The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1866-11-22
THE DEMOCRATIC ADVOCATE.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1866.
THE GENERALREsULT.

v ss4a-- greSS TINS year are now over, and the
r-g----- general result is that the Radicals have
:. sustained their preponderance in Con-
gress, and must necessarily retain it du-
ring the next term of two years. unless
a division may unexpectedly occur a
mongst them The popular majorities
in all the Northern States are in favor
~ iIoai = ofthe Radicas-in some of them very
2fa5ae9 g SMALL considering the number Of votes
.s.>R ~ given. In Pennsylvania II 600 on
9@a q vote of coo, 900; in New York IA, 900
% SOD on probably 675,0O0; in Connecticut
aiit'sfes 500; in New Jersey about 1000. The
Is D'559l Radical majority of the popular vote in
Goisnfd"a the North is about the same perhaps as
lot 81 81 in 1864 on the vote of Mr.. Lincoln
10 9aaa5s-D against Gen. Mcclellan. We had
t97i@2 strong ground FIR hope that the elections
0afh q" this year would show considerable
-GH'aHT#' changes in the North in favor of the
'I9.i: Presidents policy; and that the course
1913 feTI of such excellent men as Senators Doc
t3Iif2 little and Cowan, and many others who
tha#1i' " might be named, would be followed by
2fa9g5ti many of the rank and file of the Repub
400 - lican party It has been in the North
ser 'a as in our part of Maryland, that many
ct se 80 who have talked all along in favor of
sdt 'ioa the johnson policy, and fully intended
~ = ~ to support it. nevertheless could mot, at
oza' % III the last moment, break loose from the
-'-1o~2 meshes of party thraldom, to sustain
7p1aa ar that which their conscience and judy
9ht 1e ment approve as the true policy of the
hnna country. Like the New York Times
ni.t9' and the Post, fearful Of being caught in
s.d .7ja Democratic company, they go back to
r,'. 90 their wallowing in the mire of Radical
ism; in hopes something may turn up
aaal' to pass the cup from their lips Those
,-ja.' :ss two papers, together with the N. York
%! wa7h Herald by their advocacy of the true
a>iqs9r doctrine raised high the hopes of its
sHfoaa success but, whilst still protesting the
b52g5 same principles, they have done their
utmost to ensure the Radical success
1dj 10 They may halt and temporizc if they
.-osao please but the great issues of the day
iicuoGG. press on like fate, and men must decide
-ard - for the veal or woe of their country, in
aau or,R the coming crisis, without regard to the
,om vava contemplate feeling which, for the time
E3srj29La being, prefers party to country.
q 30 79Tee On the other hand, Maryland and
nj Raah Delaware strongly Conservative, and
r9as the election in Missouri is no Indication
a''ie of the popular feeling for they are
2i'f u A' cursed there with worse Registry law
SEQ, 81. even than that of Maryland, combined
Dos DIT with the worst specimen of a Radical
do' 49," Governor. Thus We find that every
Lai' NOM Northern State is Radical every South
2"' ern, or late slave-holding State, Conser-r
Ai'1'' yative. We remain just as at the
,"5'' breaking out Of the war, the North all
>. =" ' one way, the South another, way-em-
- phatically two distinct peoples, with
different views and interests-wth this
difference however, that the South is
" not disposed to commit the grand mis-
take second time of making enemies
of the strong Conservative host in the
North, which will stand by them as long
as they stand by the Union. su1
1t is notifying to behold this spec
tacle of house completely divided
against itself. If our country remains
SO long it is true as Scripture that it
cannot stand 1t is not to be tolerated
that in this Republican country the
pr;r.5Ia North, with double the strength, should
% s,u. impose its will upon the South. The
-sa IN manifest attempt to do so led to the late
aFucg war. The South has submitted wisely
to all the necessary conditions imposed
by defeat in that war. Will she submit
tao1 to Negro Equality, the point to which
sfaH- the imperious Northern majority seems
''' oai disposed to drive her? Never The
.spap South will sooner be content to remain
a-od. without representation in Congress, as
Hod2 long Radicalism rules there In the
-ioqaa meantime we lose the glorious opportu-
nifty to fuse all our people again into
one, that shall know no sectionalism.-I
.s 1t remains for the North to settle the
question Maryland and Delaware have
spoken their final determination. In
the next two years the North will most
probably reconsider the question. The
National Union Party, with President
-ssal49 johnson at its head will be firm IS the
30 1odhllls. If the doubling multitude shall
10 20 have faith enough to stand up to their
bue Sentiments, the next Presidential 'elec-
HiR sion viii restore the country la IF not.
srjt go then God only knows how long we shall