Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-08-20
Recent Southern Elections.
tFrom the New York Tribunc.l

lFrom the New York Tribune
The Senter Republicans of Tennessee are
not So jolly as they had hoped to be-. Their
Cons. rvativo" allies proved not only more
ruinous but more eXtctipg than they had
anticipated. Though there was no outright
bars ain, IL WAS clearly und. rstOOd by th;.sc
Republicans that Enfranchisement was all
that the Conservative J." we've to ask OF
claim at this OF. that, this being Sc
cured, they would vo Q not only for Senter
but for espe, | friends for the Legislature.
At the last moment, however, "Cuuserva-
tive candidates for the l. 'gislature were
nominated-or voted for without having
b en- op. My nominated-and most of them
o IsIiy elecI, over the divided aud couflic.
ting Republicans. TIE Senter Republicans
have therefore carried Seuter the Con.
servatives" have clutched nearly every.
| thing else. And there IS, naturally, some
hard feeling IN the snhirct.
Geu. Grant had So 757 votes in the State
last Fan; and tn 81 would have been about
| equally d vded on Governor but the lat
eT developments of Conservative " avidi-
" probably changed some thousands OF
th' So from Srntrr to Stokes, who thus
ceived some 80, 900 to a., 900 votes. Sen
up nearly as follows:
Republicans 20 600
seymour voters last year 25 OOD
| Newly euirauchised IS 900
The &c nservatives have won a triumph
too Sweeping to DC secure. Already, some
Of the old Rebel oracles begin to talk Of "a
| White Mans Government, 4" and an open
alliance on that platform with the Northern
Democracy. They Will doubtless ~ man.
age as to Suite aud invigorate the R-publi-
| Al 10 Aap hut hos htuly
thew can afT,rd. BY our estimate they are
10000 strong; while the Republicans are
but 10000. The former are not likely tU
ignore this disparity.
"There you see the effect Of Rebel en-.
frar chsemt nj !" says Stokes man.
Certainly. IL would doubtless have been
ser in the Republicans 10 enfranchiSe the
Rebels by q generous act of amnesty than
| 10 let them enfranchise thems lives, as, by
Sen;er's aid, they have iu,t done. There
is always right way TO do whatever needs
doing and taking another way, or letting
it be taken, involves troubls.
But the champiors'of wholesale, indp6.
mite prescription persistently shut their
eyes to controlling facts. Thev talk as
though a pyramid would stand on its apex
forever bpt It won't. Had Seymour been
elected last Fall, the Conservatives
would have enfranchised themselves by the
shortest way, law Or no law. There would
probably have been collision, and a season
Of aua = hF-possihly ofblood shed but they
would have been voters In the end. They
have now attained that end Ia better way
though not the best. The last Legislature
should have enfranchised at least the better
half of them.
-Virginis seems quietly awaiting Gen,
| ~ a. Il At. - al. Ia
Of her late struggle. IL there are complaints
that any have been prescribed, or elected
from their tenements, or turned ffby their
employers for voting as they chose last
month, we do not hear them. But We dc
hear that Gen. Candy persists 10 his pur.
pos, OF sxsotipg the iron-clAd oath OF every
member of the new Legislature, and dee'Ay
regret IL. We see no end TO be Achie IA by
Il but that Of converting the triumphant
Walker party into an anti Afimfhis'vatior
arty and embIteripg the political fauds o.
V rginia for years 10 come. II the eff ct be
deprive the majority Of U. S. Senators sud
enable the majority 10 elect them, The
wrong will be greater and the bluuder more
fatal. We must cherish the hope that Gen
Candy will yet be Induced "to accept the
situation" ss'fully, II not so heartily, a
the late Rebels appear TO have done.
Alabama alone has just witnessed
straight forwsrd party contest, and Their
the Republicans have triumphed, choosing
four Of the six Representatives In Congress
One OF the Democrats chosen is Peter NJ
Dox. we'll known 10 the politics of our State
nrst as q Wing, then as Silver GRAY
,, lastly as pro Slavery "Democrat. nv
b. ," Carpet-bagge $" are not obnoxious a
the South unless they are Republicans
they are.p We trust that Col. Do
may be able to take the iron clad oath, a
Il don't require him to swear that he wishe
tho Rebels defeated 10 the late unpleasant
ness.
We hope soon 10 hear that the Repuhl
q cans of the South have every where discard
ed the policy Of prescribing or disffanchi'
b. ing the late Rebels, True, they may b
a benten by the votes nov nulitisd by th
: policy but triumphs won by cObhaing III
!. suffrage practically 10 one party are frsgi
. and illusory, as Andrew Johnson faun'
= when he made Tennessee vote for Lineo
q and himself In '64--as Col. Stokes has ia
a discovered. The only safe aud solid grour
y TO stand on Is that OF All Rights for All.
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