The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05

Inc NcW YORK w ORD has arranged
in table the results shown by the vo-
ting of the seventeen Northern States
which held general elections during the
past year,
The aggregates are as follows:
democrats. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l.5IG507
iiadlca!s ...............,......1 1,55f,9l5
Democratic majority ty.............. 2l,5G2
This does not include the results of
such elections AS were held in Indiana
and Illinois, which also showed large
accessions to the Democratic vote,
enough to prove that il there had been
general elections, large additions would
be made to the Democratic majority
stated above.
The general result, taking into the
account fair estimate of the votes of
the States that have not held elections,
shows that on the issues between the
two parties as they had been develop
ed months ago, the public opinion OF
the Northern States, meaning thereby
the States represented in Congress at
the most, was nearly equally divided.
The majority for Mr.. Lincoln in those
States in 1864 was little over 420, 900
votes. 1t is proof of a strong reac-
ton that such majority should have
been amnulled within three years; or we
might say within space OF less than
one year, since the reaction began to
develop itself only year ago, as soon
as the congressional policy exhibited it.
self in plain colors. The influences
which begat this reaction have strength
cncd since those votes were cast. The
|law!cssness, sellishncSs and cruelty,
against which the popular Indignation
was manifested in these protesting votes
have grown more arrogant, defiant and
greedy, since they were cast, and the
voice Of condemnation is rising higher.
1t is morally certain that if fair gen
sral election could be taken now the
total Radical poiicywould be condemn
cd, and its author voted cut Of power.
The great struggle OF th.tt faction is to
get themselves Gntrcnched in authori-
ty under perverted forms until they can
create outside influences, not known to
the constitution, to support them there
before the Judgment Of the people can
reach them.
The Figures we have quoted above
enable US to sec the accidental sources
Of the power which the dominant par
ty wields with such overwhelming as
tendency in Congress. The Demo
cratic vote in these seventeen States
is l,576,507, and its majority over the
Radicals is Il, l,562. The Democrats
have, nevertheless, only seven of the
thirty-four Senator's to which these sew
entcen States are entitled.
1t may be also noted that one Of the
Radical Senators, Mr.. Cattell, Of New
Jersey, holds his seat agrinst The will
of his State, by virtue of an act Of this
Radical majority of the Senate, which
turned out Mr.. Stockton, 4 Democrat,
on frivolous pretence, in order to get
a Radical vote in his place, furnished
to them in that interval of New Jer-
sey politics, when the Legislature was
for the moment on their side.
In the House of Representatives, the
Radicals, representing less than half
of the voters in these seventeen States,
have 104 to 33 Democrats. q positive
majority OF II in the House, two to
one, against the majority Of voters de-
clared at the polls. This majority
against them is constantly increasing
Nevertheless they gain in arrogance as
they lose their hold on the people, and
are hUrrying in the levies from outside
of the constitution, to save themselves
from being overthrown by the majority
of those who remain within it.