The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-10-24
The Result of the Recent Elections.
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The Boston Journal submits the following
| observations on the result of the late cleo
! tions
What principle, what measure, then, is it
that has triumphed in the recent elections
and is going to triumph throughout? ? Let US
say it candidly in the moment of victory.
1t is tue Constitutional amendment nt-notting
else, certainly nothing different from that
Prominent individuals have talked about
the impeachment of the President and about
the insufficiency of the Amendment; but
these things have not gone into the canvass,
| and they are not comprehended in the result.
What do the people care about impeacli-
ment2 If they have power enough in Con-
gress to effect that, they have power enough
by their two-thirds vote to achieve all they
wish, over and despite the President. Be
sides, they had rather establish one good
principle at the South-we were going to
say, raise to the full rights of citizenship one
freedman-tban to depose dozen Presidents.
Still, the future, in its now unseen exigencies
may require such measure; and so it may
require that the Constitutional Amendment
shall be superseded by some fat of impartial
suffrage but for the present, the people abide
by tile amendment. VII the President, aoiU
the Southern States heed their coice? That is
the question. IF they do, then The aohole trouble
Is ocer Tile peace, scliich the loyal masses as
deeply as any long for, oiU he established, and
tie Union piU be restored. But if they are
defiant of the popular will-if the Southern
States reject this most moderate and benefc-
lent measure and the President uses his pow
er to encourage them in so doing-then new
issues must succeed, and it wants no second
thought to see that Freedom must have in
terest, if not penalties, for the time she has
lost"
The Springfield Republican, one ofthe most
moderate andInfuential journals in the coun-
try, says:
Nov that the struggle of parties is sub
staptially over for the season, and il is set
tied that the Republican ascendency in Con-
gress is not 20 be broken, the unhealthy ex-
citement that has prevailed for several
months will subside. Respectable men will
no longer hurry about the country in state
of desperate perturbation, calling each other
villainous names apd threatening war; pesti-
lence and famine if their particular princi-
Piles and candidates are not accepted by the
people. The flaming speeches of the stump
ers Will seem very absurd montn nence, and
the watchwords will lose what little mean
ing they ever had. Public questions will
once more be coolly and reasonably discussed
and public men will lose the temporary dis
tinction heated canvass has given then-
and speedily find their proper level. We
shall hear no more about a coup d et0t BY
the President, and the Congressional irn-
peaehn1ent of the President, and the talk OF
renewing the war against a disarmed and
starving South will be dropped. In fact @s
shall hape period Of sober sense, and schea
Congress meets again 1t acilI be to inaug,tyate q
moderate and reasonable policy, such as soM
satisfy tile uliole country 2
The Southern people have been alarmed at
the violence of the party contest in the North,
and some of them really fear that they shall
he harshly dealt with by the victorious Re
publieans. They mag Dismiss their fears;
Conscious strength brings ont ge',erosity from