The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-17
The PaciAcaiion OF the Countrv-The Rcsul
Of the Recent Elections.


The PaciAcaiion OF the Countrv-The Result
Of the Recent Elections.
Tie general result Of the recent elections is
one Of those decisive political triumphs which
| mark new departure and new epoch in our
| political history We have had three of these
| great contests upon great conflicting ideas in
reference to the general policy Of the govern
ment since the time Of Washington and the
settlements effected In the first and in the second
were merely the preparation Of the ground
for the third and most comprehensive and
decisive Of any contest in ous political annals.
The first of these three great political
struggles was that Of 1900, between John
Adams and Thomas Jeffers0n-between the
old federal and the old republican party--the
one representing those conservative ideas In
herited from England. and the other the radical
popular sovereignty ideas of the first French
republic 1t was in a modified form conflict
between the English monarchists and the
French Jacobins, and, fresh from their long war
Of independence against England, the Amer
lean people Of that day naturally sympatbized
with the repubicanism Of the French revolution
which was drawn from our own; and 50 Jeffer-
son and his radical ideas OF State rights and
State sovereignty prevailed. From this
triumph those ideas we're made, more or less
the established Interpretation Of the federal
| constitution for period OF sixty years, down
to the bred Scott decision under Buchsnan's
administration. But still the radical State
rights and popular notions Of Jefferson as q
candidate were discarded by Jefferson and his
republican successors in power. Hence the
uninterrupted reign Of the old republican
party for a term Of twenty -four years.
The election Of 1924 was q scrub race, which
sienifed nothing but the confusion incident to
reconstruction Of parties, the old federal and
republican parties having disappeared. In
1923 the late great democratic party, against
John Quincy Adams and his enormous national
expendi lures Of thirteen millions year, came
into power under the banner Of General
Jackson, the battle Of New Orleans and Ore
| trenchment and reform" Still smarting from
the wounds Of the war of 1912 against England,
the majority Of the American people rallied
around jackson and elected him 10 the hero
Of New Orleans. This example OF . military
chieitain was successfully followed BY
the wings with General Harrison and
with General Taylor. These, however,
were all sporadic cases Of military cbieftains
II was in Jackson's second election, in 1882,
upon his war with the old United States Bank,
that the second Of our decisive national con-
tests was fought, resulting in the overthrow Of
the Bank, the shaping Of our financial system
down to the late war, and In the solid organi-
cation Of the late democratic party. Yet after
jackson the party was terribly defeated in
1910, escaped by the skin Of its teeth in 1874,
was thrown out again in lS4s, had narrow
escape again in 1866, and was cut TO pieces
and scattered 10 the winds in 1860, leaving
only It's Northern rump to be demolished In
1885, After Jackson the party turned Its face
to strange gods and set up the worship OF
Baal, in the form Of the almighty Niger"
on q cotton bale. This worship, from bad to
worse, was carried at last TO such extremes
that the Northern States dixie the children OF
Israel In many similar cases) rose In their
wrath against his outrageous pretensions, and
finally, in 1860, secured the choice Of ruler
pledged TO condne this presumptuous Baal or
Moloch and his are-esters within certain pre-
| scribed boundaries
This was tho first election OF Abraham
Lincoln but II decided nothing except that
slavery should go no further. There was q
Southern revolt against this decree Of the
American people. The North rallied In arms
70 put down this revolt and the second cleo
ton Of Lincoln vas decree from the Northern
people that slavery, too, should be put
down a. the cause and the lie OF the
rebellion. All this Is accomplished, when our
third decisive political contest, touching the
future policy Of the government, comes on. be-
tween the Presidents Southern policy and the
constitutional amendment OF Congress. These
recent elections have so decisively settled this
controversy that even Wade Hampton must
see that the amendment, sooner or later, Is the
manifest destiny OF the South, and that the
| republican party In Congress has the keys Of
| the Presidential succession and tho future in
| iis hands
| Here, then, we stand. The victorious and
all-powerful league Of Union States In the war,
represented by the dominant party in Con.
grsss, say e the States rescued from rebel
lious conspiracy, here Is our utimatum OF res
torstion. Accept II and come In, or reject Il
and stay ont till ready for Q reconsideration.
The alternative IL with you TO choose. Upon
your choice you will be admitted into or ex-
ciuded from the coming Presidential election.
The thing Is dxed beyond remedy In CQp9rcss