5 DECEMBER 1868, Page 2

General Grant's election has already produced a wholesome effect on

the South. General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, one of the most fierce of the firebrands, went immediately after the election to General Scott, aud withdrew all opposition to the new regime, accepting Negro suffrage and the Reconstruction Act, and offering support to the State Government. An equally re- markable proof of the folly of the Democratic policy for pacifying the South,—the Seymour policy,—could certainly not have been produced by its bitterest enemies.