Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-10
COLUMBUS, OHIO, SATURDAY MORNING.
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What of the EutuFe?


. Instead of crying over split milk, it is
better to make fair estimate of the result
of the late electi6iisi Statistical infOrma-
tion for those whoare curious respecting
local details, will be found in our news
columns, 1t Is of no consequence to sep
arate New York from other States, or the
elections on Tuesday from those held earlier
in the season. These elections have all
turned OH national questions. Their whole
significance consists in their bearing on ma
tional politics. ,oIt is only in their broad
national consequences, that Is to say, in
their joint effect, thnI they have any public.
interest When a great battle has been
fought with a decisive result, the details of
The lightipg along separate parts of the
line cease t. be OF any value except to the
annaist. How the result wi | affect future
optrationss is the only question which has
a living iDteres,, rr s.rfrus. -.E ....s .,7s. p
Though it was a great pitched battle,
fought Strenuous y on both sides, this years
contest has been, In the estimation of the
Republicans, merely preliminary to the
Presidential contest, Their pretense that
it is important to keep the South out of
Congress in any other view, is ridiculous.
Nobody is noodle enough to suppose that
the forty OF fifty excluded members could
be dangerous, in the presence OF the two
hundred members from other States who
could outyOte them, four to one, on every
question. The talk about security for the
future" has been mere electioneering
preteuse. The North grows much more
rapidly than the South. The new States
to come in are all offshoOts of North
ern communities. The Northern pre-
ponderance in Congress, already so
Overwhelming will become constantly
greater, In a country governed by Con-
gress, amajority of four to one, growing
into a majority of five to one, six to one,
and i'm time, ten or twenty to one, there
could be no chimera to frighten fools more
absurd than the pretense that the sec
ton possessing this growing preponder-
ance needs any other security against the
passage of distateful laws. 1t was solely
in view Of this. prepOnderance that the
South seeded. There was, at the time,
against the Republicans, a majority of both
Houses of Congress, and q majority of the
Supreme Court. Tney could have thwart-
ed Mr. Lincoln in every stage of his adj
ministration. But they saw that this adj
vantage was transient. When the North
ha become powerful enough to elect
President against the unanimous South, it
had become powerful enough to cOntol
every branch Of the Government. II was
a mere question of disposition and of time.
The South, therefore, deliberately decided
to relinquish a temporary advantage and
bring on the contest before the growing
disparity between the two sections should
render success utterly hopeless. The re-
suit proved that they had waited too long.
The North was already an overmatch for
them. The war exhausted and prOstrated
the South, but the North has continued to
grow. The same n asOns which precipi-
-, In
forever preclude a renewal of the attempt.
They were relatively tar stronger than
they could ever hope 10 be again. 1t is as,
if two growing boys, one feeble, the
other robust should fight till the first one
was crippled and stunted, and then the
greater and still growing 0He should dread
Che cripple and wish him put in, irons as a
security for the future"
It is evident that the North has moth
ing further to fear from the South, either
ina POLITICAL or military sense. The re-
cent elections have been carried by the
Republicans on false pi etenses. The con-
test. on their partr h. been, a sdeeeibful
maneuver preliminary to the Presidential
election! They have gained by it the great
advaptage of deciding, according TO- their
pleasure, whether the Southern electoral
votes Shall be counted. THEY are under no
the election has taken place. If it shall
then appear that the Republicans have such
a preponderance that the Southern votes
will make no difference, they may perhaps
affect to be liberal and count them. But if
their exclusion shall be needed to elect the,
Republican candidates, they will be re-
niOrselessly excluded. The form of doing
it will be copied from the precedent of 1866,
when, a short time before the votes were
counted, Congress passed j0int resolution
declaring that the votes from certain emu
merated States shouldnot be opened by the
|, President oil the Senate. If we had sue
ceededin electing one-third of the House,
this scheme, could have been frustrated by
the vote. AS it is, there is no barrier against
it, Certain it is that Southern members
will not meanwhile be admitted to deprive
the dominant party OF it's two-thirds ma
jority. .ru ad ll.v gai-..-, AIS .a,-y.r...s =,
only by excluding tie Southern electoral
votes, a very grave question will arise. 1t
would be an abuse OF power admittingionly
of revolutionary rt tmedy-a medicine that
might prove more f. tai tnan the disease.
These unfortunate elections deprive
President johnson of what ought to have
been the chief glory of his ADMINISTRATION
the paciicatiOn of the country alter the
late bloody contest. 1t is idle to ask
whether by greater promptitude in break
ingrwith the Radicals, he might not have
averted this modification. lie must now
take the situation as he finds it, and make
the best Of it. Powerless, during the resi-
due of his term, In all contested questions
OF domestic politics, his only chance OF ac7
quiring prestige is 10, connection with our
foreign relations. Tdese are less subjectto
A. Nff IL baa 10
understood to be taking to resuscitate and
maintain the Monroe doctrine, will be
warmly approved by the country. 1t
would be futile for HIM to contend longer
with the Radicals in respect to the South,
and he will best consult the dignity of his
'iofl|ee by letting his action cease with his
responsibility. Against Congress there
was no appeal but to the people, and the
passions OF the war have notyet sufficient
iy-subsided to permit them to judge with
candor. The ratification OF, the amendment
is not a question for him, but for the States.
He NAV hereafter stand aloof from that
subject without any loss of dignity or of
consistency Ag inst the uneops psltutional
exclusion of the southern States from Con-,
gress it was his duty to remonstrate; but
having appealed to the people'in vain, why
should he sharpen acrimony byfurther op-
nOsitione The elections, by virtually sde7r
priymg him of his veto, have relieved him
from all responsibility for the action OF
Congress. While, therefore, he holds fast
his ofIlfepeated views, he will serve no
good purpose by an animated and aggres7
sive presentation of them.d Candid CO.
operation with Congress on neutral ques-
tions, and a dignifed abstinence from pushs
inc a controversy inwhich hlheiGpowerless,
ia the course which President johnson will
dl,,,htlass think IL wise TO ACODt. 60