Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-08
say- Now that the Northern election

I0y Now that the Northern elections
are going, and have gone like whlrl'
wind Democratic and Conservative, and
we have so much reason to believe a
firm determination exists on the part OF
those who have the power to give redress,
and return the country to q condition OF
prosperity, which will be accomplished
the moment the Constitution is obeyed,
it becomes matter of inquiry and great
interest to know the precise reasons
which governed the public mind in bring
ing about the change of sentiment which
is thus made apparent We may form
our own conclusions as to what is right,
and what, should be done to conserve the
interests of the country. But being
powerless to control results, it is satisfac-
tory to see that the very views which
patriots have urged in this quarter are
also controlling the minds of orr North
ern friends. The day is now not remote
when prices of property will look
up, and business begin TO flourish
again. What the North wills it will
do. And as showing better what
that purpose is than anything
which we can say in this quarter,
we subjoin the following remarks of the
New York Herald: THE Northern
pocket has been touched. Three years
Republican rule has been disastrous at
home as we'll as to the South. Local
causes have not been without their in.
fluence. But the great controlling and
overshadowing influence is in the Wash
ington legislation, and unprincipled cor
ruption, Encouragement, waste and
peculation which comes home to the
business and bosoms of the whole people,
affecting the prices of bread and meat,
aud promising no good future to any
section The reconstructed Southern
despotisms win not live year. The
Herald of the 4th thus speaks the mind
of New York on the day before the cleo
ton, which has been. shown in the re-
suit
1t is an arrogant pharisaism which,
while though corrupt, proclaims itself so
much better than everybody else as to be
entitled to direct their conduct. We
witness the strange spectacle of party
of great moral ideas with one hand
clenching the throat of the South, and
the other deep in the pockets of the
North, dickting to the one what it shall
think, TO the other what it shall drink,
and transforming the government of
free country into an oppressive tyranny
which tolerates no difference Of opinion
in politics, or OF practice in morals.
The people are Begging to detest these
arrogant pretensions as well as to com
plain OF war prices Of food and raiment
continued without prospect Of cessation
in the third year Of peace. They are
indignant that the Union is still dis
severed in the third year after the trium-
plant success Of our arms, and after
every rebel has submissively laid down
his weapons and returned to his home.
And what is the excuse offered for the
lamentable policy Of obstruction and
. evaporation which keeps the country
unsettled, business uncertain, commerce
broken, industry paralyzed, prices high, /
and The people murmuring and poor
The pretense is that this posiponement
Of tranquility, this continuance OF
heavy burdens, is necessary TO protect
the Southern negroes and secure 10 them
their rights But the negroes are free.
They are neither slaves nor serfs bound
10 the soil A ride Of from one hour 10