The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-20
The Recent Elections.

The result of late elections ought to
have a most cheering effect upon our
Southern community. In the first place,
the Republican majority in Congress will
be SO much reduced that the President and
upon our statute books acts of legislation
which, while intended to degrade the
South. are a disgrace to the whole nation.
The system of repression aud persecution
towards the South, adopted by the Re-
publican majority since the war, will, in a
few years more, receive the unrcserved
Reproduction of all classes and parties, even
in this country. 1t will, like the defunct
body of Know-Nothingism, be buried in a
dishonored grave, but its memory will
go down in history to remote ages as the
most striking illustration Of all that is
dastardly and contemplate in a victor to-
wards gallant but defeated foe. AS the
great American Republic will always fur.
nish to the world the model of magnanimi-
ty and nobility in a Washington, SO it must
be content to exhibit also the most perfect
specimen of petty meanness in its Grant.
These gentry cannot, however, have as
full swing hereafter as in the past. Their
band has been sensibly diminished by
recent events, and, like all miscreants,
when the tide commences to turn ag ainst
them, panic sets in and they become more
or less demoralized. They see the hand
writing on the wall, and will not have the
courage to do even what they still have the
power for. They have, indeed, a majority
in the hall of Congress, but they hear the
roar of the rising sea. Its first wave has
already swept away number of their
doomed band and tremblingly they await
the moment when the rest of them shall
be surely swallowed up. A loss of nearly
or fully thirty members at one election is
u lesson not to be misunderstood. It means
simply this: "Why continue our villainy
ut the South when, in spite of every success
there, our party is doomed. The North IT,
self is pronouncing against us.''
BY far the most cheering part of the
election news is the immense gain made
by the Democracy at the North. This
was no spasmodic effort. There was no
especial occasion which brought the De-
mocracy forth in exaggerated force. 1t
was merely the irrepressble heave of
great tide, the flow of which cannot be
checked by the puny pressure of executive
patronage. On examination it will be
found that the regions at the North, where
Democracy has failed to make any special
impression, are principally those interested
in the protective tariff. New England and
Pennsylvania are too vitality affected by
the protective doctrine to endanger its in
tegrity with Democratic ascendency if they
can help it. Even in Connecticut, how
ever, the Democrats gain, while they lose
in Pennsylvania. But Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota have
responded CALAMITY to the voice of pro-
gress, and Ohio has barely been held back
by large Republican reinforcement of
negro votes.
We can we'll hope, then, for a speedy
emancipation from the CALLING chains of
carpet baggery. Even though the present;
Congress should dare to sustain that YAM
pyre faction in it's destructive tyranny
over the South, the revolution that has al
ready gathered such formidable Roadway
will, at the next election, one year from
this date, sweep the whole mushroom con-
Germ from existence both North and South.
In fact that miserable political disease
called the Republican party, engendered by
the excuses of bloody war, must pass
away as suddenly as is usual with acute
diseases of all kinds. 1t will expire as
prematurely as Know Nothingism did, and
we have but little thought that it will have
any candidates in the field, or any organi-
cation whatever, North or South, at the
next annual election. Its virus will not be
extinct by that time, or, for that matter,
so long as malignity and cowardly despot
ism form part of hnman nature, but it
will have to adopt less odious name and
shape than that which connects it with the
history of Southern subjugation.
BY TELEGRAPH FROM LONDON.-Now
that the Russian Bear has growled, we may
anticipate a wonderful change in the tele-
graphic tactics at London. cit is rumor-
ed" ETC., will lean in the opposite direction
from their former slant. Lately all the
rumors in favor of Prussia were heartily
welcomed in that great metropolis, while
French rumors were snubbed and belittled.
Hereafter French reports will be treated
with great respect and paraded before the
public with every demonstration of dis