The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-08
The Terrible COunter.R pollution APP

are mounting up for the democratic majority
The last returns, which we published yester-
day, set down eighty thousand majority for
Stevenson, the democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, and these returns represent the country
districts from which they come in slowly, and
win probably show larger gains, according as
they are received The result Of the June
election in Oregon was quite as remarkable an
evidence that the people are awake to the null
hilarious mischief which the radical party has
wrought in its administration of the govern
ment. We cannot therefore, shut our eyes to
the direction of these straws which show how
the wind blows. The republican majority in
Oregon in 1866 was 1927; the democratic ma
jority for member of Congress (the solitary
one who represents that young Sta.e) was, at
the election of the first Monday in June, 1868,
1,2O9. Here was gain of the anti-radical
party of over fifteen hundred votes in voting
population of about twenty thousand. Taking
these two States as an example, we will find
that the people are not abandoning their hos
tility to the wanton and dangerous policy of
the ruling faction, which during three years
of peace has increased the national debt and
kept up war prices and war taxation. The
Kentucky election has taken place since the
Presidential nominations of both parties were
made; and yet so far from the nomination of
the radical convention strengthening the back
bone Of the faction, or the nomination of Sey-
mour and Blair weakening the spinal column
of the democracy in that State, they have
turned events the other way These results
are but the early indications (the skirmish
fire as it were) of the great revolutionary
battle which is about to open. If the other
State elections which are to come off between
this and the Presidential contest in November
should happen to give like indications of popu-
lar hostility to the radical usrpations and
corruptions, who can tell but that the pominees
Of the Chicago Convention may be over
whelmed by the weight of radical maladmin-
istration since the rebellion was wound up by
General Grant that they have to carry on
their shoulders? If we look at the facts which
confront the people when they come to vote,
we find that taxes to the amount of three thou
sand millions of dollars hare been imposed
upon us. We find that the national debt has
been increased to the tune of three thousand
millions more. And this, when the country is
at peace and the people had right to hope
for reduction of taxes and the national obli-
CATION as the fruit Of victory won, God knows
with what terrible sacrifices to every home |
and hearth in the country. But instead of the |
load being lightened We are called on to bear
further exactions to submit to increased ex-
penditures. In order to keep portion Of the |
country in subsection more troops are called |
for. Men foisted into Congress from the |
Southern States, and Governors who really re-
present little more than mock constituency,
demand from the government an expensive
army to assist them in carrying out schemes
and ambitions which are purely partisan and
are positively destructive of the peace and
good of the country. 1t is facts like these
which meet intelligent men of all parties when
they come to cast their votes and we cannot
be surprised that maJorities are found to pro-
test emphatically against continuance Of this
kind Of government.
The people demand a change. and il is the
people, and not any particular party, who will
make the issue at the approaching election.
Names and individual candidates count for
very little in this contest. 1t is a cheap gov
eminent, honestly administered in view of the
fact that the country is at peace. which the
people require. A serious counter evolution,
therefore, terrible to the politicians, no doubt,
but good and wholesome for the people-be-
cause it Is being born of the peoples at
hand. Nothing but the marvellous activity of
our population and the untold resources of the
country could enable us to bear the present
burden Of taxation or induce us to submit to
carry it so long. But it is evident that reac-
ton has set in, and it may he that in the course
of events as now foreshadowed the next cleo
tons will result in sending majority to Con-
gress possibly in favor of Reputation, but GER
tainly in favor of a vast reduction Of the
present ENORMOUS taxation. The public mind
leans that way. Let us have peace, real
peace is the popular cry, and the popular
heart naturally yesrns for the possession Of
that prosperity which should accompany peace.
The result of the Presidential election may be
80 vaguely decided in the conflict between the
rights of the Northern and Southern States in
the matter of franchise as regulated by radical
legislation as to drift us into another civil war
but il is clearly the duty of the Northern States
to set the seal emphatically upon the issue by
their votes and leave nothing to chance or no
opening for conflict. The expression Of anti
radical sentiment in the late elections in Ken
lucky and Oregon is but the precursor of
great counter-revolution, upon the verge of
which the country stands this moment.
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consents to pay that portion Of the debt Of the
territory lately taken from the Papal domain