The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-18
The Result OF the Recent EIec,ion

The Boston Journal submits the followin,
observations on the result of the late cleo
tons:
:'What principle, what measure, then. ;o :.
that has triumphed in the recent elections
and is going to triumph throughout? Let no
say it candidly in the moment of yictorr
1T is the Constitutional Amendment-aotI;no
else, certainly nothing different from that :"
Prominent individuals have talked abort
the impeachment of the President and abo't
the insufficiency of the Amendments bUt
these things have not gone into the Canvass
and they are not comprehended in the result
What do the people care about impeacb
ment2 If they have power enough in Con.
gress to effect that, they have power enourb
by their two-thirds vote to achieve all tbon
wish, over and despite the President RI
sides, they had rather establish one oood
principle at the South-we were gojnG ~
say, raise to the full rights of citizenship ono
freedman-than to depose dozen Presidents
Still, the future in its now unseen exipencioa
may require such measure; and so it NAV
require that the Constitutional Amendment
shall be superseded by some fiat of impartial
suffrage; but for the present, the people obide
By the amendment. VIII the President. ,,jH
the Southern States heed their coices TAot 10
the question. If they do, then the uholet rOnIIS
IS OUer. The peace, acltich the loyal masses no
deeply as any long for, aoiU he established, and
the Union aoiH be restored. But if they are
defiant of the popular will-if the Southern
States reject this most moderate and benefc.
lent measure and the President uses his DOW
er to encourage them in so doing-then new
issues must succeed, and it wants no second
thought to see that Freedom must have in
terest, if not penalties, for the time she has
lost"
The Springfield Republican, one ofthe most
moderate and influential journals in the coun-
try, says:
''Now that the struggle of parties is sub
| stantially over for the season, and il is SET
tied that the Republican ascendency in Con
gress is not 20 be broken, the unhealthy ex
citement that has prevailed for several
months will subside Respectable men will
no longer hurry about the country in a state
of desperate perturbation, calling each other
vlllainous names and threatening war, pesti-
lence and famine if their particular princi-
pies and candidates are not accepted by the
people. The flaming speeches of the stump
ers will seem very absurd month hence, and
the watchwords will lose what little mean
ing they ever had. Public questions will
once more be coolly and reasonably discussed
and public men will lose the temporary dis
tinction heated canvass has given them,
and speedily find their proper level. We
shall hear no more about coup d. etat bv
the President, and the Congressional i'm
parchment of the President, and the talk of
renewing the war against a disarmed and
starving South will be dropped. In fact ace
shall h0ce period Of sober sense, and schen
Congress meets again 1t acilE be to iaaugurate
moderate and reasonable policy, such acW
satisfy the 9chOle country
The Southern people have been alarmed at
the violence of the party contest in the North
and some of them really fear that they shall
be harshly dealt with by the victorious Re-
publicans. They may dismiss their fearS-
Conscious strength brings out generosity from
all Int norroao and ignoble minds. Besides,
the Republicans are aware that they have
won only because their own mistakes were
exceeded by those of their opponents, and
hencetorth they will shape their policy so as
to create a Republican Party in the South
The Southern people have but a single con-
cession to make-the adoption Of tile Con-
stitutiO1aaI amendment and they 1oiU COM
pletely silence the feao Northern men aohO are
seeking to keep aliUe the old amnesty. This
is what the people have said to them in the
recent elections They will do well to under
stand it, and to accept the offer in the spirit
in which it is made.''
The New York Times, edited by Henry J.
Raymond, gives the following advice to the
Southern States. Mr.. Raymond was the
great leader in the Philadelphia Convention,
of which Messrs. Graham, Ashe, Barringer,
Howard, and others of this State, were men,
bers. Mr.. Raymond Is known as the nation
al leader of the Worth men of this State
He is the author of the Resolutions and Adj
dress of the Philadelphia Convention, so
warmly endorsed by the Worth men of this
State. MIR. Raymond, who voted in Con-
yress for the Howard amendment, now says:
Nor will it be wise for the South to leave
out of view the probable consequences of re-
fusing to accept the Amendment as the ba-
sis of restoration. They cannot doubt that
the effect of refusal will be to strengthen the
Radical sentiment which already demands
more extreme coalitions and threatens the
most ultra and destructives measures. That
sentiment is not yet dominant in the Union
Party, nor will it become so unless it is streng-
thened again, as it has been hitherto,
by unwise action on the part of the President
and the Southern States. At almost any
time during the last session of Congress it
might have been disarmed and Overborne if
the resistance to the Union party on the part
of the President had been less indiseriminate
and more .judiclous and even as it was, it
failed to carry any of its extreme and violent
measures. If the President and the Southern
States will..accept the popular decision just
pronounced as entitled to respect, and afford,
by judicious and considerable action, basis
for the more moderate and discreet portion of
the Union party to act upon, we are confident
hat all our difficulties may yet be overcome.
The people are not rcvengeful nor irrational
n their temper or their views They do not
eek or desire the degradation of the South,
ior do they endorse or approve the wild vag-
Iries and crazy schemes of Butler, Stevens,
md their confederates. But they believe the
constitutional Amendment to be essentially
ust, and its adoption necessary to the peace
md safety of the nation. Hostility and bit
er resistance may drive them into more ex-
RENE positions, and thus strengthen the fac
ion from which the country at lage, and es-
'ecially the South, has the most to fear and
t cannot possibly change or improve the &C
ion of Congress for at least three years to
ONE"
FEARFUL FALL OF A TIGHT-RoPE DAN
ER.-Jephtha NJ. Gorham, at Corunna,