The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-22
Yetistellaneu11s Artitles.
The Result in Virginia and its Effect
Will Grant Adopt Conservative Pol


The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette writes
The objects accomplished by the result
of the elections in Virginia, however i'm
portant, excite secondary interest here
when compared to the evidence this great
political revolution furnishes Of q previous
wholesome change of public sentiment
everywhere. 1t is well known that the
primary purpose of the Radical party of
making the negro, politically and socially,
supreme at the South, and politically and
socially equal at the North, was begin
ming to "stink in the nostrils" of all decent
men. The manifest design Of forcing the
negro into the trades unions Tor to break
them up,) helped amazingly to open the
eyes of the rank and file in the Northern
workshops. The adoption Of the Fif:
teenth amendment by packed Radical
Legislatures, without permitting the peo-
pie they pretended to represent to have
any voice in the matter, aided, and the
utter failure of the new administration to
respond to the general desire for the real
pacfcation of the country completed the
disgust of the people. The sweeping de-
feat of the Radicals in Virginia is but a
reflex of this general disgust, of which
decisive evidence may be expected in the
fall elections.
General Grant has it yet in his power
to retrieve the error into which he fell at
the beginning of his administration, and
am informed he is aware of the absolute
necessity of discarding the advice of the
men by whom he has heretofore been
guided. The people (however betogged
for time) will never deliberately sane
tion the impracticabe and revolving theo-
ries of Summers faction when attempted
to be reduced to practice. The time has
happily at last come when, backed by the
people, he may assume conservative po-
sition without danger of even the anathe-
mas of the extremes of his party. In
such course he will be sustained by the
nation at large, and may laugh to scorn
the faction that will be left in the opposi-
ton gutter.
MISSISSIPPI.
Tho action of the Cabinet on Friday
in relation to the Mississippi election, is
significant in several respects. 1t is thus
virtually conceded that the Conservatives
will triumph in the other States, and that
the effect of these victories on the fall
elections in the North is dreaded. Hence
the postponement of the Mississippi elec-
tion until November. The President had
decided on q much earlier day for the
election in Texas ai... Mississippi, but he
has been overruled by these extremists.
TENNESSEE.
What of the contest in Tennessee
Stokes has been, up to the present time,
the candidate of the President. In his
interest have Boutwell,, Creswoll and De-
lano made appointments and removals.
But the moral weight of the Virginia
election promises to overwhelm these par
tisan influences and to secure the election
of Senter. The President is disposed to
throw Stokes overheard, and it is donbt-
full if even Boutwell, can save him. There
is really very little to choose between
Stokes and Senter. If it had any choice
at all, the Democratic party would have
nothing to dc with either of them. Of
the two evils, however, Senter is consid-
cred tho least.