The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-14

forgive as we hope to be forgiven, days OF
Thanksgiving are mockery and sham
Once Moro Unto the Breach.
After an incubation OF forty.eight hours
the Courier has hatched second reply to
the article In which The NEWS denounced,
as impolitic, unwise and untrue, the decara-
tion that Mr.. Greeley was defeated because
the Northern people hate the South. BY
way Of befogging the public, and OF eVadlng
the matter really under discussion, the
Courier goes into the resurrection business
and condemns the course. taken by THE
News in the State aud County canvass.
The reasons for that course we're given in
these columns at the time, and need not be
repeated. 1t is sufficient to know that the
Courier was speedily silenced When it pluck
ed up courage to assail this paper. The
question, however, OF the controlling causes
OF President Grants reelection demands
present consideration, inasmuch as the con-
clusions which the Southern public reach
will determine their policy towards the Fed
eral administration, and, with that, deter
mine whether the South shall rise to new
heights OF prosperity or sink to the level OF
an African principality. This is the issue
which the Courier tries hard to shirk.
THE NEWS frankly admits that, before the
Presidential election, the Radical leaders
raised the cry that the South would rule the
Union, il the Liberals prevailed. Many a
Southerner firmly believed that the election
OF Mr. Greeley would give the Southern Lib.
erals the balance Of power, and enable them,
with the assistance OF the Democracy, to
control the patronage, and direct the move
ments, Of the government. The Admins
trationists knew this; it was piece OF polit.
ical capital, and they turned it to excellent
account. Southern politicians, in like situa-
tions, have done cognate things. TIE NEWS,
also. admits that since the election some
angry Liberals and disappointed Democrats.
have attributed their overthrow to sectional
animosity. They did not care to admit that
Democratic recalcitrancy and Southern
lukewarmness, as we'll as the distrust OF the
moneyed men, and the fear that the mildest
kind Of political revolution would disturb
the commerce Of the land, were the palpable
and sufficient explanation OF the astounding
vote for Grant. A public man who is only
politician never admits that he Is to blame;
his defeat is always due to the stupidity OF
his opponents who decline to be convinced
that sound whipping, and the loss of their
places, is good for their health. II TIE
NEWS were 30 disposed it could meet the
newspaper extracts upon which the Courier
relies, by printing twice as many extracts
from Journals which do not think that section
al hatred led to the temporary failure OF the
Liberal movement. But this would not be
conclusive; nor would it establish the fact,
which THR News means to establish, that
newspaper which encourages the idea that
the North hates The South, is stabbing in the
back the people it processes to represent,
and Is bringing about the identical condi-
tion Of things which it pretends to abhor.
For the sake Of argument THE NEWS will
admit, for the moment, that sectional ami
mostly" resulting from the late war, and the
fact that Mr.. Greeley was the Apostle OF
Peace, caused the Liberal campaign 10 fail.
What follows? This sectional animosity, il
it existed on the day OF the election, is in
active existence now. The North and West
must pursue line OF conduct in keeping with
their feelings. They do not love those whom
they hate. That consistency which the
courier admres requires the ruling party,
The National Republicans, to adhere to
sectional policy. That policy, fully devel-
oped, is: A. continuance Of Federal super
vision of State affairs, the reconstruction OF
the States which the Southern whites con-
troll, the refusal to give the South her pro-
portion OF the general appropriations for
works of internal Improvement, the contin'
ued appointment OF officials whose one aim
is to strengthen their party, the continued