New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-06
TILE ELECTION

With three-fourths of the Republican jour
nails published in our City either neutral in the
contest or virtually telling their readers that
it would be better for the Republican cause
to have the Republican ticket beaten this Fall,
we could hardly expect to hold our own in
City or State, but the detection in both is far
greater than could with reason have been
anticipated. Here, where the influence OF
our City journals is most direct and pervasive,
the practical adhesion to the wrong side Of
most of those read and trusted by Republicans
has cost the Republican State Ticket at least
Ten Thousand votes, and beaten our Legisla-
tive candidates even in districts where there
are decided Republican majOrities. To let the
election 20 by default, it was held and argued
by the trimmeIS and camp-followers, would
crush ont what they are pleased to stigmatize
as Radicalsm and render inevitable the nom
nation of Gen. Grant for President Such
considerations and calculations have kept Fifty
Thousand voters from the polls and insured
the overwhelming defeat of our State Ticket.
The Canal frauds and populations of the
last two OF three years have contributed to
weaken us in the interior. Democratic can
didates who are VIGOROUSLY expensive to the
public as office-hOlders run just as well as any,
as is shown IN the vote yesterday for Tweed
IN our lower Wards; but Republicans will
not stand that sort of candidates. Hence, our
State officers whose terms expired this year
were refused denomination because two or
three Of the less important were implicated in
the scandaous Canal lettings and kindred ras-
caities of last year, and our late State Con-
vention passed strong and fit resolves against
the nomination or support of jobbers or pecu-
lators for any Office whatever. Yet several
politicians of tainted reputation succeeded,
nevertheless, in nominating themselves for
Senate and Assembly, compelling bolts which
damaged our State ticket, or acquiescence,
which damaged it still more Our temporary
loss from this source may be reckoned by
thousands of votes
We are beaten by Republicans this year, and
the work Of Reconstruction thus practically de
layed if not arrested. The Southern Rebels are
virtually told by the State of New York-"Hod
"on! vote against Conventions wherever you
care strong enough to defeat them; refuse to
"vOte wherever you can thus hope to discredit
"and damage the process more than by voting +;
"and you may yet resume control of your res
"pective States, and trample the White and
"Black UniOnists under your feet through the
"disfranchisement and virtual reinstatement of
"the latter" We may look for more and more
palpable and powerful resistance to RecOnstruc-
ton under the policy of Congess-to any Re
construction which implies that Blacks have
rights which Whites are bound to respect-f from
this hour onward But Bull Run did not de-
stroy the Union, nor did the Democratic yicto-
ries in 1862 defeat the policy of Emancipation
1t may have been necessary to pile proof upon
proof that neither the eXRcbelS of the South
nor the Democrats of the North will cOncede
to the loyal Blacks any right which they can
possibly withhold or take away. In view of
the experiences of the last seven years,
wherein our McClellans and Buells proved
equally useful with our Grants and Sheridans
to the overthrow and extirpatOn Of the Slave
Power, we bate no iot of heart or hope, but
unfalterngly trust that the reyerses OF the