The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1869-10-30
The Recent Northern Elections.
From the Memphis Avalanche.

lFrom the Memphis Avalanche
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa
held elections for the State offices
on Tuesday last. In all three of
these States the Democracy put
forth their strongest men. They
had the prestige of such names
as Pendleton, Packer and Giles
pie, and made a courageous fight;
and Notwithstanding the Radi-
Gals had to carry the odium and
unpopularity Of the XVIII Amend
ment, they have still triumphed
over the Democratic party, lead
by its ablest champions. Every
body knows that negro suffrage
is unpopular at the North. 1t
was defeated in Ohio two years
ago by fifty thousand majority;
yet so deep-rooted is the hatred
of the Northern people toward
the Democratic party, that they
have signified their willingness
to accept negro suffrage in prefe-
renee to- accepting Democracy
On Tuesday last the Democratic
party fought the battle with every
advantage. The names of Pen
dleton and Packer inspired the
full confidence of the party and
promised victory from the OPEN
ing Of the canvass. Both were
national men whose services
would worthilY fill the require
ments of the widest sphere of pub
lie duty to which they might be
called. Both have been named
in a national Democratic conven-
tion for the Presidency. The un-
popularity Of the XVIII Amend
ment, which guarantees negro
suffrage, to which the North is
unalterably opposed, was worth
fifty thousand votes to the Dem
ocratic candidates. Still they
were defeated. This result shows
that there is neither magnanimi-
ty nor generosity in the North,
and that the mad rage and fires
born in civil war have not yet
burnt out-that public sentiment
is still violent, depraved and re-
mOrseless. The result of the
elections on Tuesday last, under
circumstances so propitious, show
that we have nothing to hope
from the Northern Democracy, as
they are in a hopeless, irrevoca-
bic minority. We must confess
that it is no slight relief to be rid
of that anxious solicitude with
which we once watched the move.
ments Of the Northern Democra-
cy, hoping for their triumph, yet
dreading their defeat, as if our
very existence were directly in
volved in the issue. We view the
matter very differently now. We
have at last accepted the fate
from which the Democracy pro-
fessed itself anxious to save us,
and though our change Of posi-
tion renders their kindly Offices
no longer serviceable and thus
eNtinguishes all pretexts for all
future claims to our cooperation,
still we should give them credit
for whatever good there might
have been in their intentions, and
not reproacl them with their ina
biity to help us.
from tho Arkansas State Gazette
Democracy, to win now, must
triumph by such an overwhelm-
ing uprising of the people as will
amount almost to revolution
Only by such an effort can ma
jorities hope to break the bonds
of the consolidated power confer
red by the results of the late war
on the general government. This
uprising Of the people, it is plain,
cannot be inspired without some
notifications of the platform of
principles presented to us by the
Northern Democracy. Their want
of practicability led us to certain,
inevitable defeat in 1868. Nei-
ther Seymour, Pendleton, nor
Packer are proper candidates in
an exigency like this. They rep
resented standing out in full re-
lief, more prominently than any
other candidates who might have
been chosen, those Democratic
ideas which refuse to recognize
changes, great and inherent chan
ges, in the government wrought
by the war. Had they wisely
consented to acknowledge the ex-