Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-11-09

Republicans have carried St Louis +
county and city by about 3 600 majority. /
Frank Blair's majority Is only SIX and .
his election will be contested. Hogan, .
Neweomb, Gravelly. Loan and Mcneil,
all thorough Radicals, are believed to
be elected to Congress
In Minnesota the Republican ma
jority is 5000 and both the Radical
candidates are elected to Congress by
large majorities.
Kansas elects the Radical ticket by
at least 10000 majority.
From Tennessee We also have good
news. In the recent elections of
members Of the Legislature to ill va
cancies. made by the expulsion of
johnson bolters last spring the Re-
publieans have achieved unexpected
and glorious triumphs. They have
carried Hamilton county, including
Chattanooga, for the first time, elect
ing their candidate, Mr.. Anderson by
about 200 majority. Carter county has
elected a stauach Union man instead
of Williams, a miserable Copperhead
who Joined in the conspiracy to break
up the Legislature. Even in Sumner
county, the tramping- ground Of guer-
rilIa Harper, a Radical Senator Las
been elected.
Nevada has Of course not yet been
heard from, but has no doubt given a
good account of herself. Copperhead-
ism does not thrive among the free
mountains of that gallant young State.
A FL. STEPHENS, notorious as Vice
President of the Stakeholder Confed-
eracy, denies that he Is in favor of the
Constitutional Amendment, and thinks
the Legislature Of Georgia ought to
reject it. Ex-ProvisionaI Governor
Perry. of South Carolina has also
come ont in a long letter against the
adoption Of the amendment. He says
'the South may be ruined but cannot
/ be dishonored." So these rebels who
have committed the most nefariOus
and diabolical treason ever known
cannot be "dishouoredt' IF that it is
so it must be because they have sunk
SO low in the. depths of crime that dis
/ honor cannot reach them. The high
toned Southern traitors have a nice
/ sense of honor indeed Deserving the
gallows and a yard-arm they feel a
great humiliation in being refused the
honor of being our Congressman and
Judges. Whipped as never any set ot
men were whipped before, and made
powerless in the grasp of our victori
Gus armies, they now, forsooth, clad il
the borrowed brass of Northern Cop
perheads, presume to spurn the milo
| and reasonable terms offered them
| Very we'll, gentlemen, do as you please
Reject the amendment and save you
honor" but be assured that if yor
anticipate gaining by such a course
/ easier terms of restoration from tht
| Northern people you viii find your
selves egregiously mistaken. Th'
/ time has passed when you can bully tht
| loyal States into concessions, and you
bravado can only fix more firmly tina
determination of the people just mani
tested at the polls. The North is ad
Yaneing thrice as fast IN power anC
wealth as the South and the possibili
/ ties of successful rebellion are ever
day becoming more limited. The cos
of disloyal contumacy which refuses
to unite with us in the march of prog
ress under the Union Is tremendous
and its objects are utterly impractic
able. In a few years it will infict up
on these guilty sticklers for honor tht
humiliation of being mere dependents
upon powerful and opulent States
whose immensely preponderating po-
litical and physical strength will sWeeI
before it all restraint or opposition.
Northern Democrats are encourag-
ing the Southern people to suicidal
course now just as they did in 1860
Then they assured them that coercion
was impossible and that there were val
/ id reasons for secession. Encouraged
by this they took up arms and Waged &
/ desperate war the fruits of which were
only untold misery and devastatation
Now these false friends are persuadine
them to a similar course which if per
sisted in will be certain to bring like
results. But for the Democratic party
the war against the Uuion nevel
would have been waged. and but fol
that same party the South would &C
cept restoration On the basis of tht
Amendment without demurrer. Blu
| by the sympathy of Democrats, rebel
grow insolent and the work of recon
struction is delayed. Upon thei
hands then be the consequences.
John Morrissey the New York gam
bier and prize fighter, is member o
Democratic Executive Committet