The New York herald., 1867-09-30


! tremes of the couniry-in Maine and Oalifor-
nia-will be felt with much greater force at
| the next elections in the interior or central
| States, and will assuredly turn Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey, and probably Ohio,
over from the republican party to the opposi-
ton. The radicals are endeavoring to per-
suade themselves that their recent dis
asters in the East and the West are attribute
bic to local causes but they viii soon discover
their error. The people were well satisfied with
the constitutional amendment as o settlement
of the question of demonstration. That amend
ment gave to the Southern States the same
constitutional rights enjoyed by New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and all the other States
of the Union, leaving to each the control
over the elective franchise within its own
borders, but providing that wherever the
| negroes were denied the ballot they
should not be reckoned in calculating the
basis Of representation of the State Withholding
from them the privilege Of voters. Thiswas the
issue upon which the last general elections
were fought, and it secured to the republicans
the control of nearly every State not embraced
in the Southern confcderacy, and unprecedented
majorities in the United States Senate and
| House of Representatives. The subsequent
Legislation of Congress and the action of Presi-
| dent Johnson disturbed the settlement agreed
on by the people, and threw the question of
reconstruction again open to agitation. The
consequence is that to-day the country is as
far from a solution of the difficulties arising
out of the rebellion as when the soldiers of
the confederacy first laid down their arms.
1t is idle to pretend that the republican
party is Hot responsible for this state of affairs.
The republicans have had the sole
control of tho government in all it's
branches ever since Grant put an end
to the war. They elected all the present
| national administration, and have held con-
stant possession of nearly all the loyal States
| as well. President johnson, Congress, the
United States Supreme Court, Fenton and the
New York Legislature are all their own. A
family quarrel broke out among them soon
J after President Lincoln's death, arising partly
out Of tho dispensation of the federal patron
age by his successor, and parity out Of the
conflict of schemes for the succession; but that
does not alter the fact that johnson, Seward,
McCulloch, Welles, Browning Stanbery, and
all in the Executive branch Of the government
are as much republican as are the Congress
sional majority, Chase, Stanton, Fenton and
the rest of the radicals. The people, there
| fore, have right to hold the republican party
responsible for the non-settlement Of the coun-
| try and for all the agitations and dangers
which now surround uA II is the knowledge
Of this fact that has occasioned the present re-
action against that party. All who are de-
sirous of seeing the country once more settled
and at peace are arraying themselves against
| the men who have shown their inoompetency
or unwillingness to accomplish such q result
In our own State, however, there will
| be some peculiar distinctive features
about the next election which will not
be observable elsewhere. Here the republican
convention, in the hands of Governor Fenton
and his friends. refused to admit into their
body the delegates Of the conservative branch
Of the party in this city, representing The
| Seward and Morgan division, and treated
resolution 10 afford them an opportunity to be
heard in defence Of their rights in the organiza-
ton with marked indignity and contempt
| The republicans, thus summarily rejected and
insulted, very reasonably believe that they
have right to resent the injustice done them,
and are organizing powerful and important
opposition to the nominees Of the Syracuse
| Convention which will probably control fifty
| or sixty thousand votes in the State. The
| extent and strength of this detection may be
| gathered from the fact that all the daily and
weekly newspapers published in this city, with
the exception of two-the Tribune and the
Dispatch-have virtually arrayed themselves
against the radicals, while last year the whole
republican press was unit in support of the
party candidates. This will make one of the
most formidable oppostions ever organized
against the radical ticket Last year Mr..
Seward predicted that the radical nominees
would be defeated in New York by forty
thousand votes. He probably only made a
mistake Of one year in his calculation, for it
now appears certain that the Syracuse ticket
will he beaten in the State by at least that
majority. - s
The result of the election this fall is, in fact,
life or death to Seward, Morgan and their
friends in this State. If the Fenton radicals,
| after shutting the conservatives finally out ol
the organization, can keep mp their vote in this
city, there will be no chance Of the rejected
faction obtaining any recognition from the
next Republican National Convention. The
Seward republicans will all be excluded, and
Fenton and his young radicals" will walk
over the track. The only hope or chance fol
the former is 10 defeat every distinctive candi-
date that the radicals may put up for any
ONCE, and to nearly wipe out the whole repub-
lican vote on the State ticket In this city
They should not seek any union with The
democrats, for that would be fatal TO them
Let them cast their votes as an independent