The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-08

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o-called Confederate States, from the bat
tie field of the first Bull Run, saw the Union
army routed and flying in confusion over the
opposite hills, en- route for Washington, he
was filed with the inspiring vision OF the final
triumph of his Southern Confederacy. Ten
years later, we find the same jefferson Davis
at Selma, Ala, expressing the hope, nay, the
conviction, to crowd of sympathizing friends,
of the ultimate triumph of the Southern prin-
clples of State sovereignty which went down
with his Southern rebellion. 1t appears, too,
that this hope was inspired from the remark
able success of the democrats In the late New
| Hampshire election. But, as the first Bull
Run, from its tremendous moral effect upon
the awakened North, was the greatest calamity
that could have happened to the South ern
rebel cause, SO it appears this New Hamp-
shire election, in it's moral reaction, promises
TO be more disastrous to the democratic party
than would be whole year Of local defeats
from Maine TO California.
| We find, in the very midst of the Civilizations
of the dem ocracy, North and South, over New
| Hampshire, an apparent political reaction
from Connecticut to Kentucky, and from Ken
lucky to Wisconsin, which suddenly changes
the whole face of the political situations. With
the republican defeat in New Hampshire it did
appear that General Grant and the party in
| power were On the road to ruin; that Sumner
and St. Domingo, Schurz and "revenue
REFORM" Trumbull and free trade, Fenton and
the New York Custom House, and variety of
such personal dsfections and factious wran g.
lings in Congress and out of Congress, had so
demoralizad the republicans, rank and file, as
to promise nothing better than q scrub race
| among the factions for the succession. On the
other hand, it appeared that the democracy
were gaining strength, as they certainly were
gaining confidence from day to day. They were
sanguine of sweeping Connecticut as they had
swept New Hampshire. Election morning
at New Haven found them boasting Of victory;
the evening found them defeated and chop
| fallen. Various elections in other States
occurring on the same day came in with the
| same story. New Hampshire had done the
| business. The old copperhead element Of the
North, and tho old unrcconstructed Southern
rights, and State sovereignty, and secession
fire eaters of the South encouraged by New
Hampshire, had come to the front, and in bold
speeches, and newspaper manifestoes, and by
the increased Outrages of the Southern Ku
Klux Klans in incendiary fires, and savage
assassinations Of obnoxious "carpet- baggers"
and negroes of the Union League, had re-
vived the old issues of the war, and the old
Union war spirit Of the North.
This is the explanation Of these late cleo
tons. With the democratic victory in New
Hampshire the cloven foot Of the rebellion
was brought into the foreground, and when
even JEFF Davis from this victory began to see
the ultimate triumph Of the ''lost cause" the
| Union party Of the war were reused as by
an alarm bell, and what do we see?
| We see that as long as the demo-
cratic party, directly or indirectly, I'M
| dertakes to fight upon the issue OF 1864,
that ''the war is failures" or upon the issue
of 1868, that the reconstruction acts Of
Congress and the concurrent amendments of
the constitution are Unconstitutional revolu-
tionary, null and void, SO long will this party
be soundly thrashed for its insolence and its
stupidity. Keep alive the issue that the three
hundred and fifty thousand Union soldiers of
the war who died that the nation might live,
and that the sovereignty Of the United States
over the individual States should be
established, all died in vain; keep alive the
issue that the national debt, now reduced to
twenty-three hundred millions, will, with the
success Of the democracy, be wiped out as
nothing better than the rebel debit keep it
before the people that democratic President
and Congress will restore the State rights of
the South as they existed under Buchanan,
and that tae black race will be returned to the
status of the bred Scott DECISIONS as having
''no rights which white men are bound to
respect" and the course is clear for the
| republican party, with General Grant or with
any other candidate, against all secondary
questions.
! Can it be that the ruling spirits of the
democracy, like the Paris Jacobins, are gov
erned only by blind spirit Of revenge; or
can it be that they are the old Bourbons, who
'nevcr learn anything and never forget any
thing?" Have they not had enough of defeats
! on the issues of the war, or do they desire
another SERIES which will finish them3 If
! they do, they will be accommodated. General
| Grant, in fact has revived these issues of the
war against them, and they mast change
their base or they arc gone. The leading demo-
! cratic organ of this city is beginning to
appreciate the necessity to the party of
change OF base II says "the time has come
when it should be fully understood by the
South that the Northern democracy do not in
tend to fight that battle Con negro suffrage,
| &c.) over again, and that no democratic vic
tory in the North will bear such construction
tina. such hopes entertained by some of the
! Southern journals faacious; that "the