St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-10-30

on uesday see that every man whose
name is on the check list votes
Sensible English Opinion OF the
Democratic Party.
1t is rare indeed to find in an English
Journal any really sensible and truthful
representation OF the questions at issue in
American politics. The American cor
respondents and the English editors are
alike given to Misrepresentation OF the
actual condition OF affairs, and ii is only
a natural consequence that the views oil
the English pubic upon our political
questions should be iliberal and one-sd-
ed. We are glad to find in a recent
number of the London Economist a
thoughtful and candid article upon 'Erhe
Democratic Cause in America" and We
make the following extract from the ar
ticlo to show our readers that the Econ
omist-the leading financial Journal il
| Englahd-thoroughly understands tie
significance of the struggle between the
two great parties:
I'VE deem it a duty 10 place clearly
before our readers tue real significance OF
the political struggle of which General
Grants and Mr.. Horatio Seymour
claims for the presidency are the nomi-
nal subject And we do not speak with
out weighing well our words, and care
fully pruning away every tendency to cX-
agseration, when we say that the victory
OF Mr.. Horatio Seymour would mean,
to all intents and purposes, the success OF
party bent on precisely the same end-
and proposing to accomplish those ends
in very nearly the same way As the ends
which Mr.. Jefferson Davis had in view
before the war. and which he hoped and
intended no doubt TO accomplish without
appealing TO that dangerous, and As it
proved to him. fatal ordeal. We do not
mean that Mr.. Eloratlo Seymour himself
contemplatcs such an issue Of his success,
much less that all his Northern support
crs contemplate it. But neither did the
late President Buchanan. who was Il
mere tool in Mr.. Jefferson Davis hands,
contemplate the fatal end to which his
party pushed him on; nor. OF course.
lid Mr. liuchanan's many honest sup
porters in the North contemplate til,
goal to which they We're made the in
Struments of urging their country What
we maintain is that recent events have
shown, what all political experience
equally shows, that in party like Mr..
! cymour's, composed OF many and vari-
Gus clements, .T,!A IL" strictly i'e;:i coz
stituionalists Of the North to the r,yivi-
fed tirr-eatcrs OF the South. the extrrtn,
and tanatlcal clements are quite sure to
take the lead, aud 10 carry the moder-
atcs with them, just, undoubtedly, a,
/ they mana cd to DO at the recent Demo
cratic Convention, whel they Contrivcd
10 eliminate Mr.. Chase from the list OF
I their Presidential candidates. and subSti-
tute for him a man known TO b. weak
and Inalleable to the views OF politicians
stronger ana more violent than himself.
And now on what grounds do We say
/ that precisely the same end, are cyntcul-
plated 10y the true leaders Of the party
who have selectejt Mr.. Seymour tor the,
candidate as were contemplated by the
leaders of the party who, twelve YEAR
ago, selected Mr.. buchanan Il, their can.
didatc! We say 20 because Mr.. sly
lnour is supported at the South by par
ty who, Ill every State, are workin" IN
riously, frequently using the most violcn
and toulest, and, in muliituIe- ot in.
stances, the mcst bloody means to und,
tic greatest revolution which has .-ivci
10 the negroes of the Son;h Tie luil right
Of citizens; because the most conspicu
ous men OF the secession epoch, men Ink
Mr. Ioombs ot Georgia, General Wai
Hampton of South Carolina, Genera
Forrest (of the Fort Pillow massacre.
men of unqucstionable audacity and to
| naCity of purpose, axe the leaders Of tn
. Seymour party at the South. and are al
, ready hounding it on to the reacuOnar
measures so premature tor their owl
purpose). and 80 daring that those peopi
must indeed be blind, and blind to yer
blaze of light, who do not read intention
80 candidly and so practically avowed. -