The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-23

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servants Of the people, have de6ed the sent-
ment of the country. This Infamous conduct
has produced its fruit. The public mind Is
becoming enlightened, and general reaction
has set in.
The radical press, though evidently much
alarmed, attempts to explain away the true
cause of the Republican losses in Maine and
California: but that is a hopeless task. Every
one knows the cause is general; that local
issues have had little to do with it, and that 1t
lies in the dissatisfaction of people generally
with the negro supremacy policy of the radi-
Gals. IL is found, in fact, in the common sense
and patriotism of the mass of the people re-
voting against the faithlessness and destruc-
tive measures of Congress. But our cOrres-
pondence shows beyond doubt that an extra
ordinary reaction is going on in all the great
Central States and in the West. The general
issue as regards negro suffrage and negro
supremacy is the same everywhere-the same
in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the
other States, and the same as entered into the
elections in California and Maine.
In these latter States, however, the contest
was tame compared with what It will be. from
all appearances, in the elections to come off
during the next two months. There is an
other important question looming up pro-
minently in the canvass, particularly in Ohio
and other parts of the West, and that is the
financial question. This threatens to prove
as disastrous to the radicals as their nigg sr-
worshipping policy. The Chase radical policy
for perpetuating moneyed oligarchy and
despotism is viewed with as much disfavor
in the West, among all parties, as
negro supremacy. The mass OF the Repub-
lcans as well as the Democrats, are
bitterly opposed to the national bank mo-
nopoly, to contraction of the currency to tue
bondholders being exempt from taxation, and
to all the other measures of Chase,
McCulloch, and their friends in favor of
moneyed oligarchy. The industrious classes
the farmers, laborers, mechanics, and ira les
men-see ruin staring them in the face If
this wretched financial system be perpetuated.
They see that an enormous debt will be fas-
tened upon them, their labor taxed beyond
forbearance their means of paying their taxes
and debts greatly reduced, and the prospect
of universal bankruptcy; and all to favor the
national bank monopoly, the bondholders
and capitalists. Looking at the rapid growth
of public opinion in opposition to the radical
financial policy, there is reason to believe the
party will be defeated in the West on this
issue alone. The whole tenor of our cores
pondenee indicates such result.
But the main question occupying the public
mind at present, is that of negro suffrage and
negro balance of power in tue republic. The
prospect of the whole South being governed
by the ignorant and uncivilized negroes, of
these benighted blacks holding the balance of
political power in the republic, of taking their
seats in Congress, and of dominating over the
people of our own superior race, with the de-
gradation and ruin that must follow-these
are the thoughts so repulsive to the mass of
the Northern people. 1t is this fearful prospect,
brought before us by radical rule, that has
created revulsion in the public mind, and
that will surely overwhelm the party that has
brought the country to such deplorable con-
dition. The great reactionary movement of
the day is not one in favor of the Democratic
party, and least of all in favor of the Copper
head faction. The questions at issue are new:
old party dogmas and platforms have become
obsolete. The masses of the people which
have voted on both sides are now coming
together as the great constitutional party.
They are disgusted with the disOrgauizing and
revolutionary conduct of the radicals, and with
the infamous attempt to Africanize the re-
public by creating a negro balance of power.
That is the real state of things; and if we mis-
take not the signs of the times, the radicals
will be defeated in the great Central States, as
well as in the West, at the coming elections.
The moderate and conservative Republicans
should throw of their destructive leaders and
unite with others to form the great constitu-
tiolal party of the future.
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