New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-19
TIE OHIO ELECTION.


tarily broken the chains of their slaves.
! TIE OHIO ELECTION.
4 general election, involving chief;
I local interests, hasjust been held in Ohio,
and terminated in such name. as to
leave the result in some doubt. As 10
grea: interest is manifested by the Repub.
icans il other States in this matter, the
| apathy is taken for despair, and the
Democracy is accordingly jubilant. Some
enthusiast is reported to have sent Gov.
ernor ode bonis NOM McEnery dispatch
on Friday from somewhere 70 this effect:
I Allen elected Governor by abou, one
Thousand majority; tho State ticket also
probably elected
! Now, one would suppose there was bu:
little comfort in al! this TO even the mos.
enthusiastic Of the needy followers Of
Fusion in Louisiana. Yet there is per-
| ceptible stifening Of tone, and an inc.p.
| lent counting Of unmatched chickens
begun o. once.
My. r. NJ. T. Hunter furnishes al apt
Textile compensation for slaves lost by
the emancipation proclamation. which we
took occasion to explain the other day as a
thing not likely to take place. Since "Gor-
ernor' McEnery received his dispatch,
the Picayune has taken up this subjec: in
a hopeful-nay, a positive strain, and
even rebukes Hunter for intimating that
the Southern commissioners should have
accepted the four hundred million dollars
offered by Mr.. Lincoln. This appears to be
the sum Of the cogitations, precipitated,
perhaps, by the dispatches from Ohio:
That claim. in duo time, will be made by
Kentucky. Maryland, Delaware and Mis-
souri,, and will be recognized and paid. We
hold this to be certain, if the government of
the United States is to exist at all, as free,
and, therefore, q just government.
When the blessed millennium, SO hap.
PLY inaugurated in Ohio, and so joyfully
communicated to Governor" McEnery,
shall dawn upon US with a cloudless
sky, We shall come into . grea. many
blessings.
Full compensation for four and half
million slaves-not lump offer Of eighty
dollars head for our property, which We
now think was worth seyen hundred dol
lars; though. perhaps. We nigh: have
closed out on more favorable terms once
4 tariff for revenue, which every Demo-
c1at wants, bu: no one understands. !.
is TO be hoped tina. the promise Of pay
for lost slaves will reconcile on, sugar
planters TO the abolition OF the tariff on
sugar, or anything else that will cripple
Pennsylvania and New England.
A strictly specie currency. when moth
ing but gold and silver will be recognized
as currency, and wild cat bank notes are
as plenty as they were under the financial
manipulations Of jackson and Benton.
4 government by the a,istocracy. in
which colored people will have no voice
Finally, complete return to the wooden
pillow and hand car. days Of on. grand.
fathers.
All these smoldering hopes have been
revived by that blessed dispatch 70 "Gov.
erno,' McEnery The Ohio election is
the turning poin. in the destinies of the
Democracy. The South is abou: 20 be
called 20 take the front. /: is strange
that men with ordinary perceptive
faculties should be led into such blum
ders. Here is State, that 70. local pur-
poses Is always very close in elections, |
has just ended characteristic contest, in
which no one knows and few outside Of |
the State care. how il has Terminated. !
No national issue was involved Had
one Of the questions which the Picayata. |
expects to see revived by the Ohio |
election in case il has gone Demo.
cratic, been sugg ested TO the people there,
it would have Jared as Vallandigham did |
IN 1864. Il would have been buried be- !
meath majority Of one hundred thousand !
votes Ohio is one OF the most indepen-
dent, obstinate, self-willed States in the
Union. It's ideas of the tariff, finance.
slavery. secession, notification, and its
own Importance, were formed years ago,
and are not likely TO be affected az every
little local contest.
It is not at all sure that the dispatch
which has brought SO much joy into the
Fusion camp has any foundation in fact.
But it is very certain that. even if true. il
does not indicate that the people of the
United States. nor even those of Ohio.
are on The eve Of rushing into wild ex-
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