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Show POLITICAL. The great interest attached to the war news from Europe has so absorbed public attention that very little has been paid to the important political campaign commenced in this country. Nearly all the State elections will be held early in the fal', and their results will affect the Forty-second Congress which will assemble on the 4th of March next. There is little doubt that a great change will be effected in the political complexion of the next Congress by the pending elections. The ratification ratifica-tion of the 14th and 15th Amendments has given to the country a largely increased in-creased number of votes ; but though the Republicans count on most of the colored voters, it is more than probable they will lose white votes that will more than counterbalance their gain in this respect. There is a deep and widespread wide-spread dissatisfaction through the country in regard to the financial policy of the party in power. Even such strong Republican journals as the New York Tribune have protested against it, and pointed out the suicidal policy the party was pursuing. The giving of large land grants and heavy subsidies to huge corporations and colossal railway rail-way companies, and the manifest disposition dis-position to legislate for capitalists and against the interests of the bulk of the people, have also created strong fecliugs against the party that has done so ; and the consequences are likely to be seen in the coming elections, elec-tions, in heavy Republican defeats and Democratic gains. North Carolina, with all the indefensible means adopted to secure a Republican victor-, and with the negro vote, has gone largely Democratic ; and this ia taken as an augury of success by that party. With the dissatisfaction against the party now in power, with the eapkul made out of the old war issues almost exhausted, and with a strong disposition disposi-tion on the part uf the country to seek a change, there is every probability that the elections of October will place a Democratic majority in Congress. Should such be the case, the position of President Grant will not be the most enviablypleasant one in the country, if he adhere to the policy of the party whose suffrages placed him in the White House. A couple of months more will enable a better judgment to be formed as tj the legislation of the twelve months following next March. |