Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-29
From the New York Herald, Sunday,
August 2ith.]
The Decline i'm The Greeley En-
tEausiasin ass The Presidential
Balance of Power.

1
thusiasm The Presidential
Balance of Power.
Whatever the causes, it is apparent on
| all sides that, since the North Carolina
election, there has been a reaction in the
tide of public opinion on the Presiden-
| tial question. From the Baltimore con-
vention, which proclaimed the Cincin-
natl liberal republican candidates, the
| democratic ticket and the Cincin-
! natl liberal resolutions the democratic
| pie form, down to the election in North
! G rolina, there were such signs and
| manifestations of a general popular up
! rising in favor of ''Greeley and Brown
reform" as to justify the impression that
we are in the midst of an irresistible po-
litical revolution. Nor can it be ques-
tiOred that the first election reports from
North Carolina greatly strengthened
this widely prevailing opinion. But when
the distant election districts and the back
counties We're all in, and it was ascer-
tanned that the republicans had secured
the Governor, which was the Presiden-
tial test in the election, and the accepted
test on both sides as between Grant and
Greeley, there was an abatement in the
Democratic enthusiasm for Greeley, and
the tide of public sentiment began to
change in favor of Grant.
The substantial fruits of the North
Carolina election in securing the Legisla-
ture, which is to elect a United States
Senator. and in securing a majOrity Of
the Congressman were reaped by the
Democrats but the Presidential test
was upon the Governor. and here the
moral result was. as we have indiCated,a
democratic defeat which changed the
whole aspect of the national battle field.
The Greeley republicans may have ma
terially strengthened the democratic
party in this North Carolina contest
but with the general knowledge of their
failure to elect. as the balance of power,
the democratic candidate for Governor,
began this general decline in the Demo-
cratic enthusiasm for Greeley. In the
outset. among the young and progressive
democracy the novelty of Mr.. Greeley
as the candidate of the democratic party
for the Presidency was so fascinating as
to carry with it the idea that ''thc fOun-
tains Of the great deep were broken up,
and that deluge was rising which would
Ovcrwhelm Grant. his administration,
hlN pal y %n,' an 'ioii SiO'' 49,
ana caicul"tloIlS III coIlntc'lon Win gu gu
OIiieI I04I CaI9 Ie<'Se u 'o"0I' I,.U
inns suaoen ilaSllInS up u uGIl'tCIa'! II:
enthusiaSh mas uled out, ana 'ue Ical Is
gaming ground Ihat the FepuoIlcallS'
oFou91t over 10 'llG 1eillo1i "oy III :I{,-
port OF 0rGeiey ana Dfo"I; may .I'o9Sloi9
be outhuHlDeieu ny tHoSe oiI' IliII Doui
bon democralS VINO are TeSoiNou ~ Io'e
Tor Grant or 10 stay at nome on tIgt'LoI
Gay II thcy cannot Set d SII9'SlIl Guy
dehoc'auC IlcheI Oh inc l.Iall9IIi! vi
me diihe-honoIeQ uGiiiotta''c PIi"N'l'''S
OF Jefferson ana JACKSON.
Seeing Is he!leylng oqJ uli'u we see
that these anTl-0ree!ey boutpo" ue''l0-
Gratis can 40 are uollS ah!l InIehu - !9
something IN thlS caflpalSI' anI WIZ
coIhpeI thtH Icuo|A't."h aS d "3i,'" "a
power. we Snail continue 10 n"'C' tLLH'
as pglohglhG 10 me 5a,l,1 CAS- Vi IiI'' NJ
WelghJS or p2iIIIc3l '1gciI mas rs ,lie
temperance rel"tliltiS' ne i""'i l''"I III
eTS ana 'he women Il2"l l'lTiI'I C,.. :
ne ocnocra,c Parry "uol'.r1' 't ne, G,l-
c!lllal + I,(( ,Ii[
preston mat from me FGp9oIic"n c"llP
IL Woui4 oEIl@ ne" 5iit o'.,.L,l ~, III ~
or IN the eiec'loH ou5 '3aLllSt an Iiie
relntorcemen'S TO ln9 I 9eInocTa(y "lli 1I
rcach OF EfeeIeH anu bio"u' 'nV P'V"a-
biIitioS since the norm taf4lLla 'lec,
ton, nave changed IN Ia'of Oh V5'l9IaI
Grant. senator 0cnut:' ~ d " II
ag2lnSt the auiil'Li9II'I'""' nag ',,-H
hated as nero ny the .te!h"cIats oec%'iSe
OF the balance Whlch II Is Supp"9eH NJ
may rcaCh' mere anu tntIg i III t' t o G er
SION Oh the German Nott puI e'Ig -, oo5-
man as RUE Is NcIy "Pt eo 40 [o't aoCo' r.
ing to his own ljoaS o. Iile 4lle il VI
things and so nothing CeclslFe mas oeen
gained by Greeley ana Brown III Gaming lILll.
Mr. SchurZ, Agaln' II was suppose SEQ
that the lame OF Mf. greeley WI'h 'I!'
great name o. VI 7Ul'IGI, ~ VIC s'.'-
oFed man : jF1ehu: Wou!u oil.@ "',i ~
the opposition alliance ticket the balance
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