Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-05
GRANT IN THE SOUTH.
NO snow for Carrying single
State.

1 NO show for Carrying q single
State.
From the New York SUM-
The latest elections in Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee
and Texas show that these States have
hopelessly lapsed from the Republican
party, and that Grant has not the slight.
est prospect Of obtaining the electoral
votes Of either one Of them. In Ala
bama and Arkansas the supremacy oi
the party has been so completely under.
mined by the follies. the frauds, and the
corruptions OF their Republican rulers
that the party will go down with crash
under the pressing exigencies of the ap.
preaching contest. Considering the
large preponderance of the negro vote
in South Carolina, one might suppose
that that State was safe for Grant. But
carpetbag domination has carried South
Carolina TO the very verge Of financial
ruin; and in their alarm and despair the
honest masses of people, irrespective OF
party will rise and overwhelm Grant
and his thieving minions by stunning
majority. At the last and indeed the
only regular trial under the new order of
things, Mississippi gave a Republican
maj jority. But this majority was so
small a per centage of the aggregate
vote that the drift o: the tide all through
the South will doubtless sweep the State
from its moorings in the coming au-
tumn. In Louisiana the Republican ss-
cendancy rested on firm foundations
1t was the Southern State upon which
the party might rely. But Casey, the Col
lector Of New Orleans, Grants stupid
corrupt brother-in-law, got up quarrel
with Governor Warmoth, and of course
Grant took sides with Casey. The up
shot of the matter will be that more than
half the Republicans in Louisiana, of
every shade OF complexion, and all the
Democracy, except a few purchasable
creatures ike Carter, the ex-rebel Colo
mel, will ultimately unite and beat Grant
by larger majority in proportion to the
aggregate vote than will be given against
him in any other Southern State.
Will any well-infermed, candid Re
publican question the soundness of this
estimate of the situation in the South
Is any servitor of Grant so infatuated
as to imagine that few bayonets,
welded under color of the Ku-Klux law,
can pin to the earth the vast mai jority of
the people of the South, when they re
solve to invoke the peaceful verdict OF
the ballot-boxes against the thieving
minions of an administration which has
plundered and ruined them2 With gen
eral amnesty and radiance of carpet
bag rule involved in the issue, does any
sober Republican dream that the stale
metaphysics of few antediluvians like
Alexander II. Stephens can divert the
great body of Southern whites from en-
bracing this opportunity to overthrow
the military domination of Grant and
restore to themselves fair share of
power in management of their local gov
ernment? Let no supporter of Grant
base his hopes of success upon the de-
fection of Stephens, for he has not yet
quibbled his senses all away; and when
the devil comes to take the hindmost in
the Presidential race, it is not probable
that he will find Aleck Stephens ameng
them. --
Unless all the signs of the times are
utterly deceptive, Grant is doomed to
defeat in every one oEthe sixteen South
ern States. Driven beyond their bor-
ders, there is not the faintest chance of
his retrieving his fortunes in the North,
where he will encounter the hosts of his
foes led by Trumbull, Sumner, Davis,
Brown, Schurz. and the founder and ar
chitect of the Republican party, DR..
Horace Greeley. raHRH Mf