The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-26
ClYiI niel,ls Do,s 3 SOUTH.
ANALYSIS OF THE LATE ELECTION IN
SORTa CAROLINA.

ANALYSIS OF THE LATE ELECTION IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
Views of a ReuubIican-Politicn1 Revolution
in the State Dcmonstrated-The Ciyi-Rights
Bill the Alleged Cnuse-An Appeal to tine
Party not to Press the Issue.
RALElaH, N. c., August q, 1874.
To The Editor of the National Republican:
sir.-As o subscriber to your excellent
Journal I have watched With great easerness
YOUR comments on the late election in North
Carolina.
You have either been sadly misnformed,
or have not weighe the result with your
usual discrimination. The late election in
that State carries with it an uDmisakable
significance, which can only be stated by an
actual participant in the struggle. 1t is not
the voice of the people expressive merely
of choice of certain State officers in an
"oGD year. Indeed, am firmly persuaded
that in many instances the persons elected
were not, and are not, the choice OF the
people for the Offices 10 which they nave
been elected.
But it is denonstrable almost to mathe-
NAUTICAL certainly that it was great uprising
of the people to enter upon the journal OF
the naiion's history their unalterabe oppo-
sition to the passage of the ciyll-rlShts Dli,.
And it is equally demonstrate that, although
coming Immediately from North Caroiina,
it is not simply the voice of her citizens, Out
il il the voice Of the Anglo.SaXon race. 10
greater or lesser degree, all over the Union.
TO demonstrate: 1t can only be likened TO
terrible tornado, sweeping all things before
if In q day, as if by magic, the strongest
Republican counties have become Demo-
cratic. or rather have voted Democratic, not
isolated instances, but from the mountains
to the seaboard.
Our party has lost nearly every county
where it required white men in addition 10
the colored voters to vote with it TO carry it.
TAKE ONE MORE TEST.
Let us take strong Republican stronghodS
and see the falling off in majoritics. Craven,
with 1852 majority, loses 800; Granville,
with G79 majority, loses over eco; Wake,
with STA majority, loses 5i4; Len0ir, with
326 majority, loses it all Rutherford, With
2SG majority, loses over 200. These will SUI
flee. So that, viewed from any standpoint,
the loss is general and perTadcs every section
of the State. Can it be accounted for on local
grounds? I answer, no. The Democrats
nave had control of the Legislature for two
years, and have committed some oithc most
egregious plumbers, aud in ore instaace came
near passing bill to graat amnesty to mur-
der, rape, and burglary. One OF tie MEM
beers of the last Legislature, it h.3 been
charged publicly and never rcfIitcd by him,
actually "threw heads and tails" to vote.
The gross incompetency, Ignorance, and STU
pidity OF the last Legislature was so fully re-
cognized BY the Democrats That not dozen
members were renomiaateG.
Then I confidently assert that under ordl.
nary circumstances the Republicans would
have swept the State.
What was it, then, that caused the people
to swallow the ioIlieS and crimes OF such
party and rise like the ten pest-lashcd ocean
against our party
The answer is plain. The country was
flooded with copies Of the ciyll-rlshts Dill,
and the votes in Congress on It, and the peo-
ole lost sight OF the blunders and crimes OF
Democracy forgot for the time that nearly
every boon they priced came to them
through Republican RUE; forgot everything
in their unbounded indignation 1T The at
tempt to legalize social eiualty between The
races. They only remembered that they
were glo-Suyon>, and that he attempt TO
foist this social equality was the grosseSt IN
suit that bad ever been offered to them.
The Republican party was gradually be-
coming, By reason of its liberia! and enlight.
ened policy, more and more in favor.
To it our people owed amnesty, their pro-
pcrty forfeited by rebellion, equal rights be-
fore the law, and last, though far lIom the
least in the South, their homestead.
Notwithstanding the peculalinns OF ad-
venturers, who had acquired office at the
heels of the surrender; notwithstanding the
grant of impartial suffrage to blacks aud
whites; Notwithstanding the grosseSt abuses
in the internal revenue system, and even the
Kirk war, our noble, glorious party re-
bounded from every attack, and was gradu-
ally, but surely, adding TO its nlenhers, day
by day, from the best material Of the Demo-
cratic party, but the partial passage oil lie
ciyl.rights bill was the Inst feather on the
camePs back.
Now, are Anglo-SaXons in New York,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania differently consti.
tuted from those of North Carolina? To ask
the question is but to answer it. And while
they may be willing, Us in Detroit, to as,o-
ciare on terms of social equality with refined
and cultivated coIored men, such as were
there present, yet when vote is taken in
those aud other northern States, and the
question shall De squareiy presented whether
they will submit to social equality with the
whole colored race, my life upon it, they will
answer in New York as Indignantly as in
NORTH CAROLINA, NO, NEVER
Now, land l am satisfied that l but ex-
press the sentiments Of ninety-nine hun
dredths of Republicans of North Carolina
implore our northern Republicans to pause
and ponder before they shall determine to
cross the Rubicon. If that issue is forced,
the Republican party here, and all over the
South, will be confined thenceforth to the
colored race. That issue will carry all the
northern States where the vote is at all close,
and will, as certainly as the day shall come,
elect Democrat next President and sweep
the House of Representatives.
Then why persist in such suicidal policy?
The cOlored man has not asked it, and many
of the best of them do not even desire it.
Why? They know-what our Northern
friends do not recognize-that it will ineyi-
tablv produce war of raceS-not rebel-
lion, not such resistance to constituted law
as can be reached by military power.
When the negro in attempting to use
" civil rights" is murdered, do you sup
pose the white men could be convicted? Or
if the negro sues under the ciyi-rights bill,
do you suppose jury could be empanneled
that would find verdict for him? The in
telligent colored man knows in either case
the jury would not, because he knows that
which you know but fail to apply, namely:
that no law can be executed which is utterly
at war with public sentiment.
Again: Should the prestige Of our party
be imperilled, and its possession OF power
jeopardized for bare abstraction, sound.
ing brass? You gain not a single colored