New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-08
THE GEORGIA ELECTION.

THE GEORGIA ELECTION.
The dispatches report the result of the
Georgia election to be very light vote
and the largest Democratic majority eve,
known. This is no doubt the truth, but
it shows that the Republicans did not feel
enough confidence in their strength to
make an effort. There was not the re-
hottest prospect of success against the
"solid South" tactics which have been
resorted to in Georgia and others of the
late Confederate States. A few thousands
turned out to protest against this DONNA
ton by their votes, in quiet way; but all
have bowed their necks to yoke they
have not the power to remove. Even the
Democrats did not take much interest in
the election; being secure, they were care
less and almost Indifferent. In other
States, there is no more interest felt in
this Georgia walk-over than at home
The little municipal elections in Con-
necticut attracted much more attention
on account Of their greater significance.
Next to giving an outright Republican
majority, Georgia has done the best thing
it could for the success of our national
ticket 1t has furnished proof, if any
were needed, of ''solid South" allied
to the Democracy of the North for
the sole purpose of capturing the national
administration. There are but few States,
probably four South Of the Ohio river,
where the Republicans will be per-
mitted or enabled to make even q
respectable opposition. Their best efforts
in Texas, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi and Della
ware will not rise in dignity above bur-
lesque. They have no hopes of carrying
Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, and perhaps
none of North Carolina. The Georgia cleo
ton is fair sample of what may be
expected in every Southern State where
the Democrats have the physical power
to awe the negroes into condition of dis
franchisement. A solid Georgia denotes
a solid South, and the last means the loss
| Of the most substantial results Of the war,
| and all the benefits which were so conf
| IDENTIFY expected to come from the pro-
digious outlay which bas heavily taxed
| the North for fifteen years and left debt
| of two thousand millions of dollars. In
one way alone can this growing treason
be checked, and that is by united North.
There are votes enough in the South, and
patriotism enough, to defeat the disloyal
party, but under the peculiar field tactics
which have been established, the skill,
| the wealth, the ferocity, are all against the
Republican party. The negroes take the
| cotton and cane fields, hoe in hand; the
White Leaguers send their young men
into the lanes and highways, shot
guns in hand. Like the cowardly
DULLES of old, who encased them
selves in complete steel, and were more
than match for twenty times their num-
bers of unarmed, undefended peasants,
our modern bulldozers prowl about the
country carrying terror into every cabin,
and not unfrequently creating anxiety in
the plantation houses. Their arms of
precision at long range render it unnec-
essary that they should be incased in ar
NOR For support they prey upon their
relatives and political friends. These are
the agents to whom the task of solidify-
ing the South has been entrusted, and
they go about the unholy work with as
much zeal and activity as were ever dis
played by the iron-clad rufians and COM
mon stabbers who ruled the world in the
middle ages.
If the precedent established by the re-
suit in Georgia be followed up in the
South, reinforced by votes enough from
the North to elect Tilden, we shall have
here a government of force, not of law.
In fact, We are not far from that now,
though the little country tyrants who or
ganize vigilance committees and regula-
ting parties are yet compelled to talk of
law, though they have no fear of it. The
conflict which produced the war threat
ems to be revived in a struggle between
the modern aristocracy and peasantry of
the South. On the one side will be the
numerous class of adventures who live
by their wits, the shanty aristocracy of
the cities, and professional Office seeker,
aided and abetted by the timid business
men who adopt the custom of an ancient
tribe that worshiped the devil because
they feared he would injure them, and
neglected God, who was known to be
good and merciful, from whom no harm
was apprehended In this great struggle
the weaker classes of Humanity in the South
ask for the powerful and friendly aid of
those who have once stretched out their
hands to save. The election in Georgia
shows they are unable to help themselves.
They have been driven to the wall. And
so it soon will be in every State in the |
South if the movement is not checked by |
the Republicans of the North.
THE GRAND ADVENT.