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, according to the voice of the local press and all the news which comes to us, "the work goes bravely on." The Detroit Free Press declares that "ncver in the history Of political 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 Radical ism which has so long been upon it, it | will not be for the want of work" So l in regard to Illinois, Iowa and Minne- sota. Eden and co-laborers in Iowa are laboring with an ability and energy that cannot fail to break the large ma- jority against us two years ago, and that may yet succeed Ill 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 popula- lions are made. Headstrong and radi- cal at the outset, like the population of all new and adventurous common wealths, they were the first 10 resent, despise and rebel against the false Republicanism which became tyranny, and are now working with their might to put down its leaders and its power Popular sentiment thus revolutionized l gathers strength in such communities as it flows. It is satisfied with nothing 1 less than victory, and victory, in No vember, the people of California and Oregon are bound to win:
 l Here at the East we listen to and read nothing but good news. Pennsyl- vana might be likened to battle ground, were it not that the war cry is 1 the same everywhere, and the cheers nearly all for Seymour and Blair!" The Radicals of the Keystone State are only less benumbed aud discouraged | than those of New York and New Jersey, who have given up the ghost of a chance to overcome or check the ris- | ing of the democratic hosts. Their public meetings are so slimly attended in the majority of instances, that the latest speakers are compelled to speak briefly, or talk to the empty air {; whereas not call has been made for a democratic gathering which did not elicit q response. according to the size of the place whence it-was issued, from hundreds or thousands of citizens.
 1 New England, aroused by the clarion voice of Connecticut, the echoes of which have not yet ceased, is reinvig- orating herself with sound political doctrines, administered by Democratic campaiYners, whose voice is full of hope and cheer.
 l Delaware is pillar of the Demo- cratic temple, which stands as firm and steadiast as it did when the Samson of Radicalism tried his best to pull it down. What Samson failed in, neither Simpson nor his followers appear disposed to attempt; and the Democrats of Delaware have pretty nerly their own way. The inhabitants S of Maryland, recovering from the swoon of disgust into which they were cast during the war by the outrages of Radical satraps, and the advent of Radical carpet-baggers, are determined to assert their rights to the ballot. That right being thoroughly resumed, there remains no difficulty in sweeping the State for the Democratic candi- dates.
 Baffied in the North, our enemies are augmenting their efforts and intrigues to secure the Southern vote for Grant and Colifax. This vote was long ago admitted by the Radicals in Congress and the Radical press, North and South, to be absolutely necessary, as | whole, to the success of their cause. But the present prospect is, that, in spite of the immense advantages they have secured and still retain in the form of military despotisms and carpet-bag majoritics in the State Legislatures, the schemers will be hoisted in several Southern States by their own pctards. Political meetings are possible for Democrats in the South, as well as for Radicals and negroes; and the Democratic masses are striving to make their meetings so orderly, and so unobjectionable to their present tyrants, except from the fact of the protests against tyranny in all shapes wich are uttered by the speakers, that the Radicals have no other way to put them down except by the instiga- ton of negro mobs. The briefest and