The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-03-19
The Kevy Esasnpahire election.

Last year the Republicans carried the
State by majority Of 3,I46; now they
have carried it by a majority of about
1000. Full returns have not been re-
ceived but enough is known to show
that the Republican loss is about 1000.
Notwithstanding this great falling off in a
little New England State, situated in a
remote corner of the Union, having scarce
any intercourse with the other States, and
to which there is no emigration, the Repub-
licans are everywhere rejoicing at the re-
suit, and showing by their JOY that they
were looking for total overthrow. Though
they have lost about third of their ma
jority, they are quite happy in not having
lost all of it. The New York World
closes an article on the subject with this
paragraph:
AS the Republicans lose in the stiff, un-
yielding Granite State, they will lose more
largely among the quick, various, mobile,
and mercurial populations of the Central
and Western States. At the same rate of
Democratic gain as in New Hampshire,
we shall keep Connecticut by an increased
majority, and perhaps carry Maine. We
shall carry New York by An increased ma
jority New jersey by an increased major
ity; Pennsylvania by an increased MAORI
ty Ohio by an increased majority; Cali
fornia by an increased majority we shall
retain Maryland, Delaware and Kentucky
without an effort and we have excellent
chances of gaining enough more to make
handsome majority in the Electoral Collie
ges. AS the Republicans cannot hold
their own in New England, they must lose
prodigiously elsewhere. Nor is this mere
inference. At the same time that we have
been making small and slow gains in New
Hampshire, the general drift of the town
elections in New York and other States
shows great Democratic gains, won with
cut elOquence and without effort, by the
spontaneous reaction of the public mind
against the Radical revolutionists. The
ranting jlbiation of the Tribune over New
Hampshire, Is the mere cracking Of lhorns
under pot"
The n. Y. Journal of Commerce thus
concludes an article upon the result of this
election:
practically, ss we have said, the re-
salt of the election will have no weight in
the settlement of the great questions beiore
the country. If the Radicals had made
up their minds before the election TO i'm
peach Andrew Johnson, they will impeach
him now and as they would have im-
peached him if the State had gone Demo
cratic. The party necessity for the act
m ght have appeared all the more desper-
ate had the Democrats been victorious.
Negro suffrage was an issue, but the voice
OF New Hampshire is lost among the
shouts of Ohio, New York, and the other
great States which have already declared
themselves against it. Radical Congress
men are not such simpletons as to mistake
the hardlywon Endorsement of their old
party friends of one small State for the
approval Of people generally-for the in
habltants of the great and truly powerful
States have already expressed their marked
disappCobation Of the general Congressional
policy. In fact, we can discover nothing
i'll the New Hampshire election beyond the
evidences that party feeling runs high and
strong in that State and that the Demo
crat9, with the decided advantage on their
side Of being the attacking party, have
been beaten only by the greater numbers
and resources of their opponents, but may,
perhaps, claim that they occupy a better
position than before the fight"