Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-25

y. From the N. Y. Herald. Sept. 3l.l
The Approaching Political Cam.
pAign, Worth a nd West.

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paign, north aud West.
Our Cincinnati and Cleveland CORES
pondence. published on Thursday; our
correspondence from Pennsylvania, pub
lished few days ago, as well as that
which we are receiving daily from other
parts of the North and West, all show that
great and widespread reaction has COM
menced against the dominent Radical par
ty. The people. who gavethe Republicans
and since, did so for quite a different object
from that which the party is now pursuing.
That party was placed in power.
first, to prosecute the war for the Union to
successful issue, and. second to harmon
iZe and restore the country, as it promised
to do. upon the basis of the constitutional
amendment. When it went bsvond this
and created a military despotism over the
South; when it attempted to subvert the
constitution, or rather to ignore it alto
gether, its leaders boldly declaring the
country in state of revolution, and when
its object to est blish negro supremacy and
negro balance ofpower became apparent
the people saw they had been cheated
Had the members OF the present Congress.
when candidates, gone before the people
with such revolutionary programme. they
would have been defeated. They have
played confidence game upon the public,
and, acting as the masters rather than the
servants of the people, have defied the
sentiment of the country. This Infamous
conduct has produced its fruit. The public
mind Is becoming enlightened and a gem
eral 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 hope
less task. Every one knows the cause is
general; that local issues have had
little to do with it, and that it lies in the
dissatisfaction of people generally with
the negro supremacy policy of the Radi-
Gals. 1t is found, in fact, in the common
sense and patriotism of the mass of the
people revolving against the faithessness
and destructive measures of Congress-
But our correspondence shows beyond
doubt that an extraordinary 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 every vwhere-the same in Pennsylva-
mia, 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 COM
pared with what it will be, from all ap-
pearances. in the elections to come off dur
ing the next two months. There is anoth-
er important question looming up prOmi-
nently i'll the canvass, particularly in Ohio,
and other parts of the West and
threatens to prove as disastrous to the
Radicals as their niger worshIpping pol
icy. The Chase Radical policy for perpet-
uaiing a moneyed oligarchy and despotism
is viewed with as much disfavor i'm the
West, among all parties, as negro suprem-
acy. The mass OF the Republicans, as well
as the Democrats, are bitterly opposed to
the national bank monopoly. to contraction
of the currency. to the bondholders being
EXEMPT from taxation, and TO all the other
measures of Chase, Jay Cook, McCulloch
and their friends in favor of a moneyed
oligarchy. The industrious classes-the
farmers, laborers, mechanics and tradesmen
see ruin staring them in the face if this
wretched financial system be perpetuated.
They see that an enormous debt will be
fastened upon them, their labor taxed be-
yOnd fOrbearance. their means of paving
their taxes and debts greatly re-
duced, and the prospect of universal
bankruptcy;. and all to favor the ma
tional bank monopoly, the bondholders and
capitalists. Looking at the rapid growth
of public opinion in opposition to the rad
ical financial policy, there is reason to be-
lieve the party will be defeated i'm the West
on this issue alone. The whole tenor of
our correspondence indicates such a re-
suit. -ef 80
But the main question occupying the
public mind at present is that of negro
the 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 degradation 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 Rad
ical rule, that has created revulsion in
the public mind, and that will surely
overwhelm the party that has brought
the country to such a deplorable con-
dition. The great reactionary movement
of the day is not one in favor of the DEM
ocratic party, and least of all in favor of
the Copperhead faction. The questions at
issue are new; old party dogmas and plat
forms 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 disorganizing and revolutionary
conduct of the Radicals, and with the in
famous attempt to Afriranize the Republic
by creating negro balance of power
That is the real state of things; and if we
mistake not the signs of the times the Rad
icals will be defeated in the great Central
States, as we'll as in the West, at the COM
ing elections. The moderate and conserva-
tive Republicans should throw off their
destructive leaders and unite with others
to form the great Constitutional party of
the future.