The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-08-06

rows in which firearms were used, but no life
sacrificed. -ss--
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading Demo
cratic organ in Ohio, thus sharply criticises the
platform Of the California Democracy,
awe can tell these California Democrats that
negro suffrage Is fixed fact, and that the
Southern Democrats, under new organization,
are using II with success, and that the Chinese
are coming, and that II Is sheer nonsense to
fight them in California with Democratic resolu-
tions. Have these California Democrats heard
of the Pacific Railroad and who built III This
California platform is the stupidest thing cut
since the secession ordinance of South Carroll
ma" nv. m
"A. Pollard has letter upon the results Of
the Virginia election, in which he says: Para
do1ica as it may appear, II is, nevertheless, ac-
tually true that an intelligent party in the
South regard the Virginia election as unfayora-
BILE to the interests Of their section. for the very
reason that the best men in the South have
thus far been called into office and assumed the
exercise of power. 1t is the very responsibility
Of the successful candidates that is a fatal blow
to the association that has, since the war, lin
gered in the South, preserving something Of
political school and public sentiment distinctive
ly Southern. Il means the disintegration Of
anything like a peculiar Southern civilization,
the abandonment, at last, by the intelligence
and responsibility Of the South, Of the hope Of
recovering anything considerable from the ruins
of its old institutions, and of opposition to the
course Of reconstruction Heretofore the more
worthy of the white population of the south
have been generally aloof from the political
contests and exercises of reconstruction looking
for reaction or designing to let reconstruction
60 the most exaggerated extremity, hoping IL
might be damned up by the difficulties it would
accumulate for itself. The Virginia election is
the FIRST instance in which the best men Of the
south have come forward, at last, to participate
of the situation in sense much broader than
acquiescence in the demand Of any mere politi-
cal party. Counting all its moral effects on the
South, il Is an event in history in the date of
the departure in the whole moral, social and po-
litical organization Of the South.
A Washington despatch says prominent
Republican had an interview with
the President last week in which the latter said
he wished for the services Of the party which
H.. f.tt tho nQfr
ton acts. ratify the 10th article of the amend
ment to the constitution and give protection to
life and property in Mississippi. lie wanted to
know whether the former enemies Of the gov
crnment were acting in good faith in their pro-
fessiops Of loyalty, and said this would be as
certained soon, in part, by the action of Con-
sentative Republicans in Virginia II they
we're acting in good faith he would be glad to
have not only the intelligence and influence of
that State but Of the south generally in support
of his Administration. The President inquired
ut what time the Conservative Republicans
would nominate their candidates, and when In
formed that IL would probably be about the LIST
Of September, he replied that he would see what
kind of ticket they would put in the field. and
his action would be influenced more or less by
subsequent events and the course Of affairs In
tho South. He added that he desired 10 see the
payment of the public debt secured and the in
tcsrity and honor Of the nation rendered inylo-
late, and when this was accomplished, he would
be satisfied.
Andrew johnson made speech at Mayvllc,
Tenn, on Monday. in which, as usual, he re-
viewed his policy while President. and compared
his prosecutions by the Radicals TO those of the
Saviour by the Jews. The meeting was broken
up twice by disturbances between, Stokes and
sentcr men. aud several persons were badly
beaten.
We didn't think that anything worse than
Andy Johnson could happen TO the people Of
but they have just had a shower Of
snakes there, perhaps Of the Copperhead varic-
ty. At any rate, one Of them bit an uniortu-
nate person, and he dic'l soon after. There are
those who will be uncommonly sorry that the
snake didn't bite Mr.. johnson; but even they
should first take thought as to which party they
want injured.
Tie fight in Pennsylvania for Governor is be-
tween money and glory. Packer has the money,
and Geary has the glory and the inside track;
but, with the money Oh the side Of Packer, It
will be hard fight.
The Ri,hmond Wing rebukes the claim Of the
over jealous Democratic papers Of the North that
the result of the recent election in Virginia was
a Democratic success by saying that what was
done was done without the aid of those journals
and in spite of their opposition. -
OUR OWN STITF