The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-21

Inc troop snip hmalaya Win the Slxtetn zine Tebi-
ment Of the British army is reported detained at Quar-
antns Island, near Quebec, with Asatic cholera on
board.
The Approaching Political Campaign, North
and West.
Our Cincinnati and Cleveland correspond
ence, published on Thursday; our correspond
ence from Pennsylvania, published few days
ago, as well as that which we are receiving daily
from other parts of the North and West, all
show that great and widespread reaction
has commenced against the dominant radical
party. The people, who gave the republicans
their votes and support, during the war and
since, did so for quite different object from
that which the party is now pursuing. That
party was placed in power, drst, to prosecute
the war for the Union to successful issue,
and, second, to harmonic and restore the
country, as it promised to do, upon the basis OF
tho constitutional amendment. When it went
beyond this and created a military despotism
over the South when it attempted TO subyers
the constitution, or rather to ignore it alto
gether, its leaders boldly declaring the country
in state of revolution, and when its object to
establish negro supremacy and negro balance
OF power became apparent, the people saw
they had been cheated. Had the members of
the present Congress, when candidates, gone
before. the people with such a revolutionary
programme, they would have been defeated.
They have played confidence game upon the
public, and, acting as the masters rather than
the servants of the people, have defed the SEN
timent of the country. This infamous conduct
has produced its fruit The public mind is be-
coming enlightened and a general reaction has
set in.
The radical press, though evidently much
alarmed, attempts to explain away the true
cause of the republican losses in Maine and
California; but that is a hopeless task. Every
one knows the cause is general that local
issues have had little to do with it, and that it
lies in the dissatisfaction of people generally
with the negro supremacy policy of the radi-
calls 1t is found, in fact in the common sense
and patriotism Of the mass of the people
revolving against the faithlessness and destruc-
tive measures Of Congress. But our CORE
spondence shows beyond doubt that an extra |
ordinary reaction is going on in all the great
Central States and in the West The general
issue as regards negro suffrage and negro
supremacy Is the same everywhere-the same
in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the other
States, and the same as entered into the cleo
tions in California and Maine. In these latter
States however, the contest was tame COM
pared with what it will be, from oil appear
ances, in the elections to come off during the |
next two months. There is another important |
question looming up prominently in the can
vass, particularly in Ohio and other parts of |
the West, and that is the financial question. |
This threatens to prove as disastrous to the |
radicals as their niger worshipping policy
The Chase radical policy for perpetuating
oligarchy and despotsm is viewed
with as much disfavor in the West, among all
parties, as negro supremacy. The mass Of the
republicans, as well as the democrats, are
bitterly opposed to the national bank mo-
nopoly, to contraction Of the currency, to the
bondholders being exempt from taxation, and
to all the other measures Of Chase, Jay Cooke,
McCulloch and their friends in favor of
oligarchy. The industrious classes
the farmers, laborers, mechanics and trades
men-see ruin staring them in the face if
this wretched financial system be perpetuated.
They see that an enormous debt will be fast
ened upon them, their labor taxed beyond for
bearance, their means Of paying their taxes and
debts greatly reduced, and the prospect Of
universal bankruptcy and oil to favor the
national bank monopoly, the bondholders and
capitalists. Looking at the rapid growth Of
public opinion in opposition to the radical
financial policy. there is reason to believe the
party will be defeated in the West on this issue
alone. The whole tenor Of our correspondence
indicates such a result
But the main question occupying the public
mind at present is that Of negro suffrage and a
negro balance of power in the republic. The
prospect of the whole South being governed
by the ignorant and uncivlized negroes of
these benghted blacks holding the balance of
political power in the republic, of taking their
seats in Congress-. and Of dominating over the
people Of our own superior race, with the de-
graduation and ruin that must folow-these are
the thoughts so repulsive TO the mass Of the |
Northern people. It is this fearful prospect
brought before US by radical rule. that has
created revulsion in the public mind, and
that will surely overwhelm the party that has
brought the country to such deplorable con-
diton. The great reactionary movement OF
the day is not one in favor OF the democratic
party, and least Of all in favor Of the copper
head faction. The questions at issue are new I;
old party dogmas and platforms have become
obsolete. The masses Of the people which
have voted on both sides are now coming
together as the great constitutional party. They
are Disguised with the disorganizing and revo-
lutionary conduct Of the radicals, and with the |
attempt to Africanize the republic by |