Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1872, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 'B, 1872. PHILADELPHIA, A Birdseye View from the New Masonic Temple. How Stephen Girard Made Philadelphia. Real Estate and Boilding Notes--= How Houses Are Built, Ancient Sources of Title=s=Exs pense of Conveyancing. ‘The Building Associations---Every Man & Householder---Business Mat- ters, &e., &o. From Our Oun Correspondent, = PRILADELPELA, Nov. 7, 1872, A pleasant week was that which Ihave just passed in this comfortable old city. Indeed, my visithas been more than pleasant, for I have been fortunate in meeting &n old friend, a resi- dent of Philadelphiz, who is familiar with its ameny points of attraction and history. And as soms of the facts Thave learned were new to me, I feel that they may be to many other per- ®ons of our own “ Pheenix City ” also. There is & foll appreciation here of the wonderful pro- grees of Chicago, sympathy for the calamity which swept from the face of the earth the richest portion of our city in a fow short hours, and a hearifelt wish that we may be able soon to forget' the losses and distress of that fearful time in new and rapid sdvances in prosperity. Andlet me ssy, too, that Dr. Fowler's sormon, “No Mean City,” delivered on the first anniver- sary of the great fire, which gave a resume of our history-and the statistical figures of our great progress in commerce &nd manrufactures, was republished here in full, with expressions of pride at the marvellous growth, that Chicaga is an American city, and without any of the jealousy” which seems to be aroused in some Western cities whenever the name of Chicago ismentioned. Butlet me speak more of Phil- edelphia and less of ourselves, and hero the trouble is to know where to begin and where to end. EIRDSEYE VIEW OF PHILADELPHIA. Letme take yourreaders with me firstin s visit to thenew Masonic Temple, which is erected, and will be finiched in its interior arrangements next summer. This is a magnificent granite building situste on Broad street, near Arch. This stracture is 150 feet in width, and extends 240 feat deep to a back street, and rises grandlyto & lofty height, the top of the, pinnecle on the tower being 285 feet from the ground. The interior is being finished in & wmost ornate and tssteful manner, the several lodge-rooms, grand chepter, and banqueting- hall representing each & different order of architecture—Egytian, Corinthian, &c. The ‘building, exclusive of the ground, will cost, when finished, $1,250,000, and reflects great credit on the Masonio Order in Pennsylvania, and will always be & conspicuous monument to -their wealth and enterprise. Ascending thetower of thisbuilding, one of the finest views of tho city is obtained, and its mag- tnitude more folly realized than from any posi- tion Thaveyet been permitted to occupy. And euch a view can be £een nowhere else in this conntry. 1Miles of houses stretching far to the morth; honses to the esst, houses to the south and west, seemingly no end to the con- tinnous line of compactly-built brick and stone ‘houses, more than 130,000 in one view, covering, in the closely built portions of the city, from ‘12,000 to 14,000 acres, and this area of built sur- face in being enlarged every year by the addition of from 6,000 to 7,000 new structares. Sarely, I meditsted, as myéyes tried to take in this bound- less view, this is no mesan city, and there must be a power, a hidden energy, here greater than lfi!rfenlph credit themselves with, that can com- fortably house and support 750,000 people, and continue to grow and prosper at the rate dicated by the annual house-building statistica, And this opinion is strengthened when told that 'within the space bounded by the lines of vision from this tower there will be &roduoed this year roducts of manufecture of the value of more ghm $400,000,000. This ie accomplished without bustle or the seeming ha 80 mnoticeable in other cities, but that there 18 American spirit and energy under it ell, deceiving {o the eye onlgaon account of its having its own method, is evident from the prosperity which is perceptible in every quarter. - COMFOETABLE HOUSE ACCOMMODATIONS FOB ALL , CLASSES, But one of thamost noticeable things which attracted my attention, was the comfortable house accommodations of all clzsses, even to the humblest, and as our city has been inflamed Yo think more of real estate this year than we desire to have occasion, under eimilar circum- stances, in the future, I thought my inguiries in this direction might not be uninteresting to your readers. HOW THE QUAKER CITY BUILDING MATERIALS CAME TO BE USED. As before mentioned, nearly all the buildings in this city are of brick or stone, but built more enerally of brick than any other material, and &is is go different from many of our Western cities that you are led to zn inguiry as to the origin of the different systems of building, whether it i8 custom or the cheapness of ma- tarial ; and here an interesting fact was related to me, that shows that Philadelphia owes much of this advantage to the intelligent foresight and benevolent care of her great merchant, Stephen Girard. Mr. Girard hed a fear of fires spreading in_ s city whero frame build- ings were intermixed with other structures, and getting beyond the control of human efforts to extinguish them 2nd the consequent grest loss of property and misery that such fires occasion, s in his dsy instances periodically occurred in. Constantinople and somo Europesn towns. And, a5 he noticed, notwithstanding the whole area of city farniched the. best brick-clay for the con- struction of houses, & growing tendency to erect ‘wooden structures in the suburbs. In order to check this, he bequeathed, by his last will, to the State of Pennsylvania the sum of $300,000 for the internal improvements then in course of construction, to be paid, provided the Legisla~ ture of the State should, within one year from bis desth, pass cortain laws designated in his -will—one of which was that the erection of ““frame” or wooden buildings shall be_prohibit- ed within the limits of the city, and that all wooden buildings then standing should be re- moved. He further left the sum of £500,000 to the City of Phiudeéghia 23 & special bequest, theinterest of which was to be used, among other objects, to carry this law ~of Te- moval of wooden buildings into effect. From the flsanga of the act of Assembly above mentioned in the year 1831, no wooden buildings 'weres erected within the boundaries of what was then the limits of the city, and the wisdom of this became B0 evident to the people after a few years of experience that, as the city oxtonded {nto the ontlying districts, this law wasmade ap- ‘Plicable to those districts, znd it now applies to all that portion of the municipal territory which isnot strictly suburban. After forty years of experience this law is universslly regarded as one of the greatest importance in proventin the spread of = great conflagrations, an it s not improbable,—although Stephen Girard left his large estate, valned at the time of his death at _$9,000,000, and mnow increased by the rise in the Salne of coal lands and other real estate to prob- ably notless than $30,000,000, almost exclu- gively to_charitable purposes—that the people of Philadelphia have been benefited s much by the precautionary legislation which this legacs secured as by the other objects combined, noble a8 some of them certainly are. COMPARATIVE CHEAPNESS OF DUILDING LOTS. Ground is sold in this city relatively much less E son is mede with Chicago and Bt. ouis, cities with equally boundless area for oxpaneion, it 18 evident that, whilst the cramping of limits has an undoubted infiuence in forcing up values in New York and Boston, these are not ‘the only influences. This' other controlling cause has been explained, that within the city Limits the whole tendency of bus- iness, which 2lone can warrant large income {rom real-estate, has been for expansion and distribution over & large number of avenues, and that there has not been 38 much concentration a5 in any other city. Hence, the cffect of 2 close concentration of business has not been felt in its influence on values in choice locations to the extent that might be expected in city 80 large 28 Philadelphia; and, in respect to dwelling- houss property, building is dono so rapidly, and there are so many capitalists always ready and willing to make advance-loans to builders, that the buildings sre erected, in most cases, & litfle in" advance of the demand for occupancy, which prevents the builders from making ‘““a corner” in them. This some- times results in some loss to a builder when his profit in ozch houee is small, and the cost of carrying is larger than his estimate, Yet, a8 dwelling houses are nearly a8 much a necessary of life as wheat, corn, and pork, on the whole it is & better condition for the people who are the consumérs, and must be the sufferers in any extraordinary rise in prices, that the usual con- dition of the house market does not favor “a corner.” 