Year: 1868

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country without some degree of alarm


for the many acts of violence commit
ted at the South, together with the an


nouncements made by the leaders of the


Democratic party, have had no tendency


TO strengthen confidence in the belle


that peace was to be the future state o


the country We have. as a basis fol


conjectures as to what might be, admit


ted the victory of Seymour and Blair in


the approaching election. and have seen


the country plunged into the midst o.


anarchy, have seen IA civil war at home


and the nation despised and without


minished head of rebellion again raised


and the war between the sections car


rieG into the border and Northern States


We have seen the South. treasured by


victory which seems to tell it that il


at last has the advantage of numbers


upon it's side, attempt the satisfaction


of that revenge for past defeats, which


il has been so long seeking. and by


means of which it hopes to wipe out


those imaginary stains upon its honor.


connected with the last war. We have


seen Frank Blair trampling upon the


laws of Congress, and bands of traitors


fiocking to the Capitol To assist him iG


his work. We have seen the armies of


the North Fastening 10 the rescue


aud Iax huarA h. elaSlt Of


arms at the seat of the general govern


ment, all these things have we been


made to fear, aud, in imagination see. in
the event of the victory of the Deuo>
cratic party. But the leaders of that
party have told us even more than this.
Thew have informed US that even should
Grant and Colfax receive the majority of
the votes cast in those States legally en-
titled to take part in tue election as en-
acted by Congress, still shall the country
see a revolution, provided the votes of
Virginia and Texas are not
If these States are not admit
ted TO representation in the electoral col
lege we are informed that revolution
will follow, and the Radicals" are sol-
emnly warned in the true *. *. X"
style not to attempt a step which will
cause the rivers of the nation TO flow
with blood These threats of revolution
are based upon the assumption that the
admission of the votes of the States re-
ferred TO, would effect a change in the
result of the election. Were such the
case. the adherants to the "lost cause"
would still place reliance in the weight
of numbers upon their side, and might
not hesitate to put their threats into ex~
ecution.


But all these possibilities upon which
to base revolutionary movements are
made to vanish by the results of tie
recent elections. The South, which has
been taught by the Democracy to be-
lieve that a great re action was going
on in the North, and which has been
thereby schooled into its revolutionary
ideas, is now undeceived and finds that
il is still in the minority, and that, in a
second contest, il will be compelled 10
battle against the same forces with
which il measured swords during the
late unpleasantness. For such n con~
test we believe it has no desire. Over
once "by numbers" il has no
desire to become a party in a second
conflict. in which it would find opposed
to it the same forces and the same COM
manders.


We must therefore regard the threat
ened revolution indefinitely deferred.
the postpouement having been based
upon the result of the recent State cleo
tions. Instead of Seymour we now sec
Grant in the Presidential chair. instead
Of war we see in the future peace. All
hope of successful resistance to the gov
is banished, all schemes for
the "trampling of the laws" are rem
iered futile, and the mighty voice Of the
people has gone forth through the ball
lot box saying, ''let us have peace"
1--WE shall now see Grant elected and
inaugurated, shall see the
credit of the country placed upon
more firm basis instead of suffering the
threatened ruin, shall see the resump-
ton of all those Industries which have
suffered from the agitations in the DO
litical world, and shall, before another
four years roll around, find the country
that one great united nation which its
founders designed it should be. and
which il always would have been but for
the wicked attempts made by the DEM
Ocratic party to destroy il.
The defiant croakings of the
"K. N. h" will be changed
to the more peaceful cooings of people
who will, we believe, sensibly resign
themselves to the fate which they have,
by their own perverseness brought upon
and who will accept the
situation. We shall see thousands of
carpet baggers" vending their way to
the South, there to engage in the devel-
opment of the country, thereby adding
to its prosperity and binding together,
more firmly than ever before, the two
great sections by the links of commerce.
The prospects of the country are, in
fact, more brilliant to-day than they
ever have been since the dark days in
which treason gave birth to the rebel
lion The clouds of war once dissi-