The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-25

Methodist papers of this city, in its last issue.
such scenes are blot not only on Methodism,
out on Christianity itself, and they give to the
public that false impression of camp meetings
which so generally, even almost universally
prevails.
The Decline in the Greeley Enthu.
siasm-Tho Presidential Balance o,
Power.
whatever the causes, it is apparent on all
sides that, since the late North Carolina cleo.
ton, there has been q reaction in the tide OF
public opinion on the Presidential question.
From the Baltimore Convention, which pro-
claimed the Cincinnati liberal republican can
didates, Greeley and Brown, the democratic
ticket and the Cincinnati liberal resolutions,
the democratic platform, down to the election
in North Carolina there were such signs and
manifestations of general popular uprising in
favor of "Greeley, Brown and reform" as to
justify the impression that we are in the
midst of an irresistible political revolution.
Nor can it be questioned that the first election
reports from North Carolina greatly strength
ened this widely Prevailing opinion. But
when the distant election districts and the
back counties were all in, and it was ascer-
tanned that the republicans had secured the
Governor, which was the Presidential test in
the election, and the accepted test on both
sides as between Grant and Greeley, there
was an abatement in the democratic enthu-
siasm 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 Legislature, which is
to elect United States Senator, and in secur-
ing 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, q
democratic defeat which changed the whole
aspect of the national battle field. The
Greeley republicans may have materially
strengthened the democratic party in this North
Carolina contest; but with the general knowl-
edge of their failure to elect, as the balance
of power, the democratic candidate for Cover
nor. 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
'the fountains of the great deep were broken
up" and that o deluge was rising which would
overwhelm Grant, his administration. his party
and all their great expectations and calcula-
tons in connection with another four years
lease of power. But this sudden flashing up
of democratic enthusiasm has died out, and the
fear is gaining ground that the republicans
brought over to the democracy in support of
Greeley and Brown, may possibly be outnum-
bered by those old line Bourbon democrats
at home on election day if they cannot get
democratic ticket on the platform
of ''the time-honored democratic principles of
Jefferson and Jackson
Seeing is believing but until we see that
these anti Greeley Bourbon democrats can do,
are doing and intend to do something in this
which will compel their recognition
as q balance of power, we shall continue to
hold them as belonging to the same class
of makeweights or political guerillas as
the temperance reformers, the labor re-
formers and the women's rights re-
formers. The democratic party adopted
the Cincinnati Presidential ticket under the
impression that from the republican camp
it would bring them the balance of
power in the election but against oil the
to the democracy within
reach Of Greeley and Brown, the
since the North Carolina cleo
ton, have changed in favor of General
Grant. Senator Schurz, as O. bolter
against the administration, has been hailed
as hero by the democrats because
of the balance which it is supposed he
may reach, here and there, in the diversion of
the German vote; but the German, as rule,
is very apt to vote according to his own ideas
of the fitness of things; and SO nothing de-
cisive has been gained by Greeley and Brown
in gaining Mr.. Schurz. Again, it was sup
posed that the fame of Mr.. Greeley, with the
great name Of Mr.. Sumner, as the black mans
friend, would bring over to the opposition
alliance ticket the balance Of power from the
colored element, which, in the Presidential
election, viii poll probably seven hundred
thousand votes or more; but along the lines of
the African legions the word has been passed
for General Grant, so that there is no hope in
that quarter for Greeley and Brown.
Our Irish-born fellow citizens in many
places, and especially in this city, constitute
an important democratic balance of power;
but it is by no means certain that the Irish ele-
ment Of this island will be unit in our
November national or local elections. In our
municipal complications of parties, rings, fac
tons, cliques and lotteries, we shall probably
have the confusion of Babel demoralizing
confusion, which, to the regular democrats,
may imperil the city and the State. In short,