New-York tribune., 1868-10-09

Presidential election is 10 be held In each whe,.
may vote against Grant TO their hearts content an an
Dama to DC sure, Is considering the question OF alox
the Legislature 10 choose Presidential eleeors
would be copying South Carolina, where Demoe-tumls
electors were always chosen since the Organzst;c
the Democratic party Should Alabama do tbIsInid OF
our Democratic friends must not be hard on her hs
she has already removed all disabilities from traiuS
even those VINO were excluded for having eon%,.orS
perjury. Thus Reconstruction, that cOnsun,ns,,sa
Democratcally wished has come pass ia seven s,h
and is fast coming in the remaining three Whst is
results Are our opponents giadf Are they silent %
cause a little piqued and bothered that have me-
their predlctionsl This might have expected pres
who could expect the angry Inconsistency we bsingW ~
Men who clanored for reconstruction, now passionm:
denouncing It: men who fretted for restoratioo ey
fuming for destruction; men who In war wv ~
for peace at any price, pxsd now vo ioamng for war:
Conservatism, plotting to uDsettle 10 uproot toSt
molish aud involve the nation once more IN chaos Ana
revolution. Is this wisdom, or is 1t madness sIsb
or il 1t blindness Suppose the policy Of Congress s
not the best suppose the usurpatons of Andrew Johns
wise and lawful and his personal messenger ana
agents constituted governments suppose COngess orh
TO have abdicated its authority and agreed that Andr
Johnson Is the United States; suppose three hund,x
murders In Texas in five months and daily murde,S
other States ought 10 have been allowed to proceed
pose the Union people Of the South black and wh,tpp
shoud have been given up to the rage OF Rebeis ne
would have been better TO leave TO traitors and ons
alone tile establishment and management of eeye
in the Southern States and the destiny OF these
what then 10 has been ordered otherwise by Aer
can people, after several full hearings and now wous
it not be crime without name, after all ~
nation has suffered, to seek to blast by anotSs,
war, the ripening fruits OF peaees Yet this is the
of Mr. Blair upon which he said in his letter he wished
to stand before the Convention upon which he did stand
and upon which he was nominated and which TIM
accepted and adopted by the party. His declaration
that Democratic Administration is TO dsperse the GOV
ernmeIts OF the Southern States by military force Ths
ia war; And Wade Hampton further paved the way n
by inserting in the platform he says he did ~ that ths
Reconstruction acts OF Congress nsupatOns uncon
constitutional revolutionary and void" Even the iih
Amendment OF the Constitution. without which whe
man in South Carolina would be the equal u political
and, il possible annulled. In Oregon, ono and New
Jersey the Democrats having obtained Dalores in one
or both Houses Of the Legislature have ~ form Cancelled
the ratification The Rebels OF Georgia nave already
taken the hint and subverted the law by legislative
action and inauguraed violence and carnage With the
triumph Of the ideas OF the NeS-fofk Conysn-
entire South. Thus we see that benOeraue sue
cess means counterrevolution. There could be ae
cord between President and Congress- but only different
Departments OF the Government walllng with each
other Repudation would be rife, desperate scenes
would rise, disorder would prevail and the time and
ergies OF the nation would be wasted III eXcemen and
alarms In lien OF all tins, Let Us have peace" Let
end unproable disputes and the energies of the
nation civilization prosperity, ana prOgIess This Is
tho manifest destiny OF the pending canvass The New
York Convention insured the eectloh OF Iraot and
Colfax Before il selected its candidates or laid down
its platform, 1t rendered the success Of
the Democracy impossible committed q
10 blatant generated Rebels The Democratic pady
can boast of many able and estimabe men, bnt II d
means TO win with Rebel ideas and Rebel Leaders, II must
wait till the graves have grown green, tli the erppls
linn no more till the weeds Of have vanished and
the war debt has disappeared This IL the sentiment Of
human nature IL been shouted by the Green Noun
tans Of Vermont to the pine trees ol Msne ana has
echoed back again 20 the snowcrested mountains OF Col
OradO Little Connecticut has just heard H. III VIII be
rechoed IN October from Indiana and ONO; 1t viii roll
and reyerberate along the Aeghaniea 20 fenhsylSana
and New York will be the COrypheus OF the band.
The meeting then adjourned with cheers Tor tle ticket