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Show TELEGRAPHIC I'KES C O H MEMS. Ttie rt'puMican committees .".nd newspapers of Wednesday morning tlirouyliuut the country conceded the election of Tilden. We quote the following : CHICAGO "iNTEH-OCEAN." Tlio battle lias been fought and lost. For the first time in the biitory ol the world a government has been taken from the hands of those who saved it and given over to those who ; sought its destruction. The republican repub-lican party has fought a gallant battle, bat-tle, but it has fought against too great odds and it is overwhelmed. It has1 fought an open enemy in front and a treacherous enemy in the rear. It has fought a pronounced and old-time old-time foe. and it has fought n new and disorganizing element in i La own ranks. The canker of jealousy and envy and eecret hate has pervaded per-vaded the pretended friends of republicanism, and their unjust attacks upon the party as represented rep-resented by the administration, have (shown their fruits in an alienated con- eut calamity to the country. The men of little faith, the weak and un-Etahls un-Etahls elements have withdrawn their allegiance, and with the quick instinct in-stinct which scents loaves and fishes from afar, have gone over lo the enemy. Tlicro rruiiiius tlieold guard which died, but never surrenders the men of principle and pluck who came in with the birth of the party of freedom free-dom and who will go out only with its final death and destruction and remain re-main unshaken in disaster as they have stood firm in triumph. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding all this, however, linked with the lolliea against which we have protested and warned republicans', republi-cans', we had not believed it possible that the American people could commit com-mit the tremendous folly of handing the government over to the coafeder-ate coafeder-ate democracy. The signs of the last few days confirmed us in this opinion, and Tueeduy morning broke upon a confident and eager multitude of republicans. Private dispatches from the best informed republicans of New York declared that state morally certain for Hayes and j Wheeler. They were mistaken, j Wo were mistaken and instead of a victor' we have to announce an overwhelming over-whelming defeat. We do not attempt ; to disguise our supreme regret at the result. We believe it to be a terrible ' misfortune, and aa such we herald it. j U comes with disheartening force to ! the republicans of the north, but it j will fall with the more crushing efiect on the loyal men of tho south. Are the American people satisfied with their work? Is this to be the end and aim of that equality before the law which Lincoln proclaimed and , which the country pledged ita honor) to preserve? We shall see; but if the ; battle between freedom and slavery is ' to be fought again upon this cont;- j nent it will be a mightier power and ! with a desperation beside which the former contests will sink into insigni-; ficance. NEW YORK "TIUEUSE." The hopeful aspect of Tilden's election lies in the possibility that all our fears were groundless, our suspicions suspi-cions and our doubts, to say the least, unjust. There is no need now to go over the record and recount our rea- sons for this distrust. That argument is closed, and the decision adverse to our hopes has been given by the majority. ma-jority. Our hopes now must be that Tilden was only sincere when he professed pro-fessed to be in favor of genuine administrative ad-ministrative reform and sound currency, cur-rency, ana opposed to the payment of the confederate war claims, and that be will have the courage to carry out his convictions and the stubbornness of will and purpose to insist upon what he has professed to believe in, and sufficient backing in his parly to be able to carry out his views. We have opposed him partly because of the natural doubts of his sincerity inspired by his record as a party manager and public man, more because be-cause of doubts ol his actual ability to resist the will and overcome the spirit and purpose of the party behind him. Now that he is elected president it is only fair that wo lay aside any pride of opinion that we may have; that wo indulge no spirit of mere factious opposition, but hope that ho will do and be all that he lias promised and professed, and disappoint those who have doubted rather than those who have trusted him. NEW YOKK "eL'.V." The blow dealt al the corrupt party . in power by au indignant people is as Blunning to the republicans as it is gratifying to every honest and patriotic man in the Union. As it becomes her prestige aud position, New York leads the way. The overwhelming triumph in this state is partly owing to the fact tha. Tilden himself supervised ita outlines and his keen eye scanned its particulars. This great victory has many points of significance. In an especial manner ita triumph of reform in its every aspect. Though the republicans raised the false issue of tho bloody shirt, Tilden and his coadjutors kept their eyes steadily on the real issue of this memorable contest reform in the civil service, a reduction of the government expenditures, and relief of capital and labor from the severe preesure under which they have been so long bowed down. We but state a pregnant fact which no man more clearly recognized than TildeD, that his election is largely due to the votes of the independent republicans. It is impossible to overestimate the beneficial results which are to flow . from this triumph. We ah all have peace in the south, and harmony between the north and the south. We shall hear no more of tho intervention of bayonets, and the election outrage mill will cease to grind out its product of lies on the eve of every important political campaign. The freed men wi;i pnrsue the noiseless tenor of their way, cast their ballots as they please and learn at length lhat the chief ends of the colored man is not to be the sert ot the unprincipled politicians poli-ticians who have heretofore used him lo foist while rogues into placea of power, where they could plunder and opprest the people. Business will revive, labor will find employment, capital will not shrink from investment, invest-ment, tlrcenbacks will gradually appreciate to the value of coin. Our hank notes will pass current in foreign markets, and tho merchants, ban ken j and mai u'cturera of this and other' cities who on the eve of the election attempted to Irighten the people from voting as they pleased, will, after calm reilectinn, berorue pnmpwhat ashamed of this. The victory is a , final overthrow of Liranliam. It 1 the end of Grant himself. It puLe the 'fiuitihing touch to Have?, who tried to step into his Bhocs. The vocation ol such corrupt politicians as Chandler, KobrBon, Babcock, Boss tihepperd and Don Cameron will noloneer be profitable. profit-able. Chamelions of the type of Scburz, Fenton, Bunks and Grow will disappear. The undersized carpet bag vermin, the Kelloggs, CaBcys, Chamberhins and 6pencera will be swept from the face of the Bouthern soil which they have eo long polluted. |