The New York herald., 1876-08-03
The South and the Canvass.

Some of our Southern contemporaries
misconstrue the position of the HxRAID on
the Southern question. Now and then
judicious and far-seeing paper, like the
Richmond Enquirer, the Savannah Ne,os, the
Charleston Ne,os and Courier or the Mobile
Register considers these views in proper
spirit and even if not agreeing with the
HERALD sees the value of driving section
alism out of politics. If any Southern
newspaper should speak to the Southern
people from o national point of view it is
the Louisville Co,rier-,Journal. Its editor is
a distinguished and patriotic man who
knows the Northern people we'll. He knows
that there is no bitterness in the North to-
ward the South that uncompromising
republicans rejoice in the prosperity and
happiness of the old Confederates
1t is, therefore, with surprise that we see
the Courier-Jou,nal follow after the baying
pack of wild newspapers who believe that
the election of Tlden is necessary to 'save
the South from radical oppression" There
is no such thing as radical oppression. The
republicans as party stand with the demo-
Gratis. They have never ceased to hold out
to the South the hand Of magnanimity and
friendship. There is nothing that Tilden
as President could do that Hayes could not
and would not do. But the Southern men
insist upon regarding the republicans as
enemies, as men pining after their goods
and chattels, as laboring to build
up governing class of adventurers
and negroes to rule over and plunder
them. There has been good deal of this;
but who is to blame? The Southerners pro-
voked policy of repression, and that policy
has been enforced. They have striven
steadily to bring the Union back to what it
was before the war. The republicans have
defeated this in legislation as they did in
arms 1t has been losing game. 1t is un-
just to say that the republicans did not wish
to act with the old Confederates. The truth
is when an old Confederate acted with the
republicans he was at once hunted out of
society. Take the case Of the celebrated
General Longstreet. He was good enough
to command great army under Lee, but as
soon as he professed his desire to act with
the republicans he was outlawed. The same
may be said of Colonel Mosby, who was
good enough to command cavalry guerillas
for Lee, but who, as soon as he supports the
republicans, becomes infamous
We in the North have only faint idea of
the political antipathies of the Southern
people. They have always worked to the
detriment of the best interests of the South.
They have kept the republican party in ex-
istence as war party. If the Southern
question could only be eliminated from our
politics we would have q new arrangement
of parties Questions of finance, free trade,
centralization, the constitutional relations
of the States to the general government,
questions of reform, civil service and gen.
eral improvement could then become
matters for discussion and for popu-
lar suffrage. But now our politics rest
under the war clouds, and black, angry
passions are seen oil through the South
like volcanic eruptions. We read the
democratic newspapers and we are told
that the South will be o unit for Tilden.
We read the republican newspapers and the
answer comes back like defiance, that the
North will be unit for Hayes. Here we
nave ScCtIoub1lom OuCo mOIo-tuo b6uo Ill
vision in politics that threw us into war;
Yet all this time the issue is q false one
There are no sectional questions but what
spring from the caprices Of demagogues and
the anger of people who walk as men who
have been blind and cannot see.
While we should be we'll enough pleased
to see Mr.. Tilden President the result
would be deplorable if it came from The
votes of q section. There can be no reform
that will compensate for this arraying of the
North against the South. What we hope to
see in the South is some man who will, like
Thiers, lead his people away from danger
ous traditions, or, like Disraeli, compel them
for their own good to accept the inevitable.
NJ Thiers, q life long monarchist, became
republican for the good of France. Mr.. Dis
raeli, the tory leader, passed a liberal reform
bill for the good of England Is there no
Southern statesman who will do for the
South a similar service?
Our GIFTED FRIEND, Governor Dorsheimer
proposes that the "cure-everything-f fora
dollar" pill is what the country needs. In
conversing with o reporter of the Phila-
delphia Times he says :-'As to Congress
treatment of the subject, my judgment is
that the whole business of finance should be
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