Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-12
The Result in Tennessee-C0 Comments
of the Press.

The Result in Tennessee-C0mme
Of the Press.
From the Baltimore SUM-
The later returns from the election in
Tennessee augment the majority for Sen
ter, the conservative Republican candi.
date for Governor, and the dispatches
published to-day indicate that he has re-
ceived upward of 65, 900 votes over his
Radical competitor, Stokes, notwith-
standing the latter had the countenance
of the administration and the emphatic
Endorsement of Secretaries Boutwell, and
Creswell. The following are the opinions
of some of the papers of New York city
on the result in Tennessee. The New
York Journal Of Commerce says:
In Tennessee the Senter men had to
fight the administration and its large and
we'll paid army of employees. For Presi-
dent Grant to have allowed his Secre-
taries, Boutwell, and Creswell, to commit
him to the losing Stokes side was blum
der of the first magnitude. 1t Is one OF
those mistakes which are not forgiven in
politics. Tennessee follows Virginia.
Senier is q political twin brother of
Walker. Like causes produce like effects
in both States. Next will come Missis.
sippi. and then Texas. This Conserva-
tive Republcanism is the sword that cuts
all the hard knots with which Raicalism
would tie up the South. The formation
of this new party in the South is the
brightest political idea of the age The
name itself means nothing; but the pur.
pose of the party which adopts it signifies
a great deal. Conservative Republicaism
at the South is the sacrifice Of great bum
dies of old prejudices on the altar of
rational union and healthful progress.
1t recognizes all the consequences of
the war, the death of secession, the free
dom of the slaves, their admission to
the ballot, the necessity of the Union to
the happiness of the South as we'll as of
the North. 1t is complete surrender of
everything that the rebellion sought for,
and it asks for but one small favor in re-
turn. It begs the privilege of coming
back into the Union, and working for its
advancement and glory side by side with
the North, East and West. Universal
suffrage and universal amnesty are its
motto. To party full ofssuch just and
honorable sentiments it is folly for the
Radical faction to oppose itself. Justice,
forgiveness and lherality are sure to win
the day in the long run against injustice,
cherished malice and narrow minded
ness. The Buffers, Rrownlows and Bout
wells will fight against it in vain and the
more the President permits himself to be
identified with their side the worse will it
be for his reputation.
TIE New York Tribune traces the dis
aster to ,ts root, the political disfran-
chisemeut Of the Gcpfederates, and says:
"Disfranchisement Was naturally
stronger in Tennessee than elsewhere
It had fortified itself with extraordinary
vigor and skillr-yet it has suddenly and
utterly broken down, 90 We have never
doubted that it must It's net possible,
in a. republic, to deny the right OF suf-
frage to large and intelligent portion OF
the eoasmpnity because of their past po-
litical transgssssjops. You can shoot
them or hang them in the aush of victory,
if you will, though at your own heavy
cost possibly you might con6scate their
property and drive their leaders into
exile; but you must do either with
celebrity, and before popular passion has
had time to cool. Thereafter, the inevi-
lshIs drift is toward universal amnesty,
and Il esnHqt long be successfully re-
sisted. And we rel 'iee that such is the
case"
The New York Times (Republicani
repndiates the effort made to identify
Governor Ssnter with the Democrats,
and says that Stokes was salEnopinated
candidate, and odds that "his political
peculiarly, as compared With senter, was
the advocacy Of continued prescription,
which the leading Republicans Of the
State have deprecated "a the fruitful
source Of mischief" The Times, how
ever, attributes the disaster to want Of
harmony in 1.-THE party" and complains
of [" political rufiianism," and thinks that
neither Of tbs iste candidates was regu-