Year: 1872

Results In the "Emptre state"


We are on the verge of the great Presidential
battle. in which six millions of men win be
engaged tomorrow, from the rising to the
setting sun, and over q field embracing halt
the Continent of North America s.From camp
to camp" as on the night before the decisive
day of Bosworth Field, s'the hum of either
army Silly sounds,"-


And from the tents


The armorers. accomplishing the knights,


With busy hammers closing rivets up,


Give dreadful note Of preparation.


Magistrate and our national administration
for the next four years from and after the 4th
of March; but the general results of this
national election may fix the supreme law of
the land and shape the destinies of the coun-
try for generations to come. From recent
manifestations of the public sentiment on this
subject from different sections Of the Union, it
may be said that the issue of this con-
test is already determined, and that
to-morrows election, as universally regarded,
will be only the formal ratification of the
voice Of the people already expressed in favor
of another Presidential term to General Grant.
We need not here recite the well-known events
which, from July last to October, mark the
decline and collapse Of the hopes, the calcula-
tions and the possibilities of the new opposi-
ton coalition But still the causes Of this
collapse may be profitably considered in clos
ing up the record of this remarkable Presiden-
tial canvass. General Grant had alienated
from his administration many of the most ac-
tive, ambitious and conspicuous leaders of the
republican party, and the democratic manag-
ers were induced to believe that these desert
ing leaders, in some general movement COM
manding their support, would be strong
enough to carry away from the administration
the popular balance Of power in this national
contest.


Upon this captivating idea Of fusing with
this supposed anti-Grant republican balance
of power the democratic party of the Union,
this new opposition campaign was formally
agreed upon at Cincinnati and as formally
adopted at Baltimore. And with two such
original radical republicans for this joint oppo-
sition Presidential ticket as Greeley and
Brown, brought forward upon the formal dem
ocratic acceptance of negro civil equality and
negro suffrage, as concessions of equality estab-
lished in the national constitution. there was
surely some ground for anticipating a fearful
diversion from the party in power. The issues
settled by the war thus being accepted by the
opposition alliance as fnalities this alliance
was placed on the same footing upon the war
and reconstruction as the administration itself.
Next in the proposition for universal am
mostly to the South, it was widely believed that
Greeley and Brown represented the general
wish Of the people of the North; and next, in
the matter Of the alleged manifold abuses and
corruptions of the dominant party, there were
at least materials sufficient for an active ag-
gressive canvass Above all, Mr.. Greeley's
universal reputation as a radical republican
apostle, as leading republican editor whose
word had been the law to his party, as q
teacher and an oracle among the farmers Of
the country, and as an honest reformer and q
popular man, was relied upon as the republi-
can lever which, upon the fulcrum of univer-
sal amnesty, would overthrow the administra-
ton.


The stubborn fact is now established, how
ever, that in all these promising estimates the
opposition elements counted without their
host We see that Mr.. Greeley was shorn like
Samson of his locks in betraying the secret of
Ibis strength that his followers, and the
followers of Messrs. Sumner, Trumbull,
Schurz, Fenton, Curtin, Mcclure and others
from the republican camp, in their new de-
parture, may be counted upon our fingers;
that many of the old line or Bourbon demo-
Gratis, to use their own terse expression,
''though sold would not be delivered !" and
that universal amnesty, and the alleged
abounding corruptions and despotic acts of
the administration are as feathers in the
balance against the weighty financial interests
of the country and the public services Of
General Grant; and against the prevailing
conviction that while there is no danger Of
any violent financial convulsion or shock with
ness system, from the banks of Wall street to
the vineyards of California, may be thrown
into chaos by too hasty change of the head
of the national government. In short, ma
jority of the people of the United States, and a
heavy majority of those whose interests, more
or less, are in banks, and bonds, and Stocks
and fixed, uniform and universal currency,
evidently believe that their interests are
identified with the established policy of the
administration. and opposed at this crisis to
the financial policy Of the opposition, un-
known except as the policy of sweeping
revolution.


Such, then, are the great and weighty
considerations which will settle this Presiden-
tial contest'sin favor Of General Grant-his
pre-eminent public services, his established
patriotism and honesty in the government and
the safety of all our vast financial and bust
ness interests, for four years more under his
supervision. Against these prevailing ideas