The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-14

| Tho Lesson or the Now Humpshire Eiec.
tien-Auother Presidential Term to Gen.
erai Grant aud tho Inviting Field Be-
fore Him.
New Hampshire has bravely opened the
Presidential campaign, In q lesson full of
wholesome instructions to mock reformers and
trading politicians. A man Of the name Of
Ezekiel A. Straw-a name suggestive Of a
lineal descent from the Roundheads- been
elected Governor by handsome majority,
with republican Council and Legislature to
back him; but what does all this signifyf Not
much to the country at large in q local view
of the subject; but from the national issues
and parties and factions involved this little
State contest, in its results, rises to the dig
nifty of the battle of the Wilderness. II dis
lodges the enemy from the jungle; It brings
the belligerents in full view in the open field ;
1t discloses an army In retreat, and an army
in pursuit, and it indicates the line upon which
the Presidential campaign will be fought all
summer.
Guilty between Mr. Sumner and General Grant,
the old dyed in-the-wool radicals of New
Hampshire became somewhat soured and in
different, and, like Achilles in his rage, they
remained in their tents. So the democracy at
the close of the election were transported with
the returns of a glorious victory. The glad
tidings created great joy In the party camps
from Portsmouth to San Francisco. 1t was
revolution. The imam on horseback" had run
his career of military despotism, and the
Bourbons were coming back again, and in the
front rank appeared JEFF Davis, of the raven
black plume and the white feather, radiant In
the reviving light of the 'Iost cause" New
Hampshire was hailed as sign in the heavens
of democratic legitimist restoration; but it
was only the delusive apparition of the
Northern Lights, portending the approach of a
heavy storm. And it opened In Connecticut,
and it developed itself into roaring tempest
with the unearthing of Tammany Hall ; and
so in November, among the many democratic
wrecks, their flagship, New York, was thrown
upon her beamends in the raging breakers.
Now, in coming round again to New Hamp-
shire, the democracy, buckling up to their
work, and encouraged by the heavy guns of
Sumner, the rafting mitrailleuse of Schurz,
the howitzsr of Trumbull and the small shot |
of Upton against Grant, are stimulated in |
their resolve to conquer or die. It is their |
last ditch, and If they hold it there will be |
another democratic jubilee like that of their |
first Bull Run. The battle is fought and lost,
and the democratic party is all adrift again.
Such is the result to the democracy of this
New Hampshire election. 1t tells them that a
few disappointed and angry republican poli,i-
clans, intriguing to get Grant out In order to
get themselves into power, cannot shake the
cool Judgment Of an intelligent people. And
how paltry appears the feeble game of those
scheming Senator's with their affectations of
reform and national honor, in their civil SER
vice disclosures, and custom house investiga-
tons, and their patriotic chagrin concerning
the sales of those secondhand muskets to
| France, to be used by the naughty French
against the Emperor William, our friend and
our arbitrator on the San Juan boundary.
Have these Senators, grovelling to the scan
dalous work of the pot-house politician, lost
their wits; or have we Senate of pigmies in
| the place Of those giants who Numbered
against Old Hickory as with the voice Of
Damosthenes against the imperious Philip?
The philippics of Sumner, Schurz and Trum-
bull, with the growliugs Of Greeley, against the
administration, were wasted in New Hamp-
shire, and have come to naught. But had
these conscript fathers, rising above their
petty personal grievances and small revenges,
made Mexico, for example, and the anarchy
of Mexico, and the scandal Of Mexico as our
next-door neighbor, for whose good conduct
we are pledged to the civilized world-had
these indignant Senators made Mexico their
theme, and the neglect and the duty of the
| administration in reference to Mexico their
argument, they might have shaken the faith
even of the sturdy yeomanry of New Hamp-
shire in the wisdom Of General Grant as q
practical statesman.
Here was a theme for Mr.. Sumner upon
which he might have gained wider admira-
ton from the American people than that Sc
cured from his trenchant exposition Of our
Alabama claims. But what is Mexico to Sum-
ner while Grant to him is ''Mordecai sitting
in the kings gate9" But, again, Mr.. schurz,
| we Deiieve, 40 Hee u"ueH "uu AoVohcE VI
taxes. What subject, then, for him was
offered in the place Of Leet and Stocking in a
general overhauling of the excuses and in
equalties of our present system Of internal
and external taxations A day or two de-
voted to the ventilation of this subject in be-
half of the interests Of the masses of the
people might have exalted the sprightly Ger
man orator to the dignity Of great states
man and genuine reformer. But as the
princess in the fairy tale was changed back into
a cat when she saw mouse, SO Mr.. Schurz, the
Senator, In smelling the fat things of the