Thus, first printed in _The Index_, an extract from a New York paper, _The New Nation_, got frequent quotation: "We have been imposed upon long enough.

The ruin which you have been unable to accomplish in four years, would certainly be fully consummated were you to remain in power four years longer.

Your military governors and their provost-marshals override the laws, and the _echo of the armed heel rings forth as dearly now in America as in France or Austria.

You have encroached upon our liberty without securing victory, and we must have both_[1223]." It was clearly understood that Northern military efforts would have an important bearing on the election.

The _Times_ while expressing admiration for Sherman's boldness in the Atlanta campaign was confident of his defeat: "...