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oTho washington Press on the situation.

THE washington Press ON the SITUATION.
This is a special to the st. Louis Demo
crqt:
WAsHrEeroy. October 13.-The Sunday
Greeley papers have al articles on the stu
alton. which may be regarded as rejecting
the final views as to the result OF each class
of Washington politicians which they work
TIE HeTaM CONSERVATIVE says: The
geek lust passed has witnessed events that
indicate continuance in power Of the pres
emit admins tratIon. Indications are that
new lease ID to be given to the whole horde
sDf political plunderers and adventures,
with extended privileges to draw tribute
from the populous North, and to tatten on
the exhausted territory of the South. In
saving this, we do not lose sight OF the fact
that the November election is yet to come OFT,
and that there is q probability OF the Liberal
candidate entering the North with an almost
solid Southern vote. The battle is never
over until it is lost and won. As long as the
country may be saved by the merest margin
of numbers, as has been the case on at least
one occasion before, it is the duty of all
good citizens to do whatever lies in their
power toward improving the chances. 1t is
TO he hoped every good citizen will view the
matter in this light, and that the Liberal
ranks will also close up and press forward
with determination. 1t is not to be denied
that these elections have wrought on the
Liberal party present disaster. 1t would
indeed have been thing without precedent
had that party, in the first year Of its ex-
istence succeeded against one which had
the administration at its back, with all the
money, and influencing election machinery,
and large corporations; but it is plain
" founded on principle, and must pre-
vail, if not this year (which is not
impossiblel, then in some other year in the
not distant future. Even if we had no hope
Of success in this election, it is the bounden
duty Of every lover of our republican insti-
buttons as opposed to centralized power,
fairness as opposed to fraud, honesty and
economy as opposed to dishonesty and reck
less extravaganza in the administration Of
affairs, to enter his protest in the shape of
ballot on tie fifth of November next; and
in proportion as we show strength, Just in
such proportion will the Radicals, should
they be victorious, be forced to respect,
-. through fear, not love of justice, the
wishes OF the minority. Ia any event,
this is no time to waver or
desert principles for which we have
contended, and which must, in the end, tri-
umph. The captive guerrilla, after a
lengthy arithmetical calculation, says the
balance of probabilities, therefore, seems
to be handsomely ON the side Of Mr.. Gree
ley. What is to be done? Is there any
thing else before the true man than to go
on and fight9
Is the prospects OF easy victory necessary
to him in order TO keep up his courage to
fighting pomtl Has he no taste for the
conflict except when his enemy is weak,
disappointed and ready to lay down his
arms Ia this the material Of which men
are made who love their country, regard
civil and political freedom as the choicest
of Gods gifts, and who profess to esteem
that liberty which patriots have trans
mitted to them, not as thing to sell, but
as a thing which, if need be, to pawn their
lives to preserve a
d. @. Forneys Chronicle, Republican,
hears from all parts Of Pennsylvania that
the Democrats bolted the Greeley ticket.
1t is not as well known as it ought to be
that President Grant is personally popular
in Pennsylvania, stronger than jackson
ever was, more powerful in all respects
than any of the local politicians there of
every grade The results Of his admins
tratiOn, the prosperity he has given to labor,
the encouragement he has afforded for the
investment of capital in every branch Of
manufacturing and just remuneration of
labor, secured under Republican rule,
saved the Republican party in Pennsyl-
vania and deferred the punishment of men
who have disgraced it. General Grants
majority will vibrate between $4,000 and
rs, 900 votes. Our information is that the
Democracy are renOuncing Greeley ia all
parts Of the State, Disguised with his fool
ish speeches and suspicious that the fraud
which lead them into his nomination will
be the influence which will disgrace them
forever il they do not now turn their backs
upon the demagOgue.