Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-23
THE RUTLAND HERALD
FRIDAY, JANUARY Il, 1873
Gratifying Results.

Ourof the most gratifying results of
the late Presidential election has been its
effect unon the election Of United States
Senators. for the term Of six years, com
mancfng on the fourth of March next.
Tine election Of Roscoe Conkling of New
York. and Oliver p. Morton Of Indiana,
have, heretofore. been noticed, and the
nt that they each received the unani-
mons vote of the Republican members
.s ta.i~ several State legislatures was
alike hor orablc to the distinguished SEN
a-l~, and the Representatives of the peo-
uIe. No two Senators had been more
maligned by the enemies of the alminis-
t~ti5n and no others had performed
greater SERVICES to the country. or WELD
nI NOR. powerful blows in defence Of
thp principles and polity Of the Repub-
Hrm party. and of equal rights. The
.a-, strenuous eNertiOns Of the cam
saLu were expended, in cndeayoring to
encompass their defeat Even the de
futor General Grant would not have
h.u complete, unless these Senators
vrr. included in the list of politically
dead aad wounded. Both sides appealed
90 the people, and the people have thus
answered. The result in Illinois, too,
.. another triumph. Whatever may be
Afl of the great abilities and statesman
ship of Lyman Trumbull, it must be
acknowledged that, as politician, he is
"a bitter. selfish partisan. His course in
fine United States Senate. in his onpo.i
tim tn measures and policy of the ad
ministration. was capti0us in the en-
frrur. For wears a pronounced oppo-
aput of every principle advocated by the
Democratic party, believing, as he had
s,peatcdiv stated. that they should not
re allowed to again obtain control of the
government. and publicly pFoclaiming
his opinion that Mr. Greeley was not Il
suitable man to be placed in nomination,
yet l4 Stakcd his political reputation
and success on the hazard of the defeat
gr the Republican party. The die was
cast aaJ he lost, his own Illinois rcputli-
atnr him by "a majority of thousands.
Governor Oglesby, or Fighting Dick, "
as tine huys i'm blue called him, who sic
raa,ls him. not only won national repu-
rt.iou ON the field of battle, but ae
ID statesman he stands in the front
nlnh, and win rank with the abicst ON
jue floor Of the Senate. The defeat of
Nauc. Ia North Carolina is, also, a sa5-
Irct of congratulation. During the re-
ha.Gon hp was a blatant rebel and, to
mIg by his actions and speeches SINCE,
un Is now among the worst ''unrecon-
>,ructed' of the reconstructed public
men of the South. while Mprrimon his
.uu.rssrul competitor. is described as a
aln of ability. and of fair. moderate
views i'm politics. Butafter all. we have
the most cause for congratulation in tine
r.-nlt of the Senatorial contest in Mis-
sour. II ALWAYS is a matter of rejoicing
,a have victory wrunr from the very
laws Of defeat. more esDeciaIIv after we
uaya bccome reconcilpd TO defeat If
,perr was q Senator who from time to
time. had rendered himself peculiarly Oh
noxious to the American people. Of all
parties, it was Francis p. BLAIR. The
whole course of his DoIiticaI life shows
that he had but one object in view. and
that was self. Commencing with the
outbreak of the war of the rebellion, anG
even before, when he was a pronounced
aholitionist. or what in reality meant the