The New York herald., 1872-10-10

We have before US the verdict Of the people
from the October elections in the great central
States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, and
in summing up the results hardly doubt can
be entertained of the reelection of General
Grant in November for another Presidential
term. 80 far the local elections of the year
have indicated no losses to him since 1853.
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Oregon, North
Carolina, Vermont and Maine. and now Penn
sylvania. Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and South
Carolina. have, each in its turn, pronounced
in favor of the administration, while on the
other hand only the State of Georgia has de-
clared against it.
New Hampshire and Connecticut indicated
the solidity of the republican lines in the
East, Vermont and Maine confirmed it; North
Carolina, the first direct test of the strength of
the new opposition coalition, failed to develop
any material accessions to the democratic
party from the anti-Grant republicans in the
South. while in the results in Pennsylvania
Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska we now perceive
from these important elections of Tuesday last
that in the central States and the West the
republican followers of Greeley and Brown
have failed to carry over to the reconstructed
democracy the popular balance of power. The
republican party, in short, from these October
elections of 1872, holds substantially the same
ground and the same advantages which it
commanded under General Grant after the
October elections of 1868, and so far the con-
sequences to Greeley and Brown in November
are foreshadowed in the defeat of Seymour
and Blair.
Whatever the shortcomings or the mistakes
of General Grant in his great Office, and not
withstanding the desertions from him of such
conspicuous party leaders as Sumner, Trum-
bull, Greeley, Brown, Schurz, Fenton, Curtin
and Mcclure, the American people still CRATE
fully remember the incalculable services of the
great soldier who extinguished the Southern
rebellious confederacy and restored the Union;
and still remember, too, the condition Of the
national treasury and its administration when
turned over to General Grant, and the practi-
col reforms and retrenchments which have fol-
lowed under his honest management. But
above all considerations, no doubt which have
operated in General Grants favor in these re-
cent elections is the consideration that while
the financial and business affairs of the coun-
try will suffer no disastrous shock or revulsion
from his reelection we do not know what might
be the consequences in 1873 of political revo-
luton in 1872. In view Of this i'm
portant matter Of the financial and
business affairs of the country, the
question of universal amnesty is eclipsed,
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crate all traces of the sectional animosities of
our civil war. Indeed, upon this question of
Southern reconciliation, if the good work has
been too long trifed with and delayed, the
fault lies more with Congress than with the
President, as we infer, in the popular estima-
ton, and hence the failure Of the opposition
to make this reconciliation ruling issue be-
fore the people.
II is apparent, at all events from the sug-
gestive figures Of these October elections, that
hardly doubt can be raised of the reelection
of General Grant in November. Nor can it be
be questioned that these administration vic
tories will exert q powerful influence upon
New York, in common with all the other
States Of the Union. General Grant is strong
among the people of this State, and there are |
good reasons for believing that he has been
rather gaining than losing ground from
recent events in this quarter. The re-
publican State ticket, headed by the popu-
lar names Of General Dix and General
Robinson, strengthens the national ticket
of Grant and Wilson. But above all, tho dis
fractions and divisions among the democrats
of this city promise them anything but those
heavy majoriies required to overcome the
republican strength Of the rural districts. In
1868, under the imperial sway Of the old Tam
many Ring, with its unlimited command Of
money, the democracy of this city rolled up
the startling majority Of some sixty thousand
for Seymour and close upon seventy thousand
for Hoffman, whereby Seymour secured the
Presidential Electors OF the State by ten thou
sand, and Hoffman was elected Governor by
twenty thousand majority.
Now, is there any prospect for metropoli-
tan democratic majority on the Presidential
or State ticket of seventy, sixty, or fifty thou
sand in the coming November? Tammany
has been reconstructed on the basis Of reform;
Tammany processes reputation Of Tweed |
and all his ring confederates and all |
their works; Tammany claims to be
reform organization, and yet Tammany
in her preliminary movements for these ap-
preaching elections is evidently falling back
into her old ways. Had Tammany boldly
and bravely entered the field for reform with
William Butler Duncan as her candidate for
Mayor, and had she consistently followed up
tickets, known of all men as honest and fear
less reformers, she might have fused around
her city candidates the rank and file,
with few exceptions, Of all the anti
Grant elements Of the island. But Tam