Year: 1870




look Of the Democracy for 1877
The democratic journals are Growing iustily
over the general result of the late New YORK
election. They profess to believe that II means


political revolution; that it signifies that the


people have risen in judgment against General
Grants administration as failure; that the


days of the republican party are numbered;


that it is rapidly falling to pieces, and that the
democracy, strengthened on every side, COM
| pact and united, will carry everything before
them in the grand national campaign for the
Presidential succession.


This is all moonshine. The late election in
this State has simply gone by default on a very
short vote, like number of the State elections
of 1862, and like good many in 1867, includ-
ing New York. We remember that in 1862,
State on the platform Of ''a more vigorous
prosecution of the war;" after Pennsylvania
had gone for the democrats by default, they
were fully convinced that they had the Presi-
Dental election of 1854 in their hands; and
they, perhaps, have not forgotten that after their
astonishing successes in 1867, beginning with
Connecticut, and eliminating in New York,
with majority of fifty thousand, they were
sure that the backbone Of the republican party
was broken, and that with almost any ticket
they were good for the Presidency in 1868.
How far they fell short in their lively expec-
tations and estimates in 1864 and in 1868 we
need not here exhibit. The lesson taught by
these elections and by all the others since 1856,
involving national issues and national candi-
dates, including Congress, is this-that the
local character signify, in national view,
little or nothing


Such is the meaning of this late New York
election. In reference to General Grants ad-
ministration and the Presidential succession it
signifies nothing. 1t does not even signify
that in 1872 New York will remain democratic.
for New York is one of the most unreliable and
uncertain of all the States as democratic
State. Assuming, however, that this State is
secured to the party for 1872, the election of
1868 establishes the fact that General Grant
can spare New York and still be reelected by
an overwhelming electoral and popular ma
jority. Nevertheless the New York democracy
appear to be satisfied this time that their tre-
mendous majority in this purely local election
of 1870 clears the Presidential track, and
clears it for Governor Hoffman. 1t is thought,
indeed, that SO strong are the claims OF the
New York democracy upon the party of the
Union that the next democratic convention
will be only too glad to accept Governor Hof.
man as their Presidential candidate.


Now, while we entertain high degree of
respect for Governor Hoffman, while we be-
lieve that in talents and study, and from his
record and experience in public affairs, he is
as well qualified for the office of President as
perhaps any other candidate in the democratic
that he will be superseded in the party con-
vention of 1872, as Pendleton was in that OF
1868, under the two-thirds rule, and as Van
Burcn was in that of 1914. We have the i'm
preston that the great West will control the
party convention of 1872, and dictate West
ern candidate as the only satisfactory equiva
lent for Seymour's nomination in the Juggling
convention of Tammany Hall and to this end
we have an idea, too, that the convention will
be held in the West. At all events, with the
weight of Seymour's Juggling nomination upon
his back, we apprehend that Governor Hof-
man will be cut out.


Nor do we believe that with any ticket they
may nominate for the succession the demo-
cratic party can shake the solid popularity OF
General Grant We think that he is as sure
of second term as General Jackson was in
his day against all comers and all combina-
tions. He is backed, too, by party which
has become the party of the nation in a far
higher degree than was the old democratic
party even under Jackson. The record Of
Jacksons administration has nothing larger or
more conspicuous than the sitting of the South
Carolina nullifers and the overthrow of Bid
dies national bank, while General Grant, his
| party and his administration are identified with
| the grandest, the most imposing and the most
| important events and achievements of any
nation in any age Of the world.


| From Washington to jefferson our original
prc- slavery federal constitution was a smooth
experiment; from Jefferson, under his State
| rights construction, to Monroe it was an un-
broken success. Then began over Missouri
the actual trouble on slavery, which was
patched up with compromises from 1920 to
1850, and then in 1854, with the violation o.
those compromises under Pierce in behalf o.


slavery, began in Kansas the overture of oul


great rebellion, the disruption of the pro-


slavery democratic party and the development


of the anti-slavery republican party as thu


great national party, under a constitution o


universal liberty and equal rights


This is what this party, sustained by the ad


vanced and powerful North, has achieved il


the field and in the government under Genera


Grant. As the representative of this party il
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