3 HOW BUILDING IS ENCOURAGED—PECULIAR : ‘ GROUND-RENT” BYSTEM. The mode in which oxtensive house building is managed here may be new to many of your readers, as it differs from most ofher cities. William Penn introduced into this city what is known 28 the Ground-Rent system from Eng- land, which is simply the granting of land by a deed, in feo simgla, Teserving to tho grantor & certain rentto bo paid in anmual or somi-annual sums. Thus, if A owns a lot of gxonmi 20 fect front by 100 feet in depth, which desires to purchaso on_ground rent, and an agreement is made that the price at which it is to be conveyed to B is 9 per foot (S3 per foot means per foot fron!), the ground is conveyed in fee simple to B, with 2 covenent that he, his heirs, executors, administrators, and nss;fna ‘will pay £o A the sum of $60in semi-an- nual payments of $30, at days fixed in the deed, clear of all reduction for taxes and other charges. B, or his assigns, can_ discharge this rent on payment of the principal sum, of which the rent ia tho interest at 6 per cont,—in the caso illustrated being £60, tho principal will, of course, be $1,000. The advantages of the intro- duction of this system of ground-rents in the pest has been, that meny peoplo of limited means, with & laudable ambition to own their own houses, havo been stimulated to save enongh money to partial- ly build s homse, . or buy & house already built. If they built upon s lot takon up on ground-rent, theyhad & certainty that 80 long as the annual ront was paid no trouble conld arise from the ground purchaao, and, unlike & morigage, the principal did no fall due always at the wrong time with such peo- ple, and there was not the danger of losing the money invested in im%rovamentu by foreclosure 2nd sale for wani of ability to pay the principal sum or to borrow the money from other persons, and all incresse in the value of property goes to the purchaser on ground-rent. ~From this sys- tem of ground-rents comes the mensure of value of property eo peculiar to this city of naming the price a8 so much per front foot, meaning a sum per foot equal to fhe interest’of the principal sum for which the lot is sold. This mode of calculation is common for all ground worth less than 81,000 principal per foot. From that sum. up to the highest fignres, the principal is always used to designate values, as, for instance, s lot on Chestout streot, 25 feet front by 235 feet in than any other large city In {he country, and certainly in choicefiocatiung much higher prices relu.ti\'e{y are obtained for it ‘in Chicego. Why this should be is not clear, for, when compared with New York and Boston, you are told that the rerson lies in the fact that in those cities, the limits are_circumscribed by water bounda- ries, and building £pace comparatively so’ small for present- and future growth, and that in Philadelphin the surface suitable for building is without fimit, it s€ems reasonable that this may be the controlling cause, but when the com- depth, if sold for §2,000 per foot, the purchase money wounld amount to $50,000. BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS. Another of the facilities for people of small means becoming real estate owners is found in the organization of building and loan associa- tions, of which there are not less than 400 in active operation in this city. These co-opera- tive associations, lending ‘to their own share- holders suma of money secured on real estate, and repaid pnnd}ifl and interest in monthly i stalments, asgist laboring men and mechanics in the means to purchase a homestead, and this is liquidated by the monthly payment of aEum often not larger than the rent which they wonld pay tolandlords ss tenants. This explzins s a‘naafian frequently asked by persons visiting 0 suburbs, where may be séen meat two an three-story brick houses erected by the thou- sand each year. Who buysthem? The num- ber ‘of shareholders of these associa- tions is estimated 8t 60,000, and they lend to their shareholders each year for the urchase money of improved property sums ‘nsually of $1,000 to $1,500) which, in the ag- Ere&‘:w, amounts- to £6,000,000 or $7,000,000. ith this explanation, it is not hard to under- stand how it is that the builder is able to find asers, or that the purchasers are many of them poor men. The ground-rent system and building and loan associations have been the efiicient means of encouraging and facilitating people of emall incomes to put tbeir savings in s homestesd. It is said mors people propor- tionately in Philadelphia own the houses in which they live than any other large city in the United States, and if this be true of the United States, it may be taken as true of Europe, for resl estate is more subdivided 1n American than in European cities. TEE ‘*BONUB’ BUILDING SYSTEM. Another method of building houses in £} blocks in Philadelphis, is on what is here called ¢gdvancements,” which is simply where the owner of a lot or piece of land wishes to have it improved with buildings, but does not desire to engage in or tsko the riske of building himself, agrees with & builder, who in such _operation, i -termed & ‘“‘bonus builder,” to advance him a certain sum of money for the crection of 10, 20, '50, or 100 hoses described in an agreement, and the money to be advanced as tho buildings pro- es8. The advances are usually less than one- Falrthe cost of the .buildings. “The - owner of the ground making the advances, takes ground-~ rents or mortgages on the property for the val- e of the ground and the advances to be made, ‘which is executed and recorded so as to be the firat Jjen on the property. Dy this method, & builder, without much capital of his own, is ena~ DLled to build, the money advanced furnishin the cash required for immediato payments, e 1 the balance is cerried by material men on the credit of the buildings until disposed of. HOW PATMENT OF RENT IS SECURED. The methods of enforcing the payments of rents is attended with the usual vexations which landlords experience from shalky tenants in other places. Small houses are usuzlly rented by the ear, rent payable monthly in advance, and as, {y the law of the State, property of & debtor to the value of $300 is exempt from levy and sale, an agreement is usually drawn in which the ten- ant waives the benefit of this law, which makes &ll his goods on the premises liable for the rent, which, if not paid, may be seized by the land lord bya warrant of distress. Thus, landlords who exorcise ordinary care in letting their houses to persons who can satiefy them that they have been reliable tenants in tlie occupancy from which they remove, and not permit large arrears of rent to accrue, need never meet Wwith serious loss from non-collection. CONVEYANCE " OF REAL ESTATE—WILLIAM PENN'S * CONVEYANCERS." Having thus writton much of real estate, it may not be out of plece to mention something of the mode of transfer. Nearly all important deeds of transferaro written or printed on sheets of zparchment, according to * ye ancient custom.”* Upon the' settlement of this city by Penn, among other introductions from London was the profession of conveyancere, who, in that city, 28 in this, are & profossion distinct from practicing lawsers and ordinary real estate agents. 