The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-10-17
rFrom the Columbus journal of Oct. AL

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CArsEs on orp Partial DrrE,r.-our late
contest with the enemies Of national liberty,
led by Vullundighum aud the encmies Of the
national credit, Lobby Pcudlcton, has ended,
at least IN but a drawn battle. We have lost
the Legislature, | Isl our late 90 mmnnding ma
ioriiy, lost the Amendment. Cen il be that
OHIO, tho mother or orators, and the mother Of
hcrocs-lhc greatest Of the Rcpuolic-has gone
back upon her record? What nrc the causes
which led 10 this virtual defeat?
J. The cause, nr,t in influence and impor-
taucc, was the ENGRAVING upon our ticket and
our platform the principle Of colored sun
rage.
Rome was not hnlt in q day. independence
was mo-; achieved in awcck, Emancipation was
not The work Of an hour. For q century the
degrading dcbauchiug, poisoning, barbara
zing influence Of chattle slavery ba1 been at
work. A. was the case with slaves in al ages
Of the worli, whether white, red or black, we
hated end dc-pis,d lie race we cnslaved. The
accumulated hatrcds and prcjudics ola hurd-
red year., we could not remove, by argument,
in a hundred days. Vir iuians, Kontuckiaus,
Irishmen and Germans, settled among Us,
could not be persuaded TO let this people go
free. Til II we had our own arguments to ans
wcr. Republican orr tors for years have made
Themselves hoarse with asserting and insisting
that they were opposed to ncgrosuifrage.-
They gave reasons for the faith that was then
in them. The reasons had their effect.
The Amendment came near |lurying the
ticket in it, own grave, for want Of time Ia
countcract all these influences, by calm discus
sion.
2. The cry Of Lurdcnsome taxation induced
some TO vote with the party that proposed to
run the Government, not on its promises to pay
The only means hitherto known to civiliz-
ed nations Of paying debts aud raising rev
enue, namely, by taxation, was to Lo discarded,
and the whole thing was to be accomplished
by running a printing press, by lamp-blacki
and by rags. The whole national debt was tc
be printed, biaeked ND loiPped out Of cxis.
tGnce
The grccnLOck dodge took. Many mems
political opinions are carried in lheir ponta,
looms. Aud hence Democrats never a'peaI
to the understanding, but direct to tho peck.
ct.
II was known lhNl impeachment Weuld lol'
low q decisive Republican victory, as certain as
the day the night.
Colfax had 50 declared before the Capitol
and although the declaration Of Dennison tina
Tom. jefferson was the founder of The Repub,
lican party, did not commit the party to the
Kentucky Resolutions of 'O8, or to the doe.
rine Of s .cession still the declaration of Speak
er Colfax, was laken as official evidence that
the impending impeachment would be prose,
cuted TO iineal judgement and conviction. Al
who had been troubled with diseases of the
spinal column, or had been in tho habit Of SEQ
ing ghosts fearing that disturbances might
nrise from d~eposing Johnson, voted against the
dominant party.
/ 4. The fourth cause or the loss Of the Amend
ment and the Legislature, was the loss of TIA,
powerful influence, in the State contest, of Z 4,
Cincinnati Commercial and Gazette. We her,
assert, what is our candid opinion, that the
Gazette and Commercial are among the bes,