Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-11-04

The PoLTTIoAL FUTURE.-The election o
Lincoln and johnson lsst Fall closed a long
| contest. 1t was nbundantly manifest tt
those who were accustomed to look forward
that the issues on which parties has been
divided we're finally settled, and that long
before any change could be effected the Ad-
minlstraiion then elected would bring 10
rlpeness the fruit of their victory. 1t was
utterly useless any longer to discuss those
issues, They we're of the dead past Those
OF our friends who thought that we shrked
| duty IN declining any farther attempt to con-
vince men that the conservative were the
correct views, now admit the total vanishing
out OF sight of the question then under dis
cussion, and il they did not admit il, the res
oluions and platforms of political parties in
various directions show il so distinctly that
he is very far behind the times who doubts
the wisdom of the course we then took
When Ma. Lincoln foretold, at the COM
mencement of the war, that at its close the
same old questions would revive in import
ance, he WAS sensible, and the event proves
his foresight But there are few men who
are not content with this view. They insist
that the new era shall be an era Of new ques-
tion, new doctrines, new ideas. Ii is pro-
posed by the leaders OF party not to dis.
cnss the old questions of political economy,
not to examine the future and guide the
course OF the nation by the lights Of past ex.
perience, but to plunge at once and perma-
nently into a new form Of national existence,
unparalleled in our own history, and which
has been ruinous to the interests of liberty
in other nations where the experiment has
been tried. The plan is to govern one part
Of the country by the votes Of another part
to refuse local self government, in local mat
ters, to several millions of the population of
the country, aud exercise the functions of
government over them by the votes Of an.
other section. Ii is not worth while TO dis
euss proposition like this When presesnled
in its uaked simplicity TO any thinking Amer.
ican, be rejects II at oncs But the men who
propose it will deny that their plans amounts
to any such thing. They will deceive the
people who are accustomed to believe and
follow them Hence il seems not at all inn
probable that large portion Of New Eng
land will go crazy on this absurd plan, and
will vote in solid mass to convert the Union
and the Government of the United States into
a permanent military despotism.
1t is y curious part of the history of De-
mocraoy that the men who are most ardent
defenders OF and deelaimers for the doctrine
OF ssifgoSernmsnt are oiten tho most radi-
cal lyrants when uthey obtain power, Il !
would be utterly impossible to day to con.
vince some men in the North that the war
has not given them moral and political
right to govern the South in everything, and
being possessed with the idea that the result
OF the war has been lhe subjection of the
South to the North land not Me Subsection |
OF rebellion % gOv~Rmei,O they are saxioos
to preserve and enjoy the resulting benefits |
oi Conquest. Here aud there we see the nit
terness OF empiiy toward President johnson
and his policy exhibiting itself In Mime
sofa the RapublGaD eonseuiion yetes down
A resolution of approval Of the Presdent.
In Massachusetts, many hard things are said
1i him. Ia New York party men scarcely
snow which side they ars on, aud a leading
newspaper Of the Republican party, which
8 always weAthereock in such times, vesrs
o every point Of the compass in every forty