The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-11
THE POLITICAL FuTuRE-Republicans

The POLITICAL FUTURE-RepuDncans
from the South, at present In Washington,
take gloomy view OF the situation at home.
A Louisiana Republican, for instance. informs
his friends in the Senate that Louisiana will
give five thousand Democratic majority next
November, and twenty-five thousand at the
next Presidential election.
A Mississippi Republican predicts a Demo
cratic victory in that State in November. He
told Alcorn, the other day, it was inevitable,
and Alcorn laughed. Now, if Alcorn had been
at heart a Radical, he would have cried but
he never shed tear-on the contrary as above
stated, he laughed. Depend upon it that man
Alcorn-the old friend of Clay, Webster and
Fillmore-is "ripe for treason, statagems and
spoils."
authority, will give 5000 Democratic majority
in November. Enough said about Alabama.
Georgia, not being as yet reconstructed, l
leave out of the account for the present.
South Carolina may be set down as doubtful,
but the Hon. Frederick Augustus Sawyer, one
of her Senator's native, by the way, of Bos-
ton, Mass, and graduate of Harvard Univer-
sity-pursues so conservative course as to
lead many persons to suspect that he appre-
hends 6outeuersen1ent there in October.
In Tennessee, the Radicals give it up. May
nara NAV DOSSlDly US IS-SlSCLSQ III IuO NINA
Vile District. If so, he will be the only Radi-
cal member from Tennessee in the next Con-
gress. Etheridge is on the war path in his
district, and he will be elected.
North Carolina, as the Southern phrase has
it, is looking every peart." The Holden party
there is dwindling every day, and will 60 un-
der forever in August.
Virginia is already redeemed. Gov Walker
is trump, and you will find nulla vestigia res
torian there. The Old Dominion is good for
$4,000 Conservative majority.
Maryland and Kentucky, in spite of negro
suffrage, will maintain their present indepen-
dence Of Radicalism.
Delaware will be close State-but who ever
knew the Blue Hens Chicken to fail in an
emergency? They always come up to the
scratch when required.
Pennsylvania Republicans are not in favor
of negro suffrage. The Fifteenth Amendment
there is a two-edged sword, and cuts right and
left In the Southern tier of counties the
white people do not yet believe that negroes
are their equals. Nor in Lehigh, nor Lycom-
ing, nor Dempshire either, Simon Cameron to
the contrary Notwithstanding. How it may be
in Lancaster, deponent saith not. A county
that worshippeed such strange and uncouth
god as Thad. Stevens, might reasonably be re-
garded as thoroughly unclean and irredeema-
Bile. If she be joined to her idols, we will let
her alone.
OF New York and New Jersey no one doubts
Indiana shows symptoms of throwing off the
Radical collar.
Ohio is SO manipulated by Delano and his
tribe of tax-gatherers that it is hardly possible
to tell what is to become of her; but if Penn
sylvania caves in Ohio will follow with rush
From the above statement, compiled from
reliable data, it would appear that the Radicals
are about to be defeated next fall in many
States now held by their party Washington
Correspondence Ne'o York Ezprsss.