The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-09-16
From the New York Herald.
The Radicals and the People Prospects
for the Presidency

state, but this yca 1t has gone com.
pletcly over to the Democrats. In the
previous election it had about its usual
Republican majority. giving That deci.
sion on political issues that is Natural
With population supplied in a great
degree from regions having the most
active sympathy with tho Radical spir.
IT; yet tins year it gives an unmistaka
bly definite majority the other side.
THIS Is very significant fact in an cloc.
ton ~ such State, coming immediate
Iy alter the party with which it usually
acts has put its Presidential candidates
IN the field. Kentucky is another State
whose people have recently given for.
mai expression to their political prcdilcc.
uons; The election in this State has
taken place since the naining of the
Presidential candidates on both sides,
and Kentucky not only goes for tho
Democra,s-w2 should expect that
but it goes their way by such an over
whclmnG majority as indicates that
other political opinions have hardly force
enough there to keep themselves alive.
Here, then, are two States that have
gone TO the Democrats after their pco.
pie have been able to perceive Tie drift
Of Presidential movciiciits. Ono is an
old slave State, u6t, however, the most
iirrccly Democratic Of tho slave States
even in oldcn times-a State that did
no, nominally go with the South in the
war, cut had its sympathics that way,
yet was thought to be safely enough
organized to do better for tic Ncpub,i,
cans than in previous years. The
other is Il free Northern State, pco-
pied by that sort of community that
our political history shows is always
the rcadicst to be aggrcssive,t TO take the
side of any party that calls itself the
party of progress, and that is natural.
~ much less susceptible of conserva-
tive influence than old communities.
From these facts of the situation it
is evident that the popular impulse
against the Radicals, which began two
years hgo and seemed to culminatc In
the fifty thousand majority against
that party in the Empire State, has
yet lost none of its momentum. 1t
was deeper than most men thought.
1t had fast hold upon the ultimate
convictions of each man; and thus be-
came the positive purpose of the mass,
ind it is doubtful if there is any pow
or to stop its progress. The nomina-
tions have had no effect upon it. The
sudden recognition of the Radicals
that they had gone too far in their
assaults on everything dear to the
people, ana their c6nscuueht halt;
came too late. The promise of honest
government that they make in pre-
senting the name of Grant, tho assu-
rance that their future ,icws ofna
tional necessities shall be taken from
the STANDPOINT of the commander who
saved tho E3ultry--all this is quite
unhccdcd. So is the threat from the
other side, given with the name of
Seymour. that everything shall ho
construed in favor of the men who
cndcavorcd to break tho Government
to pieces. Popular will goes forward
blind to all, conscious only of it's stor.
cd up determination. Individuals are
nothing. There is 10 charm in any
name. The contest of great princi-
pies must be carried to its final result;
Such is the popular temper. Only
tho deepest sense of tho outragcs
against the country and it's laws, as
we'll rs against humanity pTacticcd by
tho Radical leaders, could have
brought the people to this mood and
wrought the conviction that no other
danger is so great as for that party to
continue In power. Perhaps, also,
there is another thought active in the
case. There is widespread uncasi-
ness under tho burden of taxation in
volVcd by the debt and though both
parties tend towards reputation, tho
people will have their revenge OF tho
men who mado the debt, and who
therefore put the country in position
to require reputation. Revolutions
always rcpudiute tho debts Of civil
war: Such repudiation is tho basis Of
compromise, f5f neither zone s;aes nor
the other will consent to repay
money borrowed to put it down.
Reputation Isl thon, very ,likoly tho
ultimate bourne of this imbitlsS againat
the Republicans, and we shall yet 500
q Congress elected strictly to ropudi-
ate tho debt. In tho meantime tho
same impulse must act consistently Iii
sweeping Republicanism from power
at all intermediate points, of which
tho Presidency is n very Important
one:
1t sooms consistent with all the
facts, therefore, that tho reaction
against tho Radical legislati6f did
reconstruction shall 60 on as it began,
S%e6ping State ate: State, and finally
sweeping the riatioh and giving us an.
other President like Pierce--only
instead Of poor Pierce it will be silly
Seymour. Regarding tho characters
of tho two. candidates; it readily 6cs
ours chat the two parties have respoc-
lively got the wrong men. Seymour
is the creature who should, be in the