The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-16


or tho Country.
The late elections have opened the way for
a new impulse and new epoch in the mate
rial interests and prosperity of the country.
The pulse Of Wall street indicates healthy
and vigorous condition of our financial affairs
and confidence in the future, resting upon the
satisfactory assurances from Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, Of General Grants election
as our next President. The people have al
ready chosen him, and the November national
his popular and electoral majorities. The
people have decreed that, as with Washington,
he who was first in the war shall be first in
the new dispensation Of peace. Satisfied that
in General Grant we shall have a safe, sound,
conservative President, all the financial and
country are preparing now and will soon begin
to extend their operations. No approximations
are entertained in any quarter of any financial
shock under Grants administration no fears
of any new Southern disorders from any vio-
lent or revolutionary experiments Of Southern
North and South, Of all parties, races and
colors, have an abiding faith that under Grant
his acceptable proposition, 'Let us have
peace" will be peace, genuine peace, and
new era of prosperity and progress utterly
eclipsing our greatest advances under any
preceding administration.
The intelligence Of the American people is
equal to all emergencies. Education" said
Edmund Burke, lis the cheap defence of ma
tons" and here we have it so thoroughly diff
fused through the body polite as to make ours
the strongest national government on the face Of
the globe. If all the republics of the past-of
Greece, Rome, Venice and all the rest of
them-were failures they failed because the
masses Of their people lacked the intelligence
necessary to govern and protect themselves.
Looking at these precedents, however, the
| European enemies of the 'Great Republic
with the outbreak Of our gigantic Southern
rebellion, pronounced the Union dissolved,
and with 1t the downfall Of popular ideas in
both hemispheres. But. much to the astonish-
ment of the Old World feudal arstocrats,
kings and kaisers, our Southern rebellion
was suppressed, and with the abolition of that
| old trouble Of Southern slavery the Union has
| come out Of this fiery ordeal tenfold stronger
| than ever. We are indebted for all this to the
patriotism and intelligence of the great body
| of the people OF the loyal States. Had
there been the same general diffusion Of
| education among the people of the rebel
| States-taking only the whites, If you please
| there would have been no Southern rebellion.
| II was not Lincoln who carried our loyal peo-
| pie through the war; but il was this people
| who carried through Lincoln, Congress and
| the Union cause. Lincoln was not the leader,
but the follower Of the people.
So in these late elections, the democracy
having set up an Objectionable ticket and plat
| form for the Presidential succession, the people
| of the States known In the war as the loya
States have pronounced still another judg
ment against the old secession leaders, dog
mas and dangers of the democratic party
| From the year 1SG0-yes, from the year 1854
and from year to year down to this day-ir
sharper or milder terms, as the case required
the people have set their faces against these
old heresies OF the Southern secession leader:
and their Northern followers. So when, II
1868, these old secession leaders assume thei
old places in the front seats OF the democratic
sanctuary, the intelligent people Of the North
ern States seize the first opportunity to rejec
them and send them all adrift, leaders and fol
lowers This is very perpexng to our Bour
bon democratic politicians They have not a
yet got out Of the old ruts of the Alban,
Regency Of thirty odd years ago. In thos
good old times a little junta at Albany,
little junta at Richmond and kitchen cabne