The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-22
TIE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

factions and elements of the two great
parties which have so long struggled fol-
POLITICAL supremacy into a new aud dis
tine, organization which may take a
place, as the ruling power in thu c"un-
try. The efforts of the so called Demo-
cratic party, as such, have proved
fruirlrss MS against the patriotic aims of
the Republican party and norhiBg
proves this more conclusively than the
very evident tendencies of the lately
Confederate States to rid themselves OF
their disabilities by according m actual
if not a hearty acceptance of the Con
gressioual policy. Tue fact being pal
pable that what is proposed in the Fit-
teenth Ameudmen; having already be-
come part of the political machinery
of the reconstructed commemorative,
tide experience taught politicians of
that section are determined to get rid
Ct the bone of contention al once and
forever; and it is safe TO predict tina,
enough of the Southern Legislatures
will follow the example set by Virginia
to ensure the ratification of the FIT
teen;h Amendment. This done, two
birds are killed with Que stone, so to
speak; for after the principles Of the
Republican party are agreed TO by the
lately rebel States themselves the oGsas
teIii is removed; and while this Will
leave Republicanism with nothing dis
tinctiveiy patriotic for rallying cry, |
i. elso leaves Northern Democracy quite |
without an occupation-iis only func- |
ton of late years having been to re-
echo Southern demands aud peculiar
Southern prejudices. While Pendleton
was, as the substitute gubsruatoriai |
nominee on the Democratic ticket in
Ohio rice Rosecrans, declined, stumpiug |
that State in favo. of reputation and !
against the Fifteenth Amendment, the
of Virginia ratified the |
Fourteenth Amendment, which makes |
the Public Debt sacred, and the Fit
teeuth which ensures manhood citizen
and while PendIeton on the
one hand and Virginia on the other,
were doing these things, the ''coaserve-
tives" of Mississippi land " conserva.
tives" means rebels) were nominating a
co,ored man on their State ticket for
Lieutenant Governor.
These are the fruits of such thor
ough and complete revolution as has
forever oyerthrown the politics which
preceded the rebellion. Virginia is,
practically, to-day, with rebel Legis-
latu.e, more radically Republican than
Rhode Island. This newly established
political condition leaves such States
IS Kentucky, Delaware and Maryia
IS far behind the age, as far away from
me living sympa,hies of the great
active agencies of political life as if
hey had been in a state of absolute
tcrpor during the stirring scenes Of the
3ast nine yerrs.
The South is fast getting upon its
Get When it does stand up, full of
IS new energies and new purposes it
I III sctuate such political activities as
sili necessitate corresponding activi
les in New England, in the Middle
States and in the West TIE coming
'road issues may include the tariff and
he labor question but they Cannot,
'cssihls involve the negro question, nor ,
1e debt, nor State sovereignty; for each
nd all those issues are as deeply
'nried in the past as slavery itself.
Such being the condition which pre- ,
ents itself in the political outlook i'm t
uediafeiy before US, il seems evident !
hat the materials which at present /
the two great parties Of
ne North are near to an ABSORPTION I
nto other organizations which will be 7
!talized by new ideas and purposes f
"a ,rhnsa mission IL will he lot ne !