The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-14
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yrn. ohio EIectiOn-A ReoOmstruotiOn n of
the Republican Party.
From the ~ Y. Herald
The trials of our late stupendous CIVIL war
have lifted the people of this country far
above the politicians. The results of the late
oIootons. looking simply at the offices in
lived and the individuals chosen to Gil them,
or,ount TO little or nothing; but in a moral
and political view they turn over a new leaf
and open new chapter in American history.
From Pennsylvania to Indiana, as by sort Of
snoutaneous combustion, we see the same
general popular reaction against the excesses
of radical fanaticism; but in the returns from
Ohio in which last years Republican ma
iority of forty thousand disappears, we have a
splendid dissolving view of Mr.. Chase and his
hoard OF radical engineers and their Presiden-
tial programme of universal negro suffrage and
Southern negro supremacy.
This verdict of Ohio, with an emphasis which
cannot be misunderstood, rules Mr.. Chase and
his extreme radical negro doctrine and theo-
ries out of the Presidential canvass of 1868
Forty thousand majority in the hitherto i'm
pregnable radical State of Ohio-forty thou
sand, more or less, against engratting upon
the State constitution an amendment establish
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test against this thing which demands nothing
less than change of front by the masses of
the Republican party, and change OF leaders.
Messrs Chase, Wade, Stevens, Sumner, Col
fax, Chandler and Company, like the mauag-
ing Copperheads of the Democratic party,
have been ''weghed in the balances and found
wanting" The handwriting is fixed on the
wall against the demoralzing and disorganiz-
ing schemes and dogmas of both these factions
-Copperheads and radicals-rejected, each in
their turn, by the unfailing Judgment of an
intelligent people. The one hundred thousand
majority in Ohio against Vallandigham, in the
midst of the war, is hardly more emphatic
than forty thousand, or thirty thousand, or
whatever it may be, from the same people,
against Mr.. Chase and his congeners in the
midst OF peace.
The voice of Ohio on this direct test of uni
versal or unqualified suffrage is the voice of
the North, and it is given as a warning to all
concerned in the coming Presidential contest.
What, then, are the sensible practical men,
rank and file, of the Republican party called
upon to do? They are simply called upon to
reorganize and take new departure, men and
measures, for the Presidential campaign.
Universal negro suffrage, rejected by Ohio in
1867 by thirty or forty thousand majority,
must be superseded by the constitutional
amendment, endorsed by Ohio in 1866 by
forty odd thousand majority. In 1852, on
Henry Clay's great compromise measures ON the
slavery question, poor Pierce and the Demo-
cracy against the conqueror of Mexico as the
Wing candidate, carried the country, North
and South, as by acclamation. But, depart
ing in 1854 from the instructions of the people,
and persisting in this folly, the Democracy,
on the slavery issue, were torn to pieces in
1860 among the clashing elements of their
Charleston Convention. The great body OF
the Republican party, in being carried by
their radical leaders to the opposite extreme
OF negro worship, are now warned of the same
danger and in season to avoid similar dis
aster. Their safety lies in casting out these
impracticabe and inplacable radical leaders,
in cutting loose from their destructive schemes
and falacies, and in recognizing and following
the instructions of the people.
The Republican Convention of Maryland, in
nominating General Grant as its Presidential
candidate, points out the way of safety and
success. General Grant may be pronounced
the embodiment of the genuine Union senti
ment of the country. Above all the disturbing
factions. elements and embauassments of thu
hour like a commanding and well-know1
light house, through the fog, and rain, anC
darkness he looms up in bold and cheering
relief. Resstless in the field, sagacious il
council, cool and collected in any emergency
and practical in everything, he needs no inge
niously constructed platform to rally a grea
national party around him. In the very fact
however, that he is unacceptable to the radica
fanatical school of Chase, Phillips, Sumner
Stevens and their brotherhood, lies his creates
strength. On any other candidate, and will
any other platform than that embodied in the
name and patriotic record of General Gran
the conservatives of the Republican party luI
the hazards of being divided upon two or thre,
candidates, as were the disjointed Democracy
in 1860, and as were the distracted opposition
elements in 1856 and in 1886.
The conservative Union Republicans anC
Democrats of the great Union war party o
1861 will cut loose from Chase and his blnl
clique, from visionary Copperheads and radi
cal Jacobins, and will rally under the banne
of Grant, as the old Democracy rallied unde
General Jackson, cut Nick Biddle and hi
bank, Calhoun and his nullifers, and sent then
all adritt and marched on to victory. This i
the road to the reconstruction of our poltica
parties, and of the Union, and of our domesti
and foreign policy, under a new dispensatio
adapted to the demands of the age and tn
great revolution through which we hav
passed and of that into which we are nov
passing. This is to be the sequel of the5
late elections and of the impressive verdict
Ohio against universal and immediate negr
suffrage. 1t all means a new national party i
the name of the Union and General Grant, hi
election in a popular whirlwind, and settle
ment of all our present difficulties under hi
administration.