American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-21
NORTH CAROLINA.

From the Jackson Times.1
The significance of the great tri-
umph which the Republican party
has just achieved in North Carolina.
over the Democracy of that State,
cannot be estimated by the majority
of seven delegates in the Constitu-
tional Convention, and the unpre-
cedented majority of eighteen thou
sand Republican votes in the State
at large. Splendid as is this achieve
ment in the overwhelming political
revolution it has wrought, and grand
as are its results, it is most enccur-
aging to contemplate. and of chief
importance, for the conclusive proof
it carries With 1t that there is a deep
rooted, long suffering, honest, ear
nest and determined Republican
sentiment in the humble masses OF
the South, both white and colored,
which cannot be driven ont or ex-
tinguished by adversely, and which
is ever reliable and ready at the call
of it's party to come forward aud
assert its purpose and power at the
ballot-box.
This expression, so gloriously and
yictoriously given by the Republi-
cans of North Carolina, may be re
garded as the key to the great
Southern problem. It solves the
question of the political future of
these States. Political theorists
need no longer puzzle their brains
as to the best mode OF adjusting the
races iutO harmonious relations, or
TO determine what will become Of
the reconstructed South when the
national authority is withdrawn
tlferefrom, and the people are left to
themselves to fix the complexion of
their State governments; nor need
they speculate on the balance of
power between labor and capital,
and intelligence aud ignorance.
North Carolina has settled this
question for them. With white
population of 2S6, 900 in 1870, largely
increased by immigration, with two
successive Democratic Legislatures,
elected in 1871 and 1873, the latter
over two-thirds Democratic, and
with things substantially all their
own way in the State. and with the
largest vote ever polled by either
party, the Democracy have been
disastrOusly routed at the polls, and
defeated in their reactionary and
revolutionary designs, by the votes
of white aud coIored men together.
At their first attempt to destroy
the new constitution of the State
they submitted the question of a
convention to the people, expecting
to carry it in their usual way. This
project was voted down. Tie pres
ent Legislature, however, mad with
Its large majority. and inspired by
the victories of last fall in the North,
ignored the people aud arbitrarily
passed an act calling convention
and compelled an election for del
egates.
The Republicans of the State re-
SlSleO LDlS uIgn-nanQeQ measure as
best they could, but in vain, and
were forced to go in the struggle
with the prestige and power of the
opposition, and a gerrymanded APP
of delegates, against
them. With what result the battle
was fought will be seen by to-day's
dispatches.
The lesson Of this great triumph
is easily read. 1t shows that South.
ern Republicans can withstand de-
feat and be as true to their party
aud the great cause of Liberty,
Freedom and Equality, to which
they are pledged, as in the .-,.ar of
victory. They may for a tine he
crushed, as they are in some of our
sister States, but they will rise again
as proudly as they have in North
CaroiIna, and be purer, stronger
and ADLER than before.
Let Republicans, North aud South,
take new courage from the great
moral victory that has just been
won.