The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-11-16
NUMBERlO
After the Battle.

| AIg0F the BottJ0.
Some foreigner, juster OF with keen
| er eyes than the others, declared the
| predominant trait of the Americans
to be their good huinor. He happened
te be here during the turmoil Of 4
Presidential campaign and profsAsed
himself stunned by the sudden silence.
the a1niable quiet with which, the day
| after the election, the issue was re-
ceived; friend and fpe who yesterday
grappled each other by the throat, Sit
ting down and hob-nobbing to-day
together. Yesterday this phenomenon
repeated itself, as is usual every
fourth year; the ins finding. them
selves still in could afford to hug
themselves in the prospect of another
terms profits; quallns as to how the
victory was gained will trouble them
but little. The Liberal party whose
object was primarily to reform the mis-
management Of the Government, will,
we believe and trust, go but the more
zealously to work because the case
has grown more inaccessible; and ins
and outs, while cooling, will have
time to discover that pelsonal vitu-
peration is not. argument; that the
fact that one of the leaders of party
is q thief or the leader OF another
wears his trowsers' too short, hardly.
touches the principles Of one plat
form OF the other The dove Of peace
will brood over the country again
men will go back to their normal con
dition: President Grant can give up
the haTying, solicitous attention to
business of the last six months: the
wretched deputations of Utes and
Cheyennes will have time to rest, and
be dragged no longer to aud fro to
make capital for their Great Father:
the artists of the illustrated press can
find leisure to fashion satire without
the help of blasphemy, and the e.li-
tors to inquire whether Philip Sydney
would have drawn his standard Of
manhood from tailor's shop.
1t was not as politicians, however,
that men were good-humoretI. No
man is a politician the day after the
election. The day after battle the
death of each Of the dead chills some
home in the land; but after this civil
fight the slain arise and walk off,
comfortably rejecting that they are
something else than voters-each
Of them has q patient to look after, a
job to finish, n wife to marry. just
here lies the secret Of our goDd humor
in these quadrennial commissions.
Such political revolution in Eng
land or France touches every mans
social and domestic life to the very
root; but whether Greeley or Grant
went into the White House has little
immediately to do With ours. Below
that again is the absolute confidence
which the American feels in the innate
soundness of his Government, ma. i
matter how cankered by temporary
corruption. Its recuperative power
he knows to be. ..inexhaustible. Hence
lie bears defeat with the admirable
good temper and quiet with which a
man secure by birth and culture of
his social position finds himself pushed
temporarily to the wall by prctcn-
tious fraud. - &
Against the gigantic appliances
possessed by the ruling party, it was
perhaps Quixotic to hope for success;
but behind the rulers are the people
a power slow, steady, infallible in its
ultimate perception of common sense
justice and right. The country has
borne the rule of time-servers, trail
tors, and drunkards: it went through
the savage blood-letting Of the civil
war, and rose from it like a giant
by wrestling. The evils F
that have been the topic Of such hot
discussion may shame MS in the j
worlds eyes, but the wholesome rem
ovating strength is below. When the
blood i'll the veins is pure, the soiled
face matters little.-N. Y. Tribune.