6 business of these gentlemen is to examino titles, draw deeds of conyeyance, bonds and mortgages, and to make and supervise in- vestments on bond and mortgage for capitalists. And, beinf & profession. of skill, in which they make the law applicable to their depariment of business, a close study, great particularity and regularity in titles has always -been here main- tained, and suits of ejectment, founded npon do- fective conveyances, are of very rare occurrence o in the courts of law. Abstracts of title, here called - ‘“ briefs of title,” are made to accompany all important con- veyances running back,—no, coming down,— and how far, think you, does thischain of title come down ? ANCIENT TITLES—FULTHER DAOK THAN WILLIAM PENY. Well, you would naturaily prosume most of the titles commence with patents from the proprie- tary Government of William Penn, at the time, end subsequent to, the gettlement of the proy- ince under the grant to him by Charles in 1682; but some even antedate this period, for in that portion of the city known as Southwark, 800 acres, now improved, were patented by the Dutch Governor to Swedish settlers, Swen Gon- derson and the three brothers Swenson, May 5, 1664, which patent was confirmed, on a changs of government, by the Deputy. Governor of the Dulie of York, Frencis fovalm, and subse- quently by Penn himeelf, with some modifica- tion of boundaries, and it is curious to note that the quit rent of this tract was eight bushela of wheat. And in that portion of the city known as the Northern Liberties, Jurian Hartsfelder in 1676 received & patent for 850 acres on the sonthwest side of ** Cohocktinks Creek,” quit- ‘rent 33 bushels of wheat, from Edmund Andress, then Dopiity Governor of the Duke:of York. Bfizonfl this the most particular conveyancer will not seek for a flaw in the title, and is ha Py when that point is satisfactotially Teachod b tracing the chain cf conveyance and transmis- eion. ASSURANCE OF GOOD TITLES. ° I cannot but think that the extreme care which is bestowed on matters of substance and form in these conveyances, whilat it looks like red tape to many who are accustomed to see val- usblo properties change ownership by 4 scfawl writing on a_sheet of foolscap paper, withont search for adverse titles; is in tho-end = grest saving of litigation and consequent expense, often accompanied with loss of proj ;and, to say the least, » man can sleep on hia title miich sounder when he knows it has gone throngh the searching scrutiny which these gentlemen are in the habit of giving it, Most of the leading conveyancers are connected with an association organized under & charter granted by the State Legislature, to which 'mo pemon is admitted excopt he has previously prepared himself by study in the office of a practicing conveyancer, and sub- mits to an examination by members of the body 83 to his qualifications. This Asgociations discuss all matters relating to the profession, and propose euch legielation in respect to titles as experiance points out as desirable from time to time. There is no fixed compensation by & legal foe bill for the work of conveyancers, but some years ago a number of the leading members of the profession_sgreed upon & uniform rate of charge for all work where the consideration in the deed or other instru-, ment was above $1,000, among which I find the following items : Ordinary fee simplo deed, parchment $10.00 Sheriff % dced, parchment. ... 12.00 Ground rent decd (per paif) parchment, 12.00 Bond and mortgage. 7.00 Wll.... e 10,00 Examination of tifle not reduced to wri 10,00 Verification of brief... ae * 1000 20,00 5.00 REGISTRY OF DEEDS AND ELANS. T was shown the ¢ Registry Bureau” connect- ed with the office of the City Burveyor, and the ponderous books of plans, showing every undi- vided piece of property, howover small, over the whole aréa of the city. is Bureau has been in operation for five or &ix yoars, and is_said to be better regulated than those in most Esstern cities! By law, no deed can be rocorded in the oflico of the Recorder of Deeds until it is regis- tered in this office, and an abstract of the de- scription with the name of the grantor and grantee filed. This is copfedin the plan-book, and thus & complete plan of all the sub-divisions of proporty in the city is obtained, with the names of the owners, and, after Tegistry, the owner is protected by law-from any sale of the property for taxes or municipal claims in any Dame offier than the registered owner. Any sale in other names will not divest the owner's title, and thus a former practice of filing liens for taxes, paving, pipe, or removal of nuisances, ofc., against John Bmith, owner, or reputed owner, of which the real owner had no notice, and selling improved or unimproved property under fictitions names; is prevented. 5 OTHER MATTERS. But eo much has been saidabout real estate in this letter that the reader who has ventured this far will conclude that I have been taken into the Eronnd floor in Philsdelphia, and will conclude )y & notice of one other matter which is of some interest to our city and that is, thereis an evi- dent determination here, backed by capital, to raise the port of Philadelphia to much greater importance in the export and import trade of the country than has boen evinced for the past for- ty years, and by the coming summer four lines of traneatlantic steamers will sail out of this harhor, one of which, the new American line, is just flnmhmfi four magnificent iron steamers at the ship-yard of William Cramp & Sons, on the Delaware. This line has complimented our own State by naming one of the steamers the Ilinois. The few grain elevators here located have been working to their fullest capacity during the past season and James A, Wright & Co., are now erecting a new elevator near the Govern- mont Navy Yard, st Lesgne Island, which will havo a capacity of 750,000 bushels. Wright & Co. control the new line of trans-stlantic steam- ers now building called the Red Star Line. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will, in s short timo, commence the construction of two more ain elevators of large Pr?orfionu, one on the elaware River frout, and tho other on the Schuylkill River, near Christian street. May icago second these enterprising offorts on the part of our elder sister, and it cannot but result in advantage to ourselves as well as Philadel- phia. FRANELIX. —_— THE WARD'S ISLAND HORRORS. ELunatics Subjected to Maltreatment atthe Hands of Drunken Kecpers— © The Deathand Burial of Louis C. Samuels, Fromthe New ¥ork Sun, Nov, 4. On Saturdsy Coroner Herrman held an inquest over tho remaina of Louis C. Samuels, the funa~ tic alleged to have died at the City Insane Asy- Inm at Ward's Island, last Mondsy night, from “tha effects of maltreatmant at the “hands of the keeper, James McDonald. The firat witness ex- amined was Dr. Joseph Cushman, who testified that the resultofa post-morfem examination, made by him, wasto show -that -Samnels was Iaboring under no acute complaint likely to havo caused death, which, he thought, was brought about by exhsustion, the body being very much emaciated. 9 Dr. Gonzales Echeverris, resident physician of the asylum, testified that Samuels was admitted into the asylum last August. He was & person of gome mental sbility, 58 far as he could judge. In Septomber he was suffering from acute manis, bntwgolly inoffensive. He was also troubled ‘with diartheea, from which he did not fally re-, cover until about two weeks ago, when his men- tal condition also improved. He frequently complained of being starved and meltrested by the attendants in the ward, and especially by McDonald, who, ho said, was greatly eddicted to drinking. Witness was not at firat disposed to place much credence in his state- ments, but a careful investigation satisfied him that tho charge of inebriety at least was true. On the morning ‘of Oct. 26 he found another patient, named Patrick Cassidy, in the ward with Samuels, with his face and shirt stained with blood, and, on inquiry, ascertained that McDopald had broken his nose. As this fact was admitted by the koeper, witness, con- sidering him an nnsafe man o have charge of insane patients, reported the fact to the Com- missiopers of Charities and Correction, and the ollowing moming, on_visiting the ssylum, be was again appealed to by Samuels, who was evi- dently suffering severely, and who complained that McDonald bad forced him to take a cold bath 28 a punishment. He was at this time so emaciated that, according to witness, nothing but skin and bone were left. Seeing that he was suffering from lack of sufiicient nour- ishment, the doctor ordered him some invigorating food. The next morning Samuels was in & still feebler condition, and complained that McDonsld had again