Year: 1868

The New York Herald. who has been
a warm supporter of Gen. GRANT since
the nomination of SEIsoUn and BLAIR.
is now beginning to realize that his can
ddste and party are destined to defeat.
The following article from the Herald
comedies defeat to Grant and Colfax


lFfom he n. Y. Herald fBai) Aug. sih.l


The figures, as they come in from
Kentucky, are mounting up for the Dem
ocratic majority. The last rcturns,which
we published yesterday, set down eighty
thousand majority for Stevenson, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, aud
these returns represent the country dis
tricts from which they come in slowly,
and will probably show larger gains, ac-
cording as they are received. The result
Of the June election in Oregon was quite
as remarkable an evidence that the people
are awake to the multiiarious mischief
which the Radical party has wrought in
its administration Of the Government.
We cannot, therefore, shut our eyes to
the direction Of these straws which show
how the wind blows, the Republican ma,
jority in Oregon in 1866 was 327; the
Democratic majority for member Of Con
gress (the solitary one who represents
that Young State was, at the election of
the first Monday in June, 1865. 1900.
IInro w"g gain Ur TIE anu RADICAL party
of over fifteen hundred votes in voting
population Of about twenty thousand.
Taking these two States rs an example,
We will find that the people are not ahan-
doning their hostility TO the wanton and
dangerous. policy of the ruling faction,
which during three years of peace has in
creased the national debt and kept up war
prices and war taxation. The Kentucky
election has taken place since the Presi-
dental nominations of both parties were
made and yet So far from the nomination
of the Radical Convention strengthening
the backbone Oft faction, or the nom-
nation of Seymour and Blair weakening
the spinal column of the Democracy in
that State, they have turned events the
other way. These results are but the
early Indications 1.-THE skirmish fire as it
were) of the great revolutionary battle
which is about to open. If the other
State elections which are to come off be-
tween this and the Presidential contest in
November should happen to give like in
dcations of popular hostility to the Rad
ical usurpations and corruptions, who can
tell but that the nominees Of the Chicago
Convention may be overwhelmed by the
weight of Radical madadministratio
since the rebellion was wound up by Gen
Grant that they have to carry on their
shoulders If we look at the facts which
confront the people when they come to
vote, we find that taxes to the amount of
three thousand millions Of dollars have
been imposed upon u.s. We find that the
national debt has been increased to the
tune of three thousand millions more.
And this, when the country is at peace
and the people had right to hope for a
reduction of taxes and the national Obli
CATION as the fruit Of victory wen, God
knows with what terrible sacrifices to
every home and hearth in the country.
But, instead of the load being lightened
we are called on to bear further exactions,
to submit to increased expenditures. In
order to keep portion of the country in
subsection more troops are called for
Men foistcd into Congress from the
Southern States, and Governors who
really represent little more than mock
constituency, demand from the Govern
ment an expensive army TO assist them in
carving out schemes and ambitions
which are purely partisan and are posi-
lively destructive of the peace and good
of the country. 1t is facts like these
which meet intelligent men Of all parties
when they come to cast their votes, and
we cannot be surprised that majorities
are found to protest emphaticallv against
Il continuance of this kind of Govern
ment.


The people demand change, and it is
the people. and not any particular party,
who will make the Issue at the approach
ing election. Names and individual can.
ddatcS count for very little in this con
test II is q cheap Government, honest
! IL administered in view of the fact that
the country is at peace, which the people
require \ serious counter revolution,
therefore, terrible to the politicians, no
doubt, but good and wholesome for the
peoplc---because it is being born of the
peoples at hand Nothing but the mar.
vellous activity Of our population and
the untold resources ofthe country could
enable US to bear the present burden of
taxation or induce us TO submit to carry


ii so long. But it is evident that reac-
ton has set in, and it may be that in the
course Of events rs now foreshadowed
the next elections will result in sending a
majority to Congress possibly in favor
ofa vast reduction OF the present cnor.
nous taxation. The public mind leans
that way. Let us have peace, real peace,
is the popular cry, and the popular heart
naturally yearns for the possession of
that prosperity which should accompany
peace. The result of the Presidential
election may be so vaguely decided in the