The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-17
Eject Of the Elections In the South.

Many Of the best informed OF the
Southern papers predicted that the
Republican party would be successful
in the October elections. To these
the result accustomed no surprise.
Others, however, misled by the Cop
perhead papers of the North, anticl-
pated different results, and, conse-
quentIy, are terribly mortified and
surprised. They can not imagine how
race of money. lovers and money.
eetters. az they have been taught to
regard and characterize the people Of
the North, could resist the temptation
to desert their principles which a
treacherous Executive could offer
through the patronage under his
control They thought every office
seeker and office holder in the coun-
try might be regarded as certain to
support the Presidents policy, and
vote the Copperhead ticket rather
than lose, or in order TO gain, place.
We had been under the impression
that four years of war, In which the
Northern people sacrificed their trea-
sure and lives, would certainly con-
vince the most skeptioal that
there were some things that they
thought more of than money; but the
comments of many of the Southern
papers, with reference to the politics
of the loyal States, has satisfied us
that the lesson of fidelity to principle
WHICH the loyal people of the Gov
eminent taught them during the war,
was poorly learned and soon forgotten
Upon no other supposition can we
account for the enthusiasm with
which they hailed Mr.. JoHNsoNs
betrayal of his party. Had they
given us credit for frmness and in
tegrity, they would have seen at once
that Mr. JoHNsoN's treachery would
only arouse Indignation, AMI tend to
consolidate the party that he sought
to ruin. They would have been care
full not to arouse the hopes of the
Southern people, that they might yet
secure by the treachery of Presi-
dent what they had tailed to accom-
plish by the courage and skill of their
soldiers, in order to have those hopes
dashed to the earth
We have been gratified, however,
to notice the submissive spirit that
now seems to dictate the editorials of
large majority of our Southern ex-
changes. They emphatically accept
the situation. /" They confess that
their bitter opposition to the Consti-
tutional Amendment arose from the
assurances of the President and Cop
perhead party that the rebel States
would be permitted to re-enter Con-
gress without adopting it. Many of
them eoncede that the Amendment
is neither unjust, insulting, or OPP
pressive, and "a movement is already
inaugurated in some of the States to
obtain the ratification of the Amend /
ment by their Legislatures. In North
Carolina, the Union party enters the
canvass with the Constitutional
Amendment as the basis of its plat
form, and some of the influential
papers ably advocate its claims. The |
Newbern Times is for it; the Char
lotte Democrat urges it as the best
terms the South is likely to obtain;
the Raleigh Standard insists upon it
as a necessity; DIR. Leach, of North
Carolina, says, justly, that these terms
would have been welcomed as God |
send eighteen months ago. In
Georgia, the Savannah Republican
favors it. lsg4H
One or two of the most influential
papers in New Orleans are also advo-
eating the ratification Of the Amend
meut as the best possible settlement
of the great question which has so
long disturbed the peace of the coun-
try.
From these indications we conclude
that the Southern pc ,ple will, by their
conduct, vindicate the wisdom of the
Republican Congress in refusing adj
mission to Southern States until such
guarantees we're obtained as would for
ever secure The integrity of the Gov
eminent with reference to its own
debt, and at the same time forever
preventing the payment of the rebel
debt or granting them indemnity for