New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-22
rHB LESSON IN NEW HAMpsHIRE.

of Camp street in regard to the late cleo
ton in New Hampshire has been entirely
characteristic. Before it took place they
were glowing with predictions OF success
for their cause. 1t was to be most i'm
portant election, said they-a decisive
affair." The people were to speak in trum-
pet tones in praise of johnson and denun-
citation of congress. Not to put too fine
point on it, it was to be "big thing" in
the way of a victory over the hosts of rad
icalism; and in view of this certain triumph
the usual eloquent editorials and displayed
headings we're prepared.
Well. the election was held, the result
announced, and what had these enter
prising journalists to say? Not word.
Hiding away the returns in mass of
associated press dispatches about fires,
foods, cotton, gold, and other gossip, they
ignored the whole affair as apparently I'M
worthy Of mention. In the hope of con-
cealing their disaster, or in the temporary
paralysis which it produced, they took
counsel of Mr.. Carlyle, and tried the "elo-
quence of silence A fortnight rolls
away, and feeling it impossible to
longer conceal their significant defeat,
they begin to figure the returns
and to fabricate the means of consolation.
They announce strange discoveries in
mathematics. The Democrats have gained
four thousand votes, and it was not after
all much Of defeat, In fact it was con-
siderable viotory-if you only happen to
view it in that light. To be sure these
terrible radicals came out about twenty
seven hundred votes ahead, and must there
fore have gained about as many votes as
the Democrats, but no matter.
1t would have been more becoming in
these able editors if they had frankly con-
fessed the results of the New Hampshire
election and taken its lesson to heart. We
will tell them what that lesson is, and we
can not do so better than in the eloquent
and truthful words of General Sickles, ut
tered in response to a serenade given him
in New York on the evening of the 18th
instant:
The published estimates of the Demo-
cratic state committee ostentatiously
claimed a majority of thousands. It was
known that our vote would be diminished,
because considerable numbers of the native
population had emigrated to the West and
South 1t was known that the opposition
had naturalized great number of foreign
ers. The most artful appeals were made
to excite distrust among the population.
Every vote that could be reached by venal
interest was secured by lavish expenditure.
On our side, General Hartman, our candi-
date for governor. carried the same flag he
galIantly followed through the war. On it
was inscribed an suspicious name, name
ever synonymous with Ourscause, and with
honor, and with viotory-the illus
trious name of Grant. At the roll
OF the drum and the sound of
the bugle, our cOlOTs were uniurled and
the boys in blue rallied, and advanced
leading the long line Of battle from the
mountain to the sea, and victory was ours
Seven years of sacrifices have
not shaken the fortitude and eenstancy of
the people. The result has no common
place significance. 1t is an emphatic
declaration that no institution, no party, no
man shall stand in the WY of the exeeu-
ton of the will of the people when that
will has become the law Of the land In
the great issue presented in the pending
contest between the legislative and the
executive power, the first state which has
spoken sustains its representatives in
congress. New Hampshire in elect
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The policy and the leaders of the
Union party are announced. In March we
have carried New Hampshire in April
Connecticut will follow. In May the con
troversy between the president and con
gress will terminate as according TO right
and Justice it should terminate. And be-
fore the first of June the convention Of the
people who put down the rebellion will
present the name Of Grant as their choice
for the presidency. If these are radical
triumphs then Doneison, VicksbuTg, Gettys-
burg, Winchester, Atlanta, Appomattox
Courthouse, and the naval victories of Far
ragut, Porter, WinsloW, and Worden are all
others will have it so. The peo-
their viii and the custodian Of their power.
The people sustain Stanton, statesman Of
the old Roman type-sterH, steadfast, and
true. His genius, symmetrical and staunch,
like the arch. the more pressure his adver-
saries put upon him the more he can bear.
The people sustain Grant; they see in him
the man for the occasion. As the second in
augurati0n Of Lincoln In 1865 terminated
the war, 80 will The election Of Grant in
1868 settle peacefully on the basis of Jus
tice all the disturbing questions which have
been precipitatea upon Us since hostilities