The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-26

REALLY, when we look at these figures and find
that we have been so liberal to Grant, we cannot
for our life see where his friends can find sin
rle hook upon which to hang a hope The cleo
ton Of Mr.. Greeley is apparently "a foregone con-
cusion. He viii walk over the track and carry
Off the purse without q struggie.-Eaquirer.
The faith which resideth in the breast of
the Enquirer is no small mustard seed,
but rather of that transcendent sort which
treason without miracle planteth in no
human breast" We are pleased to see
such sublime exhibition of faith as it gives
us in its issue of this morning, for we know
the political woe pronounced upon those
"children in whom there is no faith"
which is sometimes even worse than the
curse pronounced upon the spiritually
faithless in the good book which SO strong
ly commendeth the faith that is in us.
But faith seldom or ever turns
accountant on so extravagant scale as
that exhibited by our contemporary in its
column and half of figures vouchsafed us
this morning. We have waded through
them with no small degree of admiration,
as the column of majorities for Greeley
swells from eighty-nine electoral votes,
first modestly assumed as the starting point
of the EDITORS calculation, until by innu-
merablc twistings and turnings, with little
gain here and bigger gain there, it reaches
the grand total Of 26S votes, leaving Greeley,
in the enthusiastic language of our neigh
Dor, to walk over the track and carry off
the purse without a struggle"
In the first place, it gives Greeley the
eight states carried by Seymour in 1868,
which includes three if not four states
which we should set down as doubtful in
the most liberal estimate we could possibly
make in favor of the coalition candidates.
These eight states include New York, Lou
isiana, Delaware and Oregon, no three of
which can be claimed with any absolute
certainty for Mr.. Greeley. With the APP
polio Hall Democracy in New York city
working for the Louisville nominee, IA fact
the New York World concedes,) and the
general disaffection shown in the Demo-
cratic ranks throughout the State, Mr..
Greeley stands no more chance of
getting the thirty-fye electoral votes
of New York than George Francis
Train or the pumpkin-faced man-in-the-
moon. In the last fight between Tammany
and the Apollo Hall Democracy of New
York, before the exposure Of the Ring, the
latter cast over forty-two thousand votes,
and 1t is said that as against Tammany
" reorganized" it will cast seventy-fve
thousand votes to-day. Now the leaders
of Apollo Hall know perfectly we'll that
Mr.. Greeley was nominated at Baltimore
in consequence of corrupt bargain made
with the Tammany Ring, by which such
men as Hoffman, Oakley Hall, and others,
could be rescued from the odium Of Tam
many, and the new chiefs of that organiza-
ton restored to popular favor and patro-
mage. Precisely what that bargain was has
not transpred, but it is known that Hoff-
man went to Baltimore with g satisfac-
to y assurances" in his pocket, and that he
was the head Greeley fugler in that con-
vention. And knowing this, it is certain
that the Apollo boys will send an arrow
into the Greeley camp on the day of cleo
ton that will make the Tammany Python
writhe worse than the dreaded monster of
antiquity when he caught shaft from the
presiding deity Of archery.
But not content with claiming the states
carried by Seymour in 1868, the Enquire
proceeds to add to these, first, the three
States, Virginia, Texas and Mississippi,
which were excluded from voting in that
year then West Virginia, Tennessee and
Missouri; after which eighty-one more
electoral votes in the States of Connecti-
cut, California, Indiana, Pennsylvania
New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ala
bama and finally, to cap the climax, it
gives the Chappaqua philosopher the states
OF Ohio and Illinois. This is pretty clean
sweep, we confess. But on what hook the