The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-10

the direction Of these straws which show how
the wind blows. The Republican majority ia
Oregon in 1866 was 327; the Democratic ma
iodty for member of Congress (ths solitary
one who represents that young Stste) was, at
the election of the first Monday in June, 1858,
l2O9 Here was a gain OF the anti-radioal
party of over fifteen hundred votes in voting
population OF about twenty thousand. Taking
these two States as an example, we will fnd
that the people are not abandoning their hos
tility TO the wonton aud dangerous policy of
the ruling faction, which during three years
OF peace has increased the national debt and
Kept mp war prices and war taxation. The
Kentucky election has taken place since the
Presidential nominations of both parties were
made; and yet so far from the nomination of
the radical convention strengthening the back
bone of the faction, or the nomination OF Sey-
mour and Blair weakening the spinal column
of the Democracy in that State, they have
turned events the other way. These results
are but the early indications (the skirmish
fire as 1t were) of the great revolutionary bat
tie which is about to open. II the other State
elections which are to come Off between this
and the Presidential contest in November
should happen togive like indications OF popu-
lar hostility to the radical usurpations and
corruptions, who can tell but that the nomi-
nees of the Chicago Convention may be over
whelmed by the weight of radical mala lmin-
istrati0n since the Rebellion was wound up by
General Grant that they have to carry on
their shoulders If we look at the facts which
confront the people when they come to vote,
we find that taxes to the amount of three thou
sand millions of dollars have been imposed
upon us. We find that the national debt has
been increased to the tune of three thousand
millions more. And this when the country is
at peace and the people had right to hope
for a reduction OF taxes and the national obli-
cation as the fruit of victory won, God knows
with what terrible sacrifices to every home
and hearth in the country. But instead of the
load being lghtened we are called on to bear
further exactions, to submit to increased ex-
penditures. In order to keep portion of the
country in subsection more troops are called
for. Men fosted into Congtess from the
| Southern States, and Governors who really re-
| present little more than mock constituency,
| demand from the Government an expensive
army to assist them in carrying ont schemes
and ambitions which are purely partisan and
| are positively destructive of the peace and
| good of the country. 1t is facts like these
which meet intelligent men of all parties when
| they come to cast their votes, and we cannot
| be surprised that majorities are found to pro-
test emphatically against continuance Of this
kind of government.
The people demand a change, and it is the
| people, and not any particular party, who will
| make the issue at the approaching election
Names and individual candidates count foI
| very little in this contest. 1t is cheap gov
eminent, honestly administered in view of the
fact that the country is at peace, which the
| people require. A serious counter revo olution
therefore, terrible to the politicians, no doubt
| but good and wholesome for the people-be
| cause it is being born of the peoples a
| hand. Nothing but the marvellous activity o
our population and the untold resources of tn,
| country could enable US to bear the presen
| burden of taxation or inducs us to submit Il
carry it so long. But it is evident that reac
tion has set in, and it may be that in the cours,
of events as now foreshadowed the next elec
tions will result in sending a majority to Con
gress possibly in favor of repndiation but GER
tainly in favor of vast reduction of the pre-
sent enormous taxation. The public mind
leans that way. Let us have peace, real peace
is the popular cry, and the popular heart
naturally yearns for the possession of that
prosperity which should accompany peace
The result of the Presidential election may bt
so vaguely decided in the conflict between the
rights of the Northern aud Southern States IL
the matter of franchise as regulated by radical
legislation as to drift us into another civil war
but it is clearly the duty of the Northern State
to set the seal emphatically upon the issue BY
their votes and leave nothing to chance or n,
opening for conflict. The expression of anti
radical sentiment in the late elections in Ken
tucky and Oregon is but the precursor of
great counter-revolution, upon the verge o
which the country stands this moment.