Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-10-18

we copy DelOW y lew pllci cACi aoVo iionA
prominent Northern Journals to show how
,ortentors the revolution in Northern sentl-
nent is regarded by all parties.
The New York Tribune (Repub!ican) !
acknowledges that the supremacy of the Re
publican party has been due to series OF
accidents, and comedies its downfall unless
be done now to commend it afresh
to the people It lays down the following
as necessary:
ri. Complete promptly the reconstruction
of the Southern States on basis of blended
Justice and magnanimity 2. Systematically
educate and enlightcn the people. The ne
cessity and urgency Of closing up the work
of reconstruction on the broad and safe basis
of universal amnesty with impartial suffrage
is now so clear that we will not dwell upon.
it. Events are more cogent than argu-
ments."
The Commercial Advertiser, (Republlcan)
edited by Thurlow Weed, says:
The question involved, and the issue pre-
sented in Ohio, was open, clear, and pro
nounced The question was negro supre-
n:scy (not equallty) in States subject to mil
itary rule. x \ i The question
was squarely submitted to the people, and is
Overwhelmingly beaten" This result, like
that on the same question in Connecticut,
was not half SO much that the people We're
opposed to colored suffrage at home: as that
they indignantly denounce the Radical
scheme of forcing it, arbitrarily, upon States
whose freedmen, just released from bondage
are untitled for the exercise ola high prerog-
alive.
Before and during the rebellion every Re-
publican statesman and journal (the Tribune
excepted maintained that States could not
Get out of the Union. 1t cost half a million
Of lives and three thousand millions of dol
lars to establish that doctrine. But when 1t
was established, the same Republican leaders
and journals in qualification OF all tley had
protested, insisted that States were out Of
the Union. Union representatives from
some of those States were refused seats IN
Congress. They are yet out Of the Union
It was intended, first, to keep ten States out
of the Union until a Radical President could
be elected in 1868. But the middle between
Congress and the President occasioned the
military reconstruction act, under which
they expect to bring those States back under
negro supremacy. And this IS precisely the
question on achich, after fuNargun,ent, Ohio
has rendered uer(lict ,rhich ends Chaet
Justice Chase's aspirations for the Presiden-
] Rom Ey<,Io'o II
career.
The New York Times (Republican) says
of these elections
They simply show reaction against the
extreme acts and measures Of the llepubli-
can party and convey an admonition to the
leaders of that party which will be salutary
if it shall be needed x \
The leadership of the Republican party
has grown arrogant and reckless. In the
adoption of measures and the treatment OF
men it has been alike Incorporate and relent
less The most extreme theories Of th<
widest and most impracticable theorizers
have been forced upon the party as the basl
of its creed.
The Republican. party is admonished BY
the State elections that have just occurred
that they must reform their action in thes'
respects
The Journal Of Commerce Democratic
says:
The strong point which it establishes i
that the mass Of honest people, who are no
bound in party chains, are sick of radicalisn
in politics. and in favor Of the Constitution
law and order, and an early restoration Q
the Union, fraternity and prosperity through
out the country.
The New York World, Democratic) say
that New York, like Pennsylvania and Obi
will send up her indignant protest, in No
vember, against the proceedings and polio
of the party in power, and adds:
For our part, we have no doubt that til
great Democratic gains made, and to b
made, this foil, will change the whole fac
Of national politics.
The moral effect of great Democratic gain
will paralyze Congress. Seeing that the
scheme must eventually miscarry they Wi
have no heart to persist in it. And in tn
last place, as soon as the prestige of over
towering strength in the Republican part
is 1S:c , lis uecadencc wiz De 50 ranid, an
the popular demand to have the Union re
stored so emphatic, that the Republican lea
ders cannot resist it. Great majoritles i
Congress amount to little. when great ma
jorities Of the people are Of a contrary wa
Of thinking.
Gen. Grant presented in Cabinet meetin
on Tuesday last the finding in the case {
Col. Gilbert, for closing newspaper in Al
kansas and declaring that the Federal off
GERS were the masters Of the Southern PEG
pie. He was found guilty and sentenced t.
pay fine Of $1,000 and be reduced to tn
rank and pay Of Captain and placed at th
end of the list Of Captains in that District
(of whom fifty out-rank him now Th
Government approves this most just sentence
The order of Gen. Wilcox, forbidding tn
consolidation Of the Va, & Tennessee, South
side 4 Norfolk and Petersburg Railroads
under the Presidency of General Mahon