Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-18
The Outlook.

itirf " PtoNS VI Vic i.S hS' w
gree dclusivc. The present is alto
gcthcr a revolutionary struggle, as
compared with the old time contests
between long established parties. and
the same uncertainty belongs to 1t
that attaches to all revolutionary
movements. There has been gong
on for the last twelve years a general
breaking up of all the old political
organizations during which time men
learned to fight inditierently under
this banner or that as the cNIgeicieS
of stirring times demand. There
consequently must be allowed n large
margin for individual caprice, now
.uncurbcd by party tcalty and discIp-
line. Earnestly urging the election
of Grant. W. find "Old Line Wings
and Democrats. original AbolitioniSts,
Frcesoilcrs, Black Republicans, Know
Nothing>, original SccessioniSts, rcb-
els and negroes, willie the elements
of Mr.. Greclcy's support are quite
heterogeneous. From .uch n mass
of diverse opinions, each of which is
represented with more or less of
strength in both ofthc hostile camps.
ii is difficult to eliminate any that
may be said to constitute distinctive
national issues, and which can be
relied on as n basis of calculation in
M estimate of chances. But the
noisy gloritication of the cncmy over
suggests a scrutiny into those events
to see if they really bodc disaster to
II ticket in November. 1t is the
duty of Il paper to take is cheerful a
view of affairs as is consistent with
good faith and candor; but Invested
of the ''iliusions of hope.' there is still
nothing i'll the present aspect o!
affairs to justify the apprehcnsions
manifested i'll some quarters by the
wcck-knccd. 1t is true the elections
in three states have gone adversely to
our party, but it is also true that no
prudent Democrat or Liberal Rcpub-
lican ever calculated certainly upon
in either of them. There was
not 4 mai ut all posted, who did not
say before hand, or think it, al
have my fears Of North Carolina"
and there were abundant grounds for
fear. The negro element headed by
its carpct-bag allies was compact and
united t o n man on the Administers
ton candidates of the native white
element, much the greater part, it is
trl c, stood square and firm i'll the
ranks, but years of mcrciless Cypress
ion had worked its wOntcd results OIL
but too many of the sons of the old
North state. Assaulted by poverty on
the one hand and by the fear OF
further indignitics in the shape of
legal persecution on the other, hun
yielded to the seductive stream
IF Administration gold, which flowed
broad and deep through the state, or
to the mocking offers of mercy from
the authorities who held the ku-IiluX
statutes IN teITOrem over their heads.
vet with all this, and i'll spite of glar-
ing and shameless frauds, such as the
importation of voters by the hum
dreds from Virginia and South Caro-
lima, now proven beyond adoubt. the
Democrats secured a majority in both
branches of the Legislature, and
iackcd less than two thousand OF
electing their governor. We say.
Grant cannot carry North Carolina
in November. Foreign negro votes
will be needed at home !; the means
Of bribery will be wanting, and above
all, the white men of the state will
redoublc the efforts put forth in the
summer campaign. They know
where to strike now, and there will
be 10 blows wasted. North Carolina
belongs as of right to the Democracy.
The protection theories of the Radi-
al party are inimical to her material
interests, and having drained TO the
lrcgs the bitterness of Federal usur-
patton, she is certainly ready TO
repudlatc a system which fosters and
encourages it.
But the fitness Of things does not
more inevitably require North Caro-
ina to be Democratic than it does
Vermont and Maine to be Radical,
Protection and Capitalization are two
;himgs that have always found favor
N the New England eye: and both OF
these, we take it, are vital questions
At issue in the present controversy.
While Greeley is an avowcd protec'
zionist, the movement he head,
is nevertheless in the interest of free
trade, and at the same time. is quite
AS strongly in favor of confirming tho
Federal prerogativ,s within thcil
proper constitutional limits. There
never was but onc hope for 4 change
of the New England vote, and tina,
could only have been INDUCED by
one ignorant of her cold blooded
characteristics. To such a one. in.
Iced, it might reasonably have seemed
originated the crusade against slavery
md carried il forward until it culmi-
mated in war, and which had the
IeaderShip in that war at the mini.
mum expenditure of blood and treas.
IRE, growing fabulously rich, in fact,
Turing the reign of general misfor.
tunc-it might have seemed, We say
hat New England, flushed with tho
full accomplishment of all her pur.
poses, and satcd with untold wealth,
would at last rclent towards her old
opponent, the South, stricken to the
earth, bleeding at every pore and
pleading for mercy. Certain once
honored leaders, Sumner, Banks.
Bowics and others, cntreated lci
indeed to do SO. The answer has
come from Vermont and Maine. Well
we are not among the disappointed
or the dishcartcned. Elections in the
New England states have about lost
interest TO Democrats abroad cxccp,
a. registering from time to time the
number of the faithful who still re.