The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-05-06

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Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.]
Letter from g OccasiOnal.''
WASHINGTON, April 26, 1865 3D..
Tho Lost Stars are gradually and glow
ingly rcappcaring. Led by South Carolina,
they begin their new republican career under
almost providcntiaI auspices. The five re-
turned prodigals now take their place as
follows: afa9.l
,l |. Arkansas. Ha@t"aa
II. South Carolina. .ra -"
III. North Carolina. Ha
". Louisiana.
V. Georgia. H"g
write Arkansas first, because her election
was the first, though the actual popular ma
jority of more than sixteen hundred has not
vet been announced by General Gillem.
understand it to be legally ascertained that
it is now probably in the hands of General
Grant. At least halt of the Republican
vote was composed of nativeborn white
men; this is estimated at fifteen thousand.
Ali the old secesh leaders fought the Repub.
ican ticket, with the exception of eX-Gov
ClllOl tVClol, WIN SdNC IL HVNCiatO
port But r. w. johnson, Hindman, Rust,
and Greenwood, worked vehemently against
it, The two Senators elect, Messrs Rice
and Mcdonald. are now in Washington to-
gether with the three Representatives elect
Mr.. Rice is a native of Cattaraugus Coun-
ty, New York, a lawyer by profession, lived
in Kentucky for some years, afterward in
Minnesota, from which State he entered the
military service and served during the war.
He was chairman of the Republican State
Committee of Arkansas in the late fierce
canvass, and exhibited mastery ability. He
is about fifty years of age, and makes very
favorable impression. His colleague, Mr..
Mcdonald, is IA native of Pennsylvania but
in later years was II resident of Kansas,
from which he removed to Arkansas where
he became popular for his answering loyalty
and good business capacities.
General Clayton, the Governor elect, is
also native Of Pennsylvania. - ...
Arkansas was also Il tavorite colony ofthe
Democracy. Colonel Benton. in his prime,
before he had fully penetrated the devlish
purposes of Calhoun. sent his young friends
into Arkansas to build their own fortunes
and to recruit the party, and much of the
wealth of the old families of that rich but
slave-rildcn State resulted from his coun
sci. When the rebellion broke out, a bitter
ieud was raging between the Rectors and
the Johnsons, two of the ancient leadcrships
Off the State; and if that tempest of blood
and fire had not cleared the atmosphere, it
is likely that the quarrel between these rival
duketloms would have done the work. Now
all are overthrown, and from their ruins Il
better and purer system has been organized.
If the SEWERS, Ashleys. Johnsons, Rectors,
Hindmans, Rusts, and Greenwoods ever
again distinguish themselves in Arkansas
politics, it must be, not as before, because
they owned other men at least as good as
themselves, but because they have proved
themselves to be worthy of other mems con-
fidence. "raH.l-.
Of South Carolina spoke in my letter of
the 22d. What a picture of the inner lite
of the men of that miniature monarchy,
their follies and crimes, James Parton could
write "a.. f.l a.
North Carolina is next in order. Here the
revolution, social and political, has been
only less complete than in South-Carolina.
To find the McKays, the Mangu,us, the
Badgers, the Grallams, the Ashes, by them
selves, AMI their descendants knocked from
their stools by such progressives as Holden,
is not a whit more wonderful than their re-
hellion against just and generous Govern
ment. For all these men were hostile to
notification thirty FIVE years ago, and to be
consistent they should have been favorable
to reconstruction But they yielded to
secession as the offspring of notification.
and they fought reconstruction as the cure
for l,,th I,acf fhirfu tl,nncoD1 r.,
natives voted the Radical ticket in the late
election, and We have the State, root and
branch, by over twenty thousand majority.
| This includes Governor. nearly all the
county or municipal officers, Legislature,
every member of Congress but one, and two
United States Senators. -.
Louisiana is only another chapter in the
same drastic change There is, indeed, a
tremendously historic reason why she should
be a republican State because she was
purchased sixty-lour years ago from France
by Thomas Jefferson, the author of the
Declaration of Independence, which pledged
perfect equality to all American generations.
But in no part of the South have the slave
aristocacy been at once SO revolving, in
tolerant, and proscriptive. Brilliant, I'M
prcssive, luxurious, the party leaders
whether Wings or Democrats, seemed to
think they were born to defy the teachings
of genuine repuplicanism and whether
you recall the men of the past. with such
notable exceptions as that of Edward Liv.
ingston) or the men of the relellion-Slidell
Soule. Herbert, Eustis, Allen, or Beauregard
| one judgment stands firm, that any change
must he the better for people whom they
ruled and ruined. -
Last of the five new stars comes Georgia
the busiest and healthest State of the South
far ahead of Maryland or Delaware, in thu
athletic enterprise of her people, (How
much better for both OF these if the reform
ing bosom could sweep them clear of the
vermin now eating out the heart of thei
prosperity Like North Carolina, Georgis
more than once opposed bold front tt
Calhoun. In 1928, the future Justic,
Wayne, lately deceased. fought him unde
the strong auspices of Andrew jackson, anC
in 1850 Howell Cobb was elected Governo
on the Union ticket against Mcdonald, tn
Calhoun candidate. Good seeds were plant
Ell deep in her SOIL The leaders forgot c
feared to gather the resulting crop, hut tn
people did not, and now, when Nelnesi
came in the shape of real liberty, an i'm
n,ense white vote is cast for the Abolition
or Radical party. Georgia had her polish
ed John Forsyth, father of the proscriptiv
but gifted editor of the Mobile Atloe,tiser
her ponderous Berrien, her hotspur Toomb:
her earnest Cobb. her cynical Stephens, he
angry Iverson but though they all yielde
to notification or secession at last. the
could not prevent her finally surrendering t
J liberty. At least forty thousand white vott
| ~ e. Al. D. ,,
r late election.