The Cadiz Sentinel

From the N. Y. World, Nov. 9
The Election.

Never was fought a more gallant fight than the loyal and true-hearted Democracy of the North finished as the sun went down last night in the Pacific seas. An almost hopeless fight from the beginning, it has been inch by inch contested stubbornly to the bitter end. A party which survived the defection of its adherents in nearly half of the States, which for four years has resisted the assaults and the seductions of power such as has not been wielded by a single government since Rome ruled the World, which has retained its organization compact, its spirit intrepid, its patriotism undefiled, and in a contest against an Administration disbursing millions daily, employing one-third of the active industries of the whole population, and directing the interested energies of a whole army of stipendiaries scattered through every city, town, and village in the land, in the struggle to perpetuate its hold on power—a party which has yet put the Administration in such extreme peril and solicitude for the tenure of its power that it has created a State to get three more votes, and has prepared the way for the reception of votes from rebel States—such a party is imperishable. Four years hence it will be invincible. May God, in his infinite goodness, grant that it shall not then have survived the republic which to-day it cannot save, and guard, and guide to Unity and Peace.

Every prudent and sagacious business man in the management of his affairs will to-day take a new point of departure. The Democratic party will be constrained to a similar necessity, and when the smoke and dust of the conflict have passed away it will be time enough to consider what its line of action shall be, how its constitutional opposition to the Administration shall be shaped.

But there needs be no delay in saying that for the next four years, as during the past four years, it will vindicate its honor and its patriotism alike. It will never degenerate from constitutional opposition to faction; it will uphold and advocate in opposition what it would enact in administration, with an impartiality unshaken by interest, passion, injustice, obloquy, failure; it will fan the embers of civil liberty; it will hold fast to "the Union at all hazards" in the new and most terrible dangers which that Union now has to encounter from the incompetency of the rulers re-elected to be the instruments of the national salvation.