New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-20
THE NORrHgRn ELECTIOHs.

Inc DelIOcEdto itLoo EttiiIti ioui ultulDels
in North Carolina. Two leading ques
tons, only one of which, however, in
volved a principle, entered into the con
test and divided the two parties. These
We're protective tariff and negro suffrage
Pennsylvania, although largely a manu-
featuring State, will probably send to tie
Forty-second Congress delegation
equally divided on the question of protec.
ton. 1t now appears that the Ohio
delegation will stand fourteen Republic
ans to five Democrats. They will be
divided more equally on the protection
question, or ten for and nine against.
Thus the old issues that divided the
Wigs and Democrats for many years are
about to be revived. The causes of quar-
rel which led to the late war have been en-
tirely ignored, and had no influence in
the canvass in either of the three large
States named. But the Republicans lost
some strength, especially in Indiana and
Ohio, by adhering to the principles Of the
fifteenth amendment. For, although the
question had been fairly settled beyond
the power of either or all of these States
to revive it, the Democratic politicians in
sisted upon forcing the Republicans to
declare whether or not they approved of
the principle of negro suffrage. The lat
ter boldly met the issue, Endorsed the ff-
teenth amendment as matter Of right and
justice, and, as a consequence, lost more
white votes than they gained colored
voters. But the party was strong enough
fortunately, to stand the loss without be-
ing defeated. It is not the first time the
great Republican party has periled its
success for what it deemed the right.
Even in North Carolina, where there are
more colored voters than in all three of
the other States, and less whites than half
of the smallest, the opposition elected
five members of Congress, out of seven.
Here again the Republican candidates
stood boldly up to q principle at the risk
of success. In all of the States, the
colored vote was cast for the Republican
ticket; but 1t added no strength to the
party in Pennsylvania, Ohio or In
diana. 1t will add none in New
York or Illinois. But we may hope for
some compensation in Maryland, Della
ware and the States further South. For
here the parties are divided on issues diff
ferent to those which entered into the con-
test in the Northwest where they have
fought out the war of the rebellion. Their
worst Copperheads, like Ben Wood and
have been sent to the polit-
ical cemeteries, and all the mourners have
dried their tears. Tie funeral being quite
over, the people have passed to the con-
sideration Of other matters We are not
so far advanced here. We continue to at
tach too much Importance to the old ami
and to the status of candidates
during the war. "A revival of this feeling
has taken place very recently. And so
long as it remains alive or shows symp-
toms of returning animation, it will
meet with determined opposition at
every turn. Our friends, the Democrats,
have not yet imported the latest fashions
for politics from the North, and are run
ming exclusively on the old issues In their
platform recently adopted there is no
mention Of any new principle. The lead
ng ideas of the Republican party, which
Ire now incorporated in the constitution
md laws are reluctantly recognized as
but that is as far as the
Southern Democracy have gone. In the
North, on the contrary, they have given
Up the war against the rights of the
,olored man. That is, they no longer
trive to keep him down, and merely con-
gainst those Republicans who have been
in securing the passage Of the
fifteenth amendment, and the law to en-
orce its provisions. But they have re-
urned to the old position they occupied
.gainst the Wings, and begun to rail
.gainst the tariff. In order to popularize
heir movement and render the tariff as
'dious as possible, they stignatize it as
icing protective is, designed to fos-
er peculiar branches of industry, such
IS manufacturing at the expense of the
gricultural interests. Such appeals were
cry potent to the farmers of Ohio and
indiana many years ago, and yet have
heir influence there and in western Penn
ylvania.
The partial success Of the Democracy
4 the North can not, therefore, be hailed
S an encouragement for the Democracy of
louisiana. For to carry out the doctrine
, its logical consequences it would in
olive the repeal of the duty on our sugar,
'hich the planters of this State
re not quite prepared, for. And
5 the politics of the country
lust necessarily hinge on the ques-
ons of tariff and finance for the next two
r three years, perhaps our Democratic
lends will do we'll to pause and consider
efore they throw up their caps at the
'iumph of party at the North that is
yidently working for an object antagon-
tic to our material interests. The ques-
ons that once divided the country
lose arising from the institution of
avery-are so firmly settled that they
re hardly of sufficient practical import