Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-29

THE Cincinnati Chronicle (Radical)
boasts that "the adoption of the Fiji
teenth Amendment will crown the
labOrs of the Republican party, and
settle the questions evoked by the war,
giving US a true, honorable and endur-
ing peace" If we desired to invent
something by which to prove how all
absurd and bosh are Radical preten-
siOns, we could not find an u~tterance
more significant for that purpose.
Every n must see it is an after
thought. So far from being any
browning victory, negro suffrage for
all the states "a not contemplated or
desired by the Republicans at the
close of the They have only
stumbled on it now. Mr.. GREELEY
first insisted on universal suffrage
and universal amnesty" three years
ago, whom the body of his fellow-par-
tizans vehemently opposed. The war
itself was not carried on even for the
abolition of slavery, much less for
universal suffrage. But unforeseen
circumstances have made it the main
party slogan. And so if is now bla-
zOned in Ohio, not as new partyism,
or third partyism or Liberalism, but
as Radicalism, pure, naked andunal-
Logged. And that is precisely what it
has become all yer the country, as
well as here. He who stands on that
platform stands on the Radical plat
form, out and out, be he whom or
what else ne may. he may have been
a Democrat, a Conservative, a Wing,
a Unionist or a rebel-it is all the
same-he is a Radical now, if going
for the main thing, negro and white.
suffrage, made alike universal over the
whole country, and on which theRadi-
cal programme hinges for success, is to
be a Radical. The Chronicle says:
As it is the last, so it seems to be the
most difficult step in all the great strug-
gle. Ohio, ever foremost in the hght-in
battle or in legislatiOn-seemstO be looked
TO now to crown her many acts of patri-
otie devotion by promptly ratifying the
amendment. Her vote is absolutely
needed; without it, much of what our
eight years struggle has gained will be
lost.
OF course the vote of Ohio depends upon
The result of the October election. and the
political complexion of the next Legisla-
ture will, without doubt, settle the cues !
ton of the ratification or rejection OF lie !
amendment by the States.
While the country at large looks to Ohio
70 be true to her past history, and to the
memory Of her noble dead in this crisis.
We OF Ohio narrow the contest still more
n throw the responsibility entirely npont
the Republican party of Hamilton county !
Here will be decided the political com
pleKion of the next Legislature. If we
carrythis county, the Legislature must be 7
very evenly divided. but there will still
be a working Republican majority: but II
we lose the county, the Legislature is lost I
beyond peradventure, and losing IN leg
islature the amendment is lost. and recon-
structiOn is still unaccomplished. These
are s~elt-eyident truths, and no ore will
gainsay them.
SO the result depends on Ohio. and
that in Ohio depends on Hamilton
county, and Hamilton county Is to
determine for thirty-seven States, and
for veal or woe, whether the Constftu-
ton of the United States shall be stilI
further married on the p~retense of
amendment! And now that it is adj
mitted that the vote of Ohio is tab