The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-22
The Southern Democracy.

The Southern Democracy.
The democracy down South are in a transit
ton state. The new departure" has caused
great commotion among them, from the
Susquehanna to the Rio Grande, and from the
Chesapeake to the wild woods of Arkansas
In Maryland, the other day, in their State
Convention, the democrats, not being fully
prepared to take the new or to abandon their old
departure, compromised the matter by split
ting the difference, and they contrived to split
It by doing without platform of any sort.
This ought to be satisfactory to all the party,
for it leaves the Bourbons and the progress
ives each to take their own course. This is
as much as could be expected from the Mary
land democrats at their first Convention on the
new departure, with all their slime -honored
democratic principles" against the ''blasted
nigger;" but in or before the month of July,
1872, they will doubtless, with mighty effort,
gulp him down, though it may be as the whale
swallowed Jonah. only to gulp him up again.
In Virginia the democrats, under their
reconstructed title Of the conservative party,
are to have State Convention In August for
the purpose of party reorganization. They
accepted the situation in accepting the recon-
struction of their State according to the terms
Of Congress. What they mean, therefore, by
q reorganization Of the party we are left to
conjecture. We suspect, however, that they
mean to drop the slow coach called the conser-
vative party, and to reproclaim themselves as
belonging to the national democratic party on
the new departure, with some reservations in
favor Of the time-honored principles Of JefFcr-
son and the resolutions Of '9S and 99.
In North Carolina the democracy are evil
IDENTITY resolved upon Q reconstruction of the
State which may bring them into collision
with Congress, and the political excitement
throughout the Commonwealth keeps open the
neld for the Ku Klux and anti-Ku Klux des-
peradoes and outlaws Of all descriptions.
In South Carolina the chivalry are under tho
despotio sway Of Sambo, and with four hun
dred thousand "niggers" in the State against
three hundred thousand whites, Including the
landholders, We can't perceive how Sambo Is
to be ruled out. The Palmetto chivalry, how
ever, would have their Southern confederacy,
and ia their late slaves, lifted up to be their
masters, they have their reward.
In Georgia Mr.. Alexander H. Stephens and
the fiery Toombs who Is himself q magazine
of skyrockets and Chinese crackers, have,
in the wake Of JEFF Davis and the 'lost
cause" been playing the mischief with the
new departure" They will have a party of
their own on the sold departure" And the
spirit and the men for similar movement are
waking up In Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas and Arkansas. There are some demo-
cratic boilers against the 'folly Of vallan-
dighsm" In Tennessee; but the active mana
gers Of the party In that State have learned
world Of wisdom from sandy Johnson" and
are not going back to those democratic prin-
ciples which were swept away and buried by
the Delugc.
Kentucky, Of all the Southern States, Is the
greatest puzzle to the political philosophers.
First, her neutrality in the rebellion, and
then her two State governments, one Union
and one rebel, gave ''Honest Old Abe Lin
coin" more trouble than Louisiana, shutting
mp the mouths Of the Mississippi, or Virginia
laundering at the gates Of Washington. The
divided allegiance Of Kentucky, between the
Union and the Southern confederacy In the
war, was puzzle; but with the return of her
rebel soldiers after the war she became case
for reconstruction Left to herself, however,
she has drifted slowly along, until now we
find her democracy accepting the new and
fighting for the old departure. All taken
together, including those of kentucky, we APP
prehend that the Southern democracy will
make q lively time Of II In the Democratic
Presidential Convention of 1872.