The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-04

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The Party Press on the Tennessee Election
The Negro Vote.
The results and developments of the Tennes-
see election are we'll calculated to astonish and
perplex the managing politicians and news
paper organs of both the great political parties
of the day. Our democratic contemporaries Of
| of this great event in Tennessee, although its
meaning is so clear and boldly defined that he
who runs may read it. The Brooks Brothers,
of the Express, sticking like wax to their latest
| faith Of the copperhead creed, are in tower
ing passion, and flame away. in their real old
Southern fre-eating style, against the despot-
| ism, the tyranny and the BrownlOw usurpations
of despotic power, which have made this Ten
| nessee election an outrage, mOckery and a
farce. The usually loquacious and long-winded
Mantilini Of the World is struck dumb, posi-
| lively dumb-yea, dumb as an oyster-for he
has not yet opened his mouth on this mourn
fully suggestive Tennessee election.
On the other hand, the Times, which is astride
the republican fence one day, ON the left hand
side the next day, and on the right hand side
the day after, and frequently on the fence and
on both sides in the same act OF ground and
lofty tumbling, thinks " that the triumph of the
Brownlow faction proves only the success with
which it has manipulated the registration of
voters y that Gas an indication of State feeling
or policy it amounts to nothing y and POM
pously asks, With four-afths of the whites dis
franchiscd, and with the registration altogether
in the hands of Brownlow and his men, what
signifies the vote of Thursday last?' Greeley,
who, when the occasion suits him, can see
through the hole of a milestone, answers this
question in the passing remark that Z" the result
of this election means tie triumph Of the repub-
llcan party in the South"
This is the perplexing feature of the case to
our copperhead contemporaries. Throughout
| the war, and ever since the war, their game
has been to recover to the Northern rump OF
the old democratic party its old Southern bal
ance OF power. and like desperate gamblers,
they have played for these stakes until they
have lost everything in capital or credit they
could command. They have ruined themselves,
they have ruined President johnson, and now
they cannot fail to see in this Tennessee cleo
ton that they have turned over the South into
the hands of the Modes and Persians. Hence
the wrath Of the fiery Brooks Brothers, the sui
len silence of Monsieur Mantilini, and hence,
| too, as tight rope walker with his balanc,-
pole, the pooh-poohing of the dignified little
philosopher who has slipped on the editorial
jacket OF Greeley's "little villain"
The essential point which all these partisan
critics ignore in this Tennessee election is the
negro vote. II matters nothing, looking to this
negro vote, whether four-ffths or nine-tenths
of the whites were DISTINGUISHED. The negroes
were allowed the suffrage; they were free TO
vote as they pleased and we are assured by
intelligent eye-witnesses that the Tennessee
| conservatives left no stone unturned to gain
| the support of the negroes, and yet en- masse
they have gone for Brownlow and the republi-
can ticket. In this thing lies the significant
and important fixed fact of this election. The
| republican ticket unmistakably foreshadows
| the same unbroken front of the blacks in every
| other Southern State. 1t has been shown, too
from the registration records Of each of the ter
| outside States that there is but little doub
that with the solid negro vote the republican
will carry them all, from the first jump to tn,
| last step in the work of reconstruction.
| The Northern democracy, then, looking Il
the next Presidency, have not leg left then
to stand upon or a peg to hang by, and 80 tn
| sooner, as a separate party. they are disbandet
and reconstructed the better it will be TO
them. Nor have the Northern republicans an.
alternative left them now but equal rights IL
the way Of negro suffrage from Maine TO Cali
fornis. And while they are about It the!
might just rs well put in the Indiana and Chi
nese as to postpone their equal claims as citi
zens. If whites and blacks are made equal
why should the yellow and copper skins be ex
cluded. As the constitution now stands, o.
will stand with the pending amendmen
adopted, we are not sure that Sumner is wron,
in his theory that Congress has the power owe
this subject
In any event, this Tennessee election, il
| bettilnR Tue nuuiitst ucchuN OI Tue SOut0eTI
States, winds up the Northern rump Of the oil,
democratic party and whites down the PIesi
Dental issue Of 1865 10 the narrow poin
whether General Grant as q candidate will
unite or divide the republicans in the election
We think that, from the pressure Of publ
opinion, they will be compelled to unite upol
him, ss the wings were coerced TO unite upol
old Zach Taylor in 1s4s We think IL probs
BILE that Grant in 1865, like Monroe in 1896
will be elected as by general consent II sc
then, as after that fusion Of the old parties o
Monroe, we shall have the beginning Of nev
organization Of parties, with new leader, an
new issues, adapted 70 the new departure q
the Union restored and regenerssed on th
basis Of universal liberty, and adapted also I
meet our financial emharrassmen|