The result of the elections in Pennsylvania is creating great
excitement in the United States. The Democrats have decidedly improved their position, and American politicians have an idea that as Pennsylvania goes, so will the Union go, an idea often proved well founded. So elated are the victors that they talk of running General McClellan for President, and Mr. Johnson is expected to reconstitute his Cabinet so as to consist mainly of "New York Democrats." Fortunately, the RePublicans have taken the alarm, they have a whole year before them, and they seem ready to make some much needed concessions, to let the Germans have their beer in peace, and to be more careful in the selection of candidates. They have been starting uncompromising nobodies too often of late. Upon the question of Negro Suffrage, the real question at issue, they neither can nor will recede one step.
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