The national Republican., 1866-11-20

NotvithstAnong t1e overwhelming defeat
Of the Democrats, snd ~ signal triumph oi
the radicals in the late elections, the victo.
rious party are as fsr o ever from being
contented. The people went to the polls
with the understanding that IL they sustained
the radical party with stiff majority this
time II would give the finishing blow to se-
cessionism, which they had been made to
believe was again menacing the country, and
that it would at once settle all our national
difficulties. But no sooner are the returns
counted which assure them Of complete
triumph in all the Northern States than the
radicals begin to ask, nervously and anx-
iously- .''" ..l. n. .''.- .
"what ia THE PRrsrDEsr going to do
nowf" 'd' $3.50 ...H IIg s.
"what action will Mr.. JOHNSON take in
view Of the electionsf" ' E
"Will he abandon his policyf" 4r
"What will the South dor" I#IEa. r
"Will the non-representcd States submit
to the will Of the majorityf" etc. 1- ". -O
And thus the voters who fondly imagined
they had settled everything satisfactorily by
casting their ballots for the radical candi.
dates in the November elections, Hnd there
is no peace yet, that the final settlement is
indefinitely postponed. G
Instead Of an adjustment of the pending
difficulties having been effected, they find
many Of their "leaders' differing widely upon
the plan Of adjustment. Some profess they
would readmit the excluded States to repre-
sentation upon their acceptance Of the con-
amendment proposed by Congress;
others demand few executions Of the CON
quered insurgents; others insist upon uni.
versal suffrage to the blacks and universal
amnesty to the late rebels; others cry for
Of The PREsmsxr and thor.
ough recssting Of the Southern States, etc.,
etc. Each plan has its noisy advocates who
insist that none other will prove eficacious,
and the people find themselves, in this con.
fusion Of counsels, very Gar from the realiza-
ton Of the hopes awakened in their bosoms
by the defeat Of the confederate armies and
the close Of the war. '' '
Some Of the would-be leaders Of the radi-
Gals are considerably in earnelt; some are
genuinely honest in their notions of the
case, however narrow and unphilosophical
their views may be; but the real leaders and
controllers Of the radical party are delaying
the restoration Of the Union, not for the sake
Of the negroes, not to make treason odious,
not to provide security for the future, but
they are delaying It for the sake Of tempo
rary place and power--in word, for their
present bread and butter"
At the close Of the war an opportunity
was offered for bringing back the lately re.
bellious States to their allegiance under cir
cumstances that would have secured their
ready acquiescence in all reasonable terms,
and have afforded the Union" men Of the
South, those who had been opposed to seces-
sion from the start, chance to build up
party which would have acted with the
Union party Of the North that supported
the war and crushed the rebellion and have
secured to that party the ascendancy in our
national politics for an entire generation
The Union men of the South would have
been enabled to say to the people, Your
oltpolitical leaders led you, in spite of our
warning counsels, TO perdition. All the
suferings you are now enduring were brought
upon you by their mistaken policy and their
political crimes. Go with us in the right.
way and never again place your interests
under their control" A dUnion" party
could have been raised which would have
acted with the Republicans at the North as
steadily as the Northern Democracy former
ly acted with the South. -r . ~
The PRESIDENT desired to receive loyal
Representatives from the South in Congress,
not only upon legal and constitutional
grounds, but also because it would strengthen
the Union party; he believing that they would
most naturally esteem the party under whose
auspices they were restored to the Union.
But this was not to be. The great Republi-
can party, in acquiring its strength and full
ness, had drawn into its leadership men who
became filed with schemes Of aggrandize-
ment through that party, which, they feared,
could not be contaminated If the Southern
States were admitted to representation in
Congress- THAD. STEVENS, acting as claim
agent Ind attorney for Pennsylvania and for
himself, might find it difficult to get such ap-
preparations as he wanted; others might fail
in securing their particular object, and there
fore the Southern Representatives, however
loyal, must be kept out. They were kept
out and the consequence has been, and will
be, that the South is unit against the Radi-
cal party. no ...
The Union men Of the South have been
put in the same boat with the "secesh," and
compelled to make common cause with them.
Sectionalism has been consolidated, solidifed,
crystallized, and whenever the South is read.
mitted, postpone it as long as you may it
will present an unbroken front, and afiliating
with some party in the North it will again
control our national politics. Every politi-
clan possessing ordinary sagacity sees this
quite plainly, and those in power, determined
to enjoy power as long as It can be made to
last, will, Of course, delay still longer and as
much longer as possible the complete resto-
ration Of the Union. .I .. nj
Meanwhile the country languishes, in its