Year: 1872

| vote the administration than the liberal
ticket, and that, if they could not so
| vote, it was their interest to stay at
| home on election day and not vote at
| all. Thus the liberal republican strength
in those States was nearly neutralized
| by democrats who wouldn't eat crow
when they could get $5 to $40 each for
not eating it.


[From the New York WOrld.l


How, then, are we to explain the alb
| ject and humiliating nomination which
the great democratic party consented to
| accept in the extraordinary canvass
| which has Just closed? Most unfortun-
ately, the explanation is too easy. The
wings of the democratic party were clip
ped by the astounding frauds and cor
ruptiOn of the Tammany ring. Had it
not been for the shameful exposures
which cost us the State election, last
year, we should easily have succeeded in
this Presidential contest. The Tam
many frauds were the source of all our
woes. New York was the chief citadel
of the democratic party; and it is credit
able to the moral sentiment of the cOun-
try that the hideOuS revelations of last
year brought the democratic party into
disrepute. Had it not been for the
weakening, prostrating effect of those
revelations, the democracy, with all the
Omens in its favor, would have disdained
to 90 outside of its own organization for
candidate. 1t is not Mr.. Greeleys
nomination at Baltimore, but the previ-
Gus Generalization which rendered such
a nomination possible, that has cost us
this election, has not condemned our
principles, but only the corruption with
which the party was tainted in the local
itv where it was strongest, and which it
failed to remove till too late a period,
and then only by republican cO-opera-
ton. The Tammany taint will recede
into the past but the principles of the
democratic party, which were rapidly
growing in public favor until that great
blight fell upon our prospects, will cut
live this contest and go on "frOm con-
ouering to conquer" in every future
election.


From the New York Times.I


We have not the slightest doubt that
we can get from Gen. Grant one of the
best administrators the country has ever
seen. He is a man of great shrewdness
and sagaeity, and it would be strange,
indeed, if he were not actuated by a sin
cere desire to promote the best interests
of the country, and thus incidentally to
vindicate his own great fame. As he
has himself told the people, he will avoid
errors such as a man new to politics ma
turally commits, and if any changes are
made in his cabinet, they will doubtless
be in the direction of the public
wishes He is entitled now to open and
generous treatment. Undoubtedly the
people will expect that he shall receive
fair play-that the SChurZ and FentOn
factions shall cease to throw hindranCes
and embarrassments in his path, and
that the unsuccessful war against him
of this year shall not be transferred to
Congress, to the great injury of the
people and the obstruction of all impUr-
tant business. 1t is quite possible that
before a month is over, the Tribune and
FentOn - convertible terms will be
scheming for more congressional COM
mittees of inquiry" On all such at
teupts the public will certainly look
with disfavOr. The Grceleyites have
made an appeal to the nation, have
greatly disturbed the business of the
country for many months, are respOn-
sible for much confusion and uprOar, and
now will be expected to allow the busi-
ness of the country to go on in peace.
The contest has been prolonged, and
every issue that the Greeleyites could
raise has been fairly, fully and patiently
heard and tried. Their arguments, their
tricks and their pretences have all
had a good chance. Judgment has gone
against lhem, and now it is their duty to
refrain from striving to unsettle private
and public business, and to acquiesce in
the decision of the vast majority of the
people.


From the New York Herald


To General Grant his triumphant re
election is popular Endorsement of his
administration of which he may well be
proud. But he should now aim at
something higher than Mr.. Fish's policy
of peace with foreign nations at any
cost, and at something better than Mr.
Boutwell's game of bluff with the gold
gamblers of Wall street. We think the
country has the right to expect, and
will expect, with the second Inaugural
tiOn of General Grant on the 4th of
March, a new cabinet and a new policy,
especially in our relations to Spain and
Mexico, which will put the great re-
public" on the high road to the fulfill
ment of its manifest destiny"