The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-04
Our State Eiectien-The Great Issue ans
the Prospect.

The Empire State speaks tomorrow on Tue
great political issue Of universal negro SUI
frage. and her verdict will be apt to determine
the party platform and the candidates on BON
sides for the Presidential succession. we are
aware that elections will also be held to-mor-
row 10 New Jersey, Massachusetts,, Delaware,
MARYLAND, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mis-
souri, and Nevada, and we expect that In most,
ifnot all, of these States there will be terrible
shaking up ofIhe dry bones Of radical SIN; but
the eyes of the politicians and of the whole
country are fixed upon New York, under the
general impression that the vote Of this power
ful State in his contest will give the winning
side the inside track for the four-mile sweep
stakes Of the Presidency
II is also the general belief that New York
will be lost to the republicans from the popu-
lar reaction against the excuses Of radicalism
which commenced in the Connecticut spring
election, which has since been made manifest
In California, and even in Maine, to some ex-
tent, and which, passing lightly over Pennsyl-
vania, rolled with the perturbatons OF an
earthquake over the radical State of Ohio,
hitherto deemed perfectly safe for tho widest
notions of radical fanaticism. In Pennsylvania
the republicans came within few hundred
votes of carrying their State ticket, because OF
their adroit evasion of the question of universal
negro suffrage; while in. Ohio, In making this
suffrage proposition direct test in the election,
1t was swamped by an adverse majority of fifty
thousand, including thousands Of otherwise
stringent republicans. In New York the radi-
cal managers Of our Constitutional State Con-
vention snuffed the battle and the danger afar
of, and postponed the issue as State consttu-
tional amendment to more convenient season;
but still the general proposition is the main
issue upon which the New York republican
State ticket will be elected or rejected.
The fearful warning from Ohio has made
the New York radica! managers still more
cautious than before in their agitation of this
thing of manhood suffrage" and very active
in diverting public attention to what they call
the reputation schemes of the democrac but
still this main issue Of universal negro sui
frage looms up into bold relief. Upon this
question, from all the indications of the can
vass, there will be an unusually heavy demo-
cratic vote cast throughout the State, begin
or moro in this city. Ii is also believed that
the democratic State ticket against this negro
suffrage idea will receive considerable rem
forcements from the conservative republicans.
But the radicals, including all the capitalists,
banks, financiers, bondholders, &C., in the in
terest of Mr.. Chase and his financial system,
are moving heaven and earth to hold their
ground and to secure the control of the Ma
tional Republican Convention by victory in
the decisive State of New York. They are
keenly alive 10 the danger of the dropping Of
Mr.. Chase by general consent, should New
York pronounce against him and his ultima
tum of universal negro suffrage, after the s.
we're rebuff he has suffered in his own State Of
Ohio.
But Mr.. Chase and his followers have not
only the vote Of Ohio against them as an index
of the public sentiment Of the North on this
test of universal negro suffrage; they have,
also, the ugly developments Of the late South
ern reconstruction elections staring them in
the face. From these elections we see that
gress the ten outside rebel States, from Vir-
giuia to Texas inclusive, will be reinstated in
the general government as negro States, though
only three OF them (South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana) have a majority of blacks in
their population. Thus reorganized and re
stored, the ignorant blacks Of these ten South
ern States will hold that balance OF power
over Congress and our Presidential elections
which was held by their white masters down
to 1860, and which they then forever lost by
drifting into their ruinous rebellion.
Is this to be thu settlement of our late costly
and bloody war for the Unon-a Southern con-
trolling negro balance OF power in exchange
for the late white slavcholding Southern oligar-.
chys This question, We expect, will be an
swered by New York tomorrow in voice
which will not only be understood by Mr..
Chase and his radical managers, but which
will be heard to some purpose even in the
present Congress-