maltreated him, kick- ing him in the stomach with his knee on this oc- " casion. He wished to write fo his brother con- cerning his treatment, but witness assured him he would present the case to the proper authori- ties. He accordingly wrote a letter to the Presi- dent of tho Commissioners of Charitics and Cor- recton. Witness here cited seversl instances of bra- tality which bad_occurred in the asylum withi the past six wecks, one of which had resulted in tho Geath of Horrian Eilers, On the night of Mondsy, Oct. 25, Samuels died, and, in his opin- ion, his death was attributable solely tosthe cru- elty of McDonald, Aftor tho exsmination of other witnesses tho case was adjourned until Thuraday. e S T Y ‘Who ¥as No Use for Lighte ning-Rods. From the Topeka (Ran.y News, H. C. Beard, Esq., & farmer, aged sbout 29 years, and living in Monmouth Township, about Tino miles from the city, hitched up his team, on Mondsy last, and started for Topeka. It was then raining, and he hoisted his umbrella. When sbout one mile from home, he was struck bya hot, sharp, terrible stroke of lightning. He wore a steel truss, and the lightning penctrated his pentaloons and shirt, and took up its line of travels on the circuit round his body. Part of the charge loft the truss at his side, and padsed down his right side into the spring seat, tearing it to pieces, and knocking down both his horses. His hip, to-day, was braised, and the skin lacer- ated badly for about a foot in length 1y three inches in width, and is very sore. The balanc of the charge loft the truss and climbed up his lett side, blazing its way as it went, and part of it forced a passage through his shitt and over- cost at the shoulder, and tho balance trailed its way leisurely down his arm, scorching and sing- ing a wide ewath ag it went, until it struck the umbrells handlo, when he &t last got rid of his meddlesome visitor. He was_benumbed and somewhat paralyzed, but succeeded in Xu&ching home by himself, although he had to be helpe: out of the wagon. Mr. Beard gaveus a call this morning, and showed us the numerous rents made in his clothes, and also the extent of his injuries. Several gentlemen who heard - him tell his story, and esw the amount of injury received by~ him, were of the unanimous opinion that it was marvellous. Tho lightning loave him alone after thie, A Man THE RESULT. {How It Is Viewed by All Parties. ' Comments ot the Press. From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Democratic), Genoral Grant was Bommimatod memocl tho wishes of his own party by the power and in- fluence of his offica-holders. He has heen re- elocted by influences of the same character. It- -will therefore be fmplied that Presidents of the - United States can continue themselves in- office at their own pleasure, If General Grantdid not avail himself of that knowlodge, others will at the first opportunity. To this, of conrse, thera will be & “powerful " opposition. We are mora than ever convinced of the mistake that was madein the Federal Constitution in not for- mally restricting the office of President to one torm. It is to be deplored that General Wash- ington did not set the example, as he intended, and the importance of which he recognized in all of his official documients and communications, There is no law more vital to the preservation of our institutions. We really are in great danger, There has never been so inefficient and go corrupt & President as Grant. In the earlier periods of our history he would have been. disgracefully dismissed withiout the formality of & popular support. The- party which oppased Grant will be the party of the future ; that is, if we are to’ be permitted to have elections here- after. That party was a coalition of antagonis- tic and diverso elements, and as such was ex- gzsed toall the weaknesses naturally engen- rod by such a position. It was understood in the Iarger cities and towns, but in the country districts there was_not sufficient time to explain the motives -which led to its formation, and ‘what was expected from it. Thousands and tens of thousands of friends were lost by this want of time who, next winter or apring, will be warmly" in favor of it. 'For those men, claiming to be Domocrats in the past, who Have declined to support Mr. Greeley upon tho ground of ther peculiar purily of Democracy, we_ have no cherity, and nsy, further, Wo will say we have no respect. ‘The issue of the continuance of the Government in its present constitutional form has been made to appear, and yot they, for Bome miserablo and contemptible rezson, having only relation to their own personal prejudices and passions, refuse to take any steps to that end, but, on the contrary, support, directly or in- directly, the President in his usurpations, Ex- tremes will meet. It is not the first time -that thoue pretending o be opposed have come to- . géther-and co ly co-operated on a common platform. Unless'we are deprived of popular elections altogether, what is now known as the Democratic and Liberal Bepublican party is to be heréafter known as the Liberal , and will be tho predominent organization, Despite all opposition, it will really have won the victory this year, even over the corruption of the Ad- ministration, had it not been for election frauds, opon and palpable, perpotrated in Pennsylyanis, Indians, and other States, which ‘deprived us of a legal victory. These unlawfal advantages cannot long continue. 'We therefore bid the Democrats and Liberal Republicans,— who havg #o fraternally united in this campsign, —to be of good cheer; tocontinueunited, what= ever may be the result, for local and Sht:nf\u'- poses, until another sbportunity offers, 5, indeed, they are deprived of it by the forcible, ‘military usurpation of the present incumbent to male & change in our National affairs, From the St, Louis Globe (Republican). The re-election of -President Grant, first and best, brings to us the assurance of 'a peaceful and quiet future as far ahead as man may look, and with pesco will come a tide of fortune and rosperity unequallod in the history of the world. Fhint the Demotrats of the South, whose vagus and half-forgotten hopes rovived so rapidly dur.. ingr the sumher, wero striving for an impossi- bility, o 8 fact which should now ba patant to the dulleat. Those amendments whose provi- sions were so repugnant to the inborn feslings and _lifelong_ prejudices of Southerners must now be regarded as -established beyond all possibility of change. 1t is now quite certain that no violent disturb- ance of the financial course of the Administra- tion will be attempted, and our National credit and the interests of business will feel the influ- ence of this flecm’itg. What we have escaj from is no less & subject of congratulation than what we have gained. That the embittered ha- treds of race will now no longer be kept alive by the hopes of a supremacy which would override the rights of citizens, is no small source of com- fort; but the sum of all the dangers which threatened us with the election of Greeley was the restoration to power of the Democratic par- ty and the Democratic spirit. Alike ignorant of the past and blind to the future, clinging to the empty form and neglecting the substance, skep- tical of any improvement, 8uspicious of &0y pro- grese, contemptuous of uny scientific training or methodical management, easy-going, indifferent and careless, the Democratic party has been & _drag on the car of our country’s progress. That thefiil o ‘e has gone ont of it we hope; ~ that out of its lifeless remains may be reconstructed an or- fimmfion more in harmony with our National lestinies, is the beat fate we can wish it; and that we have escaped its domination will bo a cause of rejoicing and thankegiving as long as itis remembered. ' From the St. Paul Pioneer (Democratic). For the firat time in the history of this nation, we have experienced the potent influence of the National Government in controlling State elec- tions. This influence hsa been.exerted not merely by patronage, but by the expenditure of monéy in bribing officials and in corruptingelec- tors. The State elections in North Carolins, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Ohio ought to con- vince the people of those States that they must be at the mercy of corrupt rulers uatil they so amend the Constitutions of their several States 88 to have the State elections st the same time of the Presidentinl clection. Had no elections taken place before Nouember it would have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars expend- ed for base purposes, and we verily believe the Presidential election would have been adverse to the Administration. Yith one oxception, per- haps, this 18 the first time when the ‘‘moneyed interost,” of theland have been avowedly active in a Presidentidl canvass. Although this has been done under the protence that the election of Mr. Greeley would endanger the atsbility of the Government, no reflecting man can fail to diecover that rensons far mora potent with or- ganized selfishness” have controlled in this matter. The present Administration is con- fessedly mercenary in all its tendencios, in full grmpathy with every anduly favored interest. 