The union Democrat., 1868-10-17
NUMBER 10.
Deeeiving Themselves.

Seli-deception is the worst kind of dscep-
tlen, Tor 1t leads its victims into the most
rid,cuious and irretrievable of errors, Last
ran our Republican friends were remarka-
pie ior the magnitude Of their self-ieception.
lacy deceiYed themselves at eyery turn of the
canvass, ana bet their money wildly aud
leoiiShly IN every direction, to their own
sorrow ana pecuniary loss. They were even
giving odds against themselves after the polls
were closed, and after it had become anna-
rent to oil unprejudiced minds that they had
been badly defeated. They appear to 5e the
victims OF the like deluslons this wear. They
follow the same old leaders, listen TO the
same OLD siren song, as tondly clasp to their
bosomS the Same old decisions, as earnestly
strive to deceive themselves, and as wildly
bet their money on the result They deceive
themselves as 10 the vote of the State in this
w'se' Last year, Haight's majority over oil
was near eight Thousand. Twenty thousand
registered voters did not vote. The non.yolers
Will now vote for Grant, say the Republicans.
How do they know thatg What authority
have they for such an assumption? No doubt
many Republicans STAYED away from the
polls because they did not like Gorham, the
present ruler OF the Republican Party
many Democrats, because they did not like
| liaight: AMI many MORE because they cared
nothing about the matter. There is no moro
reason in claiming that the stay-aways are
all Republicans, than there is in claiming
that they are all Democrats. The fact that
the Republicans polled less votes last year
than they did in 1864, amounts to nothing,
tor there are hundreds and hundreds who
voted Tor Lineoln and the Union in 1864, who
will not vote for Grant and universal suffrage.
They deceive themselves by publishing that
Scandinavian Society has one thousand
eight hundred members who will vote for
Grant; whereas the Society has less than
three hundred Scandinavian voters in the
city and of these it is known that great
number are opposed to Grant. They deceive
themselves by getting together some twenty.
five voters of French birth, adding to them
some two hundred Freedoms Defenders, and
parading the whole as French Republican
Club of five hundred voters. They deceive
themselves by declaring their soldiers and
sailors parade--prncpally composed Of poll
teal clubs-to be the largest ever held in the
city whereas it numbered less than twelve
hundred, all told, ascertained by actual count.
And then, again, they deceive themselves by
running around corners, meeting each other,
and talking loudly of their strength-=cf
strength they show 40 evidence of possessing.
They deceive themselves 10 making no ac-
count OF the great increase of the Democratiu
vote, which has been at least two thousand
in this city, and seven thousand in the State.
And thus deceiving themselves, as they dad
last year, they go on and bet their money ON
the State as toolishly, wildly, and noisily, as
they did then, and will, unless a miracle
happens, lose it as ioolishly. If the injury
occasioned by this self-deception were con-
| fined to the ranks of the professional politi-
clans, it would not matter so much. IL is
wider-spread and affects poor men who have
| families to support and who can i'll afford to
lose the money they are induced to wager by
the advice of selfdeceived political leaders,
S. +. CdH.