Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-10-04
From the New York Herald.
The Republican Party and the Approach
ing State Election.

The Republican Party and the Approach
ing State Election.
The republicans of this Commonwealth
meet in State Convention In Syracuse to-
morrow for the purpose of nominating
State ticket and q platform From the
manifest design of the PARTY leaders IN the
Constitutional Convention to put OFT the !
test question of negro suffrage until next
spring, we guess the Syracuse assemblage
will also postpone this issue to a more con-
venient season. That the party leaders
and managers throughout the country are
alarmed in reference to the approaching
elections in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York, cannot be doubted. Their appre-
tensions 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 per-
sonal disputes, and all side issues, in order
to present a solid and unbroken front
against the advancing columns of the enc
my. The Times of this city, which, since
it's daring adventure into the Philadelphia
johnson Convention, has been on the back
track to the radical camp, assures its read
ers that the late elections furnish no evil
dence of political reaction; that no signs
of such thing can be found anywhere
that the republican lines emain intact and
mistaken but still it appears there is dan
ger from eXtraneOus issues, and that the
republicans must not suppose that the pow
er which they hold can be prolonged with
out an eHJr5.
Now, we hold the ground that the cleo
| ton of this year. beginning with that Of
Connecticut, indicate that the tide is on the
| turn, that in last years elections the repub-
lican party reached their topmost water
mark, and that in abandoning the sound
and popular platforms upon which those
elections were carried they are all adrift.-
| If they find their new ultimatum of univer
sal negro suffrage uphill work, even in
Ohio, and if they find it convenient to evade
this question for the present in New York,
it is because they are losing the public con-
fdence in their late departures from the
line of policy laid before the pleople, and
approved 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 con-
sequence Of their triumph of 1852, so the
Republicans appear to have concluded from
their successes Of 1866 that their power had
become too great to be disputed and that
they could do anything that pleased them.
A few little skirmishes have served not
only to remove this vain conceit, but to
satisfy the party leaders that as matters
now stand before the people there is no
reliance to be placed in last years republi-
can maiorities of fifteen, twenty, thirty,
forty and fifty thousand, since, by default
if you please, California majority Of
twenty thousand has been frittered away,
and a majority in Maine has been reduced
from twenty seven thousand to eleven thou
sand, on large total vote, in single year.
We hold that such results on both sides OF
the Continent at the same time indicate
the existence Of some general and perya-
ding cause of republican apathy and de-
MOI alization, and general reaction in the
drift of public opinion which foreshadows
; the near approach of great political revo-
ltion.
Personal quarrels and jeaiousies, restric-
! tive liquor laws and Sunday prohibitions
of cider and lager beer, will not serve as
explanations of these late republican loss
3 es for it is apparent that the same apathy
: prevails in the party ranks in Pennsylvania
and e1 erywhere else that has been devel
, oped from Connecticut to Maryland. The
true explanation lies in the departure Of
: Congress from the platform of Southern re-
; con struction submitted to and approved by
= the Northern States, and in the substitu-
t | ton of the extreme radical programme OF
S universal negro suffrage and negro supre
- macy IN the South. Hence the radical hue
: and cry of impeachment against Andrew
g johnson meets with no encouraging re
If sponses from the rank and file of the re
{. publican party ; and hence the radical de
# sign of worrying General Grant out O.
Johnson's Cabinet has signally failed
: Southern reconstruction, it is seen, under
i the present laws of Congress, is sure tc
q place the control of ten or eleven of thu
Southern States in the hands of the igno
). rant and credulous blacks who but yester
day were released from the darkness ant
degradation of Southern slavery. Natur
ally enough, thinking men, in looking t.
the probable consequences of this startlin.
revision of our political system, recoil from
e the threatened danger. Herein, we con
r. tend, lies the secret of this reaction agains
- the party in power ; and from Pennsylva
~ MIA and Ohio we expect in October som
J. evidence upon the subject which will salts
k fly Congress itself that, broad as are the re
quirements of the revolution connecte
with the abolition Of slavery, it has still it
metes and boundaries, beyond which it
dangerous to go.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
n The Approaching Pan-AnslicaD Synod /
lg England-Who will Attend Titan
1t. and Authority of the Hembers-Subjeci
On to be Discussed, &c, &c.
~ The Synod was called in February las
Of by the Archbishop of Canterbury, sendin