The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-15
The Effect of


The Effect of the Late Elections Upon
the South.
from the Times.
1t is natural that as ''the South" and it's treat
ment was the main question at issue in our
late elections, the people of that unfortunate
section should have watched for their result
with deep interest Their political fortunes
were in our hands. And more than merely
their political fortunes. For in the question of
Reconstruction" or representation" are in
volyed matters that effect all the interests of the
Southern people. Their material well-being,
the development OF their resources, their rela-
tions with the blacks, and their general pros
perlty for the future, are all dependent ID
great measure upon the action OF the Northern
people at the polls, even If the security OF pro-
perty and the rights of individuals among them
should be in no way compromised or menaced.
Deeply anxious as they undoubtedly were
for the success of the presidents policy" in
the Northern States-drmly though they be-
lieVed that their political freedom and their
practical well-being depended upon It's appllca-
tion to the South-it must be said they exhibit
no other than a submissive disposition after the
defeat of all their hopes at the elections OF last
| week. Their acquiesCence in the decision OF the
! ballot-boX-even though they themselves had
no voice in it, and though they regard IT as
| humiliating TO their pride and damaging to
| their interests-is put forward in such way as
| TO exhibit the deep consciousness existing
among the Southern people that they are in
| Ol
| imposes cannot be successfully resisted by
| them. They may not yet have seen tt to ratify
the policy which the North has presented to
| them; their Legislatures have in no instance
| adopted the amendment, nor have the people
shown any sign OF actively cooperating with
the North IL securing the passage OF this
measure; but regarding its imposition on them
as being now settied-kno wing that the Presi-
dent can do nothing for them against majority
! in Congress or in the country, they resign
themselves to the circumstances and to their
fate with hardly amurmur and hardly word
| in the way of protest.
| II NAV be true enough that they can do no
better, and no worse. 1t certainly is true that
If resistance be thought OF as the alternative OF
the dcquieScence which is displayed, any attempt
at it on the part of the South would be madness
But il is not their relraining from active re-
sistance to the will of the North that we speak
of as at all noteworthy. 1t is their perfect and
exceedingly un-Southern passlveness under the
prospect OF the practical enforcement of the bill
In matters closely, and as they think adversely,
affecting their principles and interests, and their
relraining from all those strong manifestations
of political feeling which we have always been
accustomed 70 witness in all parts of the country
under similar circumstances.
The fact that one, OF TWO, or three or four
: newspapers published in the cities of toe South
ern States have given vent to expressions OF
excitement or anger since they learned the
: | result of the Northern elections, is not worth
! mentioning as an indication of the existence o
a state OF feeling different from that just men
toned. We suppose that the people OF both the
North and the South will yet have to learn, i
they have not already learned that the unfair
est possible mode OF representing the opinion o
the people OF either section is by extracting the
n more extreme articles from the most extraVa
Q CANT newspapers. terrible amount OF decep
|, ton has been practised upon The South in time
D past in this way; and we fear-in fact we can
not but know-that it is still practised upon thu
d North by men whose profit it serves. For ever,
4 Southern journal which at this day shows
!, feeling even distinctly akin to the bellicose
ID there are a score which never put forward al
IS expression that can possibly be tortured int
IN escence. And II is beyond a doubt that tn
~ latter express the sentiment which is au-pel
I, vadDg In the South. a... h.
N The facts that the whole South are row q