The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-08

The failure of Hughes in Virginia is only
smother proof that the party has neither the con
fdence of the southern people nor the states |
manly ability which the country now demands
in the treatment of southern affairs, and which
are indispensable to the Inauguration OF o policy
in the south more satisfactory not only to the
southern people but TO the people of the entire
country--Nea0 FORK Hortd.
The World has about as comprehensive
a view Of the wants and demands of the
people of the South, as it had of the
Democratic situation at the North after
the close of the war, when it arrogantly
assumed the leadership of the party, and
ran it so deeply into the ground that the
trumpet of resurrection will never reach
it in the shape in which that journal
succeeded in burying it out of sight.
1t has got to come up out of the spirit
of democracy in which it was buried,
and take on other and more attractive
garments than The Worlds corps Of tailor
ing artists can give it, in order to achieve
the first recognition in American politics.
In none of the states in which the Repub-
leans were defeated in the recent cleo
tons, is there anything ike real, genuine
Democratic triumph. The vote in New
York does not show it, nor does that in
Ohio, Wisconsin, or Virginia. Had the
ticket been run as Democratic one in
this state, the party would have been
whipped everywhere out Of sight
The same is true of Wisconsin, ano
to certain extent of Ohio, while
in New York the party has gained nothing
10 numerical strength, but owes its limited
triumph entirely to apathy and indifference
on the part of the public generally. Ii
New York city, where the old Democracy
used to command majority Of sixty ant
seventy thousand, The Worlds resuscitatet
Democracy gets only about half the major
ty it always relied upon under the ole
regime.
It is amusing to hear The World tall
about the " statesmanly ability" whlc
the country now demands for the govern
ment of the South. Had this demand 70
superior craftsmanship been left to tina
journal in the first instance, the mad polit
cal elements that would have destroyed til
national unity and shivered the America
government into half dozen or MOI
antagonizing fragments, wonld have con
to the surface, and achieved the spirit,
not the letter. of their destructive worl
The grand Indictment against the Republ
can party, according to The World
'statesmanly ability" is, that it preserv
The national unity and integrity, at the e
pense of abolishing slavery and fully e
franchising every citizen of the Unit
States. This is evidently the indctme
our New York contemporary would max
for when it speaks OF the people Of I
South, it means only the old slave olga
chy and its white hackers. as represent
in the government Of these states befc
the war.
No government in the history of
world has been more benign in its
huence, or more lenent in its exercise
authority, than that Of the American I
public towards the people of the Sor
since the war. And if all the leadi
secessionists have not come to the front,
was their own fault in obstinately refusi
to take any part in the reconstruction act
or to lend any helping hand in carrying 9
the reconstruction measures. Had tn
shown the wisdom and sagaclty ola Hugh
Longstreet, an Orr-and, more recently
Beauregard- could have avoided eve
evil of which they now complain. and be
the sole arbiters of the political destinies
their states, so far as keeping them in tn
respective constitutional orbits and contr
ling their own local legislation, is concernt
When men growl over their own polite
laches, it betokens want Of Statesman
ability which even the New York Wol
would not care to boast Of