The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1868-05-07
From the Philadelphia Press /.
FROM WASHINGTON.

lnBly reappearing. LED 0y South Caro-.
lima, they bsgin their now republican
career under almost PrOvidOntial aus
piceS. The Eve returned prodigGls now
take their places Ss follows:
|. Arkansas.
H. South Carolina.
Ill. North Carolina.
w. Louisiana.
V. Georgia,
write ArkansaS first, because her
election was the fut, though the actual
popular majority Of moro than sixteen
hundred has not yet been announced by
General Gillen. understand it TO BE-
legally ascsrtainsd that il is now proba.
bly, in the hands Of General Grant. AT
least half Of the Republican vote was
composed Of naive-jorn white men: this
is estimated at fifteen thousand. Alltho
old seceSh leaders fought the Republican
tickeLwilh the exception Of ex Governor
Rector, who gave il q moderate support.
Rdt R. W. Johnson, HindmSn, Rust, and
Greenwood. worked vebemen,ly against
it. The two Senators elect, Msssfs.
Rico and Mcdonald, are now in Wash.
ioglon. together with the three Repre-,
sontalives elect. Mr. Rice ia a native Of
CStIaragus county. New York, a lawyer
by profession. lived 10 Kentucky for
some years, Afterwards in Minnesota,
from which Stale he entered the military
service and served dvring the war. He
was Chairman Of the Republican Stale
Committee Of Arkansas 10 the late fierce
canvass, and exhibited mastery ability.
He is AbOu, fifty years Of age, and makes
very favorable impression. His col.
league, Mr.. Mcdonald. is a native Of
Pennsylvania, but in later years was q
resident Of Kansas, from which he 70.
moved 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 always a favorits colony
Of the Democracy. Colonel Benton, in
his prime, before he had fully penetrated
the JevIish purposes of Calhoun, sent
hia young friends into Arkansas to build
their own fortunes aud 10 recruit tho
party, and much Of the wealth Of the old
f,m,lies cfl that rich but slave. ridden State
resulted from bis counsel. When the
rebellion broke out, bitter fucd was
raging between tire Reclors and the
johnSon's, two OF the ancient leadcrships
Of the State; and if that tempest of blood
and FIRE had no. cleared the atmosphere,
it is likely that the quarrel between these
rival dukedoms would have done the
work. Now oil are overlhtown, aud from
their ruins better and pursr system has
been organized, 1.-THE SEWERS, Ashleys,
Johnsons, Rectors, Hindmans, Rusts, and
Graenwoods, ever again distinguish them.
selves, in AikOusas politics, it must be,
not as before, because they owned other
men at least as good as themselves, but
because they have proved themselves 10
be worthy OF other mems confidence.
OISoulh Carolina Ispoke in my letter
Of the 22d. What picture of the inner
life Of the men OF that miniature monarchy
their follieG and crimes, James Parton
could write
North Carolina is next 10 order. Here
the revolution, social and political, has
been only less complete than in South
Carolina. To find the McKays. tho Man.
gums, the Badseas, the Grahams, the
Ashes, by themselves, and their descend.
ants knocked from their stools by such
progrsssves as Holden, is not a whit
more wonderful than their rebellion
against just aud generous Government.
For all these men were hostile TO nulf-
cation thirty FIVE yeass ego, and to be
consistent they should have been iavoro.
bio to reconstruction. But they yielded
10 secession as tho offspring of nulfca-
lion, and they fought reconstruction as
the cure for both. AT least thirty tho1s-
and white natives voted the Radical
ticket in the late election, and we have
the State, root and branch, by over
twenty thousand majority. This in
cludes Governor, nearly all the county
or municipal officers, Legislature every
member of Congress but ono and two
United States Senators.
Louisiana is only another chapter in
the same drastic change. There is indeed
q harmoriouSly historic reason why she
should be republican State, because she
was purchased sixty four years ago from
France, by Tbom,s Jefferson, the author
Of the Declaration Of Iudepe ndence,
which pledged perfect equality 10 all
American generations. But in no part
Of the South have the slave Arislocrisy
been at once SO revolving, intoIorsnt,
and proScriptivo. Brilliant impressive,