The Frontier Index

For President,
Horatio
Seymour
OF NEW YORK.

For Vice President.
Frank P. Blair, Jr.
OF MISSOURI.

THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION TO-DAY.

In the absence of a telegraph office, through which to receive intelligence from the various parts of the dis-United Monarchy, we would assure our readers that from returns of State elections in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Nebraska, we are led to believe that we should yet entertain hopes of the election of SEYMOUR and BLAIR; for notwithstanding it is given out to the people that all those States have gone Republican, reference to the figures given in the returns show that there are large Democratic gains in all those States: and in Indiana, heretofore so infernally black, Voorhees, the copperhead, is elected to Congress, and the contest for Governor in that State is so exceedingly close that it will require the official canvass to determine the result. It is likely that there are not 500 votes difference between Hendricks and Baker on a total poll of 375,000, proving the Democratic gain to be at least 12,000, and a proportionate gain is reported in each of the other three State elections.

Our words to-day are precisely the same that Gen. Blair uttered upon this subject a few weeks since. He said that "in this struggle we have everything at stake: this is the final and last struggle for the preservation of free constitutional government in America: that if we fail in it the Republic falls with us. It becomes the mere appendage of the military chieftain who is elevated to power in the name of the Presidency, but he never will leave the Presidential mansion as long as he lives. I have nothing to say against him personally; I have no intention of derogating from his great merits as a soldier, and I have no desire to tarnish any of the laurels which he won in the services that he gave to the country during the late war, but I have just as little design of surrendering absolute power into the hands of any man, no matter how illustrious he may have made his name in this great war.

This is no holiday fight: this is an election transcending in importance any that ever was held within the bounds of our country. If we are defeated in it, it is my candid belief that there never will be another Presidential election in America. (A voice, "You are right," and cheers.)

These people have already established a military despotism in ten States of this Union, and what is to forbid them to establish it in ten more if they have the power? Why shall they not establish it in all?"

And though if this is the last hurrah we should ever be permitted to give, we yet keep our voice uplifted and our pen newly replenished with ink to advocate SEYMOUR and BLAIR, and American Liberty Revolutionized; and we cry—Down with Grant and military tyranny! Down with the inferior races and mongrelism! Up with white men!