Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-11

e6s- We yesterday extracted from the
Cincinnati Enquirer a paragraph upon
the election and its result in that city
We follow it up with other selections
from such journals, Democratic and
Radical, as have reached us by mails since.
The same paper says:
Whatever may be the result in the
State on Governor and Legislature, the
constitutional amendent is undoubtedly
defeated by a very decided majority.
Everywhere it runs badly behind the Re
publican ticket. This is the verdict of
Ohio on the question of negro suffrage.
1t will require great audaciiy after this
for an Ohio man to talk about imposing
negro suffrage upon other States who
have hundred times more negroes than
we have.
The Cincinnati Gazette, whose editor
was the Radical candidate to Congress
from the Cincinnati district, while still
in hope of the success of the Radical
State ticket, says of the defeat of the
constitutional amendment:
The constitutional amendment is
supposed to be lost by not receiving a
majority of all the votes cast at this cleo.
ton, although it is believed to have re-
ceived a majority of all the votes cast
upon that question. The defeat Of
the franchise amendment makes a
bad commentary on the congress
sional plan Of reconstruction, and
leaves an inconvenient question for
the future. In the present situation
Of national affairs, with an Acting
President restrained in his evil purposes
only by the solid front OF the Northern
people, even q reduction Of the Republi-
can majority in Ohio is public misior-
tune, therefore we shall not make pre-
tense of rejoicing at our victory. The
Republican party might have done better,
and did not We shall not now discuss
the causes of this neglect, although there
is something that may justly be said.
The Cincinnati Commercial RADICAL,
commenting upon the success Of Gen.
Cary, who was taken up by the Demo
Gratis and more moderate Republicans
and elected to Congress, says
Cary has been loud and not unskillful
in stirring up the passions of laboring
men as against capitalists and un
measured denuneiations Of bondholders
and national banks have been acceptable
to large class. The Republican party,
as represented in Congress, has not been
wise, it must be confessed, in some of
its financial pelcy, and has been
especially to blame in the important
matter Of eXtravagant appropria- |
tons. But il has had not only its own
sins to account for, but the shortcomings
in tie financial policy Of Mr.. Johnsons
administration have been unjustly sad !
died upon them. Cary was correct last
night in pointing out that the great sig |
nifieanee Of his election was in the fact
that hiselection was the first in which the |
financial questions had been most prom
inent, and he notified the bondbolders |
ard national bankers that they might |
take warning. So they may, aud so may |
all the people who are steadiast in the |
faith that national honor demands the |
fulfillment Of national contracts. The re-
suit of the second district contest will, we
have no doubt, BE- felt in the New York
markets.
So much for the other side of Ohio river.
What says the press Of the South upon
this signal overthrow OF the party, at
whose hands they have been made to
suffer as no people suffered without re-
sistance before. The Louisville Courier,
the organ of the great Conservative party
on the Southern border, sees in the sue
cess Of the Democrats in Ohio and Penn.
sylvania the dawn Of a brighter day for
the South It says:
The effect for good Of these elections
can scarcely be overestimated. The
reign Of Radicalism is over, and the
supremacy Of the Constitution is once
agsiu 10 be restored in the land The
same popular reaction which has caused
Pennsylvania, from being Radi-
cal Stale. 10 declare for Democracy,
and which has induced the people OF
Ohio 10 place the mark Of their con
defamation upon the favoriie measure
of The Rsdicals--that reaction will iney-
iiahly 20 on uniilthe shackles with which