New Hampshire Statesman

To succeed on Review. An old and now deceased Merrimack County lawyer, not remarkable for his success before juries, kept up the courage of his clients by saying they would succeed on review of the case. Democratic journals have fallen into the same habit. After the first election of Lincoln the Martyr, they said to the rank and file, "This election is a mere accident. Wait until 1864, and the Democratic party will make an end of the Republicans." But in 1864 they found that the people needed the Republican party, to carry on the war and put down forever the Democratic doctrine that States could secede from the Union. Beaten then, Democratic journals said the party could not be expected to succeed, when eleven States took no part in the election. Wait patiently, through this one term, and the country, weary of Radicalism and the "Rump Congress," will restore the Democratic party as the only agent capable of averting national destruction.

Well, four years more have passed and Democratic prophecies are unfulfilled. The Republicans have triumphed by a quarter of a million majority of the popular vote, and Grant is to have 214 electoral votes, with New-York carried for Seymour by fraud, and at least two Southern States by terror. But in the face of these facts, Democratic journals hold out the assurance that the party will succeed "on review."

The ten Western States—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska—gave a majority of 285,000 for Gen. Grant. These States, which contain more than one third of the population of the Union, voted solid against Seymour and Pendletonianism.

The Patriot complains that its party had no organization at the recent election. The probability is that the Chairman of their Committee did the best he could in a failing cause. But what shall be said of Mr. Belmont, the chairman of their National Committee. He did not even vote for Seymour or McClellan.

The Democrats had great expectations from Seymour's western excursion. The N. Y. World, amongst other big head-lines to an account of his progress, had these: "Triumphal Progress of the next President of the United States; his Journey from Columbus; Magnificent Reception at Pittsburg."