Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-08
THE IMPORTANCE or A RE-
PUBLICAN VICTORY IN OHIO.

rFronazshe Cincinnati CommerelalI ]
IN the early summer months it was
thought the canvass in ONO WouId
turn upon local issues. Had the DeIH
ocraffe party taken a new departure
1n5sr the lead Of General Rosecrans,
fhis would doubtless have been the
Tba nomfnatfon Of Mr.. Pendleton by
h Democratic Executive gommItVss'
cave the anvas a broader slghiA
Scance. It brought up past issues ana
fnture aspirations. 1t became, IN place
If 4 merely Gubernator1al contesbs an
initial movement for the Presidency
- 1870 Elect Mr.. PendletOn Gov
100 and his chances for h Demo-
crafie nomination three years hence
become equal to those of any asplrant
Ruti il is not merely the fact that it
NAV virtually put the nomination Tor
the Presidency into his LnaU
Gives Importance to the canvass. 1t is
fba added fact that he viii have been
elected upon the strength of his record
during the war. He stands upon It
Iow He has never retracted one word
n renowned one act of that record,
and he will, very naturally, regard the
vardfot of the people in his faVor as a
justification of his record as q Reaee
democrat, who stood for the Vice
Presidency on the proposition that the
war was a failure, and that a compIo
mise. involving the recognition OF the
in5enendeuee Of the Southern Confed-
eracV and the right of States to seeede
from the Union, ought to be made
Not only was he a Peace Democrat
but a ~pro-slavery Democrat, and we
will search in vain through all ms
speeches for a word eondemning the
institution as q moral, civil, or poHt-
icaI wrong, or a system that ought 70
be efreumscribed in its limits. From
man cherishing such opinions, the
freedmen have nothing to hope. In~
deed. it can not be doubted that he is
pledged by his Own logic to go back
upon every act of the past two Admin
istratiOns. and every law of Congress
relatiugt to the abolition of slavery, and
the guarantee of civil rights to the
blacks. IT he IS consistent with him
self. he could not oppose such a re-
troactive policy.
But the canvass is important in an
other particular. 1t viii devOlve up
on the next Legislature to redistriet
the State, and if the Democracy are
successful in controlling that body, we
may be very sure hat the State viii
be so carved up as to insure the return
tt Congress, for ten years to come, {
pretty heavy Democratic representa-
ton. This is what the managers arr
aiming at now, and it is not improba
bic, considering its Importance, tina
they are distributing voters, in consid
cradle numbers, in Legislative dis
tricts where the vote Is close and tn
result uncertain.
1t behooves Republicans, therefore
to stand firm by their state and Legis
1ative tickets. 1t is no time for scratch
ing them, whatever they may do t
their county tickets. It is worth Will
to beat the Democracy now, for it vii
compel the party to change it's groun
hereafter, accept the issues ofthe wa
and choose for it's leaders men VII
stood by the Government in its strug
gle with the rebellion, and who nevC
despaiFed of the salvation of the r.
public. These considerations aIon
ought to convince Republicans of th
necessity of exerting their best il
fuence and energies to bring to til
polls their full strength