The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.

/ WASHINGTON LETTER.
/ From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. II, 1878.
We have advanced so far from the
elections of last Tuesday that most of US
have assumed our normal relations with
the world and each other, though not a
few intense Bourbons and the most ram
pant of Greenbackers find it difficult
pulling up from the depths of despond
ency into which they we're cast by the
abrupt descent and utter demolition of
the air castles in which they had so long
been domiciled. Few Republicans are
found so exacting as to express anything
but the profoundest satisfaction with
the general results. 1t cannot be dis
guised that Tuesdays verdicts are al
most uniformly Interpreted here as fore
casting solid North against a solid
South hereafter, if the South is so blind
and welded to her ante-war idols as to
revive the old significance attached to
Mason & Dixon's line. We disarmed in
her presence to show the sincerity of our
desire for the restoration OF fraternal
feelings and relations between every sec
ton. Every pretext for the persecution
of Southern Republicans was removed.
and the General Government threw the
weight of its influence in favor of the
restoration of "local Government" About
everything was conceded to the Demo
Gratis that they could think to ask for.
and in return we had the Southern
Democratic party pledged to an ohserv-
ance ofthe reconstruction legislation of
Congress, in letter and spirit, by Hamp-
tan, Gordon, Lamar, Ben Hill and few
others who came as the special plenipo-
tentiaries of the lately rebellious ele
ments at the South. The list of Repub-
licans killed, mutilated and driven from
their homes during the campaign just
closed cannot be explained away on any
theory other than that our confidence
has been abused and that the pledges OF
good behavior have been repudiated.
But from the present indications the
pretended election of Democrats in dis
tricts heretofore Republican by from 5
to 20 thousand majority, will react more
damagingly on the South than the loss
of twice that number of Representatives
fraudently returned by Tuesdays alleged
vote.
The relative strength OF parties in the
J, House of the 46th Congress continues to
!, engross the attention of the political and
partisan arithmeticians. The estimates
4 vary with the party predictions o1
those making them; but from the mos
reliable data now at hand, and leaving
|, California ont, it will probably stand
about as fJlIows in total of 299 mem
bers; Republicans 136; Democrats 157
!, Greenbacks 6. In this estimate some o
the Greenbackers have been given tC
one or the other of the two great parties
2 according to their antecedents. The un
certainty sill hanging over some dis
tricts made up of towns without tele
, graphic or very liberal mail facilities
makes it impossible to give more accu
2 rate figures till the character of the sue
| cessful candidate shall have been deter
3 mined.
J. Except Bourbon Democracy, no clas
3 of men have more occasion to feel "cu
!. up" over the Empire States verdict thai
E Mr. Conkling's personal enemies. Those
l. candid enough to speak their convic
i tons are forced to acknowledge it a per
: son al triumph to the New York Senator
3 such as is rarely achieved by any man
e Elk Senator and Secretary Chandler ais
' comes in for rather more than his pro
! portionate share of the complimentar,
S things said of those specially entitled t
Republican gratitude for our triumph
But now that we have somewhat recoy
y cred from the first exhilerating effect
t. of the tidal wave and have dispassiona'e e
It ly set about paying the debts we hav
C incurred of the leaders who organizes
e the great victory, the name of Blaine
8 oftenest heard. He has hardly reste'
r since he put on his armor to lead the Re
publican columns in Maine. Tue re
verse suffered there seems only to hav
d made the critical nature of the struggl
q more apparent to him and to have il
spired him to almost superhuman efforts
a He is said not to have rested a wee
r since he put on the harness early in AT
d gust. No figure of all those who hay
v occupied the field in this campaign s
T. accurately fits the character whic
IS Kearney made ridiculous By applyin
,fI to Ben Butler, as Blaine's. Whether i
! Massachusetts,, beyond the Rocky Mour
). tains, or at intermediate points. his can
IT paigning has been in the nature of
e continuous ovation-like the conquer
v ors triumphal entry into the city tbs
d he has relieved from the besiegers, an
e. it rividly recalls some episodes in th
.e Life of the First Napoleon.
n Committees are already arriving i
rs anticipation of the early convening {
ir Congress. The President and heads {
s. Departments are busy with the annu'
y message and reports. MAXWELL