The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-16

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opinion shall have ripened for the change.
RECENT SOUTHERN ELECTIONS.
From the NJ Y. Tribune.
The Senter Republicans of Tennessee are
not so jolly as they had hoped to be- Their
conservative allies proved not only more
rulnous but more eXacting than they had an
hcpated. Though there was no outright bar
gain, it was clearly understood by those Re
pubhcans that enfranchisement was all that
the conservatives were to ask OF claim at
tins election-that, this being secured. they
would vote not only for Seuter but for espe-
cial friends for the Legislature. AT the last
moment, however, conservative candidates
for the Legislature were nominated-or voted
for without having been openly nominated
and most of them easily elected over the
divided and conflicting Republicans. The
Senter Republicans have therefore carried
Senter; the 'Conservatives' have clutched
nearly everything else. And there is. natu-
rally, some hard feeling on the subject.
Gen: Grant had 56, 757 votes in the State
last fall; and these would have been about
equally divided on Governor; but the later
developments of conservative" avidity
probably changed some thousands of these
from Senter to Stokes, who thus received
some 10000 to 10000 votes. Senters vote
will probably reach 100, 900, made up nearly
as follows
hepuDlcans 600
Seymour voters last year..................25 -. 600
Newly enfranchised. 900
The conservatives have won triumph
too sweeping to be secure. Already. some
of the old Rebel oracles begin to talk of "a
white mans government. and an open alli-
ance on that platform with the Northern
Democracy. They will doubtless 50 manage
as to unite and invigorate the Republicans at
an early day; but this they think they can
afford. BY our estimate they are 10000
strong; while the Republicans are but GO. 900.
The former are not likely to ignore this
disparity
'There you see the effect of Rebel enfran-
chisement. says a Stokes man.
Certainly 1t would doubtless have been
wiser in the Republicans to enfranchise the
Rebels by generous act of amnesty than to
let them enfranchise themselves, as, by Sen
ters help, they have just done. There is
always a right way to do whatever needs
doing; and taking another way, or letting it
be taken, involves trouble.
But the champions of wholesale, indefinite
prescription persistently shut their eyes to
controlling facts They talk as though a
pyramid would stand on its apex forever: but
it won't. Had Seymour been elected last fall
the conservatives would have enfranchised
themselves 10y the shortest way, law or no law
There would probably have been collision and
a season of anarchy-posslbly of bloodshed-
but they would have been voters in the end.
They have now attained that end in better
way, though not the best. The last Legisla-
ture should have enfranchised at least the
better half of them.
Virginia seems quietly awaiting General
Canby's official declaration of the result of
her late struggle. If there are complaints
that any have been prescribed, or elected
| from their tenements, or turned off by THEN
employers for voting as they chose last month,
we do not hear then4. But we do hear that
General Candy persists in his purpose of ex,
acting the irOn-clad oath of every member of
| the new Legislature, and deeply regret it.
| We see no end to be achieved by it but that
of converting the triumphant Walker party
into an anti-administration party and embit,
tering the political feuds of Virginia for years
| to come. If the effect be to deprive the ma.
| iority of United States Senators and enable
the minority to elect them, the wrong will be
| greater and the blunder more fatal. We must
cherish the hope that General Candy will YET
be induced 'to accept the situation as fully
if not so heartily, as the late Rebels appear tC
| have done.
Alabama has Just witnessed a straight
forward party contest; and there the Repub
licans have tnumphed, choosing four of the
six Representatives in Congress. One of the
| Democrats chosen is Peter NJ. Dox, vel
known in the politics of our State, first as
Whig, then as a ''Silver Gray, lastly as
pro-slavery democrat On. B.-"Carpet
baggers' are not obnoxious at the Soutl
unless they are Republicans; then they are,
We trust that Colonel DoX may be able t
take the iron-clad oath, as it don't requir
him to swear that he wished the Rebels de
feated in the late unpleasantness,
We hope soon to hear that the Republi
cans of the South have everywhere discarde,
the policy of prescribing or disfranchisini
the late Rebels. True, they may be beatel
by the votes now nullifed by this policy; bu
triumphs won by confining the suffrage prac
tically to one party are fragile and illusory, a
Andrew Johnson found when he made Ten
nessee vote for Lincoln and himself in GA
as Colonel Stokes has just discovered. Th
only safe and solid ground to stand on is tina
of all rights for all.
OUR PROTECTION-RUINED CHIN
TRADE.
From the NJ Y. World.
The organs of protection do not like tn
WOrLd'S exposure of the ruin they hay
, brOupht upOn the manufacturin0 intarestg =