Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-12
THE CINCINNATI PRESS ON THE
RESULT OF THE ELECTION.

The Cincinnati Enquirer (Democratie)
Of the 10Th inst. has the following;
THE WONDERFUL CHANGE.-The po-
litical sweep in the State is perfectly won
derfu. OF the 1900 Radical majority;
which lowered 50 high last year, hardly
vestige remains. There has been change
cor the Democrats, in the total vote, of at
least ten per cent. The most sanguine ex-
pectations of the Democracy have been
more than realized. The Republicans,
putting confidence in the loud boasts and
taunts OF their organs Of what immense MAJ
iorities they would obtain, are dumbfounded
at the result They had no premonition
Of the tremendous popular hurricane that
was setting in. 1t struck them like thun-
derbolt, delivered FROM clear sky. They
now see the handwriting on the wall, "
which presages their future doom. Their
ascendancy in Ohio is irretrievably broken,
If only moderate degree of sense shall
actuate the Democratic party.
THE END OF S. p. CHAsE.-The cleo
ton in Ohio has settled forever the fate of
this arch-demagogue, Salmon p. Chase.
He came here distance of seven hundred
miles from Washington, and cast his vote
for the whole Black Republican ticket and
for negro suffrage. The result TO him has
been terrible and overwhelming. If Ohio
had given her vote for negro suffrage,
Chase, who climbed TO his presen. position
through the blood and carnage Of his
countrymen, would have been the next
nominee for President Of the Radical
negro-worshippers of the United States.
The people of Ohio have settled the ques-
tion, and consigned this dangerous and
subtle demagogue TO his political grave
THE REsULT.-It is impossible, at this
time, however, for any one 10 speak with
| certainty, and perhaps only the official re-
turns can settle the vote on Governor deiin-
itely. But even if the election of Judge
Thurman should not be confirmed by an
official count of the ballots, we have
achieved a victory unprecedented in the
political annals of the country, in having
broken the prestige and destroyed the
morale of a party which has hitherto be-
lieyed itself inVincible, and one which,
sustained and animated by that belief has
set no bounds to its prohigacy and oppres-
sion. Having achieved this much, defeat
ed the negro amendment by $4,000, and
knocked old Ben Wade out of time for the
United States Senate, we can certainly FIJI
the full measure of our triumph in 1868,
even if we shall not have done it in 1867.
The Cincinnati Gazette VERY Radically
explains the cause Of the great change
that has swept over Ohio as follows:
But it is evident that there are general
causes which have made great change of
sentiment throughout the State, and the
chief Of these we deem to be connected with
finance and currency. The decline in gold,
caused by the foreign demand for our
bonds, which substituted one hundred mill
lions of these a year 10 pay balances that
otherwise would have 10 be paid in gold or
not created and the continual contraction
Of the currency, which has now begun to
tell severely on values, brought decline
in prices which changed the gain by the
previous rise into a steady loss. This
effect has now been working two years, and
has brought a general depression, under
which the burden of taxation seemed much
greater. The effect has been aggravated
by sudden disturbances of prices and
money by the irregular treasury opera
tons some of which seem the most wanton
destruction of the property of citizens, by
trolling values by tightening or easing the
money market
There are also causes Of depression which
are but the natural reaction from the
monstrous expenditures of the war, and
there is disappointment in the revival of
the Southern trade, and in the return of
capital invested in the South. The dimin
ished agricultural production of the coun-
try also depresses trade.
The Cincinnati Commercial (Radica)
has discovered visible signs has either
had too much or too little of Radical
policy, and comes to the very sensible
conclusion that there has been too much
of the good thing The Commercial at.
tributes much of the Radical defeat to
their policy of black States in the South"
That paper regards as a blunder the
action of Congress in providing, under
the military process of reconstruction
adopted, for the enfranchisement of the
blacks, without granting universal ann
nesty to the whites" and adds
OF the proposed amendment we will
further say that it was unwise in Congress
to make it a political necessity for the
friends of Congress to offer it and support
it at this iuncture and its conclusive de-
feat in Ohio must be accepted as absolute
evidence that the extreme Radical policy
of converting the South into black States,
is not Acceptable TO an immense majority of
the people of the North.
In addition to the assistance of Andrew
johnson, the extreme men in Congress
have had the use of the Democratic party
an an awful example and ever present ter |
ror. The moderate masses of people have
been driven to make choice between the
reactionary policy of the Democratic party,
rampant and unrepentant, with all its ini-
Quities on its head, and the policy of the
extreme Radicals. When there is no alter
native between going with Rebels or Radi-
GALS the choice of intelligent and patriotic
people is Of course to 60 with the Radicals.
But there is a popular WEAKNESS as to
lighting the old battles of the war over all
the time There are some other things to
think about. We begged Ben. Wade to
stop the torrent of personal vituperation
and personal violence long enough to talk
a llAll6 dDOub SOiuS VI tue hCh ISSUES hhiSh
were particularly important here. Nothing
could be got out of him but the same old
ding-dong. The third officer of the gov
eminent, Mr.. Speaker Collar, gave us but |
a very small amount Of instruction in pro-
portion to the latitude and longitude of his |
discourse, and INDUCED in an unseemly |
and untimely threat of hanging the first |
officer Of the government. The efficacy of |
such indiscreet harangues is seen in the
election returns from Ohio. Something
beside war talk will be wanted hereafter.
No one need deny that there is a reac-
ton against the Radical policy Of making
black States in the South, coupled with the
most reprehensible carelessness in fnsn"
cial legislation, save where care is taken to
favor special interests, and terribly pro-
figate system of appropriation. Within
few weeks Congress meets. There will be
those so demented that they will wish 70
rush forward-"jump ahead" as Ben.
Wade says-take a leap in the dark IN
further proscriptive legislation, conhsca-