The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-03
Southern Democratic Leaders In New
York.


York.
Some time since it was announced with con-
siderable flourish Of trumpets that number
Of Southern ;ssmocratic leaders would visit the
W.T. ror the .rpose Of taking the stui:ss
heor of Seymour and Blair. We have seen
the announcement of the arrival OF several OF
these distinguished gentlemen in our city, in
Guiding that of Howell Cobb, Ben Hill, Cover
nor Vance, General Gordon and several
others, and it is not impossible that Brigadier
Bob Toombs is lodged somewhere among US,
as when last heard from in Georgia ne was
packing his carpet bag for trip North. These
Southern leaders have been Hospitality treated
by our democratic and other sympathlzlng
magnates. They have had the e,atrse to the
society Of our democratic nabobs and mil
lionnaires. They have been dined and wlned,
lionized and lacqueyized, Manhattanized and
Tammanyized, and been made the recipients
Of genuine welcome at the hands OF our most
venerated and opulent and aristocratic Knicker-
booker families, TO say nothing of the ''shent-
persistent democratic irstocracy Of later
growth.
All this is very well SO far as il goes.
1t is well for the city Of New York to main
tain her reputation as the most hospitable, as
1t is fast becoming the most magnificent and
prosperous, city in the world. 1t is well that
any of our unfortunate fellow countrymen Of
the South have been made to ENJOY this
warm and gorgeous socially. But what did
these Southern gentlemen come here for ?
Was it only to be Toasted and toasted, courted
and smirked upon? or was it to lay before
the people of the North, in their own burning
Southern tongue, descriptions Of the wrongs
and outrages the South is at this moment
laboring under, and to appeal to the
justice, the honor, the magnanimity Of the
great people of the North for relief therefrom?
We believe they came here to adopt the latter
course and that they have not followed 1t is
because they have been advised to the con-
trary by the weakened, sordid and selfish
managers of the democratic party here. Are
they afraid to make speeches9 To be so
would be mean and cowardly, entirely IN
worthy the chivalric reputation Of every born
Southern gentleman. That Grant will be the
next President every Southerner who has
examined the question must admit. All
they can say, then, will not alter
the final result; and it is higher,
nobler, purer more honorable and dignifed
for these Southern leaders to boldly proclaim
their principles and views than to surrender
them without an effort and allow them to be
covered forever, perhaps, with the shroud Of
oblivion.
We tell them, then, that they should
talk to our Northern people, proclaim their
sentiments, and within eight years, now that
slavery has gone up forever, we venture to
predict they will see them prevail and them-
selves the managers of the government. South
ern leaders like Wade Hampton, Forrest,
Vance, Ben Hill, Howell Cobb, Toombs, A. II.
Stephens, General Gordon and . host Of others,
must have settled in their own minds that they
cannot expect to be victorious the present
campaign. They should be and no doubt are
shaping their coming policy, healing ruptures,
cementing friendships, re-establishing their
credit at home and abroad, organizing victory,
making success duty, and otherwise pre-
pairing for grand constitutional triumph that
Is bound to come sooner or later. But let
mean. Every man has right to attempt
to rsvolutionize government in q cons.i-
tutional way. In our government at the
present time the officeholders, bond
holders, place-seekers and oontract-plun-
derers and jobbers manage things pretty
much their own way. They elect man to
secure the spoils. But in this age of progress,
with the vast changes in the commercial,
social, moral, political and material condition
of our country constantly occurring, it is the
part of wisdom for all parties, both North and
South, to help along the work Of constitu-
tional Improvement and make the greatness Of
the nation keep pace with tho grandeur Of
passing events. Whatever changes in tho
government may be necessary to accom-
plish this end can be secured in consti-
tutional and, we believe, peaceful way. The
South can lead of in this splendid movement
They can unfurl their banners even now, and
with the intense opposition that exists in the
North to one hdeous radical idoa-tbc policy
of negro supremacy, which is an outrage alike
upon the laws Of God and man-they can open
campaign which must meet hearty co-ope-
ration among the masses OF the people Of the
North and eventaate in their triumphant and
constitutional restoration 10 the rans Of the
government Of The nation.
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Paris to the effect that tho new President Of
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