The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-21

Address Of the Democratic State Committee
NEW YORK. Oct. 20, 1865.
To THE DEMOCRACY OF THE STATE or NEW YORK.
The results OF the October elections demonstrate the
fact that large accessions to the democratic party
have been made since the last Congressional cleo
ton, I'm 1866.
In Indiana we have reduced the republican major
ity from 145l6 to doubtful claim OF 500 majority.
We have done this on the largest aggregate vote
given in that state and In what Schuyler Cofax
confesses to be the severcst political contest ever
fought In Indiana Even by the showing OF the re-
publicans further change Of one vote in 75o-cf
one.eighth OF one per cent-would have completed
q political revolution. We have also gained one
member Of Congress, and perhaps two.
In Pennsylvania we have reduced the republican
majority In 1866 about one-haf further change OF
one vote in 1a0 would have given a complete vic
tory in that great commonwealth. We have done
this in spite Of vast patronage and means OF corup
tons systematic frauds, skifuly organized by the
best masters In that art; and spite OF the unjust ex
clusion OF the votes OF citizens OF Irish and German
birth by party which claims the suffrage for the
negro, as natural aud sacred right, and practically
gives him supremacy over the white man in large
portion OF the republic. We have also gained several
In Ohio. in the Congressional election Just held,
we have rejuced the republican majority more than
one-haf-irom 10000 to 15,000-from the Congress
sional election OF 1885, and have gained three mem
Never has the indomitable spirit and heroic energy
OF the democratic party been more nobly mani
tested.
You have driven In the republicans TO their bag.
gage wagons. You have almost routed them
Fellow democrats s this moment for doubt as
to what you ought to dor Is IL a moment In which
even TO be counting the chances OF the struggle to
which we are advancingf We know that we will
Our cause ~ the noblest for which men ever
strove We aim to restore the republic az our
fathers created II. We would paci6cate the South
II is caluminous to say that we would restore any
form Of human slavery We respected the local
treatment Of local evil, and we awaited the gradual
and OF moral and material agencies, and would have
averted civil conflict Ia which have persisted moro
young men or our own race than all those Of the
same age and sex who were held In slavery. But
being, and we know that personal slrvery once de-
stroyed can never nor ever ought to be
revived. We, and our fathers and grand
fathers have stood for the Union Of these States
against provincial factions, North and South. We
sacrificed political power in nearly all the States
counties and towns In our great Middle States In the
vain effort to avert civil strife and when that failed
we have shed more democratic blood In the war,
which we sought to avert and which our political
adversaries managed, than they gave to the same
cause. And to-day there gather our ranks more
many more--of the SCARED survivors of the common
soldiers OF that war than all the republicans
can boast. Those gallant veterans are for
paciicaton, and We are for publication. War IL no
longer any excuse. We want pcace We want re-
stored harmony. We would give back sef-govern-
ment to oil parts OF our country, and believe that 1t
can he safely done. We want our costly ornaments
want the industries OF the North 10 be revived in
order that our business may be improved and our
taxes llghtened. We want labor relieved from the
unnecessary burdens which weigh 1t down. We