The Elections

The elections ot the North teach us a grand lesson. ïbey teil us that the Union is not yot lost. They teil us tliat Aruoricans eau tbiuk, can bury a prejudioo. can come up ti tho doitutnd of the liour. We ceriaiuly may take great ennouragcmcnt, for we Boe tbere is a turn ín public sentiment, that tbe radicáis must come dowu froui iheir fiights to the solid bottoin of the couetitution aud the Usion. Mr. Mouegnn, ot' Lexington, Miswttfi, over whose leller to Mr. Seymour, of New York, tho Evening Pos', was madu glad, told thu Noltb that good aud patriotic democrats must join with good and patriotic rcpublicans, and forin 0:1e party for thestrong support of the PresiJout and the To bim, hüwever, th is was aiding the radical cause. Wu have done this vory thing iu tbe North, jiot for tbo aiding of radicalism, but for the rebuking of ïadicalistn, and we trust t has beeu rebuked. Massachusetts doe" uot yet ho!d the Union in its bands, and it is well for Massachusetts, as wuil as for the Uuionj tbat it does not. Her present ascendeucy in tho national councils would bo no less destructivo to herself than to tbe Uniou. The Western and Central States comprebeud thia, aud the word bas gone fortli from them, tbat the Sumnors of the Senate and tbe House must lower tbeir ostentation a lítelo, if they would keep their scats in any way tolerable to them. These elections will oarry dismay into the beart of rebellion. fbe rebels will now distiuctly anderstaud that this war is to be prosecuted under the constitution, for the support of the constitution. They see tbe North coming up with a new rally to the great I;tbor of prosecuting tlie war with a will, and an uudoubted -uuity. They aee tbat the North is once more going to unito; tbat tho Generáis in the tield are going to fight unimpedcd by political marplots; tbat the radicalism that has divided tho national counWls wil! dimiuish and lose its powi'r; that they cannot be furnished with any more arguments with whicb to fribten men into hostility to the Union. Not that any new tenderness for slavery will spring up among us, but that slavery issues, as woll as all other issues, shall be put aside for the singlo gre&t purpose of the prosecution of tbe war to a bucccsjÍ'uI issue for the Union. t