The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-10-17
From the New York IIeraldl
The Extraordinary Counter
Revolution.

We arc hurrying onward to our po-
litical NIagra; Copporhcads, Radicals
and all tho tanatlcal clements arc
sweeping down the rapids. Up TO tho
time that Congress passed tho consti.
tutional, amendment, including that
action, the people were satisfied. But
when Congress, mistaking the will Of
the nation, loses its balance upon its
giddy summit Of power, then it is prop.
cr that the people should again rise
and assert their will, Tho pcople,
watching with intense interest tho
restoration ot their social aud progI cs-
sjvc welfare, SEQ nc hope unless they
draw the curb upon the power they
have invested with authority, Tho sill
uatiou is easy OF anal lysis for, with all
the finely woven radical theories of
black ana white equality, we want to
see those practical results which do
moGstrate that our Legislative action
has been productive Of goJd. Search
whore we may. we can find no evidences
ofgo0d results; tho attempt to recon
struct the South has gone on from bad
to worse, until the ten unrestored
States drag like dead weight upon
the progress Of the nation. Here, in
tho great republic of tho nineteenth
century. We 80 back for precedents in
governments and lind that the Roman
system is tho only one to which we
can adapt ourselves, Thus il is an
open Acknowledgements that our terri
torial extension imposes upon us the
necessity Of great central iorco, gov
crning, through pro-consuar organ
izaton, all tho States that can IN any
way make healthy opposition to its
power This principle once well root
cd, II takes no prophetic brain to pre-
diet the succeeding phases which at
tended the same system IN Rome.
Our people are too sensible TO let the
power slip out oftheir hands so quickly.
/ The elections in California and Maine
/ denoted the fact that the people were
| beginning to reason over the mad acts
of Congress, as we'll MS OF an EXecu-
tive, that could not understand their
desires The two States named wore
only to preface TO the telling rebukc
which we are now giving to our un-
worthy rulers. Pennsylvania and
Ohio, potent on tho lists, wheel into
line and add their voices to the genor,
at outcry against misgoyernment-
New York, soon TO come to the tria
by vote, will doubtless follow the eX'
ample set by former States, The
whole country, IN fact, is tired Of thu
crushing process Of reconstruction
which weighs with equally destructive
power upon both North and South
The Warren Hastings rule Of lndii
may have suited that country; thu
Roman provincial systom may hav,
been adapted to the ignorance Of TIVE
thousand years ago; but those wer,
cases where force placed pressure OF
ignorance. Intelligence can not ant
will not bear such rule.
There have not been men wanting
in the radical party TO recognize tina
their power was but shortlived unles
f they could throw some great ignoran
element into the existing intelligenc
of the country. This element, the ne
gro, they have seized upon, and hav,
a by superhuman exertons, fiOated hin
D to the surface. LESS buoyant than tn
elements around him, he can only b
, held up until his own specific gravit
. overcomes our power. to sustain hin
= That failing, he must sink TO the lev'
TO which his talent fits him, and frol
o which, Ittlo by little gaming light, b
J. may rise by his own intrinsic valu