'he Nationzl Banks have been zealous partisans in this canvass. For reagons patent to all, they aro opposed to change. Under specie payments bank-notes must be redeemed. As long &s one isce of paper, secured by » doposit of United tates bonds, and issued by a bank, is only re- deemable by another piece of paper issued di- rectly by the Government, there is, practically, no redemption of the banking curroncy. - The present benking syatem is monopoly, and, as such, is, of neceasity, a sycophant and the ing toolof power. Our remedy and watchwoid must be & free banking system—no monopoly— no favored clags—no privileged interest. Al- thongh defeated in the canvass, we see nothing to discourage us. The South has at last become reconstructed,—the North caunot long make every question subordinate to hate. From the Indianapolis Journal (Republican). It is for the interest of the Republiean A not less than of the whole conntry, that it homd meet with an organized political . opposition during ite continued lease of power. Just what name or shape the oppoaition will take does not now appear, but that it will not be the old Dem- ocratic party seems certain. A party does not necessarily come'to an end when it is defeated ; on thecontrary, successive defeats only strength- en & political organization that is based on the solid foundation of great and lasting ideas. But when the ideas on which it is based become ex- tinct, then that party must come to an end. The modern Democratic party was based on slavery and opposition to universal suffrege, and its fundamental ideas having become oxtinct, the party iteelf hust die. It can never go back and occupy that ground; in fact, theground itself is gone. The opposition pacty, therefors, by ‘whatever name it shall be known, will take up anew line, and will chrystalize around new ideas. What thatlineor those ideas will becannotnow ba foretold. Efforts will doubtless be mads to per- etuste and solidify the fusion batween the late emacrats and Liberal Republicans, and build up on that basia & new purty in opposition to the Republican. But, if it wishes to command popular respect, or to acquire any aggressive power, it must be something more than a mere negative party, simply opposing and denolmcil‘lfi Repnblican policy and measures, which is thet the coalitionists have done during this their first campaign. p From the Indianapolis Sentinel (Democratic). . We believed that {l‘:‘e noble mgtives lm&erly— ing the Liberal canse wonld appeal so frankly and directly to the better judgment of our peaple that upon that issue alone, su) plemented with reputable candidates, we could win a substan- trinmph. We are neither cast down or de- spondent at, this unlooked for xe&nlso. cause ‘that has been sanctified with the best efforts of tho best minds in the land, i8 not & reed, tobe shaken by the first breath of passin; adversity. -Since that suspicions gathering 7] Cincinnati the young brain “dg the better thought of the country have put into the busi- ness of politics & purity of purpose and dignity of endeavor that in the endm make & bene- ficient outcome from this temporary check. ‘Wise men do not look for popular revolutions in s day, but, bent on such & high mission, it must- be admitted that our friends counted too much on the guick inspiration of the popular heart, To that nobleappeal, Reconciliation and Reform. it is humiliation to ‘acknowledgo there was bub a measurable” response. = The debsuchad by the purse of an indefatigable, irresistable junta of partisansg, have thoughtlessly succumbad t6 the vilost party dictators that ever corrnpted the institutions of s commonwealth, -and have indorsed with- out thought, and confirmed without evidence, the most atrocious misgovernment in the annslg of Republics, It is useless, however, to discuss thig rather dieheartenin, é)hnu of the situation, That we are beaten, and badly, avervhelmingly beaten, is too plain to need facts and figures, That.we should bs cast down; there is no war- rant for supposing. We Have the best material. in the political organizations of the country. We have faith in the final-better thought of o reat people, We have an abiding faith in a ‘higher destiniy for this- tioble- 1and, than to bo placed a8 an ignominiota appanags &t the dis- posal of Lgstism demagogues, But the weak- ness of the Liberal movement has been in ita own ranks. . The doctrinaires who made their first political pilgrimage to Cincinnati, and re- tired in angar because some favorite candi- date did not come wuppermost in that play of chance; the- impractible' Free Traders preuum!ptuuualy'hant on all or nothing—the old :zpu of Democrats dreaming of the past; all hese—the natural factors of a reform combina~ tion—fell out by tho way, and their defection, by the simple force of attrition, weakened tho strong column of our growing strength. No real reformer will feel dannted one jot by this firat reveree. The future is the field of onr best endoavor, and in tho years that the young_party has before it, there is time and opportanity for all that we have been denied in their first con- test. Friends of Reform, the battle is bub drawn ; we have fiot surrendered—only cravens come to that extremity. g _From the Toledo (0.) Blade (Republican), This is certainly a moat glorious triumph, yet we do not_Lnow that any ono _should ba disap- pointed. We have never had amore popular Administration than that of President Grant ; and there. nover was o party organized for a | Presidential campaif nliban such t{ransparent: corruption as that which characterized the oppo- sition in tho late contest. The wonder should be that sny considerable number of intelligent people were to be found willing to indorse such an organization. The people have great reason to rejoice over their trinmph, Itisa victory achieved by Right over Wrong—a triumph of the people over political tricksters and traders, From the Madison (Wis.) Journal (Republican). This election has settled many things, some of which we enumerate: That republics are not’ ungratefal. That the time of the soldier " has not passed. That the people reject the heresy. of secessionand its greatest Northern advocate, Graeley. That they believe in the Union, and enthuaiastically. sustain its greatest defender, Grant. That Sumner, Schurz, bull, an their kind, are no longll;; honored as_political prophets or leaders. That Semator Sumner's *‘ wards” = know their friends, and were too wise to cast their ballots to gratify his hatred of Grant. That they repudiate the Democratic party and everything which has the taint of treason, corruption, and coalition upon it. That the Btrongest statutes to protect life, secnrs or- derat the South, and preserve the purityof elec- tions everywhere, shounld be enforced. Thatthe negro was wisely entrusted with the ballot, and shall be protected; that the great amendments shall stand; that the Civil Service policy, the Indien policy, the Foreign_policy, the Financial l)olicy, are wiso; and, finally, that the Repub- icans have k?t their promises, rendered a faith-. ful account of their stewardship, and they alone are worthy to carry forward the reforms they inan ted, and administer the affairs of the Government they saved. From the Buffalo Courier (Democratic). The Democrats and Liberal Republicans of 1872 must form the ospusifion party of 1876. The Liberal movement may have lost its first battle, but it has already shaped and given im- pulse to the party of the fature. There is no such thing; for Democrat or Liberal, as