Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-10-18
New YORK Herald On the &C.
fOber Elections.
lFrom the Herald, Ilth inst.l

4 From the Herald llth instl
/ The results of the late elections are posi-
lively sublime. They reaflirm the high in
teligcncc which pervades the Northern
States, and their immovable purpose TO re-
establish the Union on a solid foundation.
They demonstrate the correctness of our eS-
Inmates of the moral significancy and pres
sure of the Maine election of September
and the inevitable solution of the vital queS-
ton of Reconstruction. They reveal Il pre-
vailing intensity of feeling in the Northern
public mind, which is without a precedent
/ in our State elections not connected with "a
/ Presidential contest. Heretofore for three
years after Presidential vote the popular
turnout at our State elections has fallen
largely behind it. Half way between one
Presidential campaign and another our po-
litical cXcitcments have been at dead low
wafer, and Our State elections upon n
skeleton vote. have gone b. default. But
4 here the order of the tides is reversed. and
at the usual season of the lowest cbb the
swelling sea rolls and rises above high water
mark. Philadelphia, for instance. polled
on Tuesday last It popular vote exceeding
the last and highest Presidential vote of this
metropolis. Such startling facts as these
/ involve instructions from the people which
/ by men in power and by disturbing politi-
cal factions cannot be lightly contemplated.
Encouraged by the moral and material
support of the Administration, and by the
hope Ofdecisive accesSiOns from the rank
and file fthe Republican camp. the Dem
erals in these elections have displayed re-
markablc degree of vitality and strength.
But it is only the last iiaring and fickering
of the expiring candle. To- be followed by
D Il. ~
Democratic Chicago peace party OF the war
cannot be galvanized into life again. The
experiment has been thoroughly tried and
has utterly failed The strength which it
has exhibited i'm the October elections was
SpaSmOdic and galvapic, and with the re-
moval OF the battery the remains may be
buried in the graveyard ofparics dead and
gone. From this lruitless experiment of
galyaniSm. President Johnson is invited ~
turn his energies in another direction. Or
to change the figure. his new wine of restO-
ration has broken the old bottles of the Chi
cago Democracy. and they are done for
What is he now 20 90: What else can he
do than Weld to the voice of the mighty
North, and fall in with the Constitutional
Amendment of Congress? There is no limit
to his power for good in this direction.
and. a he now stands there is an end to all
hopes from further resistance. He has
made his appeal. he has his verdict; and we
are sure that. Is IA man of the people, hc
will act accordingly.
In the results of all these October cleo
tions we thus read the verdict of all the
Northern States on the case Of the PreSi-
dent versus Congress. We demand the
policy of Congress. We must have our Sc
curtics for The future in the Constitution
as the conditions Of Southern restoration
security touching the equality before the
law of all citizens in their civil rights-sc-
curity in regard TO suffrage and representa-
lion-Sccuriiy for the payment OF the na-
iional debt and against any further recog-
milton Of the deb; of the rChl Hon or of any
claims for emancipated slaves: and we ap-
prove the security proposed in the Consti
tuiional Amendment against the return to
political power of any.Of the traitoroUs and
revolutionary political cOntrivers and man
ayers Of the late rebellion. These Sccuri-
ties are the uliimaium of the North. and il
is only the policy of wisdom and safety on
the part of the President and The South TO
adopt them.
The Union as il was. with parties as
they were. is The absurdCSt of absurd ideas.
We mi Slit a. well talk of the restoration of
.
fore her reign of terror. or of POmpcii and
IIcrculaneim as they were. people and ALL
before the fiery eruption in which they were
( buried. No. The dead must await the
trumpet of Gabriel We have had Il terri
bile civil war-a tremendous rcvolution-a
/ fiery dcluee, and many things that were
exist no more. The victorious party ofthe
war has decreed reconstruction Of the
/ [ nion on new constitutional guarantees.
! involving the expulsion from the new sane
tuary of those treachcrOus Southern teach
erS and impostorS that dctiled and brought
down fire and rri.; Npon the old one, They
are to be excluded. and the Southern States
/ are TO have a new lease of life and prosper
/ iiy. under new leaders. new ideals and new
party organizations. So in the North the
/ Coppcrhcad peace Democracy of the war
are dead. and will soon be buried as a pO-
/ litical party or political leaders. and the on
/ " really disturbing faction that will remain
will he the JacobIn faction of Northern
radicals. Their turn, however will be next
: in order.
/ First of all, the duty now dcvolycS upon
/ President Johnson of preparing the South
crn States for their manifest destiny. and of
preparing such message for Congress in
December MS will bring him at once into
happy accord with the conservative Re
publican majority of the two houses, which,
rejecting all the extreme measures of the
radicals. adopted the fair and reasonable
conditions of the Constitutional Amend
ment. With harmony thus restored be
tween the President and Congress. rs ii
ought to he. and with the excluded States
next restored on the basis of the amend
mcnt. rs they will I've, we shall have the
great party OF the future in operation
/ Tncn will come the real fight with the Rad
icals and their fate is as certain as that of
the recent domincering and firc-eating reb-
cl faction ofthc South, or % their servilc
! followers. the officiating. pcace-at-any-
| price COpperhead faction of the North.