The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-31

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Tsae Elections and the Division OF
Parties il, the North.
Attention is directed to the article
below, copied from that ably con-
Quoted po,-cical journal, the Phila-
delphia Age The facts so clearly
presented by the writer, confirm the
belief that upon the re-opening of
Congress, the radicals will modify
their programme, and that no mea-
sure proposing an impeachment Of
the President will be introduced.
The roaring of Beast Butler, the
asthmatic imprecations Of Brownlow
and the dyspeptic dilations and pre-.
figuring of Wendell Phillips, are not
to be regarded as anything but the
biased views of those who give them
utterance. They do not represent
the solid men of the Republican
party; and these latter have sense
enough to know that impeachment OF
the President means war-civil war
neighborhood war-rot war, like the
last, between the North and South.
but war in the free North-a war
that would at once destroJ the ma
tional credit and pple the Govern
ment into ruins. The following is
the article Of the Age:
The result of the recent elections in
several of the Northern States, when
carefully considered, is not of IL cha
racter to afford the most intense plea
sure to the Butler-Forney "Torch-
and Turpentine'' section of the
radicals. In revolutionary times,
something depends upon how near
the parties are equally divided. We
doubt if even Cromwell would have
begun his war upon prerogative in
England, if he could have polled the
nation and found that the gap be-
tween Roundhcads and Cavaliers
would be filed by few thousand
men. And this lesson, when pressed
upon the leaders of the impeachment
cabal, and reinforced by facts and
figures drawn from the contests inst
ended in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and Iowa, may have some effect
upon their fears, if not upon their
consciences
It is true that the radicals have car
ried all the States named on the popu-
lar vote. In this State they have
made a trifiing gain in the Congress
sional delegation. But the ratio of
their strength in the Congressional
delegation is not measure on the
popular vote. The great fact is that
the Congressional Districts have been
most infamously Gerrymandered.
Radical Legislators have arranged them
with the single purpose of electing
members Of Congress against the Opt
Mons OF the majority. The minority
has been totally disregarded by cor
rupt men to serve their own political
purposes. Take the case of this
State. Gen. Geary is chosen Cover
nor by q majority of not more than
$4,000 votes in a poll Of 600, 1000
votes. Now, this ratio would give
the Democrats 1921 and the radi-
Gals 308,000 votes The difference,
when expressed in proportionatc
terms Of twenty-four, the number of
Congressman, would represent just
two-thirds of member. The radi-
Gals, therefore, would be entitled to
thirteen members ina airapportion
me Mt and distribution of the vote,
and the Democrats to eleven. But
the State is SO districted as to allow
the radicals to obtain seventeen Of
the members, leaving the Democrats
but seven. In Ohio, and Indiana,
and Iowa, the same plan of arranging
districts has produced similar results.
But the main fact stands out in bold
relief everywhere, that on the popu-
lar vote the radicals have lost heavily
in all the States in which elections
have taken place this fall.
Now, look at the division of the
people of the North by the light of
that revolutionary torch which the
radicals are holding up when they
threaten to depose and murder the
President, if he will not yield the
control of the Government into their
hands before the assembling of the
coming Congress. A majority Of six
teen or ten thousand in a poll of
more than half million of votes NAV
elect Governor, and when managed