New-York tribune., 1876-10-30
THE SOUTHERN MENACE.

arm wuFEIFR,s DISPAsSIONATE VIEWS.
y,ru THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
.-,cv-ppYsIDENr-THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOT
n,prv OF PROGRESS" WHAT THE SWORD
.,,vgs TUE SWORD BREAKs"-THE SOUTH CAN
xor FORGET THAT THE NATIONAL DEBT is THE
nnrcr OF ITS sUBJUGATION.
-, er,Fr CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE.l
M,IoxF. Oct. 2S.-Malone Is one OF those thriving
- .,s of North Eastern New-YOrk, settled III
A. oorv mart of the present century by hafdy po-
- from New-England, from which the ear-narkS
- ;ts flanders have not been ehaced TO TINS day'
Tor nearly 80 years. like other settlements IN TINS
ort of the State made about the same time, IL was
.Inost sbut out from communication with the rest
49, uro,ld Montreal 20 miles away by turnpike,
az roorlet for its few surplus products, was really
more difficult TO reach than Philadelphia or balti-
,0o,e is TODAY But the opening of the railroad
tro,o oo1cnsburg to Lake Champain in 1890 gave
.u,o,dertnl stimulus to all the towns which IL
toncbed. and Malone in the last 20 years has IN
oreased nearly ten-fold in population and wealth.
tJore on n beautiful street within less than hNe
nntes, walk of the business center of the village
,as;des the Hon. Wm. A. Wheeler, the Republican
.ondiaate for the Vice-Presdency. His home is
modest but very attractive and comfortable us
windows look out upon pleasant little park, across
a
little yellow frame school-hquse, in which Mr.
Wbeeer achieved one of his earliest in life
rs the teacher of country school. Here on the spot
mn which he was born respected and beloved by ms
neichbors and constituents, the honorable repre-
sentative of virtuous industrious, public-sprted
patrotic people, the next Nice-Presldent Oh the
United States has spent his life, except when absent
from home in the public serylce
Mr.. Wheeler has attended no political meetings in
This state and made no set speeches since his nonl-
nation to the Vicc-Presidency On his return from
West Point last Summer after the Cincinnati Con-
veDtion. he did address his fellOw-tOwnsnen very
briefly in response to serenade, but he dd not az
that time discuss any of the important questions IN
volyed in the present contest. His health for sew
eral wears has been such as to prevent him from
making many political addresses and 1eellng 'ha'
hi in mueb better taste for the candidate for so
high an Office as that to which he has been noial-
mated without solicitation to allow Others to do
most of the talking. would have caused him to hest
tate about going on the stump even had he felt able
10 do so. He did intend TO 60 to Ogdensburg on
Thursday last TO meet Senator Edmunds of Yer
mont lwho visits this portion of the STATE in re-
sDouse TO the personal request of Mr.. Wheeler and
address the Republicans Of his Congressional Dls-
trict who have so often and with such perfect
unaninity selected him their representative but
sickness due TO exposure during ms late tnp 10
Neyy-York aud since his return, made 1t lmprudent
for him even TO leave his room and he was obliged
10 telegraph his regrets. think that he expects to
address the Republicans of his own county before
the election but it is not probable that he viii be
able to speak elsewhere
To friends who call upon him Mr. Wheeler ex-
presses his views touching the issues of the Pres-
Dental contest with Characteristic freedom, and his
-. 1t ~.
fact that his opinions have been deliberately and
conscientously formed, and are based upon an in
innate knowledge of the facts such as few public
men possess Mr. Wheeler is deeply impressed with
the overshldowing Importance Of the Southern
question as it now presents itself, and there is GER
tainly no American statesman who has studied II
with more care shown a greater disposition to
deal with 1t in a dspassionate and judicial spirit
than he.
THE GROWING ISSUE OF THE CANVASS.
In an informal conversation yesterday, Mr.
Wheeler. without referring TO the recent disturb
ances in South Carolina said thar all other questions
seemed TO him subordinate to the one consideration
whether the South, with its present spirit is to be
again intrusted with the government of the United
States. The danger of the ultimate payment of
those classes of Southern claims which he does not
think arc barred by the amendments 10 the Consti-
lullOn, ana WHICH MI huth IN lis RECENT reuter- du
mits may be paid without violating the provisions
Of that instrument is, he sMd a very serious one,
and yet, like any other involving only the financial
welfare of the country, it is in his judgment, tenn
pOrary and secondary in its character when com
pared with that of turning back the hands on the
dial of human progress in this country, and that he
believes would be the result of a Democratic vic
tory at this time. The former might cause present
hardship and disaster but the latter would strike
adeath-bOw at the cause OF education and improve
ment. There can be peace IN the South. he
added, until its people assimlated TO those of
the North. Progress in the South Is no slower than
1t was with the people from whom we sprang; but
the Democratic party is not the party of progress,
Its whole history demonstrates
TnE SOUTH STILL DIsLOYAL.
But said, democrats North and South assert
that the spirit Of the Southern people has changed
tnce the close of the war, that the South has hon
tstly and completely accepted the situation, and Is
now loyal to the Union"
" No man." lie replied, "can point to any one act
showing that there has been any such change in the
spIit of the Southern people since the war. After
having mingled with them ard had an opportunity
to observe for myself have deliberately come to
The conclusion that the ruling classes of the South
accept the anne dments to the Constitution which
are intended to make permanent the great results Of
the war; as the French accepted the Frank. Ort
teaty-the vaudal was on her soil and she was
helpless. There is doubt about it whatever.
Why myself have often heard SOutherncrs re-
mark that what the sword makes the sword
breaks"
THAT there has been no change" he continued.
sis further shown by the fact that in this very can
vass the candidates who have been nominated for
sfhce in the South have almost invariably been men
who were distinguished for their services to the