The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-04-11
Vhe Uribuuf.
THE PREDICTED REACTION.

I
In the local elections this spring we
have lost some ground once occupied by
Republican forces; in others we have gain
ed. In Cincinnati our gains are twice what
We lost in Connecticut. The Chicago
Tribune has good article on this subject.
1t says it is langhable to hear the boast
ing Of the Copperheads over their little
local victory in the Connecticut election,
and more amusing still to notice the vast
hopes it has inspired in their hearts =
They pretend to believe it is the premon-
itor Of grand Bourbonistic reaction in
which the two wings of the Democracy
i. c. rebels and Copperheads-
sweep the country, elect their President
and come into power when the work Of
undoing the acts of the last six
years will commence, and radicalism be
pulled up by the roots, slavery re-estab-
lished, and the old Southern olisarchy
restored to place and power. They de-
duce all this from the narrow premises of
the little Copperhead success in the little
wooden nutmeg State, on All Fools
Day. Pity their silly souls! They are
as blind as bats. and don't see what is
going on all around them and right be-
fore their eyes. In that South where
their great strength lay in the days when
the Democracy" ruled the nation,
mighty Republican party is in process of
organization, so powerful, harmonious, uni
ted, determined, that it makes the hearts
of patriotic men leap with joy, and sends
cold chill to the marrow of the enemies
of the Union. Predicting reaction-what
nonsense and folly They might as well
talk of the Mississippi River turning in
its course, and flowing up stream. They
mistake little eddy, an overflow of sur
face water into bayou. for reaction
against th. great and glorious party of
Equal Rights and Universal Liberty.
1t is only few weeks ago that 46, 900
Republican voters were added to the Rad
ical party in Tennessee. When has the
Copperhead faction received such rein
forcement? 1t exceeds the whole Cop
perhead and ''cork leg" vote in Connect
icut. Read the cheering news from
North Carolina. A ''bran new" Repub
lican party is organized in that State,
which will consist at the outset of so, 0oO
colored and $4,000 white voters, aggre-
eating S0,000 which constitutes a clear
majority Of the whole population Where
have the Copperheads received an acces-
sion Of So,000 voters in any Stare?
The news from South Carolina, Alaba-
ma, Virginia, Louisiana and Georgia is
equally cheering. Thus the bali rolls on
and before the remaining months of 1867
expire there will be an invincible Repub-
lican party organized in every Southern
State, contending with the democratic
rebels not only for the mastery Of each
of those States, but for the control of
every county, city and Congressional dis
trict. In the eleven States shich seced-
ed, the radical Republican party now in
process of organization will cast at the
ensuing elections more than eight ham
dyed thousand votes, and carry at least
six of those States, and elect Congress
men in each Of the Others
Talk about reaction in the face of
such facts as thesel The word is Jorseard.
And the movement of the mighty party
of Freedom is as irresistible as the grand
march of Sherman 5 army to tha sea-
1t, too, occasionally lost a skirmish, or
had an outpost driven In, but the great
column rolled on antil it brought its enc
my TO bay, surrounded and captured him.
That is the inevitable fate Of the copper
rebel Democracy; they viii be defeated
and driven from field TO field, until at
last, surrounded and despairing, the
wretched, guilty survivors will lay down
their arms, accept their paroles, disband
and dlsperse That will be the end of
the once proud and dominant. but now
treason stained and dilapidated Demo
cratic party.