New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-02
THE LATE ELECTION IN GEORGIA.


TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: A gentleman for whom entertain great
regard requested me days since to give you my
views Of the recent election in Georgia shall do So
The victory achieved by the friends OF constitutional
liberty in that State not the result OF party taces
1t was popular expression OF approval OF tho generous
policy announced to the country at Cincinnati Inc
olive branch held out to the people OF the South Tor
the first time since the war; and Georgia has responded
IN I'm the same shirt 1t Ia true there some con-
alterations affecting the interests OF the State that i'm
PEELED the people to out in their strength ana Sc
cure the election Of trustworthy Governor but uch
OF the energy displayed due TO their appreciation OF
the importance OF the great issue involved in the strug
Gle between the Administration and the friends OF the
National movement behalf OF reconciliation between
the North and the South They wished to assure the
people Of the whole country Of their full sympathy with
those who are striving TO restore peace to land too
long rent with feuds; TO reGsabsh tho supremacy OF
the civil over the military authority and TO check the
central Government in its usurpations.
have said the result in Georgia was not accom-
plished by party tactics; neither it sectional
triumph. The canvass displayed no antagonsm to the
North nor Is the result of the election to be regarded as
triumph OF those who desire to disturb the issues and
reopen the questions settled by the The Southern
people do earnestly desire change in the policy OF the
Government They feel that they arc treated by the
Administration as inhabitants Of conquered provinces
rather than kindred citizens OF cosqua States There
is no hostility in the hearts Of the people to the Govern
ment OF the United States but there an earnest desire
to change the Administration of the Government. The
whole policy Of the present Administration seems TO be
that OF war; TO perpeuate strife 70 teach the coored
people 70 regard their former owners as their enemes
TO SOW dragons teeth upon the soil OF the South that
armed may spring up aud TO bring about conflict
between the races II IT be true that an irrepressble
conflict existed between free and slave labor, surely
nQVniQ r. hot vnFn
white and coored It is not strange that the
people OF Southern State should utter their rebuke TO
an Administration that to be animated by hate
against them as relentless that which In1amcd Romo
against Carthage.
Let be understood that hostility to the Adminisra
ton IL not hostility the Government The strength OF
the Administration is in appeal to the passions OF the
warm spreading through the North disrust OF the
peope OF the South. The strength OF the Liberal Demo-
cratic party the South is not duo to hostility to Gen.
Grant nor to resentment against the section victorious
in the late war but to the sympathy OF the Southern
people with the broad national, generous policy which
found expression at Cincinnati, aud which has been 80
Doby yndcated by Mr. Greeley in his letter OF accept
ance OF the nomination rendered to him, and in
his recent speeches. As TO the charge Of intim-
idaton of the colored people OF Georgia,
that intended for effect at the North Tho coored peo-
pe we're urged by the Grant Republican leaders to come
70 the polls and many OF them voted with an independ
ence that did much to vindcae the policy OF eonerrng
on them the right Of suffrage. Some of tho more nteli-
gent coored took to the stump and canyassed the
state freely in counties where the heaviest maorties
ere cast for the Democratic candidates. For example
in wilkes county remarkable for its wealth and intel
gence colored spoke without molestation, and
the Grant Republican candidate received, believe, u
votes against some 800 for Gov Smith 1t is absurd TO
attempt to account for the overwhelming majority In
Georgia by attributng to unfair influences The real
s,pniAcance OF the victory that the people in sym
natbv with those who are striving to restore the Govern
men TO its true course and TO effect perfect reconca
ton between all sections OF the Union.
washington Cfty, Oct %, 1872. HENRY W. HILLIARD