Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
The Revolution in tie North.

From some of the most prominent of the
Journals of the North, we present few brief
extracts, to show the Importance attached to
the revolution now in progress in that Sec
tom
The New York Tribune (Republican) ac-
knowiedges that the supremacy Of the repub-
Iican party has been due to series OF acci.
dents. and comedies It's downfall unless some.
thing be done now to commend 1t alresh to
the people. 1t lays down the following as
necessary:
81. Complete promptly the reconstruction
of the Southern States basis of blended
Justice and maguanimi,y: ,. Systematically
educate aud eniighteu the people. The ne
cessity and urgency Of closing up the work
of reconstruction on the broad aud safe ba>
sis OF universal amnesty with impartial suf-
frdge is now 80 clear that we will not dwell
upon it. Events are more coGeut than argu-
mentS."
The Commercial A''rerfiser, (Republicau)
edited by Thurlow Weed, says:
The question involved, and the issue pre-.
sented in Ohio. was open, clear, and pro-
uOUnced. / he question was negro suprena-
cy (nut e,Iuali,v) IN States subject to militia
ry rule. The question was
squarely submitted to the people, aud is.'over-
whelminsIy beaten This result, like that
on the same question in Connecticut, was not
half So much that the people were opposed to
colored suffrage at home, as that they indig-
nantiy demouucc the Radical scheme Of fore
ing it. arbitrarily, upon States whose freed
men. Just released from bondage. are untitled
for the exercise of u high PreroEative.
Before auI during the rebellion every Re-
publican statesman aud journal ithe Tribune
cxceptcd) maintained that States could not
get out OF the Union. 1t cost half million
of dollars to establish that doctrine. But
when it was established, the same Republican
leaders and journals, in qualification Of all
they had pruteSsed, insisted that States were
ont Of the Union. UUion representatives
from some of those States were refused seats
IL Congress. They are yet out of the Union.
Ii was intended, first, to keep ten States out
of the Union until a Radical President could
be elected in 1868. But the muddle be
tween Congress and the President occasioncd
the military reconstruction act under which
they expect to bring those States back under
negro supremacy. Aud this is precisely the
question on which, after full argument, Ohio
has rendered a verdict which ends Chief US
tice Cha~e's aspirations for the Presidency,
and terminates Ben. Wadc's Senatorial career
The New York Times CRepuLIican) says
of these clec;ious:
They simply show reaction against the
extreme acts and measures Of the Repubii-
can party aud convey an admonitou to the
leaders of that party which will be sautary
it it shall be needed.
The leadership Of the Republican party
has grown arrogant and reckless. In the
adoption of measures aud the treatment OF
men it has been alike Incorporate aud relcnt-
less. The most extreme theories OF the wild>
est and most impracucuble thenrizcrs have
been forced upon the party as the basis OF its
creed.
The Republican party is admOnished by
the State collections that have just occurred,
that they must reform their action in these
respects.
The Journal IF Commerce (Demoeratic)
says:
The strong point which it establishes is
that the mass of honest people, who are not
bound in party chains. are sick of radicaIism
in politics, aud III favor of the Constitution
law aud order. aud an early restoration ofthe
Union. fraternity aud prosperity throughout
the country
The New York WorId. (Dcmocratic) says
that New York. like Pennsylvania and OHIO
will send up her indignant protest, in Mo-
vcmber, against the proceedings aud policy
of the party in power, and adds:
For our part, we have no doubt that the
great Democratic gains made aud to be made,
this fall, will change the whole face of ma
tioual politics.
The moral effect of great Democratic gains
will Paralyze Congress. Seeing that their
scheme must eventually mscarry. they will
have no heart to persist in it. And in the
last place, as soon as the prestige of over
pnweriug strength in the Republican party is
broken. its dccadcnce will be so rapid. and
the popular demand to have the Union re-
stored 50 emphatic, that the Republican 'ead-
crs cannot resist it. Great majuritics in
Congress amount to little, when great ma.
jori'ieS of the people are Of contrary way
Of thinking.