New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-16
4 FALSE SCEHT ENTIRELY.

The Morning Post (Phladelpla) is displeased
with the results of the recent elections in Nlr-
ginia and Tennessee, and denOunces The TRIB-
IyNE therefor with unmeasured violence and
heroic contempt of facts. Here is a specimen
of its rawlings:
ave cannot afford to surrender to the South We must
not sacrifice its original Union men to Mr. Greeley's
or just to Whites Blacks. Universal Amnesty is a
national curse for IL means the practical disfrauchise
of the ColOed man and the prescription Of the Oya
White. We have already the results Of the timorous.
mudded policy OF Mr.. Greeley In the Rebel Legislature
Tennessee"
The reading public knows how unfOuDded
are these assumptiOns-knows that the result in
Tennessee was brought about by a personal
quarrel among the Republican leaders, result
ing in rival nominations and a competing can
vass, in which the faction led by Senter and
the BrownlOws, finding themselves outnumbered,
and having power to revise the registries, en-
franchised those who had for years been pro-
scribed for aiding the Rebellion, and, thus re-
enforced, carried the State by an over
whelmng majority. Congress had no power
over this and THE TRIBUNE neither
counseled the step taken nor was consulted
on the subject. Having all along predicted
pOnents would break down, we naturally
pointed to this result as confirming our antici-
pations; but the policy of Senter g. Co. was
dictated by their necessities and nOwise by
THE TRIBUNE.
But there has been an election in Virginia
Also and there, too, the attempt to rule by
Disfranchisement and Prescription has broken
down, as we expected it would. The Repub-
licans carried the State handsomely two years
ago, when they were the Enfranchising party,
and their opponents fought openly for "a
"White Mans Government Intimidation
menace, employers power, influence of property
the prestige of old masters were all over
borne by the spirit of Republicanism, which
carried the State by very large majority.
On the same issue, the State can be so tri-
umphantly carried tomorrow. 1t can be car
ried for Enfranchisement and Equality before
the Law; not for Prescription and the conse-
qhent rule of a minority.
This is a question on which we are obliged
TO differ with The Morning Post. That journal
desires that the Republican party shall prevail
in the South. So do we. The Post would
achieve the desired result by the simple expe-
QltuL Oh hlBHJ VI OuLIdBc 10 Jne
mass of our political opponents, on the as
sumption that they are "rebels," just as the
Copperheads would rule those same States as
absOl utely, by DISTINGUISHING the bulk of their
Opponents on the assumption that they are
f'piggers." We do not regard these rival ex-
petients as differing in essence; and we are
confident tbat neither can long prevail, because
neither gihhersnhY wise or just
! But The Morning Pest forgets that the con-
ditiOns of restoration for Virginia were pre-
scribed ,bY0 gba5fdsAE Chat is, by the Repub-
liean majority OF, Congress influenced
,her eounseledl hty TIRE TRIBUNE. That act
approved AprR 10. 1889 passed the Senate
by q strict party yoteuyeas, A; nays Cater
an animated, debate. inbEhish nothing was
Sa}a or Thought Of AYpestY I9r The TRIBUNE.
but very ,mneh of the proper conditions of
Reconstruction 1t reads as follows;
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