Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1868 — The Elections. [ARTICLE]

The Elections.

The elections in Indiana, Ohioy Pennsylvania, and Nebraska were probably the most fiercely contested that havener occurred in any of those Stores. The Democracy so long deprived of the aid and comfbrt of the public crib, made a moat <lcsperate fight, bat they were met at •wry point and defeated. The great undercurrent that was to drive the Republican party from power, was on the day of the election, found to be rather a weak affair. L Thanks-to the loyal masses of the ttSTtfigylmve met and defeatedThe* hosts of Toombs, Hill, Forrest, Hampton, Vallaxuigham, Hendricks and Jkff. Davis, and we will have peace. There will be no-using the army to trample in the dust the reconstruction laws of Congress; the publio debt will not be increased by arming and equipping men to carry out the policy ot Frank Blair ; no cruel conscription will tear men from their homes to battle in another civil war, for the peace loving people have •poken and repudiated those who would bring these calamities oh the country. The result of the elections on last Tuesday may be summed up as follows: Grant and Colfax will be elected by large majorities’ Every State that was carried by Lincoln will be sure to vote for Grant and Colfax. AH that the Democracy c«ut hope lu gsiii niJWl~:fl~ffCie iniftthere a local' officer, or a Congressmam We- have fought the great battle for liberty and have won. The rebel ▼ell will no more be heard in the South, but instead will be heard the howl of defeated traitors who have had their teeth set on edge for blood by the revolutionary propositions of the Democratic party. The people of the States that voted on Tuesday hare spoken in tones not to be mistaken, that the gray is not the peer of the blue; that Jeff. Davis ft> not the patriot and Lincoln the traitor. That the loyal soldier was not a murderer, cut-throat and villain, and the rebel soldier a brave but unfortunate patriot, These questions have been settled by this contest and the Democratic party will be convinced that if they would gain the confidence of the people that they must take different grounds than sympathy with the “lost cause.’’