Year: 1868

1dE hESUAIs


The great four years, periodical political
battle in the United States (disuuited so far
as the equality aud sovereignty of the South
ero States are concerned) has been fought,
and. although the returns are not complete,
enough is known 10 insure General Grant
sufficient electoral votes to secure bis election
to the Presidency. Our wish was so strong
that it gave rise to a hope, and at times a
belief, that the champions of national liberty
and good government, Seymour and Blair,
would BE- elected in defiance Of all systema
tised power and corruption. The great thief
is the most difficult of all to ferret out, arrest
and convict When his robbery reaches tens
Of thousands of dollars be is rarely convicted
in the cod, or suffers the just penalty Of vic


lated law. While this is true of courts and
juries does it indeed extend to the people
when corrupt, wealthy politicians are on trial
before them through the ballot box! The
contest jus! closed would seem to prove the
analogy and equal success Of both these clas'
ses, indeed we know no difference between
the crimes of theft, burglary or highway rob.
berry, and that Of official corruption, and pub
licy plundering the Golfers of the Government,
and robbiug the people of their hard earned
substance, through perjury and public pill
ferpg. That the money which carried this
election has been criminally, corruptly and
illegally extortcd from the people by a cor.
rupt, perjured cabal at Washington city,
there can be no doubt in any intelligent OBJ.
serving m,n's MUD This leads to reflect.
ions that are by no means promising for the
future welfare and prosperity of the masses
o! our countrymen. If at this Gay there is
in the United States a class of voters suffi-
cieutIy large to hold the balance Of power
10 great political contest, like the one just
closed, who are mentally weak enough to be
swayed by falsehoods and clap-trap argu'
meuts and publications, or tmid enough to
he frightened by threats and brow beating,
or corrupt enough to be purchased outright
with The very money Of whc the public
has ben boldly and barefscedy robbed, then
have we reached the days when rascaity
rules and rolls in wealth, while honesty be
gets poverty and punishment.


We do not charge General Grant with be-
ing mixed up in the corruptions Of the Rump
Congress and caba at Washington, nor
would be have been the candidate Of
the tyrannicsI corruptionsts, but for the
Democratic successes of last year. Whether
Grant will be their tool as they expect, and
utend to make him, or not, we cannot say,
IS he has never in his whole life held civil
position of any kind, either high or low, to
our knowledge, and we know as much Of
aim, and more than the mass Of his support
srs. One thing is certain, the people OF the
United States have gone it blind 10 the elec'
lion of President, aud in the success of
Grant they may ho'd good hand, or they
may not have jack high. Both parties are
in me same Egyptian darkness as to Grants
craftsmanship, politics, or principles, and. as
Solomon said of the dead man and brute,
.Hne hath no pre-eminence over the other
whatever" The people Of the United States
have been in bad luck for the last eight years,
and in desperate streak bave gone their
pile blind, and when the hand is played out
they will know the result.