Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-10-07
The MaEse election asd the Leassu lhnr
Teaches.


Fenehes-
From the New York Herald, September I6l
The Maine election, 50 was generally autei-
pstsd, has gone overwhelmingly against the
cODpeThsads. The result is but resfirmatiou
Of that loyal, conservative public sen6ment
which carried New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Indiana last autumn against the radical
abolition war faction, and which, during the
present year, has SPOKEN with pd1sl emphasis
N New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
and California against the radical D5moCTstic
peace faction, aud which only the other day
brought cut the popular masses of loyal Ken
tucky against both these factions In other
words, the pred0minent pubic opinion Of the
loyal States since last October. IS ths occasion
has required has from time to time rebuhed
aud repudiesed th9 psnlc:ous principles and
purposes Of both niggerheads and copperhsads
With the gtartiing news of B'suTegard's bonn
bardment Of Fort Sumter there wss an imme-
date spontaneous, universal and terrible uprs-
ing of he people Of tha loyal S-atas ia favGr Of
the nIaiatanaHcs Of the Uuicn and its sup rene
authority by the sysord. And thus for tho first
year Of the war, there was within tho limits Of
the loyal States emily the shadow of a party
opposed TO the Administration. Bat, with lhs
political blUnders and military failures aud dis
ast-rs Of the Administration il 1862, theFs vas
= poworful popular reaction against It Ia the
Z
Ia those elections the popular judgment was de-
Clarsd against the violent and sEesping Aboli-
tou measures and tina arbitrary acts Of the Ad-
miuistTztion in TefsTsnc= 70 OhnOKi0us private
individuals in ths loyal States. Where il iB held
the military cannot clnsiitutionaily be made 10
suDsrseds the civil law.
The Administration, and the party supporting
IT, alarmed by the popular manifestations, hagan
t. take in sail. The business Of arbitrary sr-
Ia -F
almost totally suspended, and the most vi0Iaat
Abolition organs ceased for time 60 proclaim
the 0bi5ct of The war as nothing more nor less
than the extFpstOH OF Southern slavery, even
if it should rsqnrs the determination Of the
shareholders. Thus, with the spprosch If the
n 1rthern spring elections of 1853 the Admins
na.i1a aHd its party practically came back TO
tia platform OF a vigorous PT0seeu iou o. the
war for the suppression Of ths rs1el-
lion. BI It, n the meantime, ths c3pperlaad
Dsaea faction, iufssod with tba idss that
Governor s ymoUr, FOR instance. had been
elected through their eH)rig, aud upon fh5ir
absurd peace principles, boldly undertook to
canY Connecticut upon the platform Of peace
AZ any prica,' whether It might involve sub
mission 10 Jsh. Davis a. President of the
Uuised States, OF the recognition Of ais Southern
C5ntsderacy, with the boundaries of his 0wn
choosing.
The results from that day 20 this, wherever
this abominabe peace programme has been
tiad, have been the ssms-au indignant re-
buke and reputation Of bBs c3ppsTheals by
the people. As Is was ~ Connecticut, so
it is now in Maine. The war D3mO-
crsts have lined the wsr Republicans. and have
Overwhelmingly carried the day. Ohio and
Pennsylvania ia Ostobcr, will be very apt 70
follow in the wake of Mime and Californis; for
while Vallsndighaln, - ghs great apostle Of the
eopperhesds, is more obnoxious 10 UniOu war
Democrats than Bradbury, Jddgs Wood sTc,
the head of tha D 5nocratic ticket in Psnnsyivs-
MIA, was brought forward on the same ground
and IN the midst of a rebel invasion Of the State.
We AppTehend, too, that the shilly-shally, con-
tempuble, dsmorazng, d0-nothing course Of
Gov. Seymour, in rsleEenCs to lie draft and the
late riots ia this city, mas diffased throughout
the North tho suspicion that these impractical
bic projects Of the coppsrhesd5 for peace with
the South mean nothing less than civil war and
anarchy at Our doors. We conclude, accordingly,
/ that tho late Democratic convention At Albany,
] in indoTsIng the wisdom, patriotism and energy
l of Gov Seymour in these lsta trials of the pub
lie patience, mado a great mistake. If they
/ wish 10 carry our November election they viii
At least keep Seymour in tae background. He
has attamptsd the tficult feat of carrying wa
Ter on both shoulders, and has signalY tailed
he was a drawback TO Bradbury, in Maine, snd
will be no advantage to ST. John, Church and
company.
The Albany Democratic platform, on the
main point the vigorous prosecution of ths war,
will do. Upon that ground, aud against all the
radical abolition usurpattons Of power, reV0lu-
tOnarY proceedings and principles, e0rruD Dti8ns
and bIanders, and against tho budget OF bun
ders of Gov. Seymour, let the opposition con-
servatiys elements of New York conduct this
campaign, and thay may again carry the State.
I Otherwise the odOr Of cOpPerhaadism viii suck
10 the skirts Of the Democracy, aud they viii
/ be iRglorously defeated,