The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-16
The Press on the Elections.
From the View York Herald tArab,.

/ From the New York Herald (Arab).
The results of the State elections Tues
day clearly indicate the election Of Genera
Grant as our next President by an over
whelming majority of the popular ano
electoral vote of the Union. The Demo
Gratis, earlyin the canvass, finding the popu!
]ar current in Ohio and Indiana setting II
heavily against them, concentrated thell
available strength upon Pennsylvania
knowing very we'll that unless they could
save Pennsylvania in October theirs was
"the lost cause" They have made, there
fore, the most desperate struggle for the
keystone State since the October election
of 1856, when they carried it by some two
thousand majority, and thus saved bu'
chanan in November. In this Octobercon
test, however, their delusive State ma
iority of nine hundred of last year is
buried under the Republican reserves be-
yond NIL hope of resurrection Tor at leas'
q year to come; and Gas goes Pennsylvania
so goes the Union"
We say that this loss of Pennsylvania
without going further, is the death-blow tc
Seymour and Blair. But apart from this
ticket, the Democracy we're impelled by
another necessity to leave no stone unturned
to save Pennsylvania. They knew that the
loss of Pennsylvania in October would in
nil probability involve the loss of New York
in November. The decisive consideration
in Seymour's favor in Tammany Hall was
that his name would carry New York, and
that in saving New York the party, in any
event, would have q solid foundation to
build upon for 1879. Now, with their loss
of Pennsylvania, there is every reason to
believe that the forty-seyen thousand De-
mocratic majority in the Empire State last
wear will disappear in November like q
morning fog from the face of the sea.
The returns of these elections of Tues
day will admit of no doctoring to show
possibility for Seymour and Blair in No
vember. The Presidential result is as GER
tain as any human event in November can
be, and the public mind throughout the
country will from this day settle down
upon this conclusion.
From the New York Sun disguised RadicaD
This result practically settles the Presi-
dental election in favor Of General Grant.
No one with the facts before him, whose
opinion is of the slightest weight, can en-
terrain doubt on the subject.
From the New York Times Republican,.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana Tues
day virtually ended the Presidential con-
test. The Republicans swept all three
States, and By no eqaiuocal mGorities. This
splendid civil triumph of General Grant is
only surpassed by his brilliant military
achievements. The overthrow of the De-
mocracy is as disastrous to their hopes as
the surrender of Lee to the "lost cause y
of the Confederacy. 1t is fortunate for the
quiet of the country that these October re-
suits are go conclusive as to relieve the final
trial in November of the painful anxieties
and maddening excitements which would
have followed less decided verdict from
| the important and commanding States which
Yesterday declared for General Grant and
the Republican party.
From the New York Tribune (RadicaD.
| THE GIVE FORKS" OF 1868.
It was universally felt and virtually con-
fessed that the partisans of Seymour and
| Blair must triumph in the State elections
held Tuesday, or abandon all hopes of sue
cess. Every table they have yet made OF
the probable vote for next President by States
claimed Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ne
braska, as certainly, and Ohio as probably,
for Seymour. The most ingenious among
them could not make up list Of States
expected to vote for Seymour sufficient to
elect him without including all or most of
those above named. They had thus adj
vertised their followers that they must
carry those States in October or confess
themselves already beaten in the November
struggle.
The World, stupid as usual, pretends not
to have had decisive information from the
elections, and thus excuses itself for not
commenting upon the results.
From the Petersburg Index.
Between this and the first Thursday in
November is the quarter stretch in the Pre-
sidential race. Despotism enters it ahead
of Constitution, and on the face of its Radi-
cal jockey is grin Of fendish triumph.
We trust after all that it is premature.
Now or never, rider Of Constitution, ply
whip and spur! The stake you ride for is
worth the last effort your noble steed will
ever make on the American turf. The stake
| is the nations soul.
The nation has not yet been made sick
enough by the Radical poison to throw it
up, and it is question whether it will die,
or whether an additional four years dose
will result in the nauseau and disgust which
will provoke the national stomach to re-
lieve itself of perilous stuff which is prey
ing like corrosive irritant upon its Vi
tality.
From the Petersburg Express.
We will not despair of the grand result
in November because the October elections
seem against us. We have known defeat
in October to be followed by success in No
yember ere this. In the chronicles of an
Gent Wing and Democratic strife there is
many precedent Of this kind laid up for
our comfort.
From the Norfolk Day Book.
May be considered as settling the Presi-
dental election in favor of the Republican
candidates. We may not all like it, but
the Radicals have given us the best they
had in their shop"
1.-THE Virginian and the Journal, as usual,
failed to come to hand.l
From the Baltimore Gazette.
We are bound to deal frankly with this
matter, and to say that, in our Judgment,
the States which have just endorsed the
policy of the Radical party will in Novem-
Der give heavy majorities for General
Grant. 1t is with deep regret and sadness
that we record these convictions. To the
people of Maryland, outside of the Office
seekers and the pot-house politicians, the
decision Of the northern States amounts to
nothing. We enjoy at present the rights
and the liberties begueathed us by our
fathers. But for our oppressed brethren of
| the South we feel the kaanasf sumnnthu