Year: 1876

Victory.


Thank God, it has come at last Alter
long Years of embttered feeling, of sec
tional strife, OF party misrule, OF destruct-
i've policy, the people of the country have
declared once more for A PARTY OF
THE UNION. It seems almost like
news too good to be true but it is even
so. SAMUEL j. 1ILDEN, the model Gov
ernor OF the great Empire State, the hon
est man. the clear headed ruler, the friend
OF equal rights, the foe of corruption. is
to-day the President elect OF the United
States-and THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, the
statesman of the west, and one of the
ablest men that ever sat in the Senate of
the United States, is the Vice President
elect. The honest men of the country, the
people, the voters in whose hands its des-
led astray 10y the false and impudent claim
that the Republican party was the party
OF the 'nion, and that all outside its ranks
were rogues and traitors, that it seemed
as though no change was possible. But
it has come after many days Impudencc
and folly and fraud, embolden by impuni-
ty, had become too conspicuous, and met
their fate.


OF the many party revolutions which
the country has seen in its century of ex-
istence. none have had the significance Of
this. Never has the result of an election
brought with it the pledge Of Il reversal
so complete between the policy of the out
going and the incoming administrations
The party that lays down the sceptre OF
power has lived upon sectional hate. bad
passions, and the memories of Il mad fra
tricidal strife 1t will be the work of the
men who assume the reins of government
to soothe the angry feeling, to calm the
passions, and, eXhorting the country to
forget the buried past, bid it turn to the
risine of new p,uspcl itv. Ii viii
know no north, no south, no east, no
west, but only the whole country The
people Of different sections, who, through
all the strites of the past, have had an I'M
derlying sentiment of common brother
hood, will be led to clasp hands and open
their hearts anew, and to realize that we
are all indeed the citizens of common
country


And what a glorious vision greets him
whose prophetic eye penctrates and inter
prets the future. What a significance
this great victory has The depressed
and fallen industries will arise again.
Mills will clatter anew. Forge fires that
had gone out will be relighted Our ship
yards will once more resound with the
sounds Of industry Agriculture will re-
joice in new and letter markets. A tran
quilted and encouraged south will de-
mand northern manufactures in larger
supply, and by larger production OF agri
cultural staples furnish rich freights for
northern ships There is not a planter in
the SOUTH farmer in the west, bnsi-
ness man, mechanic or laborer in the east,
who will not realize the blessings to flow
directly from the work done in this coun.
try on Tuesday last


With economy in the administration of
the government to which the new admin
istration will stand fully pledged. with re-
form of abuses, wiser and juster distri-
button OF the burdens imposed for the sup
port Of authority, and the general policy
of pacitication which is sure to be follow
ly be more prosperous than any which the
country has known.


What a great and glorious change it
will be, when the new President shall
send forth his inaugural, declaring that
honesty must be the rule in government
affairs, and that intrigue, dishonesty and
fraud will be visited with certain and Sc
we're punishment Where is the citizen
that must not feel more secure in his busi-
ness, his estate and liberty ?-who will not
hold up his head with an added pride that
he is an American


Such are the results assured by the re-
suit Of Tuesdays elections. Honor to the
Democracy Of the great States that have
devoted themselves to the work, and made
its consummation 4 certainty and all
honor to the statesmen of the party, head
ed by our illustrious candidate tor the
Presidency, whose comprehensive plans
and efficient labor have guided the great
work.