Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-14
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The results Of this weeks elections
foreshaGow in Il large degree the in
portGnt elections OF tie next three
months, upon the results Of which the
character of the next Congress de-
ponds. We believe they will show
throughout the country considerable
Democratic gains The next Con
gress will be much nearer even
ly divided between the parties
than the present. But it viii probably
be Republican still. Unless the Re
publican managers in the various Con-
gressional districts are utterly blind
and headstrong, paying no heed to the
lessons Of recent defeats, they will still
retain power in both branches of the
National Legislature. N. Y Irjdultc
The significant ....ing about these
elections is that whatever advantage
the democratic party has achieved, &c
ignoring old predjudices and address,
ing itself to vital new issues, bat by
deliberately auaying one race against
another. In the places where elections
were held it happens that the white
citizens Outnumnered the cClOred cit
liens, and the democracy have inaugu-
of appealing to the white against the
resented the purpose and effect of the
civil rights bill, declaring that it was
a measure to enforce social equality,
and making use Of the would-you-ha
your. daughter mary anigger argument
precisely as was done when the aim Ct
the republican party was simply to
No nv@n CF r1c -
the erritories.-BoSt0n AdrcltisCr.
The political news is becoming glori-
ously monotonous. Heavy Demo
cratic gain" is the tenor of the election
returns that leap over the wires from
almost every contest in the land. The
news from Kentucky and Vicksburg
was hardly printed before the con-
quered lightning flashed even better
Carolina. The elections i'll the former
gratifying results attained are chiefly
food for loc1l Civilizations.
But TIE victory of North Carolina is
pregnant with the return Of better
times, aud a better state Of public af-
overthrow of the advocates of social
civil rights bin was discussed from
IL North Carolina. 1t was The great
issue; and the fail vote will show, we
think, that the fate OF radicalisn is
sealed in that State. The poor whites
the mountalneers Of the western por-
ton of the State-haye almost to
man wheeled into line on the issue
not hn NO,
race.
This victory must forever close the
career o. the carpet-baeg 4 s in the Old
North State, and a few months will
doubtless suffice to scatter them to the
four corners of the earth. in this
splendid triumph the people of Ala
bama can surely gather confidence and
enthusiasm for their own struggle; and
We all now have double incentive fol
swelling by work and organization the
victorious tide of public sentiment
that is bearing the country grandly on
to an era Of real peace and real pros |
perIty. -ANa1at0 (Ga.) Constitution. /,
We congratulate the old North |
State on her splendid delivery from |
Radical bondage. At the last general |
two years ago, the Radicals
elected their Governor by an abomina-
bic system of bribery, intimidation
and frand. Through the same cor
rupt means they obtained a majority
of about ten thousand. At the Presi-
Dental election the same fall, through
the appropriately sof Mr.. Greeley, the
State was permitted to go by default
for Gen. Grant, giving him a majority
of nearly thirty thousand. Behold
the difference now! The thousands are
on the other side, and the Conserva-
lives of North Carolina stand proudly
erect, shoulder to shoulder, with their
brethren Of Virginia, and their heel on
he tyrant's neck. So will it be every
where in the South, with the excep-
ion of two or three States at the out
side, if the people are permitted to
vote freely and independently, and
without fear Of the bayonet.-Lynch.
,org Neaos.
The one hundred guns of triumph
md congratulations that rang out last
hight across the Chesterfield Heights,
to the victorious Conserva-
i've forces of North Carolina, now
esting on their arms. the greetings of
he victorious Conservative army of
Petersburg. Nay, more, the voice Of