Year: 1865

The recent elections in the North shew
, conclsively that the Republicans will be


the dominant party in the country, and


control the national government for years.


unles they become divided among them


selves on matters of patty policy.
The democracy every where through


out the North appear to be completely


PROSTATE. Their opposition to Lincoln,


and the war me easures Of his administra


ton, have produced this result. 1t was


reasonable to expect after the war had


been successfully concluded, and the in
surgent States reduced to the condition


in which they desire reunion, that the


party who had declared the war a "fail


ure" and had opposed its prosecution
should be defeated by popular majority


We think the future success of the Re-


puElicans will depend altogether on the
use they make of this victory. If they
allow the Radical negro-suffrage element
Of the party to control, and take issue
with the President on his plan of recon
struction, they will rapidly sink into a
minority. Their party conventions in all
the States but Massachusetts, and Mineso-
to, indorsed President johnson. In Ohio
not only the convention, but the candidate


for Governor repudiated negro suffrage.


| was opposed in Pennsylvania and de.


feated by direct vote in Connecticut
In New York the Republicans in conven-
ton and through their leading organs
fully sustained the Presidents reconstruc-
ton course and it does not by any means
follow that their success will affect or
change his policy.


In New Jeresy the contest was close.
The Democrats were defeated on account
of their opposition to the constitutional
amendment.


The New York Times, an influential
republican journal, regards the recent
elections as highly favorable to the policy
of the President. 1t denies that the
President favors the unconditional re-
sumption by the southern States of full
ever their local affairs and seats
in the councils of the nation The Times |
also says that our States will not be recog-
nized as loyal until they perform the fol-
lowing acts:


|. Declare the ordinance of secession
passed by them in 1861 to have been null |
and void from the beginning


=. Ratlfy the amendment to the Con |
stitution of the United States by which |
slavery is forever prohibited, and Con
gress is clothed with power to make all |
laws necessary to carry that prohibition
into effect


8. Repudate the debts, Confederate
and State, contracted for the purpose OF
overtime wing the National Government


The same journal adds:


There is nothing, certainly, unreason-
able or extravagant in these demands |
They require simply, at the hands of the |
South, acqulescenca in the result of the |
war and IN the means by which that re
suit has been brought about. 1t is i'm |
possible that so great war should be |
crowned by SO great victory without de
cldi1ig something-without putting some |
doctrines beyond the possibility of all |
future controversy; and foremost among /
those doctrines is that of paramount ma
tional sovereignty. The South profess
to accept that decision as final: if cannnt
be unreasonable to ask them to embody
that acceptance in solemn act. The
overthrow of slavery was one Of the in
struments by which the rebellion was put
down. Slavery perished in the contest,
and the South recognizes its destruction.
1t cannot be unreasonable to ask them to
Join as in putting that recognition be
yond dispute for all time to come. And
no State can be loyal and still recognize
as valid and binding debts incurred in
efforts to overthrow the government and
made valid only in case of the success of
that endeavor.