New-York daily tribune., 1865-09-30
THE SITUATION.

the event came so suddenly that when people
now speak of it as " collapse they use, per-
haps, the most expressive phrase. The revoiu-
ton did not end with the South. That ines
timably glorious and at the same time mex
pressibly sad month of April was as iuil ol
meaning to the North as to the South.
Throughout the North, public opinion has
suffered the reaction that seems always to sue
ceed a revolution The parties during the war
were based upon the probable contingency OF
the war-one party insisting that persistence
would bring success, the other that war was
irretrieyably failure. Events, of course, have
decided the merit of any such difference, and
now that our arms have been triumphant, all
men hurry to the national flag as the only BAN
ner of free America. Success is the rudest but
the surest test of merit and we can of course
claim all the virtues that belong to nation
having shown that most national OF virtues,
strength. The Copperhead element has been
assimilating itself to the Union party. The
chagrin of disappointed hope is bad enough,
without still following what they see TO be a
shadow. The Conventions who represent this
element have perceptibly in most cases, boldly
in that Of New-York, advanced their ground
All the issues of the war they consider as
ended, and claim that the time has
come for a new east of parties. In
Kentucky, however, and New-Jersey, we
find the organization clinging steadily to.
Slavery. To use one of Mr.. Kinglakes prettest
metaphors, although Slavery is dead, they can
not be torn from her cold embrace. The popu-
lar vote of Kentucky has decided against the
: Constitutional Amendment, partly, we imagine,
% with the hope of inducing the Government to
n. pay the owners of the negroes large sums of
money. In New-Jersey the people have not
2 yet spoken. A legislature holding to the blind
be and dead forms Of Slavery declined to ratily the
i' amendment, but the friends of freedom con-
tident that New-Jersey will spurn the coun-
q sells of those me-serving gentlemen, have made
D. an appeal to the people and under Marcus l..
is Ward the campaign progresses rapidly. We
g have hopes of carrying New-Jersey, and thus
making the North a unit on the side OF Freedom.
In the West, the campaigns are void of interest.
: Ohio is exercised as to whether Robert f..
f Schenck or John Sherman shall be Senator.
Gen. Cox aud Gen. Morgan are running for
, Governor, and the former WILL we hope, be
elected. At the same time, his unfortunate and
= unnecessary essay against manhood suffrage
has thrown apathy into the ranks of
$ the earnest friends Of the Union. In Penn
h sylvania, four soldiers are running for two
4 Ia off
making a great noise over them. The party
; lines are blurred and indistinct by reason of an
unnecessary address of Mr.. John Cessna's, the
Republican leader, against manhood suffrage
5 an address that we take to be in opposition to
; the spirit of the Convention. The Mayoralty
? of Philadclphia-the Office in Pennsylvania next
in Importance to that of Governor, and upon the
result of which will probably depend the State
is being vigorously contested In Connecticut,
the question of manhood suffrage will be decided
in few days. This is the only New.EDgand
State that makes color as much Disqualified
ton as a felony, and our friends are making
strenuous efforts to succeed. This begins the
new campaign for freedom that will soon ex-
cite the attention of the country, unless Con-
gress should succeed in arriving at some earlier
settlement Of the question. In New-York the
| Democratic party has put up the whole concern
at auction, and few days since Mr.. Richmond
went to Washington to get a bid from President
johnson. They only wanted "a certain number
Of nice Ofces-with small assortment of jobs
and contracts-and their devotion would be
sublime.
In the Southern States the work Of recon
struction has been going on after fashion.
When the war ended, the South was PROSTATE,
and we might have ended, forever every ques-
tion involving fundamental question of free
dom, and entered into these cOrrelatve ques-
tons of public policy upon which the prosperity
OF people depends. There was no feeling
among the Southern people but anxiety for re-
mlon' They gave the contest greater mean.
ing than we Of the North. They fought with
more earnestness and sincerity, and when de-
ieated they gladly accepted every condition Of
defeat. A false public opinion, however, has
been created here among the Union parties. and
II now finds reflex in the South. The
danger is that what we call magnanmty they I
Will call tmidity. Evidences Of this are already
seen in some Of the Southern States. In Ala.
bama, Slavery was surrendered only after a
struggle, strong party insisting upon referring
the question to the Supreme Court. This party
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