The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-12-15

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meht m a minority N The people
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plished anef d hard struggle, iud diho
votes east agalhd them slow that, in
ihls aecilon, public minton V nearly
equally divided. while In ibo South
ita overwhelmingly favorable ~
Democratic principle Iimn he N.
fcffed from tlls that The Democratic
purity is still a mighty power 10 the
land q power That presents fr.
midable ffnt IN iho North and
that, lcagued with M LIieq IN the
South, upon a fair political 6cld,
would bo able ~ attain legitimate
asccndcncy IN The presidential cum
paien.
But If the Radicals should provoke
a collision by seeking 10 dcpose the
President, ~ they have threatened to
do, OF by any other revolutionary
measures that u would he necessary
TO PROSTATE by counter violence, then
the resources Of the Democracy would
be found IN every respect more ample
than those of the adverse faction.
The Radicals carried their point in
the late war because, being a section
al strife, almost the entire fighting
material of the North was arraycd
against the South. Hundreds of
thousands Of Northern Democrats,
putting aside all questions Of a par
tisan nature, enlisted under the Fed
cral flag, simply because they ac-
knowledged il as the emblem of their
nationality, and were disposed to
champion il in every cause with
which il might be identified. So
that, in fact, the very men who most
distrusted and condemned the prin-
ciples of the Black Republicans
were among their best soldiers, and
fought and won the battles for the
Radicals under the impression that
they were simply sustaining the
Union of the States.
But if the reasonable practices Of
the Radicals should render another
appeal to arms unavoidable, they will
not have the prestige and magnetism
of the flag OF the United States to
attract the masses. The banner OF
the Union would then wave over the
armies of the Democracy of the
North and South, and the Radicals
would have none but a proven coun-
terlcit to haunt in the van of their
outnumbered forces. New England
might pour her fanatics into the field,
and even bring forward that myth
cal three hundred thousand more, to
swell the tide of rebellion against the
National Executive and constitutions
al Government, but the combined
array of Northern and Southern De-
mocracy would outnumber them even
as the Federal armies outnumbered
those of the Confederacy.
Still, those overbearing and reck.
less revolutionists, by virtue of a ma.
jority in Congress that is due only tC
their usurpations, propose to depos'
President who, with a wave of hi
hand, can summon millions of armet
freemen to the rescue of the princi
pies of self-governmcnt that are EN-
bodied in his official person. ID,
they consider how hopelessly the,
would be in minority in a conhic
waged upon such grounds? Do the,
reflect where the metropolis Of tn
Republic would be in such a struggle
The forty-six thousand majority o
Democrats within our city limits
who can fight as well as vote, woul,
constitute no inefficient army, if com
PEELED to redeem the right of sell
government with weapons forced upoi
them by its assailants. 1t is painful
TO have to look forward to such ten
rible ordeal, but We cannot reject tn
signs of an intention on the part {
the Radicals to provoke the collisio
!. that we deprecate. If they give III
signal for the strife il will be tn
death knell Of their party.
Nep York Nsrs