The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-15
The Late Iclections--rho Fifteenth Amend-
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The late elections have been very close In
Pennsylvania and Ohio. One way or the
other the result in Pennsylvania signifies
nothing, because in that State, beyond their
local issues, there was really nothing at stake.
In Ohio the contest was of some national
Importance in two aspects-frst, in regard TO
the fifteenth amendment, and, secondly, In
reference to Pendleton, as the democratic
champion of Ohio and the West for the Presi-
Dental succession.
With the vote Of Ohio there would be fair
prospect of securing the required ratiiica-
ton by three-fourths of the States of tho
| fifteenth amendment during the coming winter.
With democratic majority in either branch
of the new Legislature the vote of Ohio will
be lost, and considering that California is
last, and that the new democratco- conser-
vative Legislature of Tennessee is regarded as
worse than doubtful, there is the probability
of hitch in said amendment which may carry
it over into the elections of next fall. The
whole number of States in the Union is thirty
seven-three-fourths of thirty-six is exactly
twenty-seven; but the thirty-seventh State
will make twenty eight required for the ratid-
cation pending.
Now, how stands the case2 The States
which have ratified the amendment are twenty,
to wt:-Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, ILL
nois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West
Virginia and Wisconsin. The States which
have rejected the amendment are:-Delaware,
Georgia, Ohio-three. The States which
have not yet acted on the question are =
Alabama, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Mary
land, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New
Jersey, Oegon, Rhode Island, Tennessee,
Texas and Vermont-fourteen. OF these
States, Mississippi and Texas are required to
ratify as q condition of reconstruction
and Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island
and Vermont are certain-,ive more, which
will make in all twenty seven sure.
We want one more, and we have these States
from which to get it, viz.:-Alabama, Cali
fornia, Delaware. Georgia, Kentucky, New
Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon and Ten
nessee Now, as for California, Delaware,
Maryland, Kentucky, New Jersey, Oregon and
Tennessee, they may be counted out, SO thai
our chances are reduced to Ohio, Alabama
and Georgia. With republican Legis-
lature in Ohio the thing is fixed
without further difficulty; but in default
of Ohio little judcious diplomacy on the
part of the administration may secure the one
vote wanting on said amendment from Georgia
or Alabama. Those States have no interest
now in any further opposition to this amend
ment, inasmuch as they have negro suffrage
established within their borders. 1t is their
policy in fixing it upon the North to bring the
Northern democracy into rapport with the new
anti-radical party of the South We con-
clude, therefore, that the fifteenth amendment
is safe, and that it depends entirely upon Gen
eral Grant whether the ratification shall be
| completed without unnecessary delay or shall
| be carried over to the elections of next year.
| So much, then, for HE fifteenth amendment
fixes it at once, but that even hitch in Ohio
does not endanger it, because it can be still
easily fixed by the administration.
Now for Pendleton. The Ohio democrats,
chatting under what they called the cheating of
Seymour and The New York managers In the
Tammany Convention of 1868, have been
making q vigorous effort to put Pende-
ton in the foreground for 1872. Had they
elected him Governor over the popular
republican candidate, Hayes, it would have
been fine feather in Pendleton's cap. The
democracy of the whole West would be rallied
around him as their champion against New
York and her candidate, and they would
doubtless prove too strong for Tammany Hall
and her favorite But tho defeat of Psndle-
ton leaves New York, with her man Hoffman,
master of the field, and our coming November
election will establish the democratic supre-
macy Of the Empire State through the decisive
democratic vote Of our imperial city. Thus
the election in Ohio leaves the national demo
cracy in the hands Of Tammany Hall, for Tam
many controls the decisive vote OF this city
| Hoffman, then, and not Pendleton, has tho
inside track for The next National Democratic
Convention, and this, we presume, finishes
Pendleton. He failed signally in 1864, for no
was lightweight upon Mcclellan; he has
been failure ever since, and he ought now TO
be laid up in lavender, for he is very nice
man.
Having thus disposed Of The only two
national issues really involved in these late
elections, we dismiss them. General Grants
administration in them was only an incident
but its popular strength will be practically put
to the test in the elections of next fall for
new Congress.
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