going back. From this point the fight mlmt’gegin anew, and must go on till a mejority of the poo- plo join us in demanding & limit to Federal en- croachment on the rights of States and ing viduals; a reformation of the revenue system of the Government ; & purgation of the civil ser- vico, and & cessation of the corruptions and usurpations of the oligatchy of office-holders. ‘We enter upon thenew era with apad hn%u, and with no_regrets for the past. We still believe that the Democratic pacty acted witely in accept- ing thealliance tendered it at Cincinnati, Our defeat now, though it may be 23 complete as that which we sustained in 1869, leaves usin no such hopeless condition 88 then was ours, ond 88 would sgain have been ours - straight em'ty nominations been made at Balti- more. ~We ~have- cut loose forever from the dead past, to which such nominations would heve refastened us. We stand fnlly abreast of the events of tha time, and oppose the new Ad- ministration of General Grant, not on the issues of the war, buton the more vital questions of its misrule, and corruption, and dangerous ton- dencies in theso presont days of nominal peace. It has been fully within the power of the De- 1mocracy of the country, in conjunction with their Liberal allieg, to win in the contest of yesterday. - A considerable portion have seen fit to withhold their aid to this end. We do not blame them; we have no repronches for thom. But they must cdily 8o that the change of base which thoy disspproved is an sccomplished fact in spite of them, and that the old Democratic fight for con- stitufional principles, more essential to the pre- servationof our institutions now than ever, must be fought out on the new line of the Liberal movomont. The past cannot be resurrected; the old battlefields of parties cannot be the ground of the coming contests; the struggle for correct principles of government, and for purity of administration, must be carried into new fields of action. From the Milicaukes Sentinel (Republican). . 'The vast majorieies in this Presidential cam- paign ore sccounted for, mob as politicians seem to think, on account of the transcendent virtues of an stration, but on_account of the widening circle offadherents to the idea of universal liberty. General Grant, in the provi- dence of events, happened to represent this iden. To the adherents of the same ides per- | sonal sttacks on him meant nothing. They had something in view far transcending all individ- usal considerations. It was not love for his per- son that induced 4,000,000 of fraomen to vote for him. Neither did they support him out of compliment to his administration of the Gov- ernment. . The people felt that he and his Cal net stood for the Government iteelf, were its living symbols—s Government whicki i tholrs, which they cherish sbove all material things, which for them means life, liberty, and pursnit of happiness. The people did not repudiate Mr. Greeley.on accout of dislike to his_person, Dt because he stood in part for the ides of & nationality that endeavored to orgsnize -itself on our own goil in hostility to the Government founded by the fathers of the republic. ‘ From the Milwaukee News (Demoeratic), Better and more hopeful results have been teached in this State than sny other in the Union. When Greeley was_first nominated, the ‘tidal wave” rose higherin this State. Had the State voted in October, ho would have car- zied it. The power of the office-holders in Wis- consin is- thoroughly broken. They have been totally powerless in bringing abont this result, Grant hes carried Wé]a]cj:nsin Ilgn;xa]y because he Wag carrying everyl ks as gimply gone with the tido, and has i nothing to fm’ég the tide. There is no State in which the spirit of Dolitical.reform i strongar cr activo than in Wisconsin. There is no Bate in which the war iasues havepassed g0 completely out of politics, and in which- such lives issues of the day as the tariff, rovenue reform and civil service reform, have' taken & deeper hold upon the people; There isno section of the country in which thero remaing s more cordial and_abiding faith in the trnumphof these principles. Grant’s majority of 1868 has lost 10,000 liberal Re- g;blu:ans who voted for Gresley, partially offset & fow Democrats who voted for Grant, and others who refrained from voting, by which the gain of 20,000 indicated by the transfer of 10,000 votes from the Radical to the Liberal side, was reduced to 15,000. We beliovo that, at no dis- tant' day Wisconsin will lead in s political revo- lution more complete and sweeping than this has been, and which will be crowned with com- plete and sweeping success! From the Detroit (3fich.) Tribune (Republican), ., With much of the agitation for Reform in all its phases—in our revenue laws, in our system of civil administration, in the charscter of our public servants, and in the details_of our par- tisan mansgement—which preceded the opening of the now-finished political campaign e hear- The | tily sympathized and co-operated. Wemade the _and we masses,. |- .| nomination should never have been made. by the Democratic ‘best fight that was in us to attain these ends one ear 530, and we'believe that we have been fol- Towing the oaly path that leads in their diraction ever since, and we aré morching under the same colors to-day. The so-called * Liberal ” move- ment impreesed usat the outset 25 an intrigue, C}’ed.i.ned to enter into-it, even under- the leadership of eminent men whom we had long trusted. ~ It soon developed into a mammoth conepiracy to betray the cause of Reform, and enthrone in its place-the resactionary, the dis- loyal and the quixotic elements of our politics, and ve fought it with all the vigor we possessed. We have no tears to shed at its death, aod no }rmn‘egyflc to pronounce over iis ve. “The great Reform uprising” has been 1n all its history merly & gigantic *confidence game.” The Cincinnati Convention, pretendis to'be ‘s demonstration-of independent Ropul cans in favor of n new order- of things, was, it i8 now evident, designed by the wire-pullers to organize a coalition for the ‘benefit of the Dem- ocracy. ~ Claiming to be a movement for the re- form of abuses in the Republican party, it was in reality o movement to drive the Republican %n.rty from power for the benefit of its rival. pon this superstructuro of falde pretonces was, raised a superstructure of palpablo fraud. The Convention was captured by the adventurers and benkrupts of ‘our-politics, and its nomince utterly failed to embody its presoribed princi- ples; Or personify its announced aims, ., 1 Republicanism would drain and not spill its cup of triumph, it must make itself the champion of Reform Tt must remedy the de- Tects that inhere in the very system of our Civil Service, and it must make the qualifications of honesty, intelligence, and fitness tho touch-stone of all appointments. It must not abato its fidelity to the groat cause of Equal z}oxg:t:‘,’ :‘133 it n]:iv.lst adtl‘:eram fii tho discreet and ervative policy with which i 3 tho National E]?mies. el omy in the public expenditures, and honest in the collection of the revenue, ' It must not bs tho friend of class legielation, and ¢ must be tho uncompromising foe of all abuses, even if its own body seems to be the source of their para- sitic growth. Above all, it must seek'its leaders and find its represcntative men among ita ablest and its purest membcra—the Wilsons, Garfields, Hewleys, and that class of statesmen. And it ‘must not permit its organization to become the ‘mere weapon of dominecring politicians, and its ‘machinery simply an engine that shall’be nsed to advance echemes of purely personal aggran- dizement. The danger befors Republicanism lies in the fact that the Camerons and the Conklings and the Mortons', will - regard Generel Grant’s re-election 23 an indorsement of tho peculiar regime which they have sought to establish within the party, and will arrange a programme for the future, more_high-hznded, reckless and defient than ever. If they do take this view and follow this course, they will reck- on without théir host. ~Thousands of men yes- terdnyrepudiated the disgraceful Cincinnati-and- Baltimore bargain, who do not believe in the ideas of political management and partisan duty cntertained by the gentry we have named. Geno eral Grant could not have been re-slected save by tho