Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-11-18

Cudit25 .Uilc IcSulI VI tuC lCSi,Sii'
tial election:
From The New York Times, Republican,
The oenntry may now look for that
nehesnt peace which has been the
watc tcliWprd Of the Republican party du-
ring ti political campaign. General
.GrantNpuld have done the party no
greater ervice than by giving it this
idea ana thissword to inscribe upon its
banner The turmoil Of the last eight
years II become intolerable. When
it was var in the field, the people bore
itw(th Atrong hearts and strong arms.
But fwESa this was followed by four
years o iolent political distractions
that constantly threatened renewal of
jsangninary arystrife, popular patience got
exhausted. And when, finally, the
Democratic party raised a revolutionary
platform, from which we could see moth
Ing butsa stormy futute and a tempest
tossed country, there would have been
justification for despair if no means of
escape had been opened up, But the
great soldier who had formerly, given
Us peace by his military genius, again
stood forward as the representative of
peace III the storm of political passion
The country felt the-power of the sacred
iword,zahd rallied round the leader who
could give it hope.
[Fronathe New York World, DOmocrat.]
Z. Tits not merely as the representative
ola beaten party, pouring oil upon their
-woundslthat we yindicate in this the
.vely,'crisis of our misfortune, and as we
'beheveof the country's calamity, the
ardor afd the courage, but the despcr-
atenessgalso, of our struggle. Rather
do we iaoclaim in thismost trying hour
speaking for a party serenely secure
of possessing the future of our country,
and Of IipuIding her magnificent des
TIMES when itself shall have been purg-
ed and moulded for that imperial task
an uiishakable confidence in its puis-
SAINT and undying youth, which out Of
disaster will get discipline, out of mis-
fortunes patience and mconquerable
out Of blunders wisdom and a
settled vii. To this great work, here
and now; upon a battle field which has
been LOST, do we invite, beneath undis-
honored standards, the youth, the man
hood ofour time.
From the Now York Herald.]
The Republicans hold the field and
regainaae White House. The Demo-
craticiltaders flung their chances Of sue
cess overheard when they made their
feeble Nominations in July last, and more
oia5ss4hen they ! g ,l brought prominent
speakers men from the Southern States
STEPPED to the lips in disloyalty to the
government, and fresh from the fields
where thousands Of our Union soldiers
laid down their lives to preserve the
life of the nation. With the candidate
the Democracy selected to carry their
standard nothing but defeat was to be
expected, and we suppose that not even
the most sanguine member of the party
anticipated any other termination to
the contest than the election Of General
Grant. Let us have peace is his
motto. We look now to see these words
converted into acts-to see the olive
branch substituted for the sword in the
Southern States, negro supremacy quiet
" superseded, and such measures adopt
ed as will create harmony out of dis
cord in that genial and fruitful portion
of our country comprised in the States
now suffering from mistaken and vim
dictive policy. We look also and hope
fully to this-that after the fourth OF
March next there will be check put
upon the monstrous corruptions which
prevail in all the departments Of the
government, that economy shall succeed
extravaganza in the disbursements of
the public funds, that the public debt
shall be reduced as rapidly as possible,
and that the taxes which press upon
the people shall be made more easy to
bear. The people expect that General
Grant will accomplish all this, and if he
fails to do SO he will not have complet-
ed the purpose for which he is elected
But we have great confidence in Gene
raj Grant.
From the New York Tribune, Radical
This result has been achieved in spite
of i'll the power of the Federal Execu-
tive and Of the late slaveholding aris-
tocracy of the South, aided by the most
Gigantic naturalization, and by
voting the~same men over and over till
they were dizzy. General Grant is this
day yfhschoice Of decided majority o.
the 1egSlvoters Of every State i'll the
Unidng Save Kentucky, Maryland, Della
ware, Ind possibly Oregon. Every State
that has gone for Seymour outside o.
theseshas been SO carried by coercion OF
fraud. We now look for the adoption
of measures that shall eifectually pre-,
cludeSa repetition Of these crimes.
[Efom the Journal of Commerce.
General Grant is not Radical, anc
we have the very highest authority fol
saying that it is his purpose to separate
himself from the extremists, and to raj
ly round, him a strong body Of the bet
ter class citizens, who shall draw unto
them cnlgenial allies from all quarters
and debssome, as they would deserve t
be, thssparty of the country. He is al
SO extremely anxious to verify his party
watchWord, and to lead the country a
once to peace renewed prosperity
This is his purpose, and no one can den.
thatsit is a noble ambition. Noc him
self'apolitician, and with but little ex
perience or skill in civil life, he doe
not, as we think, at all realize the diff