Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — SOUTHERN OPINION. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN OPINION.

How the Election of Garfield Is Viewed in the South. The Charleston (8. C.) jVew’s and Courier concludes ah editorial on the result of the Presidential election as follows: “We do not for a moment imagine that the American people wish that any State should again be ruled by a Scott, a Moses, or a Bullock. The truth was that the control that was necessary, and even indispensable, in local affairs carried with it considerable influence in national affairs. With the help of two Northern States, the South could elect the President, and be master of the Government. We know, or think we know, that the power would have been exercised wisely. But the conquerors were not ready to be ruled’, even to their own advantage, by the conquered. Nor would the South have been, if Grant, instead of Lee, had surrendered bis army fifteen years since. Beside this latent war feeling, there was the mighty influence of the bankers, merchants and shopkeepers, who had no particular objection to the Democracy coming into place except that it involved a change of some sort, and they wished no change of any sort. Why should they ? Business is good, money is cheap, every department of trade is flourishing. It is true that the currency is iu an unstable condition ; but a coolheaded citizen not in debt would not expect from a party which prostituted itself to the Piaisteds and De La Matyrs a better dollar than would be furnished by Chittenden, Morton and Sherman, and we may add that, with eyes wide open to all its faults, the white people north of the Potomac bad come to the conclusion that there was a better prospect of good government from the Republican party than from the Democracy. Whatever the exact way in which it came about, it is a hard fact that the Government of the United States for the next four years will be Republican in speech, purpose and action. The Republican President will apparently have at his back a Republican Congress. What they will they can do with the Southern States and their people. We hope and believe, however, that tne business interests, wliich were the mainspring of Tuesday’s work, will be opposed utterly to any legislation that would in any way embarrass the agriculture and manufactures, the trade and commerce of the South. It is to the interest of the North and West to take this position. They will do it whenever and as soon as the people of the Southern States cease to be posed by politicians as the wouldbe autocrats of the Union that they did their utmost to destroy. When this species of Southern supremacy is laid, the Northern people will be freer to exhibit their kindly feelings, and one of the first questions the Southern whites will have to ask themselves is, whether the welfare of the South has and is likely to be hindered or advanced by alliance with the Democrats of the North. It does not hurt those gentry to be beaten. They are sure to have just and equal Governments in their States in any event. Not so with the South, In losing' politically the South loses in pocket and in peace of mind. Will the South remain on the losing side, and if so on what terms and for what purpose ? The Southern people, we fancy, will make themselves heard on this subject before the winter is past.” The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times editorially says:

“ Hancock has been beaten by John Kelly’s crowd in New York. He gave the State to Cornell, Conkling & Company last year simply because a friend of Tilden was the nominee. He kept up a constant row and turmoil in the State and city from the time Hancock was nominated until the day of the election. He nominated a municipal ticket which was a fearful load on the electoral ticket, and lost the party fully 20,000 votes. His horrible, brutal, libelous war on the proprietor of the Herald, has cost another 10,000. He was charged with the conduct of the city canvass, and promised a full vote of the party. His pet for Mayor goes in by a few hundred, where a popular man could have had 60,000 majority. New York would have elected Hancock. Mr. Kelly threw it away to gratify his evil temper, and because he thought he could by no less violent means grab the city patronage. It is foolish to talk about the bloody-shirt and humbug business issues so long as we tolerate such a magazine of political nytro-glycerine in the middle of the party. Kelly must be unloaded. We cannot succeed with him. We can organize a decent and honorable defeat without him. As for the solid South and kindred issues, they have not beaten the Democrats. The North understands that the South is solid from the most natural motives. New Jersey, California, Nevada, and probably Oregon, as States, were not afraid of the solid South. Three million Northern voters cast their votes with the South. That war-cry kept the old-timers in line. Internal quarrels among the Democrats, and stupid blunderings, did more for the Republicans than they did for themselves to secure the victory.” The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Constitutionalist says : “The South at least has the satisfaction of knowing that she kept her part of the bargain, and if the “hero of Gettysburg” is not President it is not our fault We think, too, that she has for the last time been led, lamb-like, to the slaughter. Her experiments with loyal civilians and military heroes have not been propitious in the past, and the future holds out no hopes in that direction. What she will do in the future time must disclose. Much depends upon how great a gain the Republicans have made in the Senate and House, and what their policy will be toward this section. The South will be kept reasonably solid for her own protection and for the purpose of preserving the balance of power after the next apportionment, whets the political domain shifts from East to West. The tremendous problem now confronting the two parties and all sections is, Will the administration of Garfield be, in case of the control of Congress, modeled upon that of Hayes or dictated by Grant and Conkling, with Zachariah Chandler’s spirit as the inspiring goblin ? Until we know the exact nature of that administration we remain in abeyance. Meanwhile we may as well prepare for the worst, and hope for the best.” '1 he Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution comments as follows : “It is the culmination of a series of blunders, beginning with the Potter Committee and ending with the surrender of the party to the selfish whims of an element which bad John Kelly lor its commanding General. It would appear that the line of sectionalism has been sharply drawn by the voters of the North ; but there is nothing depressing in this fact. We are willing that the North should draw a sectional line in politics, if the South be permitted to draw a line with respect to progress and improvement of those conditions and forces which make a people happy in their fields, their workshops and their homes. Wo have a prosperous future before us, and to this end we should look intently. We have the cause of public education to promote and the welfare of a great and growing section to foster. The South expected httle more from Gen. Hancock’s administration than it will ask from Gen. Garfield. We want nothing more than simple, exact, absolute justice. If the new President owes nothing to the South he at least owes something to the country, and we shall be glad to see him cancel this debt by giving us an administration as fair, just and as clean as that of Mr. Hayes.” The greatest anxiety is experienced lest there should be a flaw in the title to property; vet a flaw in the title of health—a Cough or Cold—is disregarded. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup removes all such at once. Ex-Empress Eugenie will spend the bolidavs in the Isle of Wight,