Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-05
TIE REVOLUTIONS IN CONeBEss

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The best result Of the election Of
Tuesday is the gains made by so many
OF the States in the number Of Demo
Gratis sent to congress. 1t is quite up Il
the msrk we had set, and may, wheI
all the official returns srs In, pass 1t
The elections Of the early part Of the
year resulted in q gain Of Is; that o.
Tuesday In a gain Of 20, which lsttel
figure added to ea already secured, in
sures IA a Democratic vote of 16s In the
house Of Representatives Of the forty fourth
congress, and majority Of 30 over the
Republicans, who will be reduced to lSO
votes, perhaps less, when the States OF
Nevada, Florida and Kansas, and the
Territories Of Arizona, Idaho and Wash
ington are heard from. The gains Of
le we're made-In Indiana, 5; Iowa, /;
North Carolina, 2; Ohio, 8; Oregon, /;
West Virginia, l. The gains Of
20 were made: In New York, Isl Ala
bama, 4; Arkansas, /; Delaware, Il
Georgia, 2; Illinois, s; Louisiana, O.;
Asryland, 2; Massachusetts, 6; Michi-
gan, 4; Missouri, 2; New Jersey, 4;
Pennsylvania, 8; South Carolina, 8;
Tennessee, 6; Virginia, 8; and Wiseon-
siu, /. This is surely q great result Of
indomitable energy and party perse-
versnce in the face Of an opposition that
embraced the whole official power and
patronage Of the Federal government,
aud In face Of the most arbitrary exer-
che Of that power, as in Alabama and
Louisiana. 1t is yet our special wonder
that these two States and South Caro-
LIMA have done so nobly, and that after
them Massachusetts, has so overWhelm-
in yly rebuked Grants administration
and that extreme and most objection
able Of Radicals, Benjamin F. Butler.
A worse man than he does not to-day
exist Ia the United States in public
lie. He has the ambition Of Sa-
tan. and only wants the power and
o,Dor unity to make himself felt as cru
ally. ma 'evolently and mischievously
q, be in his speeches during the late
canvass besl 'oke himself The people of
ITS, tired Of him, wearied of
his yearly ppesls to their prejudices
against US reb,Ns, and failing to see any
good, solid result to them orto the Union
f.on his contiroance in place, have
crushed him at one blow as s nuisance
ID At could 10 longer be even tolerated.
B Itler goes out Of congress We hope for
ever, and W also hope there will go
with him tho last lingering remnant Of
the dsvilish system OF Rsdicalism and
series Of rec obstruction measures, that
The forty-fomtk congress may be able to
resume the leg itimste duties Of ns-
i)Dal legislative body, and devote itself
wholly 10 such Legislation IS will have for
It's object the meliorstiOn Of the condi-
don OF the Poop lie of all the States-wise,
,2portune and v rell-cODsidered measures
hat will afford III needed relief, restor-
az the States TO the harmonious condl-
ion which for 80 many years character
zsd their relations one to the other.
This should be, and doubtless will be,
he great result of the victory Of Tues
FAY, a victory thst the people are every
where celebrating with meetings, bon
aYss, firing Of cannon, torchlight pro-
oessions, and every possible mode Of
of gIsdness that on
" those know how TO appre-
cis'e at its best who have been
ovsrridden by soldiers under Mer-
III. worried by Federal officials like
j ester, and thres' ened by such corrup-
Vuists as Lsudaulet Williams, present
| Norney-genersl Of the United States.
o Vbe people OF South Carolina, Louis
ina and Alabama this victory viii
,me With an added meaning, bespeak-
~ a brI. Nit future free Of carpetbaggery
nd all the chicauery in politics
nd bed,,vi. lmeDts in social life
,at the o,SioNs compound suggests.
/ will .Issuha them that in
eed "there " lie in the old land yet"
Within their own borders they will !
resthe q purer Stmosphea,e, and when
hey look abroad, intesd Of States ar I
aged against them ia the support OF q
heir task-masters, they will find SS>Ntes !
landing beside them in both houses of j
ongress pledged TO their welfare underl
be constitution, pledged not to look )
,sck, but forward, and pledged to the !
.uarantee OF all the rights Of all the peo- {
lie, white as well as blsck. This is q /
,reat gain, perhaps the greatest, when )
We consider the growth and grasp Of {
,lwer by congress since 1885. Next TO !
{ Is the good news that assures us that G
he senate, like the house, will undergo c
change consequent upon the Demo- ]
ratio gains in most Of the legislaturesi {
rains that viii insure us total gain OF
en- in the senate and an equality Of
that will deter the admin {
;, alton from q continuance of the i
Az excuses that have well-nigh :
.ochsa the verge OF absolut- 9
m Tn better to inform our /
,asen Of tn States WHARF this change {
% already bes effected, and those we !
.,v uDon 70 conn lete it, we append the {
.u,o. ., the twenty.AS ve senators whose
srms expire with the tS,r'y-'hiro con- j
ress, the States which choose theif sue
essors, and the names of thosS "nef-
yer they have already been chosSn'
hey stand seventeen administration
in Roman letters; three In 6
dependents, elected as Republicans, in