Year: 1872

The returns of the Vermont election
put very disagreeable, wet blanket on
the Democratic Liberals who have been
so outspoken in their hopes of pointing to
this election as an evidence of tidal
wave swallowing up the Republican par
ty. Bets have been made and other as
surances given out freely by Democrats
and Liberals that the majority of 1870
would be reduced one-half, and yet the
return shows several thousand of an in
crease in the majority. When the news
came to Washington Wednesday, con-
frming the result, and at the same time
announcing the nomination of Charles
O'Connor and John Quincy Adams as
the Straight Democratic nominees for
President and Vice President, there was
some little fear among the leading Re-
publicans here lest this strong ticket
should re-organize the old bunker De-
mocracy, and unite them against Grant
and Wilson, leaving poor Greeley and
Brown out in the cold, because they
have shown that their strength outside
of Democracy is a cheat and fraud.
This morning, however, came the news
that Mr.. O'Connor will not accept, and
that the Louisville Convention, large
part of which had scattered to the re-
spective homes of its members, insisted
upon nominating him nolenS UOLenS.


There appears to be no danger of a
stampede en- maSse at present from Gree
ley and Brown, and hence the work of
defeating them must go forward. Bright
as the prospect is, work must still be
done in every school district throughout
the country. Politics is comparable to a
game of chance, and however encouraged
one of the players may be, he must watch
and be vigilant, for game is never won
until it is played through to the end. 1t
is to be hoped that this Bull Run defeat
ofo our opponents will not cause our friends
in any part of the country to be less Wig
liant, earnest and active in the good cause.
A good report from Maine will be looked
forward to with more confidence than
ever before, despite the efforts of the ene-
my to get a foothold there.


GOSSIP OF THE TIME.


The letters of Charles Sumner and
Charles O'Connor are just now the lead
ing themes Of conversation here. Mr..
Summers ledoe taking is not very accep-
table, but his taking leave and retiring
to Europe during the remainder of the
campaign is considered quite the the
thing. His words and acts during the
past few months have done more to tar
nish the historical fame of this really
great son of Massachusetts than anything
than anything that had gone before. His
fame is a part of the country and should
have gone into the historic page unpollut-
ed with petty spite and untarnished by
inconsistency. He maintained the field
here somewhat too long, and none of his
true friends who take real pride in his
greatness will regret his absence from the
surging waters of a political cauldron
which threatened to consume him.


Charles O'Connor's views regarding
the nomination of Greeley are timely,
and will have great weight with the rea-
soning class of Democrats, whether they
support the Louisville nominees or Grant
and Wilson, or stand aloot from either.
A vast number of them already fully
agree with this popular representative
American that Greeley's nomination is
worse than a blunder, that it is a crime
against the teachings and practices of the
Democratic party. G. NJ.