Year: 1872

One Of the NEST intensely aggrava-
ting things we have had to do in con-
nection with our duties as editor Of
this paper has been looking over the
exchanges issued on or before the day
of election. Those of the Liberal sort
TEEN with injunctions ito vote
early" to "vote the Liberal ticket"
to "save the country" to "put down
Radicalism," and so forth and so on,
intermingled with the many cheering
assurances that Greeley can be
elected" that the Liberal ticket is
sure to win," that "it requires 1876
electoral votes to elect President; of
this number Greeley will receive the
entire South all Liberal newspa-
pers agreed on this-and such North
ern States as each individual editor
conceived would give majority for
the Liberal ticket that 4" the Liberals
are hopeful )" that "the Radicals are
despondcnt," etc, ETC. It has almost
made us feel like laying down our
lead pencil, emptying our paste pot,
pocketiDg our scissors and forswearing
the editorial tripod forever. And as
we sadly ponder over tliese useless in !.


inctions and lse..prophesies Of our
mistaken editorial brethren, we pic
tnrc to ourselves what might have
been if they had all been borne out
in truth. How our pen would have
skinned over our paper and left be-
hind it our joyful Impressions Of the
good that was to follow the election
of Horace Greeley-of how straig ght-
forward principle and old-fashioned
honesty wonld have ruled in the
councils of the nation; of how the
prosperity Of the North would have
been confirmed, and the revival of
the commerce and credit of the now
beggared and desolate South would
have been assured of how bad men
like Syphcr, Packard and Kellogg
would have sunk out Of sight and
been heard of no more forever; of
how all the promises made in our
Liberal platform of principles, would
have been carried out to the best of
human ability, and the country have
taken one more long stride in its march
toward greatness and honesty, earned
for itself the title of being the
best and freest government under
the sun. But giving ourselves up to
it, we conclude to contemplate the
situation as it is, not as it might have
been. Gen. Grant is chief magistrate
of the United States four years more,
and holds his lease Of power by as
strong an Endorsement as was ever
given to any president before. AS
we sit alone and ponder, our once
most fervent desire is that our ante
election predictions may prove false
that General Grant may cnt loose
from the corrupt men by whom he is
surrounded, that he may look upon
the South with the eye Of :. patriot,
and not as partisan and ttiat he will
relieve it as far rs his power extends,
from the grievous burdens it is now
struggling under, in the shape OF
grasping and Inconsistencies Off
cials. '.E" -5.n


We picture to ourselves how one
and then another Democrat would
have dropped in on us, how one and
then another jovial Liberal Republic
can would have popped in on us,
how we would have shaken hands
together and congratulated each other
on our glorious victory, and all have
been jolly together. But the best
laid plans, etc. Horace Greeley if
defeated-Gen. Grant is reelected
We are sorry and out Of sorts. Gu,
sanctum is prevailed py an air o1
quiet which assures us that our fiieud>
are out of sorts too; that it is the day
after the fair; that the play is played
out, the curtain down, the lights out
and the people departed-wllere
Outinto the tempestous, stormy night
in which angry winds blow and threat
ening lightnings play, or into tn,
peaceful, quiet paths which shall leat
us into the perfect day Of our great
ness as nation and people? ar
Who shall say?


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