Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-07
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE7. 1875.

IA Democratic ne Wspaper sumsup the Dem
ocratic canvass for the Presidency 10 this SEN
tencc I'VE uecd only itty-tour votes 10 elect
the next President This calculation Is based
upon the theory that all the Southern States
will vote the Democratic ticket at the next elec'
ton. Even in Louisiana aud South Caroilua,
where the negroes are so numerous and where
the Republicans should certainly expect 10
have majority this result is almost CONCEDED.
1t would DOT be wise, perhaps, to enter into all
the causes of this radical and in some respects
unnatural change 10 the political temper OF the
South. But it is calamity. 1t presents two
sections of the Uoion one against the other as
before the war. When the war was over It was
the hope of every patriot, North and South
that all sectonalism had been buried III the
bloody fields of Virginia aud Mississippi; that
there would never again be a Presldcutsl con'
test with one section arraycd aga'uSt another
but now, in the third canvass since the close OF
the war, we enter upon the hight with the
South uuit, and with no hope OF breaking
that unit. 1t would be blessing TO our poll
tics il this Southern question We're to DC cllml
mated, and We had issues which would appeal
to US as Americans and patriots, aud not as
citizens Of one section or another. We see DC
such prospect, and can only wait aud hope.
So says the New York Herald, and yet that
same paper, DOT month ago, because sheriff
with posse, composed alike OF whites ate
blacks, had to resort to force IN Louisiana to ar
rest a party of negro murderers, denounced th'
whole S. nth as being still rebelllous, and II:
ueople so filed with hatred to the negroes thai
they shot then down like dogs How Can tht
South be other than unit against Radlcallsm
when, ever since the war, the chief purpose OF
leaders of the Radical party, always excepting
the expressing one Of pilferng from the public
purse, has been to insult and degrade her apc
her representatives when the newspapers O.
the North, even those like the Herald, protes
sing TO be independent, either to crafty az Ill
concealed dislike for the people OF the South
or because they find it beneficial to their owl
interests, seize upon every breach of the peace
south of the Potomac and distort it into tht
out-cropping Of a rebellious spirit which, twt
cowsrdly to attempt open and or gaDzed reslS
lance to the laws Of the country, seeks ths
pusiIlanimous method Of maDifestlng its BAT
fled malignity by slaughtering inottenslvt
negroes; and when, worse still, the hatred en-
tertaned by the victorious North for the cou
uuored Southland which may be regarded al
the tribute envy pays TO acknowledged superior
ity-is such pervadng emotion 10 the North
ern States that unprincpced, but shrcwd dema
gogues like Senator Morton and ex- Speakc
Blaine excite it by bloody shirts, and feed i
from the Audersobville graves to Increase their
popularity? When different policy is pur.
sued toward the South, when her representa-
tivcs in Congress are accorded equal privilege;
aud courtesy with those FROM the North, and
not daily tauuted with being rebels, when the
Federal offices 10 the South are filled by homes
and respectable citizens Of the country, ano
not by ignorant negroes aud cunning strangers
aud when the true assertions OF the Suutherl
people that they abide by the result of thu
war are not derided aud discredlted, then
probably, the South will not be unit.