The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-16
New York Herald ON the OeteheR Els'
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TProm the Herald, llth instl
The results Of the lats elections are posi-
lively sublime. They reafdrm the high IN
telligence which pesvsdss the Northern
States, and their imnovable purpose to re,
establish the Union on solid foundation.
| They demonstrate the correctness of our IS,
Inmates of the moral signikcancy and press.
| ure of the Maine election Of September, and
the inevitable solution of the vital question
of reconstruction. They reveal prevailing
intensity of feeling in the Northern public
| mind, which 10 without . precedent IN Our
State elections not connected with Presi-
DENTAL contest. Heretofore for three years
after Presidential vote the popular turnout
at our State elections has fallen largely be-
hind it. Half way between one Presidential
campaign aud another our political excite
ments have been at dead low water, and our
State elections, upon skeleton vote, have
gone by default But here the orderIof the
tides has been reversed, and at tho usual
season of the lowest ebb, the swelling sea
rolls in and rises beyond high water mark.
Philadelphia, for instance, polled on Tues
day last popular vote exceeding the last
and highest Presidential vote of this metrop
oils Such startling facts as these involve
instructions from the people which by men in
power and BY disturbing political factions
cannot be lightly contemplated.
Encoura ged BY the moral and material snip
port of the Administration, and BY the hope
of decisive accessions from the rsnk and file
of the Republican camp. the Democrats in
these elections have displayed . remarkable
degree of vitality and strength. But j, Is
only the last taring and Pickering of the ex-
piring candle, to be followed. BY darkness,
smoke and bad odor. The Democratic
Chicago peace party of the war cannpt be
galvanized into life again. The experiment
has been thoroughly tried and utterly failed.
The strength which it has exhibited in these
October elections was spasmodic and galvan
ic, and with the removal Of the battery, the
remains MAY be buried in the graveyard OF
parties dead and gone. From this frIitiess
experiment of galvanism. President johnson
is invited to turn his energies in another di-
rection. Or, to change the figure, his new
wine has broken the old bottles OF the Chica-
go Democracy, and they are done for. VIVA,
is he now to do? What else can he do thar
yield to the voice of the mighty North, and
| fall in with the Constitutional Amendment Of
Congress- There is no limit To his power for
| good in this direction, and, a. he stands,
these is an end to all hopes from further re-
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verdict; and we are snre that, as q man o.
the people, he will act accordingly.
| In the results Of these October elections WI
thus read the verdict of oil the Nonherr
States on the case Of the President versu.
| Congress. We demand the policy Of Con
gress. We must have the securities for thu
future 10 the Constitution - the conditions o
| Southern restoration-secnrity touching tn,
equality before the law Of all citizens inl thei
civil ri ghts-secnrity in regard to suffrage ant
! epresentation-security for the payment O
the National debt and against any future rec
| ognition of the debt OF the rebellion or 0
any claims for emancipated slaves; and vi
approve the security proposed in the Constitu
tional Amendment against the return to polt
cal power Of any of the traitorous and revo
| lutionary political contrivers and managers o
the late rebellion. These securities are tn,
ultimatum of the North, and it is the onl,
policy Of wisdom and safety on the part o
| the President and the South to adopt them
| The ''Union as it was,' with parties a
they were, is the absurdest of absurd ideas
We might as well talk Of the restoration o
the Bourbons as they were in France beier'
her reign OF terror, or of Pompeii and Her
culaneum rs they were, people and al, befor,
the fiery eruption in which they were buried
No. The dead must await the trumpet o
| Gabriel. We have had terrible civil war
q tremendous revolution-a fiery deluge, snc
many things that we're exist no more. The
| victorious PARTY of the war has decreed re-
| construction of the Union on new constitu
| tional guarantees, involving the expulsion
from the new sanctuary of those treacherout
Southern teachers and imposters that defileo
and brought down FIRE and ruin upon the ole
| one. They are to be excluded, and The
| Southern States are to have a new lease of life
and prosperity, under the new leaders, new
ideals and new party organizations. So il
the North the Copperhead, peace Democrat,
Of the war are dead, and will soon be buried
as political party or as political leaders, ant
the only really disturbing faction that will re
| main will be the Jacobin faction of Northern
| radicals. Their turn, however, will be the
| next in order.
First of all, the duty nov devolving upor
President johnson of preparing the South
ern States for their manifest destiny, and Of
| such message for Congress in December al
will bring him at once into "a happy accord
With the conservative Republican majority D
| the two Houses. which, rejecting all the en-
treme measures of the rsdicals, adopted the
| far and reasonable conditions of the Consti
tutionai Amendment. With harmony thur
restored between the President and Congress
as it ought 10 be, and with the excluded
| States next restored on the basis of the
amendment, Us they will be, We shall have ths
great party of the future in operation. Their
will come the real fight with the Radicals
and their fate is as certain as that of the re-
cent domineering and FIRE eating rebel fact,or
of the South, or of their servile followers, tn,
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