The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-11-11
WINNSBO4RO, s. G.
Pho result of the Election,

IuC lOoNlV VI Nio biCOGluus
We can scarcely believe that thc
profound and searching cxpositions of
the principles Of free government
which have appeared during thc'can-f
vass and have cmanatcd ,from the
brains of Democratic writer's and
speakers vii prove Intellectual for
good. Htoftcn happens that a parti-
san will not desert his party, but will
be convinced by the logic Of his oppo
ncnts, and will exert his influence
within his party TO disarm opposition
by removing The causcs Of complaint.
ltio thus that great roformcrs seldom
in person accomplish reformation.
Edmund Burke thc,pl,ilanthropist and
Statesman almost invariably voted in
a minority, and yet witl',thc exception
fOl'vcr Cromwell, England never
produced perhaps u greater man.
When the French revolution burst
upon tho world like an immense cen
tlagration in the night, Voltairc, its
great apostle, who kindlcd the sparks
from which 1t sprang, was mouldcring
i'll his grave. John Quinccy Adams,
tho Father Of Abolition, had been dead
over iiftcon years, wAon tho thirteenth
amendment to tho Constitution was
ratified by thrcc.fohrths Of the States.
Calhoun opposed tho Mexican war,
and so did Clay, both predicting that
the territorial questions involved
would dissolve tho Union, and had
either been alive in 1860, l1ow differ.
cnt had bcon tho course of events :!
But thoy wcro dead, and no living
Statesman could command the storm.
1t is not too late, however, to listen to
tho wisdom which in CalLoun's life.
timo was dcspisod, and his groat doc
trinc of the Sovereignty of tho States
will loom up grandly in tho future as n
reality, just as it has played a promi-
nent part in tho fold Of argument and
thought in this canvass. Wo could
accumulate examples of ideas sue
cecding, and forcing themselves into
tact, whcro tho authors of those ideas
failed completely and foil in tho con.
hict for their principles. 1t is not
unreasonable, therefore, to hope, that
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party have not been in vain. Tht
otoraotcr of the legislation for tn,
next four years may bo influenced b,
ideas which will have taken roo,
among the masses, and which hav,
bocn proclaimed by Democratic states
mon during tho Presidential cam
paign.
Fhc character Of tho House of Rep.
rcsentativcs will still be largely rudi.
cal, yot it is to bo hoped that conscr.
vatlves will bc strong enough when
assisted by tho twenty addition
al Democratic votes that this oloctio,
will bring to their MD, to restore te
tho President the prcrogativos Of his
Office. Tho great social and political
question ofraces in tho South will
have better chanco of FREQ dcvclop-
meht and solution under strong Ok
ecat'vo' II is to be hoped, then, that
General Grant will chock Congress.
sional dictation, and maintain tho dig
nifty ofhis ollioo. In this tho country
will unanimously sustain him, cvon if
no should bo compelled to disporsc
Congress at the point Of tho triangu.
lar pioco (pcaco) of stcol, which hc,
with u soldiers procliyity for rough
practical joking, has promised tho 200
pie Of tho Union, if they would Gle It
him,
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