Nebraska advertiser., 1868-09-24
Sfata EIecfI0na.
The following State election have
vet to be held:
words Of Truth and sOberness
to Moderate Southern Men.


Words OF Truth and SOberness
to Moderate Southern Men.
The following well-tempered article
from the Washington Chronicle adj
dresses itself to the understandings OF
the moderate men of the South. 1t
presents the most cOgent reasons why
every conservative citizen should sup
port Gen. Grant. There being no
possibility of the election of Seymour,
is it not the part of wisdom for that
class of citizens who have higher in
terests to serve and nObIer duties to
perform than the participation in a
miserable scramble after office, to pre-
pare themselves for an honorable &C
ceptance of the situation, with Gen.
Grant as President? Those who i'm
agine that this magnificent hero will
be under the control of the advanced
Radicals know little of the great in
dividuality and self confidence of the
man:
at is historical that the conserv-
alive men Of the Southland such are
to be found in all the still insurrect-
iOnary States-who antagOnized jeff
erson Davis and John Slidell and
Robert TOOmbs, and the other arch
fleets of treason, did so upon the
ground that their cOunsels must lead
to civil war; and what was true eight
years agOis equally true to-day. There
is nothing in General Grants pro-
gramme, nor vet in the platform of
his party, that does not deserve the
support of these citizens. Indeed,
there is something wonderful in the
moderation of the Republicans, some
thing marvellous in the magnanimity
of General Grant, considering alike
their pr%ovOcatiOns and their oppOrtu-
mites. Let us admit that negro suff-
rage is repulsive to the conservative
sentiment of the South; is it so far
repulsive that eight millions of whites
are willing to confess themselves IN
feriOr to three millions of cOlOred men,
or does this prejudice arise simply
from the fact that the cOlOred men
may assist another class of white
men to power in that section? Surely,
no rule has ever wOrkedsO di~sastrOusly
to any people as thatO fthe white rebels.
And are the tue Union men of the
South, the old followers of Clay, the
old enemies of Jefferson Davis, the
men who voted for Harrison in 1910,
Taylor in 1913, and Fillmore in 1856
are these men so enamOred of the
nullifiers and secessiOnists, whom
thew have opposed through long lives,
to a graceful and honest submission to
General Grant? But apart from the
substantial character OfOur candidate
and the generous pledges of the Re-
publican party-pledges committing
themselves not only to forgiveness of
the misguided and reluctant partici
pants in the TebelliOn-pledges com
hitting them to all the great interests
of peace snd prOsperity-apart from
all this is the consideration that no
sensible man ROU believes 1T possible to
defeat the Republican candidate for
President. There is scarcely an elect
ion district in the old free States in
which some such instance as that
named by the Springfield Republican
can not be pointed out. Why then
resist the Tesistless? Why attempt
to avoid the inevitable? Was the
bitter lesson of 1860 taught in vain?
Are these sensible and Christian men
of the South ready again to commit
themselves to the fatal leadership =?
There is not now a united South, as
there was eight years ago. AT the
best, the present power Ofthe original
rebels is worse than tempOrary-de-
pending upon most unstable, because
insurrectiOnary, public opinion, and
only maintained by a resort to eX-
cesses intellectually atrOcious. How
is-it with the North? Here the pop
ular unity is secured, not as it was in
1860, by an indignant purpose to re-
deem the Government, thy solemn
resolve to maintain it. Eight years
ago, all the interests of the North
were impeTiled, trembling on the brink
of dissolution. To-day these are safe,
and hundreds of influences, compare
lively Indifferent before the secession
of the Southern States, have been adj
ded to the moral reasons which form
ally inspired and prompted the North.
These influences reach into and COM
bine all classes. Rich and poor are
now organized, almost solicited, in
support of Grant, because Grant is
cOvenanted to preserve what he saved.
If public opinion continues to advance
in the old free States as it has advanc-
ed in the last three weeks, HOratiO
Seymour will not receive a single
electoral vote in the North or West.
Intelligent gentlemen, writing to us,
confidently predict the election of the
Republican candidate in New Jersey,
and the triumph of the Republican
electoral ticket. New York, the boast
ed stronghold of the Democracy,
scarcely needed HOratiO SeymOur's
~despairing cry, that his friends had
plunged him into a sea of troubles"
to show that she was rocking to her
fOundstiOns, and would in all prOba-
bility east her vote for Grant. Con-
necticut is given up by common con-
sent to the Grant Soldier. PendletOn
abandoned his engagement in the
West, and rushes home to attempt to
secure Ohio for Seymour, in the face
of the absolute certainty that Grant
will carry it by from thirty to fifty
thousand majority. These are facts
not depending upon mere assertion,
but demanding and defying investiga-
ton and denial. How long will the
moderate men of the South continue
to bow their necks to the despotism
of leaders who have never yet had
control of the politics of that section
without i~nfiicting ~irreparable damage
upon their people and involving their
P%OnptPV in WARP