The New York herald., 1872-10-15

Prince of the Asturias. As for Cuba Spain will
be allowed to do her best to pacify for little
while longer but If paci6cation and emanci-
patton have not both become facts before the
early Spring Of 1873 the American people will
demand interference, and the administration
will find il necessary to settle this Cuban ques-
uon finally and forever.
The Curlositfes OF she Campaign-The
Political Circus OF Tenmcssee-Andy
johnson.
The distinguishing features of this Presiden-
tial campaign have been the charges and
counter-charges Of corruptions, frauds and
villanies of every description banded about
between the opposition and the administration
camps, and the coarse and scandalous person
alities and caricatures Of the party press.
True. from New York westward the country
for many weeks has been enlivened in every
direction, and at every city, town. village and
crossroads post Office, with mass meetings and
mighty cavalcades OF tanners, boys in blue
and woodchoppers, and with the banners,
transparencies, fireworks and music Of torch
light PROFESSIONS; but these cheerful elements
of the canvass have been more than neutral
lied by the gall and wormwood and cayenne
pepper and assafoetida SO freely interchanged
between the orators and organs Of the oppos-
ing parties =
But things like these YOU know must be-
With every famous victory.
Still it is deplorable fact that this Presi-
dental canvass has been fercely and vindic-
lively conducted on both sides and has been
savage and gloomy to an extent without par
allel since the time of General jackson. Those
funny Fifth avenue conferences varied its mo-
notony for few days. and Blanton Duncan's
famous Bourbon Convention was amusing
while it lasted. Mr.. Greeley's cheerful pros
pecting tour ''out West gave considerable
infusion Of life and hope to his side of the
house till the breaking Of the backbone of
Buckalew; and yet from first to last there has
been prevailing spirit of ferocity and bitter
ness among our political belligerents this
season which has very nearly spoiled all the
poetry, fun and humor Of this ferocious Presi-
Trumbull, Schurz and other angry seceders
from the administration are responsible for
this state of things it is not necessary here to
inquire. We presume they are now satisfied
that their patriotic indignation was somewhat
overdone in the cooking, and that in spite of
all their sacrifices the country is going to the
bowwows.
We are thankful that in this melancholy
situation we still have the consoling voice and
presence of the inextinguishable Andy John
son. In running against Cheatham the
regular democrat, and against Maynard, the
republican candidate for Congressman at Large
in Tennessee, our constitutional ex-President
has given to the whole political campaign
in that State spirit OF chivalry, fun and
rare enjoyment which clearly entities him to
the election. The HERALD campaign corre-
spondent assigned to the Department of Ten
nessee has been giving us some very interest
ing letters, from point to point of the joint
stumping tour through the State of Johnson
Cheatham and Maynard; and from his latest
report, that which we published yesterday
from Nashville, concerning these ''three
guardsmen" we infer that, though each is
fighting his own battle, they all travel together
like band of brothers.
The meeting Of these triumvirs at Winches-
ter, Tenn, or the entertainment there of this
Tennessee circus, as our correspondent irrev-
erently styles it, was better than horse race
Here, as it appears, johnson wore an unu-
sually high shirt collar, much like Matt Bren-
nan s, running out on each side of his Jaws
like whitewashed fence;'' MAYNARD sssucar
coated his republicanism with variety of dry
jokes that humored his hearers and disposed
them kindly towards him but when Cheat
ham, the Tennessee rebel hero of Chick
amauga, came forward 'there burst upon
the air a cheer that shook the woods and
this was given him, mot because he was a
rebel, but because of his splendid qualities as
man." 1t next appears that "at Fayette-
vile, where the circus next wended its way
Maynard and johnson had q better show"
that 'there was more enthusiasm and that
the country people there, being better fed
showed to better advantage than those of the
hungry mountains of East Tennessee.
The moral of this political circus is this
that Tennessee is the only State in which this
Presidential campaign has been and is marked
everywhere by spirit Of chvalry, hospitality,
fun and general enjoyment, and that for this
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