The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-24


robbed of eeyon twelve thousand dollars Saturday
The Republican Party and the Approach.
ing state Elections.
The republicans of this Commonwealth meet
in State Convention at Syracuse tomorrow for
the purpose Of nominating State ticket and
platform. From the manifest design of the
party leaders in The Constiu; ional Convention
to put off the test question of NEGRO suffrage till
next spring we guess that this Syracuse assem-.
| blage will also postpone this issue to more
convenient season. That the party leaders
and managers throughout the country are
alarmed in reference to the approaching cleo
tons in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York,
cannot he doubted. Their appTehensions are
betrayed in their explanations of the late results
in California and Maine, and in their appeals
to each other and their followers everywhere
TO cast aside all personal disputes and all side
issues, in order to present solid AMI unbrokcn
| front against the advancing columns of the
enemy. The Times of this city, which, since its
daring adventure into the Philadelphia Johnson
| Convention, has been on the back track to the
| radical camp, assures its readers that the late
|
reaction; that no signs of such thing can be
| found anywhere that the republican lines
remain intact and mistaken; but still it
appears there is danger from ex.raneous issues,
aud that the republicans must not suppos, that
! the power which they hold c,n be prolonged
| without ar efori.
Now, we hold the ground that the elections
Of viii ,at or
ticut, indicate that the tide is on the turn that
| in last years elections the republican party
reached their opnost high water mark, and that
| in abandoning the sound and popular platforms
upon which those elections were carried they
| are all sdcifl. II they fad their new ultima
| tum of universal negro suffrage uphill work,
| even in Ohio, aud II they find IL convenient to
evade this question for the present in New
York, it Is because they arc losing the public
confidence in their late departures from the
| line of policy laid before the people, and ap-
proved by the people, from Maine to California,
| in last years elections and with an emphasis
unparalleled in our political contests. As,
| however, poor Pierce and the democratic party
were carried away to destruction by their
vanity and folly in consequence of their great
triumph of 1852, so the republicans appear to
have concluded from their Successes of 1856
that their power had become too great to be
disputed and that they could do anything that
pleased them.
A few little skrmisheS have served not only
TO remove this vain conccit, but TO satisfy the
| party leaders that as matters now stand before
The people there is no reliance 10 be placed n
last years republican majoritics Of fifteen,
twenty, thirty, forty and iifiy thousand, since,
by default, if you please, California majority
OF twenty thousand has been FILTERED away
aud majority in Maine has been reduced from
twcnty-seven thousand 10 eleven thousand, on
large total vote, in single year. We hold
tina, such results on both sides Of the Con.inen!
q, the same time indicate tho existence OF some
general and perva1ing causes Of republican
apathy and decentralization, and general reac
ton in the drift of public opinion which fore.
shadows the near approach of great political
revolution.
Personal quarrels and jealousies, restrictive
liquor laws and Sunday prohibitions Of eide
and lager beer, will not serve as explanation
of these late republican losses; for /
is apparent that the same apathy pre-
walls in the party ranks in Pennsylvania
and everywhere else that has been de
veloped from Connecticut 10 Maryland. TIL,
true explanation lies In the departure of Con
gress from the platform OF Southern rcconstruc
, ton submitted to and approved by the North
| crn States, and in the substitution Of the OK
, treme radical programme OF universal nogr,
suffrage and negro supremacy in the South
$ Hence the radical hue and cry of Impeachment
= AGAINST Andrew Johnson meets with no en-
! couragug responses from the rank and file o
the republican party; and hence the radica
i design of worrying General Grant out O
s Johnson's Cabinet has slgnolly failed. Southern
. reconstruction, it is seen, under the presen
: laws of Congress, is sure to place the control Q
: ten or eleven Of the Southern States in .h
n hands Of the ignorant and crcdulous black
s who but yesterday were released from th
darkness and degradation Of Southern slavery
= Naturally enough, thinking mon, in looking 1
10 the probable consequences Of this startling RI
ID vision Of our political system, recoil from tn
% threatened DANCER. Herein we contend, lie
= The secret of this reaction against the party /
:. power and from Pennsylvania and Ohio W
IN expect In OctOb some evidence upon th
As subject which will satisfy Congress Itself tina
is broad as are the requirements of The rcvolutio
: connected with the abolition o. slavery, 1t h
still lis metes aud boundaries, beyond whi'
i, ii Is dangerous 10 &C