Abstract

The Week

The article focuses on the political and social conditions around the world. In spite of appearances, the nominations made at Cincinnati were essentially Western and not Eastern. Horace Greeley, though born in New Hampshire and identified in his manhood with New York, would never have been deliberately chosen with a view to the vote of this section of country or of New England. Nobody will pretend that in either he could command a majority of Republican votes against the regular candidate. British statesman William Ewart Gladstone has made a speech in Great Britain House of Commons, which throws some and much needed light on the transactions of the last fortnight regarding the "consequential damages," but is not likely to improve the position of the administration here, and has even been accepted by the Opposition as a vindication.