Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-10-24
Senatorial Election.
The following is the official vote
Tor Senator in this District, to- wit
The Election and It's Lesson.

"E. D. NJ" of the Cincinnati
Gazette. one of the most sagacious
political writers in the State, has an
article in late number of that sheet,
on the "Politlcs of the day-Signs Of
the Times" which is so practical
and appropriate to the past and
future OF the great Union party, that
we reproduce portions of it. He
commences by saying:
Fhe Republican party has met with
a check which, if well used, will Sc:
cure them in power, and if not, will
be fatal to all success. This is the
sleepy and careless year, in which
success on either side is not very i'm
portant; but next year (1S6S) is the
one which must settle the politics of
the country for long period. No
experienced politician is in the least
doubt as to the cause of the falling
off in Ohio; and 1t is not. therefore,
by way of excuse (for there is no ex.
cuse, J but of instruction for future
benefit, that we shall comment little
on the state of affairs, both in Ohio
and in the country.
To tnose who are discouraged by
the late reverse, he says:
Before we proceed, however, let
us say, for those whom little check
discourages, that in 1862 the whole
Democratic State ticket was elected
by 5000 majority, and fourteen out of
nineteen Congressman elected! Not
withstanding, the Democratic ticket
was beaten, in 1868, by 100000 ma
jority. Now we have not done half
as bad as in 1862, and, if there is
any prudence or good sense left in
the Republican party, we shall carry
the Presidential ticket, in 1868, by
nearly as large majority as in 1868.
The following sound advice in re-
gard to impracticable issues is
worthy of attention:
Will good, Jealous, earnest men
ever learn that they cannot turn the
current of human nature by law and
logicp Will they ever learn still
greater truth, that there are many
things which ought not to be turned
by law and logic? Many things on
which the people have right to con-
suit their interests and their preju-
dices2 We never saw the particular
advantage of running our heads
against stone wall in order to test
the existence Of matter. We know
it beforehand.
The cause of our disaster, and the
lesson it teaches, are very pointedly
set forth in the following extract
We may remark, in this connection,
that, so far as our observation ex-
tends, it was solely the negro suf
frage clause of the amendment, that
worked the disaster to our ticket,
and not the clauses relating to de-
serters and those who had fought in
the rebel army. These latter clauses,
Invested of the former, in our coun-
ty at least, would have carried by
the full Union vote. But to the ex-
tract:
Many of the Republicans were dis
affected, and all disorganized. Why?
For two reasons mainly. Because,
frst, of negro sufrage-pressed up |
on them in the most impolitic and
obnoxious form. Had the question |
ofnegro suffrage been put to the |
people of Ohio, as it should have
been, as distinct question, it would /
have been voted down, but it would |
in no way have affected the Republi-
can party. But it was put with two
which were positively
wrong and sbsurd. First, it was at
tached to a condition that deserters
should be disfranchised. Most of
these deserters we're not deserters in
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