The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-11-15
TO FOLLOW ZTLDEN'S
gT EHTTON

The New York San, of the 9Th, in its
editorial article on the result of last
Tuesdays election, thus mentions some
| of the results which will be brought
about by Tflden's election.
The South, indeed seems to be solid. "
South Carolina and Louisiana have
thrown off the CALLING yoke Of the car
pet-bag regime. The ballot has proved
too strong for the bayonet!
We need hardly say to Field Marshal
Halstead, Sitting Bull Morton, and noisy
Jim Blaine, that the electoral votes cast
for Tilden and Hendricks will be quietly
counted in the presence of the Houses
of Congress in February next. The
threats of revolution, which the desper-
ate Republicans played as their last card
in losing game, will only cause their
authors to be very much chagrined that
they ever uttered them.
This great victory has many points of
significance. In an especial manner it is
the triumph of reform in its every as
pect. Though the Republicans raised
Coy Tilden and his CONDUCTORS keep
their eyes steadily on the real issue of
this memorable contest-reform in the
civil service, reduction of governmental
expenditures, and the relief of the CAPT
tai and labor from the severe pressure
under which they have been so long
bowed down. We but state pregnant
fact, which no man more clearly recog-
nizes than Gov. TiIden, that his election
is largely due to the voters of independ-
ent Republicans.
1t is impossible to over-estimate the
beneficial results which are to flow from
this triumph. We shall have peace in
the South, and harmony between the
North and the South. We shall hear no
more of the Intervention of the bayonet
in the elections. The outrage mill will
cease to grind out its product of lies on
the eve of every important political cam
paign The freedmen will pursue the |
noiseless tenor of their way, cast their |
ballots as they please, and learn ut length |
that the chief end of a colored man is |
not to be the serf Of unprincipled poll
ticians, who have heretofore used him |
to hoist white rogues into places of |
power where they could plumber and OPP
press the people. Business will revive;
labor will find employment; capital will |
not shrink from investment; greenbacks
will gradually appreciate to the value of I
coin; our bonds will pass current in for
eign markets, and the merchants, bankers
and manufacturers of this and other
cities, who, on the eve of the election,
attempted to frighten the people from
voting as they pleased, will, after calm
become somewhat ashamed
of their conduct.
One of the grandest results of this
victory is the final overthrow of Grant
ism. 1t is the end of Grant himself; it
puts the finishing touch to Hayes, who
tried to step in his shoes. The vocation
Of such corrupt politicians as Chandler,
Robson, Babcock, Boss Shepherd and
Don Cameron will no longer be profita-
Die. Chameleo1s of the type of Schurz,
Eenton, Banks and Grow will disappear
lnder the sod. The carpet-bag vermin
the Kelloggs, the Caseys, the Cham
the Spencers-will be swept
rom the face of the Southern soil, which
hey have so long polluted. Let us be
levoutly thankful for the beneficent re-
ults which will flow from the election
f Tilden and Hendricks. 1t is the
york of the friends of Reform, and to
hem the credit belongs. I