The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-14

to the liberties Of the people with North and South.
The steamer Henry Won fhul plying between New Or
leans and st. Louis burned recently above Donald
sonvle. La, and two lives lost She had on board
at the time thirty Eve hundred bales OF cotton.
man named Neslson from Now York. was shot and
instantly killed In barroom fight in Baltimore by
named Derry yesterday.
The Seuth ON the Result Of the Late Northcra
Elections.
In looking over the Southern newspapers
we are able to form . pretty correct idea of
what the politicians Of that unrestored section
Of the country think Of the result Of the North
ern elections. We say the politicians-we
mean the old secession editors and leaders, ~
distinct from the majority Of the people.
Judging from the light before us We have
reason to think that these pernicious men do
not express the sentiments Of the mass Of
their ruined and suffering countrymen whom
they led into rebellion and who now long for
restoration and peace. Doubtless these danger
Gus men, from the force Of habit and an ire
pressible ambition to figure In public affairs,
have got control Of portion Of the press,
and have in measure reassumed their r5le
Of political managers; but the people have
lost faith in them and must soon lay them aside
for more patriotic and safer leaders. Still,
a. they are doing great mischief at present,
we feel 1t to be . duty to warn the Southern
people against the dangers they incur by
celebrating such dangerous blind guides.
The elections in the NortA have aroused the
old rebellious spirit Of this class Of men.
True they do not talk in the defiant tone Of
former times, as they did previous to and in
the early period Of the war, but they are
sullen and denunciatory. They continue to
instil the poison Of resistance and hatred to the
North. They do not seem to comprehend the
position Of he South or the issue involved In the
question Of restoration as decided by the cleo
tons, and they mislead the people. They say
the radicals have triumphed in the elections,
that this shows the North has become imbned
with the Jacobin spirit of prescription and per
secution and that they have no hope except In
the uncertain success Of tho conservative party,
meaning the old democratic party. Such is
the burden Of their bitter complaints and
gloomy forebodings.
They talk, too, as glibly and seriously Of
their constitutional rights and Of preserving
the constitution a. If they had never made war
on the constitution and placed themselves be-
yond the pale of is operation, or as il the con-
stitution was only made to protect those who
rebel against 1t.
Now let rs test these assumptions by little
common sense. We hardly expect to convince
the old narrow-minded and hairSplitting
Southern politicians, the men who brought on
the rebellion, but we may the mass Of the PEG.
pie and the sensible young men Of the South.
The material interests and future welfare of
themselves and their country may open the
minds Of these latter to the truth.
First, then, tho elections are not triumph
for the radicals-thst IL, for the Jacobins of the
great body Of Northern citizens have no
sympathy with them. They are looked upon
az flrebrands and reeolutionists. Nor is It true
that the people Of the North wish to prescribe
and persecute the Southern people. There
may DO some bitterness remaining from the
war here as there Is in the South that is
natural, but II exists only to limited
extent. II will not operate to prevent early
restoration, unless the South should be so i'm
prudent as to intensity this feeling by continu-
ing to foment sectional hostility. All that the
North wants Is guarantee for the future peace
and harmony Of the country. II wants the
suffrage question based on substantial foun-
dalton Of justice and sound policy, without
compelling the several States to give up their
privilege Of regulating it. That is the object
of the constitutional amendment basing repre-
sentation on the actual vote Of each State. The
North is determined to avoid any trouble in
the future about the national and rebel debts,
and therefore demands constitutional guar
antee for the payment Of one and the repudia-
ton Of tho other. II does not want, and by the
elections has declared that II will not have the
old rebel leaders, who violated their oaths to
the United States, back again In the political
arena until they are purged Of their offence.
The desire is to make "ircason odious," 20 that
the fate Of these men may act as warning In
the iulure; and ii is considered highly impoli-
tic to admit them TO political power for the
present, because they might resume their old
role Of agitators. The whole object of the con-
stiational amendment is to secure permanent
peace and harmony. A certain class Of politi-
clans may desire TO use this question to per-
petuaie their power, but the mass Of the people
only wish, as they have declared In the cleo
tions, to place the country beyond the chance
Of future trouble.
We denouncc, therefore, the hostile and i'm
polite language Of the old rebel press and
leaders, as being full of mischief mischief to
the South more than to the North, and we call
upon the Southern people TO repudiste such
dangerous gu des and agitatora. The consti-
iniional amendment Offers the hcsl lorna the