Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-15
TIE GROUNpeSWELLE.a
The Radicals and the Properties
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y From the New York Herald, AUG. II! as
Oregon is normally Republican STATE
but this year ii has gone completely. ovei
to the Democrais. IN the previous election
Il had about it asnal BepabIiean inaiority
giving that decision on political issues that
is natural With q population supplied in a
great degreefrom regions having the most
active EympattIy with the Radical spirit
yet this year itgives an enthusiastically def
mite majority on the other side. This Is a
very significant fact in an election in such
State, coming Immediately after the par
~ WITH which it usually acts has put its
Presidential candidates in the field, Ken
lucky issanether State whose people have
recently given, formal expression to their.
pqlhieI predictions. The election in
this State has taken place since the naming
of the Presidential candidates on both
sides, and, Kentucky not only goes for the
Democrats rye should expect that-but il
goes their way BY such an overwhelming
majority as indicates that other political
opinions 4 have hardly force. enough
there 70, keep themselves alive. Here,
then, are two States that have gone to the
Democrats after their people have been
able to perceive ther-drift- OF Presidential
movements. One isan cid slave State, not,
however, the most fereely Democratic of
the slave States even in, Che, old times4a
State that did not nominalIy go with the
South in the war, but had its sympathies
that way, yet was thought to be safely
enough organized to Dc better for the Re
Publicans than in previous years, The
other is a. free Northern State, peopled by
thatsort Of community that our political
history shows as always the readiest TO be
aggressive, to take the side of any party
that calls itself the party of progress, and
that is much less susceptibleof conservative
influence than older communities. -rt =, 4.
/ From these facts Of the situation, it is,
evident that The popular impulse against
the Radicals, which began two years ago
and seemed TO eliminate IN the fifty thou
sand majority against that party, in the.
Empire State, has yet lost none of its
1t was deeper than most men
thought. IL had fast hold upon, The ulti-
mate convictions OF each man, and thus be-
came the positive purpose Of the mass, and I
i is doubtful if there is any power to stop
IFS progress. a.', n, ,ri,-ts n; -r,-...,,,
! The nominations have had no effect up
on it. The sudden recognition of the; RadiT
calls thai they had gone too far in their as;
laults on everything dear TO The people, 4
and their consequent halt, came. too late,
The promise of honest government that
they make in presenting the name Of Grant,
Che assurance that their failure views DINA Z
ional necessities shall be taken from the
standpoint OF the commander who saved
the country-all this IS quite. Undecided.
So is the threat from Che other side, given
With the name of Seymour, that everything
shall be construed in favor Of the men who
to break, Che government TO !
pieces. Popular wall goes forward blindto
all, conscious only Of its stoHedup determi-
nation, Indiyiduals are nothing. There
Is no charm in any name, The contest of
great principles must be carried TO its final
result. Such is the popular temper. Only
The deepest sense of the ontrages against
the country and It's laws, as well as against
humanity practiced by the Radical leaders,
could have brought the people 10 this
mood and wrought the conviction that no
other danger is 50 great as for that party
70 continue IN power. 10 .tsLN All r.
Itseems consistent with al the facts, there
fore, that the reaction against the Radical J
legislation and reconstruction shall go on
as it began, sweeping Stale after State, and
finally sweeping the nation, = =
But taking the men as they, are and the !
situation as il, is, We can only hope that TO
whichever side victory inclines it will give
30 doubtful voice, Let the decision be
positive-one side or the other-for there
in is our only safety. From an election
hat either one side or the other can by any
ingenuity dispute we will have civil war.
Some of the Southern States are preparing
his possibility in making laws to take the
vote for President from Democratic COM
and give it 10 Radical LegidaA ]
,ures. ShoGld the Republican candidate
De elected only in virtue of these maneu-
vers it will take another war to put down
he protest against him. Should the cleo
lion turn on any one Of many such con-
.ingencies peace will be farther away than
sver. and, therefore, it is to be hoped the
Northern people themselves viii make The
decision absolute.