12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728

On the other hand, the Democrats have increased their numbers

in the House of Representatives by 27, which will prevent the Re- publicans from having, in the next Congress, the two-thirds' vote necessary to pass a bill over the veto of the President,—but that, with General Grant in office, may prove rather an advantage to the Republicans, than a disadvantage. It will sober them, and make them consider their acts much more carefully. Look- ing to the popular majorities, we should say that New Eng- land and the West are, on the whole, more heartily Republican than either in 1860 or 1864, but that in the Middle and Border States the dissatisfaction with Republican statesmanship has only just been overborne (and not at all overborne in New York), by fear of the madness of their opponents.

Next page