The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-11-23

that cheers nsseveB against such an
appalling fact as that a million and o
half ofvoters-moEe fhan six hundred
Thousand in the WI States Of New
York and Pc haylvania-4are still cor
rupt and ignorant enough to support
the mobocrat ofthe White House. We
recognize the terrible significance OF
this fact. Put behind such a mass of
besetted and corrupt tools, the patron
ago ofthe Goternment and the moral
support of the South-ifth word NOR
al" can ever be used IN such eohnec
~tion@-and It's influence must be ferful.
Still the people have shown such true
instincts, such unfaltering devotion,
plucking out right eyes and cutting off
right hands when they offended, that
VIC catch fresh hope from theelections.
Maryland is herself a testimony TO our
theory. That deleat is a fit rebuke to
her faithless leaders. They swihdled
the negro out of his rights to conciliate
their opponents. They succeeded in
preventing Congress from granting
suffrage in the District Of Columbia for
the same purpose. They gagged the
late Loyal Southern Convention on
that question to propitiate rebels. OF.
course, they entered tho canvass load.
ed with the odium of their supposed
principles, and without the strength
which would have come from their
avowal. Such policy deserves and Sc
cures defeat. But this defeat will save
Maryland and Tennessee. Massachu-
sets nails her colers TO her top-gallant
mast, First among the States-dear
old Commonwealth-she receives The
hated and victim race into hor Legis-
lative halls. While Tribunes and
Posts, while National Republican Com
mittees and State Committees were
welcoming rebels back to Congress,
even if they rode there over tho neck
Of our'only Southern ally, the negro
Massachusetts, shows them a specimen
ofsuch a model State as the loyal mas
ses mean shall exist in the present ter
ritory ofSouth Carolina before they
begin to inquire whether it, said State
has chosen any fit person to represent
it in Congress.
Revolutions never go backward. 1t
is equally true that Radicalism travels
Westward. Personal liberty bills, wo-
mems rights bills, and all such legisla-
ton, started from New England and
have "swung round the circle" This
last Yankee notion will soon begin its
travels, and complete them when North
and South know no race before the
law. Then, when a million of black
men aid in shaping our National poll
cy, their race will feel the effect the
world over. They will never leave.
their brethren in Cuba under the yoke.
They will throw a shield over the
struggling nationality of Hayti and
lift Brazil into harmony with thenine-
teenth century. Then will the touch
ing and sublime picture Maria Lowell
drew of Africa cease TO be true: ou
J 'Her great dark face no light,
From the sunset glow could take
Dark as the primal night "
Ere over the earth God spakc ~ .'
II seemed for her a dawn could never break
so sit / dreary, d~esolate,
Till the slow moving hand Of Fate. +fr
Shall lift me from my lunken state"
The dawn has broken, and will soon
ripen into perfect day. /,
Even this timed Both Congress.
which abdicated leadership and post
poned action till they were Certain
sure" what the elections. would be, can
now resume their places. Let them go
back and, throwing this chaff Of Re-
construction out of one window and
swindling amendments out of tho 9th
er, impeach and remove the mobocrat
of New Orleans and Baltimore; the
demagogue who, but for the marvellous
courage, rare sagacity and statesman
ship of Judge Bond, wouldThave delu-
ged Baltimore with blood. We have
no words warm and strong enough fifty
to express our admiration for Judge
Bond, or our sense of what the country
owes him for this victory over Execu.
tive treason. L'a. =.
If enough patriots cannot be found
to impeach the President, then let the
true men of Congress stop the supplies
refuse to trust rebels with the public
funds. This will check corruption anC
bring the public creditor with Bit largc
influence to our side. At any cost, taxi
the Government from the control Of
, rebel. WENDELL PHILLIPS.