The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-11-13
The Press Oh the Result.
We give below comments taken from some
OF our exchanges on the election last week

we give DCIOW comments taken rom some
OF our exchanges on the election last week
From The Iorsontoun Herald, (Den,.)
The election returns received TUESDAY plight and
Wednesday great surprise to the most san
Oppon, ns Ut republican nisrule aud NAL iust I'm.
ton Recent successes i'll the west had prepared us for
an increased democratic rute in the States
the people were to judge rulers last Tuesday bnt
they had not encouraged to hope for complete "A
triumph over the enemy. The result in Massac
aud New York surprised Democrats almost ms much M
it disappointed aud chagrined Republicans In fact
the reports nom all parts the country, show that
the American people indignant against Grants nd.
mnstraton and repudiae the principles of the party
Of which he is head and front.
From The 1owsoHtotc,t Journal (Dem.)
The moral effect of this victory will give most re
vyiiying impetus to the whole country. Business will
settle down, and confidence will be restored, so that
the people can pursue the tenor of their ways
The great Democratic party has done this splendid
work 1t h rs increasingly. determinedly, Iabored TO
tree the people from the bondage in which they have
been bound by the Radical adversaries Of the country
Well may she exult. She has not produced this great
revolution at the point of the bayonet She has in
scbed upon tho pages Of history another of her great
invincibls through the past
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To the whole people we say, We trust they will now
hold their affairs with steady hand and require of the
Democracy a strict accountability Of the manner in
which they shall conduct tho affairs of the great gov
ernment which Is now about again to be committed
into their hands In the past the good old party has
tutional government. though overpowered by brute
force, and In tho hour of her great triumph trust
to see the helm grasped by powerful arm, and with
that determined resolution which actuates the careful
mariner upon boisterous sea GLOW the noble
old ship to sail in the murky waters Of that ocean OF
corruption which now shames us as u people. The
skies are bright and may the OF Democracy homes.
ty and uprghtness never set In dishonorl
From the T'owsontown Union, (Rep)
The election on Tuesday of this week was held In
twentythree States The result proved disastrous to
the Republican party. The chief feature the contest
for the majority in the House of Representatives
The verdict Of thu people delivered against the Re.
publican party The majority Of the House made up
of the opposition TO the Republicans. We have met
complete route. Our forces have been captured.
One naturally looks the causes. They are not to be
found and accounted for endorsement the course
and policy-ifi has any-pursued by the Democratic
party. The verdict is singing rebuke to the Repub-
lican party for its delinquences in meeting the de-
mands of the times. majority Of hundred in tho
House Of Representatives saddled grave Responsible
ty upon the party Its lack ofunty concert on the
financial questions its failure to unto upon definite
policy that subject until the country had become dis
gused and its lacking courage to bravely defend the
positions assumed by the party that inst and
be have contributed largely If not almost entirely to
the partys defeat Thcn, too, 1t frightened by the