The New York herald., 1871-03-16

lumbus and his ships crews was the discovery
World than are the results of the New Hamp-
shire election to the ecstatic democracy. This
| election to them reveals the boundless pros
pect Of new world in all the splendors of
tropical luxuriance it clears the way to
Washington and opens the doors of
the White House, of Congress and
the Treasury Department to the enthu-
siastic and hungry democrats, from Maine
to Texas and from Coney Island to California.
| Since 1860 they have suffered a succession OF
disastrous defeats only surpassed by the dis
asters Of the French armies in the late war.
from the Rhine to the Seine and the Loire
the government has been turned inside out,
the institutions of the South have been turned
upside down; Southern pro-slavery confede
racy has been overthrown by million of
Union bayonets, slavery has been abolished,
negro suffrage is established; a Mississippi
''ngger" has been advanced to the seat of JEFF
! Davis in the Senate, and five ''colored gem
men, this day are among the Representatives
of the South in the national House Of Repre-
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/ These are the astounding results of ten
years of democratic exclusion from power and
of ten years of radical supremacy by the will
of the people The consequences are revo-
luton in the United States as radical as that
which followed in France the first expulsion
| of the Bourbons. But this revolution has
run its course, and in New Hampshire the
rejoicing democratic journals assure us a
reactionary revolution has set in, which means
nothing less and nothing else than the resto-
ration of the Bourbons and ''the constu-
ton of our fathers" But what does this
mean? According to an extract from Georgia
| journal-the Augusta Chr0nicle-lying before
us, it means, with the election of a democratic
President and Congress, convention of the
States to rectify the constitution and to ''undo
every result of the war !" it means the recon-
struction of the Supreme Court and the re-
storation Of State sovereignty, which includes
the right Of secession to the Southern States
and their constitutional right to set up South
ern confederacy, as expounded by Buchanan.
This is Southern democratic view of the
the restoration, excepting slavery, of ''the
Union as it was" under Buchanan, the last of
the democratic line Of Presidents If, how
ever, the States are restored to that status
they can each regulate their blacks to suit
themselves. But what is the Northern de-
mocratic programme with their restoration to
power. They accept the constitution as
amended, negro suffrage and all; but they
look to the South, as of old, for the balance of
power. Even in 1868, to secure this old
Southern democratic balance of power, they
adopted, on the motion of General Wade
Hampton, as a plank in their Presidential
platform, a resolution declaring the whole
Southern reconstruction system ''unconstitu-
tional, revolutionary, null and void )" and here
| is the danger to the Democratic Convention of
| 1872. The Southern democracy will be apt to
demand this resolution again, and, if so, how
can it be denied them? Yet it is probable that
the democrats, learning wisdom from expert
ence, will avoid this rock and gain the day upon
side issues, when, if they choose, they can
bring up the main question to some purpose.
But what are the dangers Of the repub-
licans? They are numerous and threatening.
They are the dangers of disaffected leaders,
such as Sumner, Trumbull, Ferton, Schurz
and others-the dangers of wrangling cliques
and factions over the spoils-the spo(ls of
Tammany and the spoils of the Custom House
such cliques and factions as we have in this
city, where even the philosopher Greeley
finds it difficult to distinguish between the
party claims of the republican servants Of
Tammany and the straight-out adherents of
General Grant. There is the danger of the
intrigues of disafected party leaders and
free trade organs to supersede General Grant.
How far these disaffected leaders are embittered
against him may be inferred from the opinions
which we publish to-day from Senator Sum-
ner of General Grant as statesman. Wen
| dell Phillips, too, as boter, shows that he is
with Sumner for leaving the island of st.
Domingo to the supremacy of the African race,
| and dead against General Grant. And here
| is the danger of further losses to the admins
tration from those old radicals Of one idea,
! negrophobia Then there is the danger of the
revenue reformers," or free trade repub-
cans, and of the labor and temperance reform
ers; and, above all, there is the danger of
these oppressive and superfuous internal and
external Congressional taxes, which are
steadily operating to reconcile the masses Of
the people to all the hazards of short cut
and sharp remedy, and which are surely
strengthening the democrats and weakening
the republican party from day to day.
Let General Grant, however, carry through
| his st. Domingo annexation scheme, with the
confirmation of feasible ship canal route
across the Isthmus of Darien; and let him
secure satisfactory and comprehensive treaty
touching our outstanding accounts against