The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-05
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Radical ExuItatiOn at VIrginIa's Degra.
dalton.

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From ne ~ y. Herald
On the morning of the first day Of election
in Louisiana under the reconstruction laws,
we warned the radicals that the success of
their policy in the South would be more than
balanced by decisive defeats at the North. We
sold them that their shouts of exultation at
the degradation of white men would be re-
sponded to by the Great West in such Ian
guage as would Enthusiastically inform the
world whether our recent war was fought for
the preservation of the Union, or for the
aggrandizement of negroes and the enslave-
ment OF our own race. How we'll and fully
these warnings and prophesies have been real
lied, let the late elections tell. We had hoped
that the rebuke of Ohio and Pennsylvania
would have taught wisdom to the party in
power, and have influenced its organs to cease
insulting the intelligence of the whites in these
loyal States by claiming victories in the South
which were the necessary results of a most
vilanous fraud upon republican liberty, and
that II the farce was to be continued it would
be allowed to do so in silence.
1t seems, however, that the Republican
party is utterly doomed, and that nothing can
stay its approaching dissolution. The negro
organ in this city, unable to repress its joy at
the success of the recent disgusting spectacle
IN Virginia, came out in a double-leaded edl-
torial recently, in which the degradation
of the Old Diminion was made the subject
of undisguised pleasure and satisfaction. Do
the radical leaders think that the masses OF
the Republican party sympathize with them
Do they imagine how many of their old politi-
cal associates exclaimed, when the result was
announced, "God help the Old Common
wealth - Perhaps they do not. 1t may be
necessary that the votes of the State
of New York shall be counted to-mer-
row, before the fact of how positively they
have played into the hands of their opponents
becomes fully evident. But even as we warned
them before, so do we warn them again. Vir-
ginia, rebellious and defiant, excited our anger
and called forth punishment from u.s. but
Virginia, loyal and submissive, has our hear
tiest sympathies. In no manner and form do
the people of the North regard the recent cleo
tion in that State as a triumph of loyalty aud
defeat of treason. They see in it only the
degradation OF member of this Union, who,
from the establishment of our independence,
has been endeared to us by a thousand glo-
riOus associations. The disgusting spectacle
of negroes voting like so many mechanical
beings; the keeping of polls open day after
day, and night after night for the expressed
purpose of ensuring a radical success the
election to Office of such men as Hunnicutt and
his gang of negro Constitution Makers the
antagonlsm OF the two races as developed in
the solid manner in which they cast their
votes, and the rude and defiant conduct of the
blacks, excite our earnest fears and sympa-
thies-fears, because from all these things we
see another irrepressible conflict arising and
sympathies, because the defeated party is COM
posed solely of men of our own race and of
the intelligence and civilization of the State
What, then, must follow these radical ex-
ultations at Virginias degradation The
question is easily answered. Ohio and Penn
sylvania will be repeated; the people will come
to the rescue of the country. False to the avowed
principles on which it trumphed last fall, the
Republican party has forfeited the confidence
of the people and must be removed from
power. The era of fanatical doctrines 5and
UtOpian theories is coming to an end; and per
haps that it is nothing but poetic justice that
Virginia should give them the last blow.
Upon her soil was performed the tragedy
which placed the Republican party in power
and it locks very much as if the conclusion of
the farce of this week will be followed by the
dropping of the curtain upon all that remains
Of once powerful organization.