The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-11
TIE Late Inpertant Eieciioas.Ths Presidest
and Congress.

o AoSuAS Va VIC iatS eieCtlouS are positively
sublime. They reaffirm the high intelligence
which pervades the Northern States and their
immovable purpose to re-establish the Union
on solid foundation. They demonstrate the
correctness of our estimates of the moral signi-
fcancy and pressure of the Maine election Of
September and the inevitable solution Of the
vital question of reconstruction. They reveal
prevailing intensity Of feeling in the North
ern public mind which is without precedent
in our State elections not connected with q
Presidential contest. Heretofore for three
years after Presidential vote the popular
turnout at our State elections has fallen largely
behind it. Half way between one Presidential
campaign and another our political excite
ments have been ut dead low water, and our
State elections, upon . skeleton vote, have
gone by default But here the order Of the
tides is reversed, and at the usual season of
the lowest ebb the swelling sea rolls in and
rises beyond high water mark. Philadelphia,
for instance, polled on Tuesday last popular
vote exceeding the last and highest Presiden-
tial vote Of this metropolis. Such startling
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people which by men in power and by dis
turbing outside political factions cannot be
lightly contemplated.
Encouraged by the moral and material sup
port of the. administration, and by the hope
Of decisive accessions from the rank and file
Of the republican camp, the democrats in these
elections have displayed remarkable degree
of vitality and strength. But it is only the last
faring and Pickering of the expiring candle, to
be followed by darkness, smoke and bad
odor. The democratic Chicago peace party of
the war cannot be galvanized into life again.
The experiment has been thoroughly tried and
has utterly failed. The strength which it has
exhibited in these October elections was spas
modic and galvanic and with the removal Of
the battery the remains may be buried in the
graveyard of parties dead and gone. From
this fruitless experiment of galvanism Presi-
dent johnson is invited to turn his energies
in another direction. Or, to change the figure,
his new wine of restoration has broken the
old bottles OF the Chicago democracy, and they
are done for. What is no now to do? What
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mighty North and fall in with the consttu-
tional amendment of Congress? There is no
limit to his power for good in this direction,
and, as he stands, there is On end to all hopes
from further resistance. He has made his
appeal, he has his verdict; and we are sure
that as man Of the people he will act
accordingly.
In the results Of these October elections we
thus read the verdict of all the Northern
States on the case of the President versus
Congress- We demand the policy Of Congress.
We must have our securities for the future in
the constitution as the conditions of South
ern restoration-security touching the equality
before the law Of all citizens in their civil
rights-security in regard to suffrage and re-
resentation-security for the payment Of the
national debt and against any future recogni-
ton Of the debt Of the rebe lion or Of any
claims for cmancipated slaves; and We ap-
prove the security proposed in the constitu-
tional amendment against the return to politi-
cal power OF any of the traitorous and
revolutionary political contrivers and managers
of the late rebellion. These securities arc tho
ultimatum of the North, and it is the only
policy of wisdom and safety on the part of the
President and the South TO adopt them.
The "Union as It was" with parties as they
might as we'll talk Of the restoration of the
Bourbons as they were in France before her
reign of terror, or OF Pompeii and Hercula-
noun as they were, people and all, before the
fiery eruption in which they were buried. No,
The dead must await the trumpet Of Gabriel
We have had . terrible civil war--a ire
mcndous revolution-a fiery deluge, and many
things that were exist no more. The victorious
party Of the war has decreed reconstruction
OF the Union on new constitutional guaran-
tees, involving the expulsion from the new
sanctuary Of those treacherous Southern
teachers and impostors that dedled and brought
down fire and ruin upon the old one. They
are 10 be excluded, and the Southern States
are to have a new lease Of life and prosperity,
under new leaders, new ideals and new
party organizations. So in the North the cop
perhead peace democracy of the war are dead,
and win soon be buried, as political party
or as political leaders, and the only really
disturbing faction that will remain will be the
Jacobn faction OF Northern radicals. Their
turn. however, will be next in order.
First OF all, the duty now devolves upon
President johnson Of preparing the
Southern States for their manifest des
Tiny and OF preparing such mes
sage for Congress- in December as will bring
him at once into "a happy accord " with the
conservative republican majority Of the two
houses, which. rejecting all the extreme mca-
sures OF the radicals, adopted the fair and
reasonable conditions of the constitutional
amendment With harmony tins restored
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