The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-10-21
The Elections.
The Picayune of Friday says:

1
The dispatches by the Associated
Press. and the private dispatches re.
ceived here, vary SO much, that it il
impossible to get at precise results
The Associated dispatches are common.
ly made mp with q strong Radical bias
and it is good rule always to consid.
er them as exaggerated statements on
that side.
The majorities in Ohio and Pennsyl.
vania are conceded to be Radical; but
the figures sent forward are subject to
liberal deductions, which the official
returns will show. The exaggerationi
of the Maine elections,1 that came of
more than month ago, have been
shrinking from time to time, and have
not yet got down to what are probably
their true proportions. Ohio and Penn
sylvania, as claimed by Radicalism, are
beginning the samo course of contrac-
ton. The Indiana returns are still dis
puted; but it is very evident that the
majority is quite small, in comparison
with the immense number of votes cast,
and that there is margin left 80 small,
that the victors will not be able to re-
lax a single effort, or reduce single
expense, if they expect to retain. in
November, the narrow and debatable
advantages of October.
The calculations that the October
elections would be merely premonitory
Of the results in November, were based
on two grounds. One was, that the
majorities would be SO unequivocal that
it would be useless for the defeated par
ty to take on themselves a renewed
and costly effort to reverse them; and
the other was. that any majority, how
ever meagre, would SO dispirit the bea-
ten, that it would abandon the effort
from mere dependency. A large and
more preponderating majority would
absolve an ascertained minority from
waging a contest that had been made
utterly hopeless. A small and unde-
cisive majority can be made to he q
victory if the adversaries dis
band from mere trepidation. Many a
battle has been lost merely because the
army which first gave was ignorant of
The exhaustion of the other side; and
many battle been won by powerful
and vigorous rally on the field. .G
The question for Novemberis, wheth- |
sr the Radicals can practice every
where else, and receive in Pennsylva-
MA, Indiana and Ohio, the prodigious
,xactions and cost, by which they have
won these slender majorities. The ex-
have been immense, If we
axe the Democratic accounts of what
vas done in the canvass. The frauds
md colonizations have been inuumer-
bile. On the other side, the strain has
'een mainly that Of enthusiasm. The
Democratic party, as mass, lis gener-
lily without money. 1t is the party of
he middle and laboring classes, and
las few in its ranks to.contribute large
=, even to the currentexpenses of cleo
ions; while its adversaries have the ac-
undated plumber of eight years of
rOdigal government, and all the Offices
nd a bondholding class, which will
ay literally for the support of the par I
which promises them the payment
inivuitous demands on the Treasury. q
he contrast in the condition Of the
arty which was SO unfavorable to the
party in the canvass,
lakes it eaiier for them to rally and
'new the struggle, than the party
hich has employed 80 many millions !,
READY, and must renew them largely :
confronted by a bold rally Of the par {
: which, possessing no such advanta- c
IS in the conflict, made 30 near an APP b
roach to a triumph, and needs only un- Il
'ated courage to come back to the Ip
yht with undiminished numbers. Can o
adicalism stand twice over the strain q
labor, and purchase over the fraud g
it'll which it has barely carried doubt Q
l States against the interrupted sense !,
the people; and will the Democrats :
these States come back TO the con- a
ct with unfageing determination n
hese are questions on which no opin- "
n can be formed before we learn from ',
Q North in what temper the late re- y
It's are taken there. If there be fall c.
ring or treachery there, all that will 9
left for us is to take the best care "
can for, ourselves. RAJ. OF
We have now our own part to do, for -
: own sake, and to contribute our -
to the struggle which, in its present :,
'ects, has reached a crisis at which I'd
man who can in the most remote de- til
q help the constitutional cause can III
thhold his effort without being Grim st
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