Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-21

'Here are Just votes enough to elect, with re-
gard 10 which there should 81 no doubt But
OHIO and West Virginia desperately con-
tested; and. while we have most voters in
each, our adversaries seem for the present 10
have the best workers.
With the appliances now being used in the
South to induce the blacks 10 vote for Seymour
ana Blair, ne asks IS there any assurance that
any rebel state Will vote for Grant,
Mr.. Greeley sums up'with the conclusion
that the Republicans must carry Connecticut
New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for
Grant and Colfax! With tnese-or even
half of them-there can be no mistake IS TO the
result. Without At lecst two of them. all is in
doubt. Every one Of them he thinks, can be
carried, except, possibly, New Jersey, if pro-
per exertions are made.
Mr.. Greeley's speculaiions may be looked
upon m the light of a warning call to arms to
his party. His reputation IN political figuring
will cause due weight TO be given to his arti.
Gle, and II will, doubtless, serve ITS purpose in
rousing that party TO action. The estimates
msde by other Republican papers are much
more sanguine than those OF Mr. Greeley; but
a. Shove stated, he probably puts the worst
fses on the Republican prospects, as a flip in
citing drowsy spirits to work.
10 far as we can Judge from our stand. point
huctuatIng, transition state aud that amount
OF AZ necessary 10 decide the result of the Presi.
dentisl election may be directed 20 the one side
or the other by Influences developed between
now and November. One month agoit seemed
that the Democracy were making the heaviest
InroadS upon this vote That party seemed to
~ reaping all the benefit of the periodical crav-
ing of the American people for a change Peo-
pie discontented on the score of taxes the dull
ness Of the times, the depression IN particular
business interests, &e.. all seemed 10 be drifting
towards the Democracy.
Dhssat:sfactlon with many of the acts o Z
Congress passed arbitrarily by a party ma lori.
" too powerful TO be polite was the cause of
much luke wsrmness if not absolute boiling
These and other causes were giving the
Democracy an impetus in the campaign that
gave Thoughtful Republicans no little sppre-
henson as TO the result. But the recent ex-
traordInary course. utterances and proceed
ings of leading ex-rebels of the South has
caused an unmi sta kable reaction We hear
nom Maine that the late IL fiammatorv speech =
es OF Howell Cobb, N. Il. Forrest, and Others.
an the South. coupled with'the recent outrages
by the Ku-hlux Klsn organ cation afford ma
tensl that is being used with immense effect
nv the Republican speakers IN the canvass in
that State. The same will b. the fact we doubt
ao'- IN otner States. The people of the North
nave not forgotten the faetthat we have passed
through a great war of rebellion with all its
terrible sacrifices and desola,ions; ana this
haunting CT The red rag of defiance in their
faces for another war, 10y the Cobbs. FORESTS
ana Ioembs' was the craziest of polite al blum.
d-rs on the part of the latter. Almost every
household in the North Is vet IN mourning for
some member who laid down his life i'm that
war; and the most mischievOus thing these
Southern leaders could have possibly done was
70 thus revive In the memory of the sufferers
the faei that they were responsible for .firiue
the Southern he-rt" and raising the strife teat
caused gap AT every fre-side in the country.
Unless tie Democratic leaders are able 10 an.
ply speedy antidote, and show that the great
body OF the people of The South are not respon-
sible for these utterances ana deeds, and have
no sympathy with them, they are likely to COS;
that party hundreds of thousands of votes