National Republican., 1878-11-06
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 9. 1873.
YEsTERDAY's BATTLE AND TRIUMPH.

The result of the battle yesterday is graf
flying beyond expression, insomuch as it
indicates Enthusiastically that the presenta-
tion of solid South" in the contest has
had the tendency to solidify the loyal senti-
ment Of the North and array II in the en-
counter with gratifying unanimity and
power. This struggle is the skirmish line
Of the great battle of 1880, when, as during
the period of the war TO save the national
life, solid North is to be arrayed against the
solid South. This ispohtical posture Of affairs
has been produced under necessity which
the Democrats of the late insurgent States
have created by a wanton disregard of right,
justice, and law, in overriding the rights of
Southern Republicans through ostracism,
violence, and murder. A mad spirit seems
to have absorbed all sense of right, all re-
speCt for the laws, and all the humanities
that attach TO civilization throughout the
entire South, as it did during the re-
bellion, thus arousing feeling at the North
that can never be allayed until the country
Is placed beyond the reach and power of its
enemies, by a Republican Senate, House Of
Representatives, and the continuance of
Republican power in the executive branches
of the Government and treason and rebel
lion are regarded as odious and helo oless for
all time.
The victory won by the Republicans in
this struggle is gratifying in the highest
degree, though it is not rs complete as could
have been desired. The House of Repre-.
sentatives should and may have been wrested
from the hands Of the Democrats, who have
abused their power and disgraced them
selves and their country The Democratic
majority is reduced to mere handful, and
would have been entirely wiped out but for
the gross and indefensible wrongs practiced
upon the colored and white Republicans in
the Southern States. However, at worst,
the boasted Democratic majority in the
House has been dwarfed to o dmiuutive
number. This is n mere foreshadowing OF
what is TO come in the future to party OF
fraud, corruption, wrong, violence, and MUIR
der. Its cpitaph is being written in the
blood Of its victims.
1t is to be regretted that with the facli-
ties for transmitting information through
hn ',pr pla
held yesterday that our returns are moi
more full and complete; but for some cause
they are tHrdy and indifferent in complete
ness. OF this the press have just cause o.
complaint; but SO long Us complaints ac
Complish nothing, 1t is the part ofphilosophy
10 bear the ills we have without muir.
muring. We gather from the disjoiuted
aud scattered returns the following results
which, though mcagre, show the drift oi
the political currents, and inspire in the
Republican neart fresh hopes for the future
The figures and statements which we fisl
from the mists oi our incongruous dis
patches satisfy US beyond doubt that tn
Republicans have carried the States o
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
and Nevada, with a probability o
having carried Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, and Illinois.
The Republicans have In all probab!lit,
gained at least sixteen members OF Congress
in the States referred to, and have place,
the Senate in le7e beyond the possibility o
Democratic majority Of moro than two
This brings both Houses so evenly balanced
that the Democratic power Of mischief will
be crippled and somewhat aveted. FO
more explicit information, we refer tn
reader to our elaborate dispatches
RESUMPTION is now fixed fact on
SO days more and it will become a legg
fact.
You can safely count upon tho fact tina