votes of this clasa of his supporters, and these ‘‘Reform”—not "Ubam"—%epubficms _tj;day hoid Tlutzmcu ’;if pu;a;flihn the Nation. ey are loy: oroughly to Republicanism, but they are too sincere and honest in their attach- ment to it.to participate in or tamely submit to _n;y hx.:ohcy that shall degrade its aims or pervert i or8. From the St. Louis Republican (Democratic). Horace GchlBg is beaten, and the alliance that was expected to overthrow the Republicen party, and which, but for one fatal and recog- nized mistake, would assuredly have accomph'sg- ed that work, has, for the moment, ‘signally failed. President Grant remains st the Whito House for a second term; the Liberal rovolt against his persoi has been decizively crushed, and its distinguished leaders made outlaws ; an the Administration party seems stronger than ever. The victory belongs to the President moro significantly and exclnsively than sny similar victory ever bolonged to a President be- fore, and there is little doubt that he will accept it as such. We believe that a great and griev- ous wrong has been done the couniry, not by the re-election of President Grani, but by the immoral agencies by which his re-elec- tion was assured; and thers is little doubt that - there are thousands of intelligent and thoughtful Republicans who, now that their victory is achieved, fear that it cost more than it was worth. It is not a victory to rejolce at ; it has been achieved at the cost of s frightfal degradation of the moral sentiment of the country, and even the victora will forbear to make any demonstrative exultation over a triumph which they must wish conld have been secured by fairer means. We have said that the result would have been different but for one fatal mistake. That mistake was the renomin- ination of Mr. Greeley at Baltimore. That {ve- ° argued ogainst it at the time, because we fore- saw ita ovil effect. It did not bring Mr. Greeley one thousand Democratic votes that he wonld not have received without it, and it repelled half a million Republican votes which he would cortainly have received, but forit. That Dem- ocratic renomination not only meade him s Democrat, but it made him—using the partisan ~ langmage of the .canvass— & traitor. From the Republican partisan point of view, he hed not only suddenly become o traitor, but he had done g0 to secure a Demo- cratic renomination. That was the price of his treason, and te!.lin%ths Be;inbh'can Toasses this was the ignoble and sole task that the Adminis- tration leaders hed to do. It wasthis ill-advised indorsement that extinguished the Liberal moyement before it had become a revolt—that made it an insurrection of leaders without fol- lowers—thst left Schurz, Sumner, Trumbull, Greeley, Fenton, McClure, Palmer, and Julian, a8 notable a cluster of chiefs as ever raiseda standard, unsupported and unencouraged, to fallunder the attacks of such inferiors a8 Came- ron, Morton, Butler, sud Conkling. Before the Baltimore event, a wide and formidable revolt in ‘the Republican party scemed inevitable; after Baltimore, it becams impossible. Before Balti- more, it was an independent rebellion supported masses ; after Baltimore, it seemed to be s pre-arranged desertion to the Democracy, and for that reason it was permitted to dwindle' to_ the insignificant proportions which it exhibited in ' the canvasa. Tno Baltimore Convention did not intend to kill the movement; but it did effectn- ally kill it. It imagined that its own powerful rotectorate would strengthen the robellion; utit was the death of it. All that the move- ment required was to be let nlonc. It contained within itself every conceivable element of a powerful'and destructive schism. It needed no indotsement, no formal approval, 5o protection; it needed nothing but to bo left to its own re- sources, with perfect freedom of action nnd ap- peal. Tt should have led in the battle; indeed, it should have occupied tho whole fight, assur. ing itself only of the united snp%grt of the ‘friendly reserve of three million Democratic muskets, ai the final charge. Had this course been pursued, not ono of those Democraf Lets would have been wanting, in the crisis, and the Liberal party, instead of being & perty of a score of leaders, would bave been a host five hundred thousind strong. The Democracy should not have made a nomination at all; it_should have formally and conspicuously withdrawn from the field, announced its resolu- tion not to make the contest for the Presidency, either with its own candidate orany other can- didate, and thus yielded Bghting-ground fo any foe of the Administration that might take its placo. This was the “passive policy.” It should have been &doé)cefl before the Cincinnati Convention. Had it been so adopted, and strictly adhered to, tho Liberal opposition to President Grant would have burst 1nto the pro- ortions of a poweriul popular movement, and its nominee, whoever he might have been, wounld have been elected over Grant as certainly and decigively as Brown was elected Governor of Missouri over McClarg in 1870. The movement would have escaped that Democratic protecto- rate, which, though kindly extended, was_ dis- astrous to its develo\fmenc; Liberalism, instead of Democracy, would have been recognized s the antagdnist of an obnoxious Administration party; tho dissatisfied Republicans in every State—and the-e are scores of thousands of such to this da; —would have espoused the re- volt without losing their Republican character, and without exposing themselvos_to liability to & charge of treason, and to-day, Schurz, Trum- bull, Sumner, Palmér, Greeley, Brown, McClurs, Curtin, and Julian would be the victorious chiefs on the fleld, instead of Grant and his -Peunsyl- vania and Indiana licutenants. The Democracy would have lost nothing of what it aimed athgg thisencrifice. 2All that it sought to accomplisl would have beén secured, and tho Democratic ‘masses would have been duly credited with the Buccesa. From the St. Louis Times (Democratic). Whila the action of the Democratic party, in consenting to a coalition with the Liberal move- ment, reiterating at Baltimoro that which was done ut, Cincinnati, may have been obnoxious, and undoubtedly Was, in & certain sense, obnox- jous to the severest censure, snd, nnder ordivary circumatances shounld have received the imme- dinte and unqualified condemnation of every member of the party, we fcll into the lmehprfl- seribed by s legitimate convention, in ntll:lu ?)gi that the wisdom of our party leaders Tould P,sta eater than our own, and fead to “fl wmep oy riumph over the domin==v Party. Decepted the nominees of the Cincinnati Covven! Ogyél a8 our own political or personal choice, but 83 It must guarantes econ- | the seeming only alternative of & most critical occasion. “As it wes our firm belief, and s belief which Republican victory will only serveto strengthen, that the welfare of the country demanded = thorough change of Administration, and that tho extraordinary necessities. of the Common- wezlth _demanded exiraordinary measures, wa azceded cordislly to what seemed a policy of wige expadiency, in the hope that a gemeral slackening of party lines, involving, 88 it did, no eacrifica of printiple, might the better unite 2ll elements of opposition to an unpatriotic Ad- ministration, and the sooner relieve the country irom ils burden of partisan oppression. It mattors not whether theleaders of the party were wrong or otherwise, in adopting this policy. 