Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-06-26
a}Iisfellaay.
COUNTER REVOLUTION IN NEW YORK
AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

Under this head the Ne,g York Herah
is feelingly alive to the unsettling of thr
political elements everywhere, whicl
foreshadows that deep, positive change
in public opinion that will carry the cleo
ton against the Republican party in tha
State, as we'll as others, next fall. L
adds:
All over the country there is the same
change, the same unsettling of popular
thaught, the same evidence that radical.
ism has reached the turning point in its
destiny, and that national disgust at the
Iridiculous conduct of leaders and at the
hollowness, pretense and sham of party
acts, is moving the counter resolution
that will not only hurl radical leaders
from power, but will 90 far to obliterate
such traces as they have left in the his
tory of the country through partisan leg
islation. Within the Republican party,
even in the small circle OF the men re-
cognized as leaders, all is chaos Be
tween the Republican National Commit
tee. the Union League Club, and Phillips,
Butler, Stevens, Wilson and Greeley,
who can tell what are the real purposes
and plans of the Republican party with
regard to reconstruction Nothing was
left to he done but to settle the country
upon the practical basis of making South
and North politically and socially alike !;
yet the simple question of how this re-
suit might bestb be broughtabOut, the de-
termination of the question that was the
real sequence of the war, is not attempt
ed by any. but each one is eager only to
secure the pre-eminence of his own ex-
treme views. Republicans have so man
aged affairs in the South since the col
lapse of the reL8llion that the result Of
an election there will be to return a rep
resentation composed of six negroes and
sundry uncertain white men-perhaps
all original sacessionists. All will be as
it was before, except for the six niggers,
and these represent the results Of the
war. No Radical seams to comprehend
or to be willing to acknowledge that the
war had any other OF higher purpose
There was no great issue of national life,
only political difference; and opposition
was, of course, no crime. Hence there
was no treason. Nothing was sought but
TO get these six niggers into Congress.
For that the nation spent three thousand
million dollars, and TINS our nigger Con-
grcssmen will cost US $500, 900, ,OOOapiece.
Did ever a people before give so much
for 50 little Have we not shown a pro
digality of extravaganza in paying such
a price to. secure these privileges to a
race that had no other title to our atten-
ton save the clamor that it was oppress-
ed.
By its absolute failure to carry out the
great purpose by the war, by wasting the
energies Of the naticn in making its ex-
penditures cOnduce only to securing un-
worthy results-results that the people
did not care for-that ridiculously in
commensurate with the sacrifices made,
the ra icaI party has incontestably shown
its uuftuess for a great trust, and has
demonstrated to the people that their
only safety lies in repudiating it altogeth-
er-plans, theories, delusions, leaders
and all. There is no other course. 1t
is no longer the party of the people, no
longer the vital exponent of the will and T.
thought of the nation. Formed in a |
time of great danger, cOmpacted into |.
firm political unity by the necessities Of
a tremendous struggle, that party car
r;od tho yror IN q orIorious iSsua hpcousp /