The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-24
Radical Observation-Disclosures state Com
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ventien.
| The thorough decentralization of the radicals
! appears nowhere in clearer or more rdicu-
lous light than in the present position OF our
State Convention. This wonderful body has
tinkered away ell summer at q constitution,
and it has one, at last, nearly complete. The
Convention was radical machine, and it made
the constitution, of coarse, in the radical taste,
, nlling it with oil the extrsvagances Of tho
/ ultra leaders, and needing not at all the prac.
tical requirem MS of our practical people. II
! is easy to Understand how they came 70 DO
this suvvccss had turned the heads of the
republicans. At the commencement of the
war this republcan party seemed to tho people
the one most iden.if ID with The national cause,
and the masses therefore rallied to it to save
the country. People did not like the parry
altogether, and did not like the men of which
1t was to some extent made up but they over
looked minor points, with greater ones at
stake, and joined hands round this party as q
working organ zation to save the Union
Hence it bscame great. 1t behaved itself
well tor awhile, and The people began to
with some p3iien to the exlrava-
gances Of the wilder leaders. The rebellion
was put down nd the republican party
was disposed to be moderate il triumph.
Tho people Ekel this also. Republicans put
forwrd the wise amendment TO the cons.i-
tuition, and the people gave il their sufrages
with what almost seemed unanimity. Here the
l. H.. A. ~
They did moi understand this triumph. They
supposed that they were the nation; that they
owned in fee simple all the magnificent vote
on which they carried the country that they
could do what they pleased, and owed no
re pect whatever to The people. So each leader
fe. TO saddling the party with somo vanity Of
his own one with prohibi DRY tariff, ano
with compulsory temperance, a third with su!-
fragc for women, while all tho old abolition,
niger worshipping clique clamored that the
only thing wanting for the millennium was to
give votes to the Southern niggers and take
them away from the Southern white men.
Just as each leader was trying to ias!en his
own great idea" to the party principles the
party began 10 hear from the people again.
the republican voters stayed at home and per-
mit.od their ticket to be beaten. There came
another in Vermont, in which the victory
was far from inspirlting another in Maine,
showing a great decrease in republican
majoriiies while far away California
matched Connecticut with positive victory
for that some Gme unheard of thing, an
opposition. Maryland showed the case oven
more clearly. Her people voted on consti-
tuition made in spirit very distinctly hostile
to all this Niger suffrage tendency, and it was
seen that her republican voters would not de.
clare against that constitution, but permitted
it 10 be carried by very large majority. All
these warnings have begun 10 open the eyes
of The radicals who supposed they owned The
country, aud now iii them with natural alarm.
Their Generalization is most apparent in
Albany. Radical leaders there hold in their
hands the constitution made this summer, be-
fore their eyes were opened-the constitution
containing the whole radical scheme, niger
suffrage and all. 1t is a white elephant that
they know not what TO do with-an informal
machine that may at any moment blow them
all to pieces. They have made this consIitu.
lion, and they dare not submit it TO the people;
for i. is dead certainty thai to go before the
people now with such programme would be
certain destruction, that it would revolutionize
the State, and that the last vcstge of radicalism
would be swept away in whirlwind of popu-
lar vengeance. Worse than oil, ii is impossi-
BILE for them to hide or even disguise their
dilemma To burke this constitution as some
propose, would be as bad as 70 present it; aud
TO presen. it would be evident ruin. In their
fright, in their conservation, in the general de-
moralization that has seized upon these crazy
leaders, is seen the certainty Of the triumph of
popular IDEAS by a tremendous majority in our
next election. The people will not go before
tae accepted amendment to the national con-
s.tution, and The party that asks their votes on
| hat basi5 will win.