The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-05

democracy. They gave too large oonstrnc-
tiop to their unexpected victory in New Hamp-
shire. We told them next morning that as an
election gone by default 1t was "a tempes. In
q teapot;" but they could see in 1t nothing less
and nothing else than the Inauguration OF
sweeping political revolution. So they ex-
pected to carry Connecticut rs by whirl-
wind, and in their own expressive express
sion, ''they have como out Of the little end
Of the horn" And how do they account
for their unexpected defeat? They say that
il is due to the new element OF the colored
vote and to the vigorous work OF republican
reporters. But, although the colored vote
was so much clear gain to the republican,, II
does not meet the case. As for the repeaters,
that is a game In which the democrats are
supposed to be as expert as their adversaries.
The poets of the Eoening Post say that
Governor English was defeated because he
was too closely allied with Mr.. Tweed and
the Tammany ring" and that the success. Of
the republicans in electing three Congressman
is due to the fact that their candidates were
known as revenue and civil service reformers
but what this classification signifies we do not
clearly understand.
Another evening contemporary, the CONNER
ciol Adccrtiser, says that this Connecticut
election shows that the democratic reaction
has less reality than was claimed for it ! that
''thcre was loud republican thander on Mon
day all round the sky" from State election
in Michigan from municipal elections in
Evansville, Indiana; Danville and Harrods-.
burg, Kentucky; Annapolis and Towsantown,
Maryland; and from Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Wooster and Akron, Ohio, all of which went
republican; aud that these elections "dispel
the dolusio1 that Grant is dividing the repnb
lican parry, and that he Is forcing St.
Domingo job on the people," that st the
very opposition Of Mr.. Sumner has
proved advantageous" aad that ''the verdict
case" These elections justify this view of
the subject, and yet they DO not cover the
ground. Nor do any of the explanations We
have recited touch what we believe to be the
main cause of this apparent general waking up
of the republicans since their New Hampshire
defeat
As the disastrous results Of the first battle
of Bull run first astounded and then reused
up the dormant! energies of the North, so this
republican defeat in New Hampshire appears
to have operated upon this party. But their
New Hampshire defeat would have hardly
served to divert the rank and file Of the repub-
iicans from their petty personal quarrels and
factious cross purposes, had not the rejoicing
Northern democracy, encouraged by their
loud Growing the old Southern school of fire.
eaters and the Ku Klux Klans, with their out
rageous doings, to come to the front It is no.
torous that since the New Hampshire election
the so-caled Southern Ku Kux Klans have
been holder in their lawless operations than they
were before. We have evidence of this in the
appeal of the Governor of South Carolina to
the President for military assistance, and in
the proclamation and message OF Gen
the message of Governor Alcorn, of
Mississippi, to his Legislature, calling for
authority to employ the militia and to levy
taxes upon any county afflicted with Ku
Klux atrocities requiring the militia to sup
press them. These things, together with the
outspokcn Reputation OF the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments BY Southern fre-eating
journals and orators, have told upon Connect
cut and in all the widely-scattered elections
elsewhere Of Monday last. The old issues of
the war being revived again, the republicans,
sinking all side Issues, have come up to the
work on the main question.
On Sunday night two weeks ago Mr.. Jeffer-
son Davis arrived at Selma, Ala, from
Montgomery. The Selma Press, In describing
his reception, says that after lev6e at his
hotel, which was largely attended, and sere-
made enlivcncd with the old music Of the
Southern confsderacy, Mr.. Davis was called
out upon the balcony and addressed the crowd
fer about ten minutes. In the course of his
speech he declared, sin an exultant tone,"
that estate sovereignty, although defeated
in tho late struggle, will ultimately
triumph" Gle had always been willing to
give his life for his. people, and now if any
Yankee power wanted his blood to atone for
any action Of the Southern people they could
take il" "He never had asked pardon. for
what he had DONE and he never would, for be
felt that he had done no wrong" The Selma
Press attributes the hopeful State sovereignty
tone OF this speech to the inspiration of the
New Hampshire election, and commends its
consideration 'to that portion Of the Northern
press and people which has been led to believe
that the cause of the rebellion ia a dead issue
in the minds Of leading men at the SOUTH"
This speech from Jefferson Davis was
perfectly natural under the circumstances,
and OF itself IL means nothing. But