1t matters mot whether the Times was wise or unvise in declaring its adhesion to this policy. The position that we took was taken in the ut- most good faith, with honest intentions, with & view {o the good of the country. If we are de- feated in this gm'pusa; if the organization of the party failed to withstand the unusual strain that was pat upon it, we abide tha result withouk ‘complaint, and disclaim all responsibility for its consequences. From the Louistille Couricr~Journal (Democratic). The resalt of the elcction shows either thsk the Liboralism of the presont year i four years in odvanee of the couniry, or olse that popular government, subjected to tho test of universal of its predecessors, which have® foind them. selves unable in other countries :o hoid their own against the united forcee of poswer, ignoji- ance, and corruption. The history of univey.sal suffrage presents us a dreary catalogue of ures. Nor is this st all urprising. As suf: is cheapened, representation is lowered:; 2nd when tho legislative department of the N ational polity is opened to the ambition of this Execu- tive, nothing but wrong and fraud:ire to be locked for. That Ulysses Grant meditates s gemauan: hold wpon the Presidency may be set own, not as a speculation, but &S a matter of course. Ambition goes backward no more thar revolutions. The success which has attended the Radical frands, thus far, will embolden such leaders gs Morton, Cameron, and Conkling to renewed outrages. It i the neturo of Radical- ism, which is merely wantonism, to progress in corruption. It is the mature Of corruption to multiply its excesses and its exac- tions. The mnotion that the Radical lead- ers will relax their hold mupon the purse- string and the sword, and liberalize their pol sowerd the people, will not be realized. Cuj ity is the primal inspiration of the present Rad- ical oligerchy. Liberalism knocked the morais The iron grip out of it old Republican party. i of Cameron and the subtle will and wit of Mor- ton beloxg to the main chances of political sc- tion, and moderstion and forethought are nat to 1 be expected from them 2s long as they have the atrong orm of the Government and the re- sources of the Treasury to aid them in pressing the ballot-box to their service. They mean busi. ness. If thia is true, the reader will ssy—ed- ifting the situation to be gloomy and the pros- gecb depressing—what is to be done, whet can e done, by the friends cf Liberty, Reform, snd Home Kulo against the iron-clad forces of ' cor- ruption and centralism? We can do what has been done by our class ages and ages the wide world over, atand to our guns. Our_principles are intact; our honor is unsullie o can fiy the fag of free government until t is torn dow by force and we ourselves are mmglzd beneath tho edvancing engines of the Federal power. Corruption wins not more than honesty, and, in the long run, wrong and fraud are pretty suré ta coms to grief. Rrom the Cineiunati Gazette (Republican.) The election of Grant and Wilson is a triumph of our system—& triumph of the free ballot, sec- ond only to the grand achievement by which the Government was sustained doring the fierca straggle with the rebellion, and by which the contest for the Union and for freedom was made asuccess. Itisthus to be regarded, because thero was a principle involved that overshadow- ed the candidates, and it is this principle that was yestezday vindicated. The candidates were, of course, an important element in the contest, ‘but it was not for these alom, mor for thesa chiefly, thet the people voted. The decisive verdict had a far deeper and broader meaning than the indorsement of men. Nor is it'to bein- terpreted s an unqualified indorsement of party No ono who has been a close ob- server of the current of public sentiment dur— ing the campaign will claim that the peopler meeont, in votmg for and electing Grant and Wilson, 2nd in continuing the Republican pa. ty in power, to be understood s indorsing, without. ualifications, the course of that party during ost four years, -The statesman or the leadey who puts such a_constryction upon the decision of the people will commit » grave mis- teke. I7 the successful party shall 50_constroe it, it will commit & grave error. The importand thinz now, for the Republican leaders, is to ascer- tain the roal meaning of the election, and the right thing to do is to conform, in the future, to the demends of public sentiment, as clearly ex- pressed during the canvass and bellot-box. It will not bo claimed by anyreal friend of the Presi= dent ihat he has not' mistakes—that he has not done some things that had better not been. dono; bub it has been justly claimed—snd this ' cleim the people “have ratified—that Grant’s mistakes were trivial, and that in all im- poriant festures his sdministration was a suc cess. In the next place, the decision is that the Republicen party, notwithstanding many short- comings, has been s substantial success, .and | that ia its hends the country is far eafer than it would be under the control ‘Of & new party, or the Demogratic party under s new name. In the nextplace, it is a notice to all whom it may concern that the fruits of the late war are to ba carefully preserved; that the constitutional amendments will stand, and be enforced, and that the reconstruction measures will be main- teined; that thereisto beno new shtffle, by which glaves are to be peid for, or rebel soldiers pensioned ; axd that no secession talk will ba tolerated, = whether it be favored by the people of one State or s dozen States. In the next place, the electionisa decision against a most unholy alliance,—against a con- test based npon false pratences, and conducted without regard to truth or decency. No ome will now contend that there was any vital prin- ciple involved in the canvass. On the contrary. principles were abandoned, and the struggle was for power, regardless of principle. The candi- dato of the opposition had not cne principle in common with the mass of his supporters; nor could the latter have much confidsnce in, Or re= spect for, the former. On both sides of the al- liance, then, it was a fight for spoils. There was nothing honest in the alliance. It was vile in its inception, and in this measureit was upheld, ard it would have been_vile in the outcome had not tha peopls overwhelmed it at the ballot-box. Whatercr gronnd there was for s new party at the outset, this ground was lost when the most corrupt politicians obtained-control of the Cin- S:Sinua:i Convention, anc nominated Greeley and rown. From the Cincinnati Commercial (Liberal Republican), * Tho popular judgment has been declared thet it would Le unsafo to take the Administration of the General Government ont of the hands of the representatives of the Republican party. There e been no ack of undststaadiag of ino exiont of the mistakes of Grant, but the decision is that we had batter bear the ila we have than to 1ly to others we know not of. Overwhelming 28 is the result of yesterdsy, we adhere to the opinion that thers were tbe materials in the country with which it might_have been re- versed. Te luck of Grant is as remarka- ble in politicy 88 in war, If the Cizcinnati movement could have had the best practicable expression in the Convention, wedonotentertain a doubt that Grant wonld have been defeated ; end if tho Liberal and Democratio organizations Liad been efficiently managed through the cam- ign, we believe they might have curried Ohio ctober, and that event wonld_ha7e given us New York, Ohio, Indians, and Illinois yester- But the mistake was made at Baltimore of ting npon labelling Mr. Gresley 8s 3 Dem- the I in acretic candidate. . It would have been far better for the Democrats to have voted for him in his character eimply as a Liberal cendidate. The Democratic par- ty wonld take the field as a parly, and, while it had lost its vital force and was like a domoralized army, there was not » responsible and comprehensive working organization to take its place. President Grant will not, perhaps, ba muck: obliged to us for our good wishes; but we hopohe wili bo able to repair fn bis aecond term the blunders that discredit his first. _And we will vonture, in our high capacity a8 a disinter- ested observer and independent well-wisher, to suggest to bim that it wonid ba the part of wis- dotn for him not to regard his re-election exclu- sively in the light of & personal triumph and vindication. He ought to beaware that his cham- pions through this campaign have had a hard timo in excusing the weaknesses and failings on hispart which they have been constrained to acknowledge. The Liberal Republican move- ment is not & failure, It has liberalized the Re- pablican party, and its influence will temper the ‘Administration for the next four years for good. 1t ha8 also liberalized the Democratio party, and dogmas that were dangerous. The missionary labor of the campaign on both sides has been excellent. 3Much has beon doue, in the removal =£ txo asperitiea of differences, and in barmonizing the antagonists of other days over tho questions of this day, toward the homogene- ity of the American people—a work of inesfima- ble beneficence. Suffrage, is graduslly but surely going the way put cut of the way forever irritating issues’ and *