Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-10
Nina Lesson ID the EIectIon.

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Mace. Massachusetts has gone for the
Union by ever a stronger vote than ever.
The Union majority in New York Is be-
tween twenty and twenty-five thousand,
and the Union party has an increased ma
iority in both branches of the Legislature.
New Jersey-all hail to hers
redeemed. The q Camden and Amboy
Rip Van Winkleism" which John Has
kin so vehemently denounced, is repudi-
ated by three thousand majority, and the
Union party have secured the control of
both branches of the State Legislature,
thus making the ratification of the anti
slavery amendment certain. Minnesota
and Wisconsin nave gone for the Union
by their usual overwhelming majorities.
Everywhere the party of Union and lib
erty have met with success beyond all
their expectations and hopes.
The result of this grand triumph is not
circumscribed by local boundaries. In
fact, the election of one ticket or the other,
in each of the States, SO far as personal
merits or State issues are concerned, Is a
matter of very little consequence COM
pared with the effect of these elections
upon the national policy. They came at
a critical moment. The Democratic party
seized upon the natural reaction from the
heightened feeling of the war, and upon
the conservative and retroactive expert
mental policy of the President to make a
renewed effort TO regain power. Had
they triumphed, the President would
have felt the effect of their success, while
| the Union men in the coming Congress
would have been afraid to take the ad-
vanced position necessary at the present
time. Their utter and overwhelming de-
feat has had, Of course, a directly contrary
effect. The Union majority in the next
Congress will be strengthened and cncour-
aged in their position. The President,
too, will discover that the party which
elected him is still the controlling one,
and is powerful enough to give MIN
the support of the country in
the most radical measures which he may
propose. But the result of the cleo
lions will be felt not less powerfully in
the Southern States. The politicians OF
the South, who, %presuming upon the old
time servility of the Democratic party
have hoped to gain power, assume the
rebel debt, repudiate the national debt
and re-establish slavery in one form OF
another, will discover that a radical change
has come over the spirit of National poll.
tics. The lick-spittle Democracy, a.
these elections will teach them
have lost all power and all hop,
of regaining it. The North, a
well as the freedmen of the South, ha
been emancipated blythe war. The ruler
at the National capital are of another tenn
per, and they will not be apt to brook def
anee and insolence on the part of the rebel
whom they have inst subdued. The knowl
edge of these facts will produce a most sal
utary change in the attitude of the South.
ern people. They will go about the woIl
of reconstruction in a different spirit snC
we trust with better results. In this view
of the result of the elections, therefore, a
well as in all others, there is much occasion
for t~hankfulness and Joy.
The Florida COnventiOn--GOv. Mar
Wins Message.
The members ofthe Florida Reconstruc
ton Convention, elected on the 10th o
October, assemblies at Tallahassee on the
25th of that month, and on the same day
the message of Provisional Governor Mar
win was delivered and read to that body
The Governor does not think it would b.
wise at present to confer the privilege o
voting on the negroes, and believes Con.
gress will not demand that concession OF
the part of the States lately in revolt a:
an indisputable preliminary to the admis
sion of their representatives but he urge;
upon the Convention, as a matter of the
plainest justice as well as of wisdom, that
laws for the most complete protection OF
the freedmen's civil rights be passed, and
that their testimony be received in the
courts. Without these, he says, the color
ed people viii have nc safeguards against
the impositions of cruel and dishonest en-
| ployers, and with them he thinks this
emancipated people will be generally con.
tented, industrious and enterprising, even
in the absence of the exercise of the bal
lot. He also recommends that the Con-
vention declare the secession ordinance
not repealed, but null and void, and advo-
Gates the adoption by the Legislature of the
amendment to the National Constitution
forever prohibiting slavery throughout the
country. 1t is not believed that the men,
bers of the Convention will come up to
Governor Marvin's standard of progress,
since nearly all of them were elected as
un~equivocal opponents of granting any
privileges whatever to the negroes, and,
though no opposition is expected to the act
recognizing the abolition of slavery, it is
supposed that the State rebel war debt will
not be repudiated, and that the secession
ordinance will not be declared null, but
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