Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-04-19
A Southern View.

The Connecticut election, which the
so-called Democratic press is attempting
to magnify into Waterloo defeat Of the
Republican party in that State, excites
but little enthusiasm at the South. The
Charlottesville (va.) Chronicle warns its
readers against getting Immediately excl
ted or encouraged over the result II
says:
We thank tho Northern Democracy for
a ccftain measure Of sympathy; but our
experience in life has taught US that self
interest is tho great spring Of human nc
ton. The Northern Democracy have use
for us in peace; they have none in war.
They talk about the Constitution, and
violation Of the Constitution, and usurpa-
ton, and tyranny aud consolidation; but
they never fight except against tho Con-
sttution and for consolidation. They set
us up TO receive the whole fury Of tho
storm; they have, after repeating the Mis-
souri, Compromise and sustaining the adj
minstration Of Mr.. Buchanan, brought
us to universal negro suffrage. Since the
close Of the war they have stood forward as
our champions, and have merely done us
mischief by keeping up old party lines and
old party feuds. The other day they COM
bined with Thad Stevens and the extreme
Radicals, and defeated tho Sherman bill
as ii came from the Senate; and the conse-
quence was we got the Sherman bill with
the Shellabarger amendment. Their OBJ
jet is TO make capital, and the South is
merely a ball that is struck by the bats Of
the contending parties. Ii is wounded
game for which two fierce beasts are strug-
Cling, and we have been torn nearly to
pieces by their respective efforts to snatch
the prey from each other.
Now this Connecticut election loosens,
as it were, the bold Of the Radical beast
on the Southern carcass; it snatches, as it
were, the laceratcd body, for an instant,
from between the Radical teeth; and the
consequence is, this animal will be alarm.
ed and Infatuated, and will seize us again.
Radicalism is determined that Democracy
shall not carry off he-prize.
We fear that the petty triumph in Con-
necticut will revive those easily awakened
Democratic hopes, and that we shall hear
for the tenth time of the "great Democrat
ic party" The result will be the North
ern column will close up again, the Radi-
cal trumpets will sound afresh, and the
crusade against the South. lulied for the
instant, will be again set in motion. This
will be the result if the Democracy make
any serious noise. Tie Republican party
be beaten at the North by the Dem
oeratic party. The latter party is extremely
unpopular among the Northern masses.
The victory in Connecticut is not owing
to the strength Of the Democratic party.
They called themselves the conservative"
party. The victory is owing to the waning
of The Radicals. ia new party
is organized, and the old prejudices against
the Democratic party lodged, there is
hope of future victories at the North over
the Radicals But the very moment that
Ben Wood & Co. show their heads plainly
and run up boldly the Democratic flag, ana
call on the South to stand by them as a
unit, that very moment will the North
be unit against the South and all the Dem
Dcratic champions. 1t is hatred and fear
Of the Democratic party (whose strength
was in the South) that has made the
Northern people so sharp aud so extreme
with the South. 1t is this hatred and fear
which has kept the sore running since the
var. There will be no peace for the South
lntil the Democratic party marches off the
ield Of battle.