The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-10-16
Our Agents in Charlesto'
rba Rsceut Elections and their ConSe
Qusnees.

Tho Rn10QL EueCbAOho oAA~
Qusnees.
The great State Of Pennsylvanl'
has gone for the Administrator 4 an TIC"
candidates by majority of so'ooo
md Ohio by majority Of ls,ooo
whilst Indiana seems to have pee, ),
carried for the Liberals by a small
majority. A result so entirely un
sxnscted to the over-sanguine Lib
/ erals. and which has SO entirely
fa,si6ed the confident predictions o.
Mr. Greeley himself, has been at
tended with corresponding depres,
sion in the disheartened ranks Of
the opposition. And, indeed there E
aopears every reason for fear, and
:. no lust basis for hope, whether we
regard the causes Of thelate reverse,
= Or the consequences which " wall VI
naturally flow from it. osl
~ The late elections prove no"
.,,a, .,,a,a,,,ch may be accomplished by
,over and patronage, and money
Welded by an unscrupulous govern
n ,,nneut. They show how easy it is
. for power to perpetuate ITSELF even
under the forms of law, and what a
mere n r., mockery elections may become
:. through frauds in the registration
: ballot-stufing, repeating and cor
rupt manipulation of votes. such
arts gave 10000 fraudulent votes as
Z a majority to the Administration i, m
the eity of Philadelphiaq and, with
!. .,imfGilart ,fGlat frauds committed else where
nerpetuated the he rule Of the Came
ron ring, ard assured the ''key-
, s stone one State" to Grant in November
= a, The future in this respect seems
!. to.sive no better promise than the
mast, and what corrupt Government
has done in the past, it will yet do'
But Grant owes his success to
r,otb;no more than power and
= patronage, however corruptly used
He is still the exponent of the war
spirit-the auti-southern feeling =,
which, ignore it as We may still, ,
infiames the Northern masses, ana
seeks still a Precipitation from the
South, in the continuance OF It's
abiect humiliation, for the sins o:
!, the past. With them it is too soor
/, vet to bridge over ''the blood!
chasm," and many Of our Northern
brethren with Wendell Phillips
would desire to perpetaate the rul'
of Grant, until every soldier of tn
late war was in his grave. AS al
embodiment of the principle o
sectional hate, the soldier-chlettall
derives his chief claim to the sup
mort of the Northern masses.
~ The natural result Of the Iat'
elections is to produce the effect
which they foreshadow> Success il
the divinity which most men wor
ship, and to be on the winnlngslde
is the highest object OF their amol
ton. Success in the October elec
tons will naturally produce a siml
lar result in November, and no
only largely increase the mJoritle' e,
in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but will
doubtless carry over the waverlng
!. doubtful States to Grant. Foe
will be encouraged, friends dis
heartened, and the timid will g
over to the strong side.
The New York Herald, from it
independent standpoint, regard
the contest as already decided, ant
the election Of Grant as certainly
assured. The Tribune, however
and some of our Southern contem
poraries, 90 into the arithmetic o
the campaign, and figure up
plausible showing tor Greeley
They reckon some seventeen States
g with 17s electoral votes as sure fo'
the philosopher, with only six vote'
, needed from the doubtful States o
California, Illinois, Minnesota
Mississippi, New Hampshire, Nortl
Carolina, Rhode Island, and Wis
censin. Yet as we have sal'
before, the natural effect OF thf
recent victories in Pennsylvania
and Ohio will be to give the doubt
fnl States all to Grant, whilst the.
even leopard the chances of Greele.
in the Empire State Of New York
with its thirty-fye electoral votes
It may be pleasant, and perhaps no
unproftable, to look on the brlgh
side, and indulge hope as long al
{ we NAV, but it is no less the part o