New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-16

Republicans in Maine gave %GOU. III Iooi
You carried your state for Lincoln by
2,4OG, when Maine gave about her present vote.
Your prospect. therefore, is full of hope, if
your men are full of pluck and perse-
verance. We expect to record the vote
of Connecticut for Grant and .Co'fax.
Brethren IN PENNSYLVANIA! The verdict
Of Maine indicates that your success is certain.
You have to overcome a democratic majority
in 1867 of only 922 You ought to exceed your
maiorities of f7.17S in 1866 and 20,O1J in 1864,
and roll up a majority IN Pennsy lyanla OF
10000.
West of Pennsylvania, the struggles warm
in Ohio. and the fight is hot in Indiana But
we feel no misgivings of success there. NOt.a
single star in our consultations Of States of
the West the Northwest, and the Pacific will
dip below the horizon in November ILLINOIS
and Iowa should each give $4,000 majority Tor
Grant and Colfax. The other States will give
as large majoritics in proportion to THEN pop
ulatOn
REPrBIICANs OF THE SOUTHERN STATES You
are passing thsough an ordeal Of fire but with
out this the true gold can never be separated
from the dross. Whether you succeed as you
certainly will if you are permitted fair, iulL
and free vote or whether you shall be driven
back in defeat rs our armies were IN the great
national humiliation of Bull Run the shield OF
the nation covers you, and the right arm Of
the American people will sustain you. Your
immediate foes are those who have once met
us ON the battlefield and who boast their read
mess to defy again the majesty and power OF
the nation. Your cause is ours and our victory
1. VI A
North and South Carolina and Louisiana. We
hope for Georgia, despite the great legislative
crime which the Rebels, too soon INDUCED
with power, have committed against the rights
of two-ffths of tho people OF Georgia.
If you succeed in the other states
we Shall be proud Of your heloism, for none
but heroes can sustain your band-tO-hand
grapplc with our common foe. If you fan,
none have so good reason 10 adhere to the
motto I'VE Hope In Cod whose tour initial
letters. inscribed over tho tents and on the
banners of the freedom loving COycnantcrs OF
Scotland. are said 20 have given rise to the
honorable but quite forgotten name ct
"WMg.r Republicans of the South, lou arc
the men in the gap! Stand bravcly by your
guns, Hitherto hath the Lord helped you.
Your ultimate victory is certain. Four years
of the administration OF Grant, ColiaX, and
Peace will do as much to give you prosperity
as the past eight years have done to give you
freedom.
RRrrgIrctNs or TIE UMoYl You found
the country an aristocracy Of slaves and mas
trrs. of mudsills and mcu-stcaiCrs. You have
made its air too pure to be broathcd by slave.
You were assaed in arms by The marshaled,
drilled and concentrated hosts Of dcpgayity,
dcspotism. and brutality from every corner and
iunglc of the entire nation, and at the cost OF
the blood Of your best and Hoblcst sons, you
struck down every foe Of freedom and the
Union. Finish in honor the noble work which
you havc bo,su,n in fidelity. and carried forward
thus far with brilliant aud Measuring success.
Establish the equal rights of man in harmony
with the integrity Of the states and the SOW
ercignty of the nation. Then the spirits OF the
founders of the Republic will look down upon
your triumph with jos, that what they planned
ana prayed Tor yOu have pccn pciwuted 10
accomplish ON future Republic, with It's
hundred millions Of people. will rccur to the
cycntful era through which We are passing a.
one in which the people were heroic and The
voters were statesmen.