Abstract

The Week

The article focuses on issues related to politics in the United States. On a comparatively light vote, but, so far as now appears, by majorities not proportionally light, the Republicans seem to have carried both Ohio and Pennsylvania. This removes some politicians from the field, of possible candidates for the Presidency. It finally disposes of repudiation, and, doubtless, ensures Ohio's renewed ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. It is, by the way, not a little curious that the Southern gentry, who used to vaunt their independence and pride, are so ready to truckle to men in authority. It was very noticeable in 1865, and later, when what the President said and did had more weight with the Southern leaders of opinion than the action of Congress, and when their blind obedience to U.S. President Andrew Johnson led them to take without flinching the bitterest and strongest pills, such as the repudiation of the rebel war debts, and also to indulge in futile opposition to such comparatively mild medicines as Congress proposed.