The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-14
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| Nttle Dreamed H lew months ago. Inc PROF.
ability now seems TO be that the next session
\ of Congress will be one Of the most stormy
and erentful in the history of our career as =
nation, growing out Of the necessity of adjust
I ing new party lines to conform to the grand
| upheaval and revolution in the political senti-
ments Of the people of the South developed in
the recent elections IN Virginia, Tennessee and
Alabama, and which will be still further mani
Tested in the elections TO be held in Mississip-
/ pi and Texas. The revolution in Tennessee
where rebel Acknowledgement and Radical and
negro rule have had full and impartial trial.
has been one of the most extraordinary in the
/ political annals of any country. Last year, at
the August election, the State was carried by
! the Radical party by about fifty thousand ma
| jority. while the Legislature was almost unani-
| mously Republican. This year the Conserva-
tive candidate for Governor is elected by more
than sixty thousand majority, while the Leg
islature stands almost unanimously Conserya-
I tive. To say that this is not a Democratic
victory, but only defeat of the ultra wing Of
the Republican party, does not in the least
dwarf the Importance of the result as showing
popular revolution. To make Tennessee
permanently and hopelessly Democratic, every
voter in the State well knew that it was only
necessary to remove the disabilities Incurred
by neatly hundred thousand of its people for
participation in rebellion, and hence, all who
had intelligence enough to know anything.
well knew that vote for Senter, the Conser-
yatiye candidate FOR Governor WIS vc,-- for
Acknowledgement, was vote for Democratic
( supremacy in that State for all future time:
| and now it remains to be seen whether there
is sufficient wisdom and political sagacity
among the leaders Of the party in power To
recognize the fact that all attempts to build
up and maintain a Radical party in the South
are hopelessly abortive, and to make the policy
of their party conform to the memorable logic
/ of the altered situation. That President Grant
/ who, on more occasions than one in the past
has ayOwed his determination to be governed
/ by the will Of the people, will recognize the
/ fac; that powerful revolution has occurred in
/ the political sentiment Of the South. and will
/ seek to sustain and uphold the new order OF
/ things which il inaUgurtcs, We have no doubt:
/ bat viii he be able to carry any considerable
number of the leading men of the E,pIlLcau
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think not and hence va prc,iic. "a struggle will
! come between the Executive AMI Congress.
similar to that between Andrew johnson and
/ Congress, with this difference. however. G-.n;
/ will carry the whole Conservative sl-,auu, #
/ the country with him, both Eorth and South.
/ which Johnson failed to 10. Tho present Con
/ grcss will be overwhelmingly ayHiI.s: him. but
| the contest will be carried into the elections
next year upon the simple basis Of Couscry.-
tivcs and Radicals, when the triumph OF Com
! scryutisul will h as marked aud complete as
/ AZ Is IN IvuErs,eu to-iy; AMI about inr same
/ proportion 81 Dpu,wCi! RlGig.!, VII bee It
! turned TO the House ii Representatives, a.
! there are Stokes Republicans elected TO the
! Legislature in Tennessee. To show that this
| struggle between Conservatives and Radicals
IL already, long i'll advance Of the meeting OF
Congress, becoming n disturbing element at
Washington, we reproduce the following from
| the pen of well-informcd Washington CORES
Pondent of n New York journal under date of
| August LIST, 1869:
AN IMPENDING CABINET sQUABBLE.
At this critical juncture the superlative cum
ming of the Radicals, manifested i'll the discov-
| cry and enforcement of the law of 1882 begins
! to be seen.
Mr.. Boutwell, was believed to be the man
| who would find way TO donneeI General
Grant, and i'll tits belief, it seems, they have
not been disappointed. boutwell, plants him
self on the most advanced platform of Radi-
calism, and will keep the Presidents nose
pointing directly to the Radical goal or will
raise political whirlwind in the Cabinet. He
has already taken occasion to express few
candid opinions in regard to the result in Vir-
ginia, and is now engaged in doing vigorous
battle in behalf of Stokes, in Tennessee: Da-
WIS., in Texas; and the strictly orthodox prn-
ciples in Mississippi. 1t is, however, in con-
ncctiOn with the issue in Mississippi that
trouble is likely to arise in the Cabinet
Notwithstanding all that has been said to
the contrary, the President is exceedingly de-
sirous that Judge Dent shall he nominated and
elected Governor of that State; in fact he is
movement throughout the whole country, and
believes that this movement is so general aud
so powerful that it may safely be regarded ms
not only tie bOn tide Republican party, hut
the evident will of the people, whose dict',n,
Inc no often said should he the supreme law of
the Executive. This being the attitude of the
President, ii will bc an interesting study to
observe the progress Of the contest between
him and his financial secretary, who has as
sumed to boss tho Administration. The Pres
ident comedies with the Conservative move
ment in Mississippi and was modtating the
most feasible plan Of permitting himself to bo
committed in their favor, when he was induced
to hesitate by the strong protests of Secretary
Boutwell,. Grant thanked the position 10y rush
ing off to Long Branch and washing off the
dust of politics in tho Lriny g,irf Bpuiyycll