Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-08-29
A SAD DISAPPOINTMENT.

The story of the rural maids tribulations
arising from the mistake of counting her
chickens before they were Matched, has been
duplicated in the case of the New York Goa
lition journals, In counting North Carolina
for the Democracy before they had full re-
turns. The Tribune announces the assumed
victory with much grandiloquence. 1t says,
August 3d:< tfa3 3a r.. taA aguigt>
True to its traditions, the Tribune did not
announce its triumph in North Carolina be-
fore the vote had been counted. Yesterday
we assured our readers that in our judgment
the scattering. returns clearly indicated an ad-
ministration defeat and the election of Mer-
rimon. To-day, with the vote of over one
third the State in, with such scattering re-
turns as may fairly indicate the vote Of an
other third, and with the certainty that heavy
Liberal gains have been made in the western
part, from which returns are yet missing, we
congratulate the friends of reunion and re-
form upon an inspiring victory at the very
outset of our campaign, on the most doubt
full field we are likely to find. g **
Well done! noble North Carolina! On
your soil the first declaration of independence
was made! On your soil Jefferson Davis
held his last cabinet council, and the rebellion
dissolved. On your soil has been won the
first great victory of the campaign that is to
make us once more united people.
That will do pretty we'll for .Uncle Hor-
aces" chief fungleman and editorial success
sor. He gives it in the shape of double
loaded leader, and makes it as attractive as
possible with capital letters and admiration
points, after the fashion of the Chappaqua
farmers fulminations. % Here is another of
like character, from the Democratic World
of The same date: t.e.s o,r.af ..t
The "Old North State" is q traditional
leader in the work of liberty. In May, 1915,
her sturdy sons at Mecklenburg took their
lives in their hands and drew up that immor-
tai protest against British oppression, which
more than year afterward the United Colo
MES of America reiterated at Philadelphia
dependence! And now in August, 1879,
after the lapse of a century, the same high
spirit rises against a tyranny more indecent
and more attrocious than the tyranny of En-
glish King George King George made war
upon the pockets of his American subjects.
Grant and the radicals make war upon the
persons, the honor and the most sacred indi-
vidual rights of their American fellow-citi-
zens. Into the campaign of North Carolina
they threw all the patronage, ell the prestige,
all the disposable funds of their colossal or
ganization. They had not to win a fortress,
but to keep it; not to subjugate, but to keep
in .subjection the State they have so long
trampled upon. The most sangLine friends
of right and of justice hardly hoped to see
North Carolina do more than vindicate by
her stout resistance her title to the help which
November must surely bring her. She has
done vastly more than this. She has thrown
the garrison of her oppressors over the bat
Elements, and is marshaling her forces to take
an active part in the liberation of her sister
States. She sends forth from her mountains
and her pine forests to the listening land not
cry for deliyerance, but a shout of victory.
She has unfurled again the flag of 1915. Il
meant independence then; it means liberty
now,