Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-11
TIE VERDICT nF rnE PEOPLE.

The New York EUeRiHg Post journal by
no means friendly to Gen. Grant aud the Ad-
mlnistration. in an article on the recent cleo
tions. administers Just aud deserved rebuke
to the Greeley organs, as follows;
"The first lesson We gather from these results
is the utter inutility OF the system Of misrepTe-
sentAtion and fraud which the opposition has
so extensively adopted. Almost from the outset
Of the canvass the leading journals on that side
have devoted themselves TO enormous and per-
sistent villhcation. Had the reading public
been silly enough 10 believe their statements, It
would have appeared that the President OF the
nation, and It's most illustTlOus soldier, had the
habits Of the lowest frequenteT Of bar.rOOms, and
the moral OblOquy or callOusness Of the eXhib.
ltOr OF sWeat.clOth; that tho most eminent
senators and members Of Congress, who for long
lives and during the most conspicuous public
careers had maintained a blameless personal
reputation, were purchased scoundrels Of the
blacklist dye; and that the conductors Of news
papers not friendly 10 their particular opinions
were yenal agents Of power, or Willful fllslhors,
or hunkeya, or roaring idiots. No candidate for
office has, perhaps, suffered moro from this in.
discriminate calumny that General HartTanit,
"HS was described not only as peculAtor and
cheat, but as the ready companion Of Togues,
who Wlnked at jail deliveries 10 screen his
crimes and contemplated every outrage upon
law and decency TO carry out hIs Infamous pur.
pOseA In vain the most egtlmAble citizens tes-
tined TO his manllnoss, honor and truth the
ISLANDERS were only fepoAto1 anu uOWn 10 tue
very eve Of the election no was covered with q
thick cloud Of obloquy. But the saBAolty OF tho
people pierced the veil they accepted tho man
on his noble record during the war and, regard.
less Of the cries and recrlmlnatlOns Of the quar-.
rollng factions, testified their sympathy by
prOdlglOus vote.
"a second deduction to be made from these
events Is that the shameful bargain, begun at
Cincinnati and completed at Baltimore, wherein
the party Of reform was betrayed and democrat.
lied, and the Democratic party dlshOnOred, has
not been accepted by the masses Of the voters.
In the beginning, the movement was repre-.
sented to be a verltable popular revolution, a
groundsWell Of Indignant patriotism, and an
uprising OF revolted virtue, which, like .ha
simeon, like tldal-waye, like another deluge,
was going 10 sweep all before Il, and OverWhelm
the Government and It's adhsrents with utter
ruin, But II really turns out that this tremen.
dOus perturbation Of opinion has been mainly
confined To editorial and committee rooms. II
has hardly stirred the people.
"Great meetings have been heidi loud speeches
have beOn made; but the voters have divided
do, according to their old party afilnltios. Tue
Republicans, with some exceptions, have voted
for Republicans, and the Democrats with some
exceptions, for the Democrats; and that grand
reform, which was to blot out old party distinc.
lions and organize a wholly new, untaintod aud
vigorous party, sinks into the somblAnce Of q
very contemplate hIElo. With all Its noun,
tAin.like labOr-its volcanic explosions and
quaklngs Of the eArth-lt has produced the
tlnlest kind Of mouse