The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-11-27
THE KEZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, NOV. 9th, 1874.
The Republicans Mistaken.

The following concise and truthful article
from the New York SIN, shows up clearly
the mistaken notion of the Republicans in re-
laton to the results that are to follow the
great Democratic victory of November 3D.
1t is worth reading:
1t has taken the Republican party more
than week to find out how thoroughly it
was beaten; how the old Rings were broken
and scattered, and the pieces thrashed small
and fine by the popular wrath. 1t is very
little while since the organs wee fond OF
sneerng at the tidal wave" and when it
actually rose and swept away their rotten ar
tificial defences, they could not have been
more astonished ifthey had seen Grant re-
fuse gift OF heard Williams tell the truth.
For day or two they pointed, with pitful
kind of pride, to Pennsylvania, as the rock
which had withstood the flood" and looming
up, fixed and firm, in the surrounding waste,
offered standing room for a miserable rem
nant of the engufed party. But in due time
that also was submerged, and from Maine all
around to Texas nothing stood fast in the old
line of Republican States but South Carolina.
This Ito change the figure) the President, and
of course every well regulated organ, regards
as tie "oasis in the desert" The State of
Cameron and Kemble has gone down, but
Tic IoltJC Oh uIlcISOl anu hUSCS Suull-
berlain remains. It's evidently great COM
fort to them, in the absence of anything else,
but most people will regard the success of
the thieves ticket in South Carolina as rather
n slender and treacherous foundation upon
which to rebuild the fortunes of n whemed
and ruined party
But the organs say the Democrats will
make such terrible mistakes and cut up such
high didoes that the people will be glad in
few months to exchange Seymour and Thur
man, and Mcdonald for Williams, Butler, and
Shepherd. But we cannot see it that way !;
and we entertain serious apprehensions that
the noble band of ofliceholding patriots, who
expect this result will be very much dsap
pointed in the issue. The tone of the Demo
cratic press is extremely temperate, and the
numerous speeches of Democratic leaders
since the election are moderate and states
manlike We have looked in vain through
our Southern exchanges for any sign of ag
erosion upon the negro Even Williams
has not reported an outrage" and the voice
of Ananias Hays is hushcd in the land.
Thousands of negroes voted with the whites
to dispense with the governments of carpet
baggers, thieves, and soldiers, supervised from
Washington and other thousands march in
the jubilant professions and rejoice with
their liberated friends The evil spell is APP
ulOhClt, anu bluChS
will to q very large extent cooperate not with
the scalawag and the carpet-bagger, but with
the responsible and intelligent people of the
South Already Mr.. CASTOR is congratulated
upon the redemption of Massachusetts from
Radicalsm" by highly respectable commit
tee of colored men in Louisiana. Colored
Democratic clubs are springing up in every
quarter, while coored orators and coored
people are conspicuous in the Democratic de-
monstrations in New Orleans, Mobile, Selma,
and, indeed, throughout the South
The political interests of the Southern
blacks are identical with the interests of the
Southern planter and the Western farmer.
With judicious action the time is near when
not only five or ten per cent. of the colored
vote, but the whole of it may be cast with
the Democrats. Have they any interest in
hu-Kluxing their prospective allies? Will
the make n pastime of killing off their own
voters? The gift of suffrage to them by the
Repub Gcans and the subsequent legislation in
their be. half was a mere makeshift to main
tain their own asccndancy. But rs party
measure it was short-sighted and reckless,
and is return ing to plague the inventors. The
only instances of outrage or intimidation at
the late eectio. rs in the South grew out of
desperate attem, ,ts to restrain the better class
of negroes from going over bodily to the
whites.
We now predict I. hat the colored vote will
be nearly solid for the Opposition. candidate
for the Presidency in s76.