The New York herald., 1874-11-21
LET US HAVE PEACE.
North Carolina SaluteS MasSachu~
setts and New York.
THE LATE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES.
The Era of Real Peace and
Reconstruction.
MuRrRERsBoRouoH n. c., Nov. 10, 1874

MURFREESBoRoUGH, Y. c., Nov. 10, 1875.
The North Carolin ans are not specially demons
strative. They are NOT given to explosions oil
enthusiasm. They possess In an eminent aegrees
the discreet virtue OF conservatism-rhat Inertia
which. in politics no less than physics. Is force In
It's highest form. Resistance. rather than action
Is the strong element IN their character. Not 10
refer 10 the oft-quoted hardness or North Caro-.
mas original entrance into the federal Union, hes
entire recent history illustrates this peculiar, dis
tlnctive quality OF her people. It was not until
she found herself between the upper and neither
millstones OF Virginia and South Carolina that she
submitted to secession AS geographical necessity.
Her opposition to the administration party OF the
Confederate states was marked, persevering aud
unyielding throughout the war. Her prominent
men, foremost among wnom at time wal
Governor Vance, with the full accord OF the
mass or her citizens, maintained 4 sturdy
and resolute resistance TO the pet measures OF
JEFFERSON Davis and his Cabinet such as the suss
pension OF the writ OF habeas corpus and the
suDordination OF the civil TO the military power;
and this John Hampden spirit had all the vigor Of
an imperturbabe and impassve obstlnacy.
The late democratic and liberal republican sue
cesses In the Northern and Western States-s0
sweeping unprecedented, SO unexpected
have, however, deeply stirred the serene equa-
nimity OF old Rip Van Wrinkle. While there have
been demonstrations OF mingled amazement ana
rejoicing only ut Wilmington, and perhaps few
other points in the State, when the adjuncts OF
ordnance and sky rockets and brass band music
were invoked, and, while our conservative party
journals have not crowed very Justify or loudly,
the revolt OF the Northern voters finds Its
best response in deep and hearty sen.
.iment which crops out everywhere, of
gratitude for the great deliverance which
has been wrought. You this by mingling and
talking with the people. The revolution is re-
garded here not as a temporary and transient In.
surrection of angry and disappointed soreheads
and their adherents against the President and his
ofiiceholders, but as genuine new departure In
the politics OF ihe nation whose results are per-
manent and full OF benefcent prophecy tor the
South and for the whole nation.
RESURRECTION OF FEDERAL PATRIOTISM.
l find IN my conversations with men OF every
degree-memoers or Congress ana men whose
private station" professional ana business men
that the most noticeable feature OF the result OF
rrotsm. North Carolina was. before the war.
one o. the most Un,on-lovng OF all the states
metto nelghbor. This strong attachment was not
utterly eXtnguished even by the four grim
and and. cory cory Years Of the rebellion. rebel All through
favorable to the old Union, not only on tne east
ern borders. hard Dy the national military lines,
but in the remote interior. The accounts OF these
movements printed In the Northern Journals
were IN many cases exaggerated and sometimes
apochryphal; but there was good deal OF fre as
well as smoke. 1t was after Appomatox that the
thrusts dealt TO yet lingering but very
SICK southern Unlonism. The sudden INVASION oI
lnso!ent and greedy carpet.baggerS tnat signatzed
the epoch o. reconstruction; tue banding together
cradle and most unfortunate misnomer .'Unlon
Leaguers," of ignorant, brutal and barbarous
| blacks with the very meanest OF .mean whites:n
the harsh rule OF the Freedmen's Bureau emls4
saries and their dead beat native scalawag
the the PRONUNCIATION Of strange and mex:
pMcaabe ord orders rs as rules . OF law and ~ evidence
changed that neither lawyer nor layman could
keep the run OF them; the iostlng upon the peo-
stituton, utterly supverslve OF the popular GUS
toms and traditions and SO obscure even In lts
most important provisions that 1t IS continually
pu' ting our Superior and Supreme Court judges ia
their trumps in trying to give u proper exposition
LittIefleid and Swepson ring, which not only
emptled the state Treasury OF the money extOrted
but entalled upon them d bonded debt 50 % nugs
taat all the lands In North Carolina, II brought
the half OF it. All these things. ana others that
might be enumerated, mad been effective In en-
lireIy stamping out every sembance OF shadow
OF national patriOtism save, perhaps, among the
CHANGES BROUGHT ABOUT.
The above Is not an Overdrawn picture; II ID
sober tact. unionism was DEAD and buried three
weeks ago. There were no outrages," but II
was getting uncomfortable 1or Northern men,
changed. ihe hatred engendered, not by the
war, out by the dismal decade which succeeded
1t, are disappearing ike dlssolvlng view. Our
own election victory IN August was defiance
menace. 1t was the elimination OF an anti-
national feeling, aggravated by repeated wrongs
and an intoleruDle accumulation OF manifold and
multorm Injuries OF which the threatened lvu
| rights bill was the GROWING insult. Had the
publican commemorative OF the North and West
seen and gone ten or more better the other
| sloe. tns sentiment OF hate would have been ten.
our eyes, in the magnificent magnanimlty In which
| New York. pennsylvania and especially Massa-
pocy OF the ad.
minstratlon toward the South, which Is the way
we interpret the result has reached our hearts,
uncharitaDleness, and admitted In their stead
those "oette angels Of our nature' which Lincoln
once predicted. Again North Carolina answers 10
the old Bay state. as she did In l776 Her new
Governor, William Gaston. bears the identical
name or one OF North Cardinals noblest and most
ample recognition Is given here to the iact that
the great victories OF the Sd OF November are not
purely dem ocratic triumphs We do not look at II
that 1--WE democrats nave whipped you repuDlt
cansr The least informed among know thal
the result mainly due TO the LIBERAL lndepeu>
dent republicans. We call ourselves not democratic
but conservatives We know, too, that Bourbon
democracy, as represented py several New YorE
journals, mas been hlndrance and an incuDus.
iraternize most cordially, and especially with the
honest element Of the republican party OF the
ana TO touch elbows and march with them here. s.
after to the emusic OF the Union."
| 1nd Jesse J. ieates, Congressman elect
hopeful. Major Yeates Is thoroughly conversans
with the temper OF the people, and he VIII doubt
less be the leader III delegation to the Forty.
iourtn Congress. He says that era Of good
feeling is established by the late elections. There
Is no dislike hereafter TO Northern men. General
Banks, should he come South. would meet ova.
lions aud glad welcomes everywhere. To such
men as he we feel that our. approaching release
IRON tyranny Is due.
ONE RESULT OF THE LATE SUCCESSES
North ana South is that the negroes Will be moro
literally and generously dealt with. They have
gone In THIS state almost UNANIMOUSLY, with the
republlcans: the fact tnat IN LOUISIANA, South
Carolina and Georgia, thousands OF them voted
side Nv side with tner Old masters, has inspired
kindly aud hopeful feeling toward them here. We
uelieve that at no distant day-as Carl Scnur8
ao gises them-they VIII transfer their votes In .
large degree TO u.s. But whether they do this or
not their rights and liberties secure. These
are yestea and sacred. Real estate has appres
:, cia,ed IN value in the last ten days. There Is
general feeling or announcement; our merchants