, 1872-11-06

AFTER ELECTION.
The election is over. a long, and tedious, and
1atterly drizz1ing campaign has come to it's end.
General Grant is reelected. His luck appears
to be not yet exhausted. He is President for
four years to cone-a result which ne did all in
our power to prevent, because We believed his
public example to be hurtfu1 and demora1izing,
and his Administration dangerous, by reason OF
its habitua1 disregard Of 1aw. Nevertheless, he
is again chosen Chief Magistrate Of the Ameri-
can pc op1e. It would be futile now to discuss
the agencies which have accomplished
this result. The October elections were
too heavy u back-1oad to be borne by g party
not organized and welded together by long
acquaintance among its individual members.
Hence, General Grants minority is much larger
than it would have been il all the States hsd
is an apparent rather than real majority, for
the people have decided, not that they wanted
him for President, but that they preferred him
to his competitor. This is the real verdict Of
the election, and it placea the Republican party
on far more slippery ground than it stood on
four years ago to-day.
Tho state OF the country and OF political psr-
ties now is substantially this:
i. Slavery and inequality Of political privileges
founded upon color aud seryitude are e6aced and
obiterated.
2. The Democratic party, by adopting the Gin
cinnati platform, and nominating Greeley and
Brown, hare ceased to maintain 3 separate ma
tiona1 existence. An effort will, perhaps, ba
made to revive it under the old flsg and party
name but it will fail.
g. General Grant having been reelected Pres
ident for the term Of four years, it Ia the duty
of all good citizens to accord to his Administra-
tion candid consideration and Impartial justice
in the same measure that they demand these in
return The verdict of the American people is
the decision at the last Court OF Appeals until
the time comes to make q new appeal. Mean
whi1e, vituperation on the one hand and vindic~
tiyenesB on the other will be equally out Of
place, and will assured1y cost more than they
coma to.
l. The igsues which divided the Republican
and Democratic parties in the past having ceased
to exist. it is inevitable that new division will
take place, and that to one side or the other of
this new diyision will gravitate, sooner Or later,
all the elements Of American society.
s. The Liberal Republican movement begun
at Cincinnati in the month Of May last en-
bodice principles adapted to the present
| exigencies OF the country. and which must pre-
vail, either By the aid Of the regular Republican
organization Of in spite Of it.
6. These principles embrace restoration Of
friendship between North and South; the deliv-
erance Of the latter from plunder and spoliation,
50 far az the same ara sustained and abetted by
| Federal patronage; Civil Service Reform !;
| Revenue Reform and general correction and
] eradication Of abuses which have crept into the
administration of public affairs during along
! period Of civil commotion.
The six foregoing propositions will hardly be
| disputed by anybody who voted for Greeley or
for Grant, or who refrained from voting in the
| recent election, however widely they may differ
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! upon which We take the stand we intend to
! maintain IS public Journal
| We hold the principles set forth above, as sub
stantialy recited in the Cincinnati platform, to
| be essential to good government, to the pros
perity OF the country, and even to the perma-
nence Of republican institutions. Weaha1l, there
fore, give them our hearty support and advocacy,
and shall sustain the men who ftly represent
| them, whatever party designation they may
wear. In giving our adhesion to the Cincin-
| natl platform and nominees, we did so aa Re3ub"
licans protesting against evil practices which
We had yain1y endeavored to cure and eradicate
| within the party lines. That platform will be
] our political guide hereafter. When the AMI
nosities engenderea BY the recent political con-
| test ehall have subsided, ne apprehend that the
people will prefer something more rational than
| dieputes about the war, and reconstruction, anu
! negro suffrage, and other dead and decaylng
,ssues. At all events they will have
| to look elsewhere than to our columns for
| such antiquated and useless matter We shall
| riYe AZ attentive and fair hearing to
| tie Administration Of General Grant, and
! ;rdre of it by ita future rather than by
! it's past acts. II the Administration itself, OF
any Of it's present adherents, shall institute
wholesome reforms, We shall cordially sustain
them in such efforts. II they continue the self
ish and intolerant policy which has mainly char
acterised them in the past, We shall favor them
vii, a+rannoua oppo6itioa. There
are some Who behave that the Republican party
| is nor capable Of reforming the abuses Rhach