American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-24
A Note of Warming.

The C"urier-Journal, before the North
| Carolina election came off, did not fail to
| intimate to its readers that the Radicals
would probably carry the State, and after
the election was over it was slow to give
credit to the reports of complete Demo
cratic victory. Such victory, every
thing considered, would, it seemed to US,
be little less than miracle We look
upon the result in North Carolina, there
| fore, with perfect equanimity. 1t is a
| great deal better than we had any right
to anticipate, or than we did anticipate.
| Though Caldwell has been elected Gov
ernor, the general result is not what our
opponents expected, and is full of en-
couragement to us. A meager majority
for the State ticket and the loss of the
Legislature and the Congressional repre-
sentation by no means come up to the
mark scored by our Radical friends. The
leading organ of the Grant party, the
New Iork Times, cOnfesses its disappoint-
ment in recent article of some length
in which it warns its friends that they
may easily place too much reliance in the
strength of their party in the Southern
States, and says:
The Republican leaders in North Carolina were
confident to the last of Il very decisive victory-to
be reckoned by many thousands Our correspond
State and comparing notes, not with a few, but
with all the residents most likely to be well in
the Republican majority would reach eight thou
sand TO ten Thousand. These apparently well
founded calculations prove to be erroneous.
Instead of the eight thousand to ten
thousand" instead of this very decisive
victory to be reckoned by many thou
sands" the returns show the actual loss
of everything except the State ticket, and
the election of that by perhaps a thou
sand majority.
All the power and interest of the Adj
ministration were brought to bear on
North Carolina, and a brilliant victory
was looked forward to as necessary
consequence of such potential influences.
We cannot wonder, therefore, at the dis
comfiture of the Presidents chief organ.
The Times makes feeble effort at sX-
planning away this great disappointment
of the Grant leaders. 1t says:
The clements which combined to prevent the
triumph anticipated in North Carolina are various.
1t was the battle ground of the new coalition. and
Democratic reach, was brought to bear upon it A
large reserve vote that had never before cast
was called out, and it was given more generally to
the Democratic ticket than was expected by Re-
publicans- Yet Republicans were unreasonable in
expecting to get it for themselves
the disappointment Of Republican anricipations
than from any sod advantages gained.
The New York Times is quite correct in
saying that the Democrats take courage
from the non-fultillment of Radical ex-
the Democrats but all the friends of Mr..
Greeley, Liberals as well AS Democrats,
are encouraged, and not without reason,
by the disappointment of the Administra-
ton. Never before since our Government
began were such extraordinary efforts
made by any Administration to carry an
election. If all the power and patronage
of President Grant and all the money
and influence employed in his behalf
could only produce such a result as that
in North Corolina, the prospect is dismal
indeed for Grants reelection. In No
vember Radical oratory and treasure will
necessarily be a great deal scattered and
it can hardly be hoped that then even
North Carolina Can be carried for Grant.
President Grants metropolitan organ
derives a lesson from what has occurred
in North Carolina. 1t says:
The late election gives fair notice that while
we must neglect no opportunity offered us in the
South, our main reliance must be on the staunch |
mon party OF the Northern states. The men |
who saved the Union in must allow
no tampering with the results of the In |
every Nor hern State the campaign must be car |
ried or from this moment to the night of election
with the utmost possible energy. 1t is in these |
states that the moral strength of the party lies.
Thus it viii be seen that the North Car |
olina election has driven the ItntCs and |
those it represents to desperation. They |
give up the South, and frantically appeal |
to sectional prejudice. Nj their hopes are |
now in the old war feeling and the revi- |
val of sectional animositlcS. North Car |
DINA has done the business for the South /
with them. II is on the North that they |
rely, and all the energies of the party are
hencetorth to he directed to tho Noriht rn
States throughout the campaign.
wen we are cOntentcd that ii should |
he definitely settled in the opinion of the
Radical leaders that the Southern States
VIII cast their electoral votes for Greeley