Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-14


gneh M the shirt In which humanity and
Justice claim their votaries; So are the
appeals, such the Crises, which separate
tho gold from the dross When the ne
publican party has no further prejudices
10 yanquish, no further wrongs TO re-
dress, we hope il may die and be buried
not linger on, maintaining mockery OF
existence on the good ideas Of the past,
the bad whisky Of the present, like the
sham Democracy Whenever all its
better aspirations shall have been &C.
tualized, its dissolution can not and
should not be long postponed.
From the New York Times.l
THE LESSON OF THE ELECTIONS.
The Democrats are very naturally
making the most Of their victories They
evidently regard them as indications oil
the speedy return oftheir party to power.
The exultation of their newspaper or
rans, if they mean any thing (which is
always donbtful, imply the strongest
confidence in this result
They are deceiving themselves-or
trying to deceive others. The elections
indicate no increase of public confidence
in the Democratic party, and no willing
ness on the part of the people to trust
them again with power. They simply
show reaction against the extreme acts
and measures of the Republican party,
and convey an admonition to the leaders
of that party which will be salutary If it
shall be needed. For the last two years
they have been forcing upon the party,
issues and doctrines utterly alien to its
principles and professions-and they
would have been rebuked and repu-
dated long ago but for the danger
likely TO be incurred of reinstating the
Democratic party. When the war ended
the people wanted prompt restoratlan
of the Union. But they did not want,
and would not have restoration OF the
rebels to power. Rather than that, they
accepted the measures which were forced
upon them by the Radical leaders, And
the only reason why they seem now to
have halted in their support, is because
they have reached point where 1t can
he done without the risk of reinstating
the rebels and the Democrats in their old
supremacy.
From the New York Herald.l
THE EXTRAORDINARY COUNTER REYOLU-
TION.
We are hurrying onward to our polltl.
cal Niagara Copperhesds, Radicals and
all the fanatical elements are sweeping
down the rapids. Up to the time that
Congress passed the constitutional
amendment, and including that action,
the people we're satisfied. But when
Congress, installing the will of the ma
ton, loses its balance upon its giddy
summit of power, then it is proper that
the people should again rise and assert
their will. The people, watching with
intense interest the restoration OF their
social and progressive welfare, see no
hope unless they draw the curb upon the
power they have invested with authority.
The situation is easy of analysis; for,
with all the finely woven radical theories
Of black and white equality, we want to
see those practical results which demon
strate that our legislative actionhas been
productive of good. Search where we
may, we can find no evidences of good
results the attempt to reconstruct the
South has gone on from bad to worse,
until the ten unrestored States drag like
4 dead weight upon the progress of the
nation. Here, in the great republic OF
he nineteenth century, we go back for
presidents in government and find that
he Roman system is the only one to |
which we can adapt ourselves. Thus 1T |
s an open acknowledgment that our ter
'itorial extension imposes upon us the
necessity of a great central force, gov
,rning, through pro-consular organlza-
ion, all the States that can in any way |
make healthy opposition to its power.
This principle once well rooted, it takes |
10 prophetic brain to predict the sue
.eeding phases which attended the same
ystem in Rome.
Our people are too sensible to let the
lower Slip out of their hands so quickly.
The elections in California and Maine
Ienoted the fact that the people are be-
inning to reason over the mad act of a
congress. as well as of an Executive,
hat could not understand their desires.
The two States named were only the pre-
ace to the telling rebuke which we are
ow giving to our unworthy rulers. !
and Ohio, potent in the
lists, wheel into line and add their voices
D the general outcry against misgover n
lent. New York, soon to come TO the
rial by vote, will doubtless follow the ex-
mple set by the former States. The
Ihole country, in fact, is tired of this
rushing process Demonstration, which |
Ieighs with equally destructive power
pom both North and South. The War.
en- Hastings rule of India may have
lited that country; the Roman pro-
incial system may have been adapted
, the ignorance of two thousand years
go; but those were cases where force
laced pressure on ignorance. Intelli-
ence can not and will not bear such rule
There have not been men wanting in
he Radical party to recognize that their
over was but short lived unless they
ould throw some great ignorant element
ITO the existing intelligence Of the
ountry. This element, the negro, they
ave seized upon, and have, by superhu-
ian exertions, hoatod him to the surface,
Iess huoyant than the elements around
i'm, he can only be held up until his
wn specific gravity overcomes our
over to sustain him. That falling, he
lust sink TO the level to which his talent
Is him, and from which, little by little
aiming light, he may rise by his own
Intrinsic value. To cling TO the negro
e must sink to his level; by doing
hich we shall not elevate him but de-
ase ourselves. 1t has taken some time
,r the people to appreciate these facts,
ut that they are now fully alive to them
undoubted. They see that they have
Gen deceived by the political dema-
ogues who have held the negro up as
he main element in our revolution,
hen he was only q minor issue.