Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-11-20
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RESULT AND MEANING OF TIE ELE
TEOE.

/ RESULT AND MEANING OF TIE ELEC'
FEOE.
! THE defeat Of the Republicans in New
/ York is more signal than any other State.
/ Special reasons contribute to this result.
/ The License Law cost the party thous-
ands Of votes in the large cities. The
nomination, Endorsement and support of
notoriously corrupt and venal officials in
/ the interior drove thousands more from
the support of the Republican ticket
/ The insolent tyranny of the selfish and
unprincipled managers who obtained
control of the party machinery and work
ed It for their own advantage, regardless
of the general good, kept other thous-
ands who are at least devoted to the Re
publican cause, away from the polls.
But the general result Is due to the
same causes which operated in Peunsyl-
vania and Ohio. The masses Of the Re
publican party are not coutent with the
results Of their party action or the ten
denotes Of their policy. The Thirty
ninth Congress did not meet their ez
pectations. The results of its measures
havo not come up to their promises
They have disturbed the country-not
paciGed it. They have planted and added
bitterness. and alienation between the
sections Of the Union, instead of bring
ing them together on the grounds of
common interest and Of common glory.
Too much relative importance, in nation
al legislation, has been given to the ne
GRO. Not content with according him
an equality Of rights, special privileges
and political powers have been accorded
him. The question of taxation, the
currency question. the material interests
of the South. the systems of internal
revenue and the tariff, have all Jeen ne
elected or made subseryient to the cues
ton of the negro, while they are really
the questions which most nearly affect
the welfare Of the nation and the happi-
ness of the people.
And threats are made that this extreme
and ill-iudged policy is to be pushed
still farther. Confscation is to be en-
forced upon the Southern people. A d.
vision of the landed estates among the
negroes is claimed as just and wise
Congress IS expected to override State
laws. and to enact negro suffrage for all
the States.
Public sentiment throughout this State
is prepared to demand equal rights be-
fore the law for all men, without distinc-
ton Of race or color; but it is not pre-
pared to indorse these measures Of ez-
treme and reckless fanat;cism. The Re
publican Party balts when confronted
with such q policy. The temper display
ed by those who press it contributes still
further to this rovulsion. To carry their
plans into execution they threaten to
override all the checks and guarantees of
the Constitutional Teorganize the Su-
preme Court, to impeach and remove the
President, to arrogate absolute and su-
preme power for Congress, and to plunge
the country into chaos for years TO come,
rather than fail in the accomplishment
of their schemes. These things increas-
ed the distrust and apprehension Of a
very large portion of the Republican
Party, and contributed to the result
which we have just witnessed.
We regard the defeat, therefore. as
simply-a lesson administered to the Re
publican party. They are admOnished
to be wiser, more discreet, less arbitrary
and extreme in their measures, less ar
bitrary and extreme in their measures,
less arrogant and oyerbearing IN their
tones. If the lesson is needed all these
mistakes can be corrected-all these los
ses can be retrieved. Congress at its
coming session has the whole question
in the hollow of its hand. If is recog-
nizes and defcrs to public sentiment as
now expressed-not by any reversal Of
its general policy nor any abandonment
of its leading principles-but by a mod
ifcation of its temper and tone, it can
put the party on impregnable grounds.
The Democrats are no nearer the pos
session of power, if the Republicans are
wiser, than they were a year ago. In
deed, if the Republicans profit by ez-
perience and by the lessons Of the late
elections, they are not so near. II Con
gress Will do its duty this winteT-if it
will give the country a good tariff, a
wise. fruitful and equitable system Of
taxation. a sound and safe currency, such
aid as vi stimulate and make produc-
tive Southern industry, and show, by
practical action, rs we'll as in words,
that the Republican party is not con
trolled by malignant feeling toward the
Southern States, but seeks their welfare
as parts of the common Uaion-and if
the Republican National Convention
will give Us a Presidential candidate who
will command the confidence, regard and
devotion Of loyal men throughout the
whole nation without regard to cliques
or sections, we shall sweep the whole
country at the next election, and place
the Republican Administration On per-
manent and impregnabIe basis.
The large majority by which they
have carried the States will encourage
the Democrats to hope and strive for ma
tional supremacy. We regard it as real
" only. rebuke administered to the Re
publicans for their excesses and mis-
takes. Only let them give indications
of amendment, aud those who have ad-
ministered the rebuke will make haste
to restore them to power 1t is only
fools and egotists who fail to profit by
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