Year: 1865

The most significant and severe civil con.
test ever wagcd on this continent has been
fought for eight weeks, and concluded on
Tuesday last, in New Jersey. Her traditional
conservatism-her isolation from tho free
and loyal States, both as to the reelection
ratify the constitutional abolition of slavery,
together with the infamous character of her
leaders and her legislation, had made ber
conduct record of dishonor and caused her
shame to pass into proverb. She had men
in high public stations who boldly sympa.
thised with treason in the South, and secretly
aided riotous resistance to the war in the
North. She had representatives in the ma.
tional councils who seemed to gloat over
their own disgrace and revel in their political
pestilation. She withheld from her heroic
soldiers the boon of suffrage, and with all
the solemnity of her deliberative assembly
refused to apply the words "unholy," cause
less" wicked" or "unjustifabe' to
the Southern rebellion. She had accom-.
plished the acme of degradation, stand,
ing alone in her recroanoy to loyalty.
The engineers Of the Democratic party in
New Jersey werc among the first to assume
guardianship over President JOHNSON, and
patent what they called "his system of re-.
construction. They hailed him as the
Messiah who was to rekindle the expiring
embers Of Democracy. They had the glaring
impudencc to claim the one Southern states
man who stood rock-like amid tho detection
Of his colleagues and the desertiou of his
party associates; who when the shot against
the beleaguered walls ofSumter went hurting
through the ranks of the party, parting the
true from the reasonable Democrats, led the
loyal hosts of that organization; he it was
that they captured as the champion who
at the very dawn of peace would reunite the
dscordant elements, and over the ruins Of
the Union party restore the Democracy ia
power They went into the canvass de.
manding universal amnesty for rebels, from
citizen up to chieftaini they whined about
the "nigger;" insisted upon the immediate
admission to Congress Of those returned from
insurreCtionary States and platformed and
plead for local taxation Of Government bonds.


The Union men of New Jersey, rallyirg
around their own Chief Magistrate hurled
back the SANDER of his alliance with Copper.
headismj took issue with the Democratic
party on every point canyassed every coun.
ty from her northern mountain to her sea-
bound cape; fought them from hamlet, town.
ship and city, reduced their strongholds,
and, in redeeming the "OId Jersey State
FROM the clutches of the Copperheads, have
blasted the last hope of those in the South
who thought it an easy transition from the
rebel camp to the Federal Congress.


New Jersey repudiates reputation. She
stands by the national faith. While leaving
suffrage to be settled by communities, she
declares for justice and protection to the
black race. She comes to the support o
constitutional emancipation. She pronouncet
against the indiscriminate recognition Of
Southern States She demands that the ex,
tremest penalty of the law shall fall upon
tho guilty head of treasoni and with seventy
thousand loyal ballots she takes the flag that
forty thousand of her sons brought back to
her in triumph, We welcome her into the
Union, and rejoice that the power of Kill,
PATRICK's living voice, and the silent elo.
quence of KEARNEY's grave, has dissipated
tho cloud that obscured the star of New
Jersey which now shines lustrous with tho
glory Of liberty.


TIE NATIONAL EQUAL SUFFRAGE Asso,
CITATION will meet this evening, at u o'clock,