The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-24
The Democracy and Their November
Allies.
From The ". 7. World.

Allies.
From the ~ Y. World.
1t is not thing to be surprised at that the
Democracy should find it difficult to adjust
themselves to the new state of facts disclosed
to them by the October elections and by our
bare failure to grasp the success for which all
patriotic hearts in our ranks had yearned. 1t
is at all times difficult for men to comprehend
the whole bearing and final issue of new and
surprising state of facts, aud to adjust them
selves to those facts and their consequences
promptly. Yet in great things and in small
things this prompt adjustment is the law of
health and life.
To the Democracy it is particularly difficult,
because the very qualities which extort the
admiration of their friends and foes alike are
the very ones which hinder a prompt adjust
ment. Their vigorous spirit their indomita-
BILE pluck, their steadtast aud unfatering
courage, all inspire them, on the morrow Of a
defeat, to close up the ranks, form solid
columns, and rush again with undiminished
ardor to the field. This very pluck and
courage it is which hinders some Of our friends
from seeing the fact, and adjusting themselves
to the fact, exposed nakedly by the October
elections, that fifty to hundred thousand
conservative Republicans in Pennsylvania and
as many more in Ohio and Indiana, really be-
lieved that Governor Stymour's administra-
tiOn would be retroactive and revolutionary in
the South. At least that number of men
really believed, absurd as it must seem to
every Northern Democrat that the govern
ments set up at the South, unconstitutional as
they clearly are, revolutionary as they have
been by Thaddeus Stevens avowed to be, and
void as they must be deemed, since the Supreme
bench, filled with Republican judges, is known
to have pronounced them suoh-two hundred
thousand conservative men, not open Demo-
Gratis, we say, have been shown by the October
elections to be laboring under the dslusion
that Governor SeymOur's administration
would by violence overthrow those bastard
governments begotten of violence; the delu-
sion that the bullet and the bayonet would be
called into requisition to break down what the
bsyonet built up.
1t seems incredible to our friends, now in
| the heat of a momentous contest, and con-
| scious that all their purposes are as patriotic
as the purposes of the radicals are revolu-
tionary, determined as they are that all the
remedies they propose shall be as peaceful as
| the wrongs they combat have been violeut,
| that anybody should credit the monstrous
perversions based upon General Blairs
Brodhead letter, and upon garbled versions
| of the speeches of Southern leaders. Bat the
October elections disclosed to the eyes of all
discerning politicians the astounding fact that
nearly quarter of million of voters in three
| great States, who ought to be with us, were
! given over to believe lie.
The World means to throttle this monstrous
lie. Let it but be expelled from the imagina-
tions of all men, and the triumph of the De-
mooracy in November is sure. But for this
lie the Republican party this very hour would
be stone dead. For that party cannot survive
one defeat 1t could not have survived de-
! feat in two out of the three States which voted
| in October.
That this lie might be throttled we called
! with such earnestness upon Governor Sey-
| mour to quit the retirement which custom
rather than sound reason has prescribed to
| Presidential candidates, and besought him to
! speak that authentic word which to-day goes
forth to the country, and to assume that pro-
minence in the canvass which he has now
| assumed, and which belongs to him both as
| our standard bearer aud as the only officer
! upon our ticket who if elected would have
one word 10 say, one thing to do, which by
! any possibility could de ermiue the issues OF
peace or strife. For General Blair as Vice
| President, il elected, would have less power
to determine those issues than fractious
sheriff in the middle of Mississippi might.
! On ship under full SAIL in q dark night,
| q Gipgle lightning flash may reveal to the
| watcbful lookout at the mast head some
peiilous reef which the pilot must avoid ii all
their precious freight is not to be wrecked.
The October election disclosed with one illu-
minatiDg stroke our single peril. With
prompt and decisive alacrity our captain him
self has seized the helm.
Governor Seymour's brief speech at Roches-
ter, which we published in full ON Thurs
day, and his ampler speech at Buffalo,
will command the attention of the whole
country. To the candid Judgment of the we'll
meaning men in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and
Ohio, who have been deluded by the false
hoods of our foes to dread the fictitious horrors
conjured up in a possible future, and to avert
their gaze from the real horrors (due to our
present rulers) which have been and now are,
we especially commend Governor Seymours
speeches. Let them read his plain and manly
words, let them give heed to his patriotic
warning, and then make haste to repair the
wrong they have done in giving to the authors
of our calsmities, by miscast votes in the o.
tober elections, one hours hope of another
four years. lease of power.