The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-24

Grand aggregate majority, $4,000
There is something positively amazing in
these unparalleled and unbroken majorities
and in this grand aggregate OF three hundred
and sixty-two thousand. We dare say, con-
sidering the ravages of the war in the South,
that this aggregate Northern majority ex-
Ceeds the whole popular vote which could
now be cast, under their existing election
laws, by the whole ten Southern States ex-
Guided from Congress. Here, too, we have
the evidence, conclusive and overwhelming,
to the effect that this constitutional amend
ment to those ten States is the ultimatiun of
the North, and that to the end of President
Johnson's term of Office there is no prospect
of nything more favorable from Congress-
The issue has been fairly tried between Pres
ident and Congress. and tie verdict settled
to the Fourth of March, 1869.
The President, therefore, can do nothing
and has nothing to hope for in continuing to
advocate his restoration policy against the
plan of Congress. AS a patriotic man and
as statesman of experience and sagacity,
we expect him to yield the road to the a.
mendment and to let it take its course. The
recommendation to Congress of bill or res
olution binding the two houses to the adj
mission of each of the excluded States on its
ratification Ofthe amendment would probab-
ly not be amiss, although we regard the prece-
dent of Tennessee as substantially meeting
this proposition. In any event, it now re-
mains for the excluded States, each for itself,
to determine either for the amendment and a
restoration to Congress and our national
elections, or against the amendment with
the exclusion from the next Presidency and
from Congress for an indefinite time to come.
This is the simple alternative now before the
South.
Next, in this table of Republican MAORI
ties we have the final demolition of the
Northern rump of the old exploded national
democratic party. This party, but for its
recent alliance with the administration, and
but for the moral and material aid given it
by the administration, would have been too
weak to have made struggle in these late
elections. In getting under the wing of
President Johnson it was warmed, yea, gal
vanized into show of vigorous vitality;
but with his failure to keep it on its legs it
must go into dissolution. Stimulated and
rallied for the moment by his powerful tonics
and restoratives to wonderful degree, the
inevitable reaction will be speedy and fatal.
The rump of the old democratic party, in
fact has gone the way of the old whig par
ty and the old federal party, and its remains
must be turned over to some new party Or
ganiZation-not upon the dead issues of the
past, but upon the living issues of this new
epoch in our political history.
The late democratic party its effectually
used up, and its elements must be recast in
new form and with new name for the
prestige of the old name has been changed
by its war record into public contempt The
republican party and the opposition party of
the coming Presidential contest remain still
to be organized. President johnson, wisely
cooperating with the conservative republic
cans of Congress. in this view of the situation
may still WELD controlling influence in es-
tablishing the party of the succession.-Ne0
York Herald.