The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-03-22
Great Democratic Victory in New
Hampshire.

hampshire :,
The telegraph has brought the lnf"r- e.
nation that the Democrats swept the :.
State of New Hampshire at the cleo =. :,
tion on the 14tf, electing all three OF V
their candidates for Congress and ma
;oritv of both branches of the Leglsla- "
ture. The Democratic candidate 1of
Governor, though he Las plurality OF =
votes, lacks about one hundred votes
Of having a majority of the whole
Another election will, therefore, have :
to he ordered. 1t is the most astound- !
ing victory of the day. No wonder 1t
produced a sensation among Radical
politicians at the Capitol, and that Mr.
Fldridue should have moved an amend
meut to the Kuklux bill, so as to EN-
brace the State of New Hampshire
The order certainly needs suppression
in the Granite State, as we'll as in South
Carolina or Georgia.
At the last election the Radical can
,luralitv of over 5000, and majority
Of nearly two thousand over all other
y candidates. In one Congressional DIS
y t,;rt the Radical candidate had HOO
majority. in another 1000, and III the
t Third about six hundred majority.
v All these majorities have been over
a come. and the country is now witness
), ing the singular spectacle OF New
:, England State sending an unbroken
Democratic delegation to the House OF
. REPRESENTATIVES of the United States.
In old times, before the rise OF the
Republican party, New Hampshire Was
'e Democratic, and her triumphant De-
p mocracy were as gallant and reliable
Of then as her defeated Democracy have
s. bee for the last fifteen years. The
r. names of her Woodburys, her Pierces,
" her Hubbards, and her Atherthons, are
10 names which the Democratic party VIII
80 not soon forget. But oflate years New
Hampshire has been an opposition
~ State. The Democracy has not been
" able to carry the State ticket since the
OF Pierce election nearly nineteen years
ne ago. In the winter of 1852 the Legs
Is lature was Democratic enough to elect
IN Mr.. Athe,ton to the Senate over JONI
EST P. Hale, but we cannot now recollec
dis. when she had Democratic Member
~, Congress. or Democratic majority II
o,, the Legislature. For many years pas
49,, she has sent an unbrOkcn Opposition
-, delegation to Congress, and IN her las
wa Legislature the Democrats had but on
ie" Senator and but few Representatives
Ken 1t is true that the vote has been some
Die times very close, but the Radicals new
!, at e, had any serious fears of defeat
ar They had none at the last election; o
ms the contrary they ridiculed the rasl
his ness of the Democracy in again placln
Inv a ticket in the field The revolution
,tic c'h'p'ete' ana 10 "s We "'' ~
~, meet astounding one.
mn. But. astonishing as it is, the caus
de- 'li os'.' NC wy io"' =" ''''
;. the same causes that are operating
= the overthrow of the Radical par
pa, throughout the Union. While no o
ny expected them to break down Radlci
MAJ ism so soon in New England Stat
age we all look no further forward than t
ndS next election to see them break it doN
in every State in the Union where
,esi. spark of Conservatism has been left
, !, These causes lie in the utter imbecii
~, of the Grant administration, and III
-, destructive and revolutionary doctri
-. of the party which placed it in Off
Sio'' The Conservative good sense OF
seh' American people has awakened to
MT. knowledge that any further eNtens
ght of the rule of the Radical party m
I the end in the destruction of what Iii
s af- liberty is left on the American col
Emo nent. The outrageous Radical legis
o,va ton of the last ten years is beginn
to cause its authors to blush for sha
!. as it has already stunk in the most
W " Of all men opposed to Radicalism,
~ " has brought the American Repu
next into contempt among the nations
VIII the earth And as if to make Radi
M tot ism the more contemplate the Leaf
If its of the party have elevated to the h
of the government, over the ablest
publican statesmen, military ADJ
NOM turer and charlatan statesman,
y '"'' has proved load too heavy for
'o''o party to carry. From the nom
'" ,'S therefore, when Grant was inaug
=, ~ 81 ted, the party has been going dowl
w. hill, until, FROM Il party with scar
W any formidable opposition in eSiste
>, it is to day in minority of the A
;, ~ lean people, and would be annihil
tomorrow if fair election coul
held. Its mauagers have not honesty
sense enough to show even little
for a few weeks duringa political
paign, in order to save the party !
oldest important LOCALITY For while
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