The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-14
POLITICAL.

CHANGE IN PUBLIC FEELING AT THE NORTH
POPULAR DISGUST AT THE RESULTS OF NEGRO
SUFFRAGE.
The New York correspondent of the Augusta
Constitutionalist, writing under date Of Octo-
Der 5, says:
Whatever may be the result of the election in
Observation-Disclosures it be the success OF Grant
and ColfaX, with a Congress to match, or the
choice OF Seymour and Blair, with House to
support them-there is one thing especially
sure. and that is very decided modification OF
Northern opinion in favor of Southern whites
is going on, and no where more plainly than in
the Republican party. There is growing up
much uneasiness respecting the nature OF the
monster to which negro suffrage at the South
has given birth. The negroes are proving
themselves 10 aggressive and insolent, so deaf
to all moderate counsels, 80 ready to Use their
numerical strength for purposes which 40 not
come within the range of political powers, that
genuine alarm begins to be felt.
1t begins to be more fully understood, too,
that Southern men, with habits and education
which have become component parts OF their
nature, cannot and will not endure negro DOM
ination, nor their attempts to force themselves
into social equality; and that the only way in
which sangulnary conflicts can be avoided is
by assuring the negroes that they hive strain
ed their tether, and must be content to recede
q little from the advanced position which they
have assumed in the administration Of public
affairs. Remember, am drawing the picture
of the future in it's worst aspect, as indicated
by the change Of tone in the party whose pros
poets Of success are now considered the more
promising. In case of Democratic success,
how mucn brighter the vista
The changes in the tone in dominant Re-
publican circles is foIeshadowed by the Allan
i Ill. l,o4 10 uAfvr 0nn
publican organ-nearly up to the Sumner
standard. 1t has been publishing Tor some
months series of articles entitled "The Man
and Brother" which deal largely in the
characteristics developed by the manumitte ed
slaves. These articles profess to be the re-
cord of the experience OF an othcer or the
Freeamens Bureau. The article in the Oc-
occurred at Greenville, s. G. In this negro
suffrage is frankly admitted to have been Q
s'cho1ce OF evils" that it is "full OF danger"
that the emancipation has improved the con-
dition OF but few of the negroes; has benefited
the mass OF the whites much more; that the
negroes are moi at oil likely to be able to COM
pete with the whites for -eminence IN any
walk of life; AMI that they remain poor and
thriftless where even an European peasantry
philist, who are principal readers of the Allan.
tic, some plain truths, which are likely to cool
their ardor to have the negro made o demi-
god. The Atlantic seems also anxious to
have the people Of the North fully understand
the true state Of feeling at the South; to thus
end 1t publishes an article entitled Edmund
Brook" being the autobiography ofa hcuse-
serving negro man. 1t is written, as happen
to know, by an accomplished lady of South
Carolina. whose efforts in the walks OF litera'
ture date since the closing Of the war. These
two articles will do Southern men good to read
although the first contains much that Is dis
agreeable in detail.
Il NAV be noted, also, that the Republican
orators have ceased to defend negro suffrage
as intrinslcally right; it ls merely excused on
the ground Of immediate necessity
THE CAMPAIGN In NEW YORK.
The New York Sun says:
Both the political parties in this city ore
working with unprecedented energy. The me-
tropolis is alive with mass meetings, banners
torchlight professions, and all the appliances
Democracy or the Republicans are destined tt
be badly disappointed in November. Th'
shrewd managers among the former claim tha
they will carry the city for Seymour by 8O,0O
majority, while the wire pullers OF the latte
insist that he will not get 80, QUO. Here is Oil
ference OF 80, ,0O0-a pretty wide margin. Then
each party says it is 70 ng to do better in tn
rural districts of the State than it did last year
but the Republicans tell us that all OF thei
counties will give heavier maiorities than eve
before, anu tnat hey can neutralize and over
come Democratic majority OF 80, 600 below tn
Highlands. So, too, each confidently claim
the State and the Republicans are betting OF
Grant, though the Democrats prefer to stak
Their money on Hoffman. 1t would be curl
Gus result if both Grant and Hoffman shoul
receive q majority of the votes OF New York
betting till they hear from Pennsylvania, Obi
and Indiana. As they go i'll October, so goe
the Union in November, and New York will b
pretty sure to drift with the tide.