Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-05
We bold il morally certain that the States
here subjoined will choose Grant and Colfax
elrofora ~ daciaad unaforifiea.


Add to these either Pennsylvania or
Ohio, or Indiana with Nebraska or Neva-
da, and the Republican ticket is elected.
1D
But the belts of Central States, beginning
with Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, 10 end with Indi-
ana, will be stubbornly contested.
And in speaking of the probabilities in
New York, the Tribune adds: .I o.
:. Last fall, the Republican vote wac not
nearly polled out. There were many thou
sands Of Republicans out of the State-in
Europe, in the South, Id The West, ete.-
on the day Of our last State election.
A glance at the list of those States
which are set down as decidedly in favor
of the Radical nominees, and Of those
others where their election will be Stub
bOrnly contested shows the very res
markable circumstance that precisely
those States which mainly represent the
mercantile and industrial capacity of the
country, those which are inhabited by
the wealthiest, the most thriving and the
most substantial part of thswh ole Amer
lean people, in every respect, are pro
nounced as doubtful supporters of the
Radical ticket New Y ork and p Pennsyl>
vania, Ohio and Indiana, Connecticut
and New Jersey, Kentucky, Oregon and
California, Missouri and East Virginia
that is to say, the States which are the
representatives of all the predominant
elements Of the country strength seem,
even in the eyes of hopeful Radicals, to
be recognized as lost to their cause (;
whilst the strength of the Radical party
lies, according to their own statement in
combination of those States which,
forming the circumference of so vast
an empire, are by necessity, the repre-"
sentatives of the most diseordant inter
ests IL would be evident at once that
there is something forced and fictitious
in the partisan sisterhood of States like
Vermont and Florida, or Massachusetts,
and Georgia, or Michigan and the CarON
linas, did we not know the exact tricks
and manipulations by which the Radical
maiorities in the Southern States were
created. A look at the Tribunes list
would convince anyone that only by fraud
and force States could have been Radi.
Called, whose history and situation, po'
litical and sectional, would exclude any
partisan association with the few ianati.
eally Radical States. If, therefore, the
Radicals should succeed, the next Presi'
dent would not only not represent th'
strength, the wealth and the predominant
element of this republic, but he would
not even represent true combination o
all the secondary ingredients of thu
Union; for, in the sheer interest of 8
party, thel pOliti cal complexion of one
half of the States to elect him viii have
been falsifed
The truth is, that were it not for the
outrageous Radical reorganization" o
the Southern States, they might just as
well peddle their Presidential ticket il
the various States of the Celestial empir,
as in this country, and expect as many
supporters among the Chinese as here.
The result Of last falls elections, as il
New York, Tor instance, was an evidenc,
of the impending ruin Of this Radica
party. Bat the Tribune explains il
MANY thousands of Republicans wer
out ofthe State-in Europe, in heSouth
in the West |" May the Tribune succee,
in comforting its party with this explana
ton We promise that not singl
word shall fall from our lips by which
Conservative voter who has any basiDes
South or West or in Europe, may b
prevented from pursuing his errsnd
a party must depend on the few thousan
travellers who may be absent on electiO
day, it had better make up its bundle
and travel also