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The Louisville Journal On The Elections

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Day
14
Month
November
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tho elections of lust Tlfegdajr. we re joicc to niiounce, havo rosulted in a uiiülity conservativo trinmph, routiding off and completing the glorious vietory of the October clections. The radicáis, if e mav judge from the inipertVct returus at hand, have evcry uhore lost beavüy, and, in New York, New Jersey and Illinois, tliey have been swept from the face of thinga The con servative gain in the State of Now York Cütmot be less th:in 100,000 votes. Accepting the estímate of the teicgfüpli, always partía! pn the radicils, (lia rinliQttj loss even in Massaohusetts, the South Carolina of the Noytli, d at least 50,000 Judiiing in like rnanner, the radical fitas in Michigan, one of the tnost thiii onjrhly abolitionized States in the North, is upwants of 10,000. These eondustong are justified by the first impression of the telegraph, which. as we have intiuiated, are colred bv radical sympathie. Unduubtcdly fuller and mure aoihentic in tmiigonce wiü eulargeaud huightun these conclusions. Ceitain it is that the eeneral result of the elections is a constTVative sjicecss of ihe graudest deserptian. The Union and the cintitution have preaüed in the Nul h most signally. Let us hope tLat they wili ere l"ng provail issignally in the South. This ia ojje inlportaut kratlijj) (ff tho lacson of the peaceful vic'tory now eousuinmated in the North, Tlie sword, "ithout pquivucaiion oran certainty, will hencetorth be wicldeil agai.ist the Southern rebels for the selfsanie : nd for which the b.illot has heen wieided against tho Northern rjdicals, ai d, we conidently believe, with M favu.-uble result not less sciaivg jud uot by any tuca na remóte. In puait of fact, as we conoeive this conservat ve victory in the North virtually solves one half of the nation.-il.probloni, the cuestión as to the re establishment of the governmest in the rvi.jting States, which we have been accustomtd to reckoi) by tar tho :ust delicaie and dif&eolt part of the problem, leaving ouly the taak of breaking up the military puwer of the rebellion, so that the people iiMiy be at liberty to return to thmrïlle giance. This last is now in reality the eliicf task before us ; and. if the udmini;,tration hut puta away decreeg and pr" chunarions nnd othcr sub.-.t tutea for figbting which only make more tihting necessary nd all fighting ineffectuu. at last, and prosecuti'S the war vigorou-ly liy warlike ineans, tis task will be per forinod spcedily and well Let the war hencoforward be so prosceiited. Tht loyal poople of the country have declared j in stern and unmistakable langnage that raoh in their will Ltft it be obfyed - The Piesidout, in matters clearly tran .-eending his constitiifi011'1' authority bus no moral or ltgui rijjlit to Ret ut defiancs the popular will obniy expressed. We nre sure tii:it President Lyicolu lias uo disposition to do so. Tho 'Military Comniiwion of whieh Genorl llunter is Pri'sident, is to be charged by the Seeretary of War i'h the duty of invctsiigniing many iinportuut lUlitterg in thu war, $ijeh as Ball's Biuil, the fonitisulár onm.paign, aid nu inerous eh.irires agaiust Fitz John Portor, and the destitution of thü anuy of the Potouiap III !■ Ili It is cstimated nt the Navy Department that thero are forty ihousaud onüsted man iu the navy at tbi time.

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