The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-11-12

President, may feel this morning, as he
reads the returns of the November cleo
tions, that he has been like the prodisal
son, and has squandered precious political
inheritance. Whatever the causes, the
result is decisive. New York, which has
been anchored SO firmly to the Republican
party, now swings out in pronounced and
irretrievable revolt. Even the splendid
popularity of General Dix could not save
the administration
This election is not merely victory, but
a revolution. The United States pro-
nOunces IN favor Of conservative purposes
We are weary Of war and its bloody instruc-
tions. The practical lcssous to be learned
cannot fail to be of the very gravest i'm
portance. The canvass closes the political
! career Of General Grant.
Mr. Tilden's success shows not merely
the advance Of the Democratic sentiment,
but also what can be done by a candidate
who conducts his canvass upon sound bust
ness principles. He has shown the utmost
tact, industry and enterprise in his conduct
of his canvass. He has managed it as he
would manage railway. He is now the
foremost man of the party in national
sense, and, by virtue of the primacy of New
| York among States, he must necessarily be
more than any man concerned in the can
vass of 1876 X
Thethird term is buried forever General
Grant has two years before him in which
! to retrieve many of the mistakes which
have brought discontinue upon his ad-
ministration and defeat upon his party
Let him take this lesson in its highest sense,
and remember what he owes to his great
name, his fame and the place he would hold
in history. His career as political leader
is closed, but there remains to him a per
sonal career, which he can vindicate and
confirm by two years Of good government
reform and devotion to the highest and
truest principles Of administration.
TIE NEW YORK "sUN,"
In characteristic article, says Tho
Indignation of the people, as expressed
through the ballot-boxes yesterday ha.
shivered Grants administration to atoms
The overthrow is complete and terrific.
Suffice it to say, it is the
end of Grant and Of Grantism. 1t give.
the finishing blow to "a third term for Grant
If he IS impeached by the new House O
Representatives, as he certainly ought t.
lie, there will be far more probability that
he will not serve out his second term than
that he will have third Of course tht
unconstitutional features of the Gag law
will now be repealed.
1t is impossible to enumerate the name:
lOft tla or Il
and rogucs which the work Of Monday anC
Tuesday has bat under the sod never tt
rise again There are Frelinghuysen, anC
Poland, and Dawes, and Robson, anC
Kellogg. There are Shepherd, and Bah
cock, and Moses, and Casey, and Butler
These will do for specimen Of the whole
lot
The incoming House of Representative
will certainly be controlled by the Opposi
ton. II now seems, in the light of imper
feet returns, as if the Liberals and Indepen
dents may hold the balance of power. Thi
is well, for it foreslsdows the character o
the Presidential contest two Years hence
It was necessary, in order to obtain a ma
jority in the Forty fourth Congress, tha
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two members. Sufficient returns hav,
already been received to show that thcy
have gained more than that number. The,
will no doubt, have a good working ma
jority. If they have, one of their frs
duties will be the impeachment of Grant
leaving it to Republican Senate to acqui
him on the trial, if they dare take tha
responsibility.
When the results of this great contes
arc fully ascertained it will probably appea
that they are due not SO much to Demo
cratic gains as to Republican losses. "
fancy that it will turn out that the stay lat
home Republicans did the business 70
Grant. If this proves to be SO, it vii
afford an instructive lesson to the Demo
Gratis, of which it will be wise for them t.
take heed 1t will be their true policy T.
so use the power with which the peopl
have intrusted them as to bring these dis
gusted Republicans to their sides. The
will do well to remember that some thing
were settled by the late war past recall
Among these are the Thirteenth, -Four
tecnth and Fifteenth amendments to til
Constitution, which those Republicans VIII
have enabled the Democracy to win thi
amazing victory viii not permit to be dis
turbcd.
Glory enough for one day.
THE NEW YORK "wORLD" (DEM.)
Concludes its leading article as follows
With the light of victory be Gaming from
their faces as the presage of greater achieve
ments to be wrought and greater victorie
to be won, it only remains for the Demo
craey to close up the ranks and shoulder t
shoulder under the old hammer and tn
same watchwords 90 on from conquerin|
to conquer, until the last citadel of Fedora
E power has been subject to their sway.
Grants pretorian phalanx has been brok
en-. His Third Term" banner has bee
: captured and reversed for a scotf and Il bI:
sing. The bummers OF his army, tn