The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-27
politieal.
The Presidential CnmnnIrn.
From the New York Hernld.


The Presidential Campaign. O..
From the New York Herald.
Two points in the canvass are more i'm
portant than all othersLthe history of the
Radical party and the niger vote. For
eight years the Republican party has been
in power, and the final results, as seen by
the people, are the arrangement of all
machinery Of Government, an almost in.
credible corruption in office, and a weight
in taxes that bears commerce and labor to
the earth. Will the peoplelonger have pa
tience with party that has such a history ?
This is the question Of the hour. Is there
any fear in our future that should move
the people TO trust this party again, even
despite the fearful chance that it may con-
tinue the same destructive career that has
already been so disastrous to the national
prosperity ? Can any other party infict
upon us evils worse thanthose we now suf-
fer as the consequence Of Radical misrule ?
Reconstruction by a system Of legislation
that deliberately FORCES calamity for a whole
people, and prepares the social ruin OF ten
States TO secure power to n coterie Of poll
ticians-this is the political crime that
stamps the radical faction as utterly dam
nable before the people. Men inquire what
the faction would stop ut that would pur-
tuOSt Nuth VII Eill ny hlth iltiiuh anu iiltN
know that IL will not stop Mt anything
sacred in the law, and will respect the
rights Of the people in the North as little rs
il has done in the South. Does the name
of Grant furnish any guaranty for tho future
of the Radicals2 The people are not ready
to believe It. Grant is politically, only a
promise and q possibility. Respectable
men are not willing TO doubt his honesty or
his upright purpose; but these do noe
always qualify for success in such a strife M
he must control TO save the people from
his party. He may prove capable; he may
not; and IL is n time when the people can
not trust their future TO such q chance.
Therefore, the doom of Radicalism seems
to be burned into the popular brain and on
such reasoning az we have limited the poo
Pile appear to drift toward what they regard
as the least of two evils, without faith in
the Republicans, and little hope In the
Democrats. Men ON either side count for
little; il is the history of the Radical party
that condemns II. Democracy has a bad
history, too, but its sins are trivial by COM
parison. If this faction ever desired to
so reconstruct society, II was in the interest
of the white man. The word taxation
hardly occurs in its history, and IL never
aimed n blow az the Supreme Cont, or
nRNAEhN W NAAIBAt viz RbNfANAANhN ia AlN
person of the executive. IL sympathized
with the south in the war, and that can be
forgiven by q people who are at least
coming to look upon the Republicans as
the South looked upon them when the war
began. II, therefore, the history of the
Democracy were darker than it is, the his
tory Of Radicolism would be infinitely
beyond it in iniamy. II Is upon these
broad views and Judgments Of parties that
the people move. The common mind
averages great results by processes Of it's
own. Isolated facts are forgotten. this on
that virtue or vice seems TO pass away; but
the balance ofhistory is to be madcupat the
polls, and kentucky indicates the tenden
cy.
If the reaction of the public mind stimu-
lated by the history of the radical party
does not sweep the whole North, the negro
vote will be of the first importance In the
struggle. II may save the South TO the
Radicals, but it may give il 10 the Demo-
Gratis, and, regarding the possibility of q
fairly divided North, Sambo may finally
bold the balance of power. Some facts in
dictate that the negroes may go very largely
with the Demoar0ts. Dull as We may con-
slider the whole race, they have seen enough
to be disguised with Radical frien lship,
dlu hIt CtIbilnll hGthllB pOllllcul ullleh
outside that party. Negroes from the he
ginning had determinedupon their part of
the alliance with the Radicals, and thus
formed expectations that the latter could
not meet. CouiiscatiOn tells the story in
Northern restraint on the dominant party,
even its worst moments rendered it imossi-
BILE for il to carry ont the virtual compact
but the negroes will not understand that
They only cherish resentment at tho men
who promised, but did not perform. Con-
iscation, by giving the negroes a real rs
we'll as political independence, might have
made it possible that they could sustain Il
political opposition in the Southern States;
but without a hold on the land this was not
possible. Without the power, therefore, 10
make their political independence effective,
with social facts, more cogent than Radical
orators, forcing upon them that their inter-
ests were indentical with the interests Of
the people among whom they must live
with a heart broken Disappointment in view
of this, and a bitter readiness TO visit their
resentment on those who had raised such
high hopes only TO betray them, the negroes
inevitably GO over TO the other side. There
is nothing strange in this. 1t would be
strange ii il were otherwise, for they achieve
political revenge, and act on the best view
they can take of their " welfare.
The case of the Presidency, therefore,
Judged by the main facts, seems to stand
thus: The history of the Radical party is
such that the people viii not trust it again
on any terms, and this conviction threatens
10 give the North to the Democrats. If,
however this fails, there is n possibility
that Grant may be beaten by losing the
whole South through the detection of the
negroes, who will go over to the Democrats,
partly led by the natural influences of asso.
citation, and partly by resentment for the
REIMBURSEMENT by the Radicals OF that
measure that was from the first regarded as
necessary to sustain their political oppo.
sition to their former masters.