The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-11-11
The Election.

through another Presidential crisis, nd
the result shows that its people are sill
On the downward road that leads to, es-
potism and ruin. The Black Repib-
lican party-whose every idea and Ne.
ry thought is alien and hostile to ID,
erty and reason, and whose Leaders.
fought the late campaign regardlessof
everything but suocessf-has again til
umphed at the polls, and Ulysses s
Grant will be President of what wan
once the United States The super
fcal knowledge of the principles OFF,
publican government and the Fedora
system the universal subordination o.
the public good to iu1s;;gsidual success
the indifference with which the psorrllt
regard q change in the Government,
and the notion, now fatally prevalent,
that republics are hsmbugs and that
peoples must be governed BY the rod
have combined to defeat the Democra.
cy, and condemn fhs country to four
years more of lavlessness and tyranny.
The lucky soldier of fortune, utterly
unknewn eight years ago. and whose
own followers cannot now translate his
ideas or judge his principles, has walk
ed over the track to triumph and BY
the osteDsible vote of a people pretend
ing to be freemen, has got o license to
govern tho country as he pleases. The
ponp and glory Of the military has, in
his success, triumphed over the better
and more modest farmer Republic,
which has been sold, like 50 much real
estate, to the highest sashed and cord
ed military bidder for its honors. =
Working "outside of the Constitution"
If not in open defiance of its provis.
ions-with a free license to adoas he
lists, Gen. Grant will run the Govern
ment, as he run the army, without 70
ference 10 principle or the remotest re
gard fer any law. His election is a
loss to Democrat and Republican alike,
for he is neither the one thing o the
other. He was nominated without his
own effort he is elected without any
desire to be a; he will administer the
Government without responsibility
There is but n thing to conserve his
course, and that is the mighty protest
uttered against him by the Democra-
ey. This must, to q very considerable
extent e~eatrol his actions and direct
his administrator. Il Ia, therefore, Of
the utmost importance that this senti-
ment of opposition should maintain its
compactness and its strength. The
Democratic party, with its millions OF
votes, is the only thiag that will deter
Grant from declaring himself the Die
tator which macy of those who voted
for him desire him to be. Our party
is the last reserve Of liberty. 1t should
be maintained in all its vigor and with
its priceless heritage of principle I'M
contaminated, and every individual
member of the party, adhering only to
principle, and d~isdaiuing the temporary
misfortune of the hour, should consid-
er himself especially on gnard, to pre-.
vent the overt treason TO the Republic,
and if it should succeed, be present
to protest in the only manner in which
4 beaten freeman can protest against
outrage and slavery. The Democratic
party still lives. Its existence is as
essential to the life of republican as
the air is to the human system. That
party knows no fear and disdaiDs de-
feat. 1t mpst be maintained with the
unbending courage, the unselfish de-
votion aud the ~tireless vigilance that
have characterized its history, ard Civ.
en- to the American Union all that was
admirable in it.
The successful party in the last cleo
ton assumes a responsibility from
which the Democracy was justified in
shrinking. Grant has upon his hands
a chaos of conflicts He assumes the
responsibility Of, and is ready to in
crease the public debt and taxation to
that degree that endurance will not on
ly cease 10 be . virtue, but resistance
will become a necessity. Murder and
massacre in the South. servile insur-
rection, the war Of races, and all its
attendant horrors, will confront him
upon hethreshold of his administration.
The fanaticism that secured his election
will remain to impede bis progress, or
demand his sacrifice. IF no refuses to
follow their arbitrary d~ictation, they
will strangle him as they have strangl-
ed johnson =; if he submits, he sacrif-
ces the renown which he has gained in
war and the fame he would transmit to
posterity and to history. Amid this
war of factions-the howl of disap-
POINTED ofice-seekers aud the roar of
impraeticable fauatics-the banner Of
the Democracy will still be upheld, the
emblem about WHICH an outraged and
betrayed people can still rally. rat
It is evident from the result of fine
election yesterday that the October cleo
ton In the States Of Ohio, Pennsylvan-
ia and Indiana, and the Abolition sue
cess therein secured Grant his triumph.
The b%ummers, the riff raft, the purchas-
able slaves and parasites, who come I'M
der the head of the floating vote-those
who came to the Democracy from mer.
cenary motives-all deserted, and are
now trimming their dirty sails for the
favor of the victor, whose future they
will torment with their importunities.-
But the true Democracy-they whose
politics are based upon principle, whose
views are guided By some intelligent
idea of the theory and the policy of
Government-are as true to-day as
when the Republic was young. It is
to their courage, their fidelity, and
their energy that we appeal from this
disastrous decision, and upon which we
rely for final success. We implore
them to maintain their organizations