Show I HE SECOND OF NOVEMBER while we write these lines the of two parties are still hang ing undecided in the icalea of fate the returns from all the different parts of the country are pouring in liko a shower of rain but still they are of too and contradictory SL nature to afford a clear insight into llie actual status it is true most of the reports are recording republican majorities and republican gains but it is not to bo forgotten thit alio source from ekich these reports emanate is deeply saturated republican predilections the agents of the associated press arc very alert in gaining all the campaign news favorable to and are silent with begird to and his support whenever they can pass by it thus it would bo unsafe to put too much tant in the fragmentary reports aa they come crowding in we must however concede one fact and aliis H that the election of the second of november was ai full of surprises as was ominous many expectation a have been shattered many bright hopes blaa tei and they arc not on one fide only cither the votes rolled up by either party surpass anything ever witnessed in this or any other country the voting has been so close a contest that the mere reading of the returns had a real dramatic effect certain it ii that the republican as well as the democratic party had all their arail ablo men and forces out straining all their efforts to secure the palm of victory especially is this true of new york state the pivotal state of alio whole campaign in fierce and determined struggle the two parties were arrayed there in a corn bat a for death or life still it is a gratifying fact for the lover of free institutions and popular self govern merit that the election has been disgraced by no acts of violence the millions of freemen who gathered it the polls to render their solemn verdict on the claims of the two great national parties their prerogative in the calm recognition of their personal ambi tion of course was deeply involved in the contest but still it led to no acts stain the bright escutcheon of the united states and the amazed ivorid stanch with dumb admiration before the sublime spectacle of a great people settling its politics choosing its rulers and lawgivers without resort to arms or violence the second of november 1880 has again proven that liberty is with order that acs ics have no room for revolutions |