RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT GRANT.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1024, 22 November 1872, Page 3

RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT GRANT.

[AUSTRALASIAN.] The submarine telegraph transmits us an important piece of news from the Far West. The choice of a ruler for the forty millions of our kinsmen, who make up the great American nation has been decided by the reelection of President Grant by an enormous majority over his opponent, Mr Horace Greeley. This result was not at all unexpected, and was, in fact, pretty clearly indicated by the tenor of the news received by last mail. It had become apparent that the large support which the nomination of Greeley had at first received was rapidly falling away, and that it was less liking for Greeley than hatred of Grant which formed the heterogeneous parties who were pledged to vote against the re-election of the President. The point that interests us most in this election is the question, what effect it will have on the attitude of America to England. So far as we can see, it is probable that the continuance in office of President Grant will be more in favor of maintaining friendly relations between England and America, than would the return of Mr Greeley. The election of Mr Greeley as President would have probably involved the appointment of Mr Summer, the originator of the indirect claims, and an avowed enemy to England, as Secretary for Foreign affairs, and in that case there would certainly have been little amicable feeling between the two countries, and their relations would have been, at the least, very much strained. Mr Greeley, besides is a politician of very impulsive, uncertain nature, and with him as President, and at the head of a new party, composed by the disruption of the old parties, and destitute of any guiding traditions, the reliance on the two great English-speaking nations continuing good friends might have been regarded as much weaker than it *ill bo now.