Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-11-07
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SATURDAY, NOV. ?, 1863.
THE RETURN OF PEACE.

On the third OF November the reso-
lutte will of the American people declar-
ed for peace. Gen. Grant was the can
didato who embodied this fervent hope,
and he will be The President to accom-
phsh its fruitiop. The result has been
reached through a campaign as peculiar
in it's features as it has been grand in
its development, and has shown our TO-
reign friends, no less than or domestic
enemies, that ihc integrity OF the nation
is watched WITH the same jealous care
that struggled through four years of
war to maintain It's life. Since the
death of our lamrnted Lincoln than
whom was ever statesmen more SIN
cerely moulned p the country has
been cropping through labyrinth Of
reconstruction measures, framed by the
intelligent representatives of Il people
capable OF sels-government The We
tees of an accidental President whose
egotism and obstinacy arc the twin
disciples that have rested in his bosom,
and the notifying "reminiscences that
attach to the necessity of impeaching
the associate and successor of Abraham
Lincoln.
We have waited with the same for
boarance, when seeing the will of the
majority thwarted by ireaehery, that
we exercised before the Republican
party could institute reforms by legal
means and inteIpose it's strong arm in
defense Of assaulted honor; we have
manifested The same patience (which
the South nlisinterpreted as cowarlice
when arrogantly asserting their supe
rior power and the damage they in
tended il should infict,) while curling
our Indignation in the sure hope of vim
dicatiug our supremacy ut the ballot
box, that we cultivated when arsenals
we're depleted at the North TO supply
those at tho South and war vessels
we're dispatched to the remotest cor
ners Of the world But now that the
conflict of rhetoric has closed, and the
triumph Of Republican principles been
assured, we can contemplate the posi-
ton with some degree of philosophy.
Tho impression which seems to be
so generally INDUCED, that the unset
tied state of business affairs which has
oppressed us so long is to give place to
feeling of security, is too universal
to be thought hopeless.
For the past few years the markets
for ali descriptions Of merchandise IN
this country have been unsteady aud
nnctuatiug. The western merchants
have bought sparingly, creating dull.
ness in trade which has caused no little
annoyance. Happily, with few nnim-
portaut exceptions, the money market
has been free from stringency, though
complaints of scarcity OF currency in
the west has reached us from time to
time. But the great cause of all the
timidity which has been manifested
among business men has arisen from
our political embarrassment. Sagaci-
Gus men, even while believing beyond
a doubt that Gen. Grant would be
elected could not help regarding our
future with some apprehension. Until
the thing were Gone it was NOT abso
lutely sure. II ,u;ght be "a slip
'twixed cup and hip, and that discre
ton, which is the better part of valor,
was exhibited in waiting and watching,
The feeling Of anxious speculation as
to how far the South would dare so in
protecting the " Kn Klux' in their out
RACES on Union men-that vague unrest
regarding some dreaded coup d'etot Of
President johnson, by which still fur
Their encouragement might be given to
the spirit of rebellion, and that half
defined fear, that by some unforeseen
contingency We might not he victorious
after all, have yielded TO proud sense
of the reliance that can be placed in
the American people. When the
emergency arises they are at their
posts stanneh and true. And now that
tue q.sctiuu oi Grant has been assured,