, 1876-12-17

ana, II possible, De1ofe JAuuaIys a6tee
on what is wanted and on the form OF TIT
laws required to accomplish the end sought
THE BEGINNING OF THE OUTCOME.
| The most significant feature Of the stun
ton is the improved tone of the leading
Southern congressman and newspapers II
regard to the Presidency. Hewitt, TuDENE
Chairman Of the Democratic Committee, an
nounced the revolutionary programme con
cocted in New York with evidently full as
surance that: as it was T1IpENs programme.
it would be adopted without dissent BY the
entire Democracy OF the country, more es'
pecially By the entire Southern Democracy
stand all the hard knocks that might be re.
ceived in the attempt to bulldoze the Presi-
dency. Upon the like assumption, those
ferocious blood-tub journals that want some
body ut a distance to go in end get killed,
the st. Louis 7fmes Indianapolis Sentinel,
Cincinnati Enquirer, and Fort Wayne .Senh-
mel, aud others Of that ilk, set about firing
the Democratic heart, more especially the
Southern Democratic heart In like manner
and for like purpose our own SPRINGER, OF
the Springfield District,-on of the meekest
and mildest-mannered Of men, by the way,
fully -bloodthirsty fashion, leaving no alter
native but T1LDEx aud the post-ofices or
fight.
But now the South is heard from and
the voice of the South is notfor " wah" and
it is now clear that the sentiment of the
South is opposed to any revolutionary move
| ment, and that the Southern members Of
Congress do not propose to hazard anything
that might lead to fight for the sake Of seat
ing TmDEN in the Presidential chair, though
they did vote for him. It is not alone
BEN HILL sharply reminded the Northern
Democratic conspirators-that Southern
Democrats have already, once for all, learned
to their cost what comes Of listening to
Northern Democratic ''wah "-talk. It is
that, upon a close, careful scrutiny of the
situation, the Southern leaders perceive they
have nothing to gain for the Southland
they are not in humor to 60 to war about the
o6ices-by seating TmDEN. They FORE
see that his Administration, were he seated,
would, at every step in dealing with the
Southern question, encounter the jealous ap-
prehension of the North, which, inevitably,
would shortly unite against any measures
such as the South would propose. They are
coming to the conclusion that HAYES is the
better man for the South to have in the
White House. They know that his position
gives assurance Of his power, as President,
to carry out the liberal policy in dealing with
the South to which his public utterances
have committed him. They are aware
that the three million votes cast for
premacy in the North very much greater
than their numerical majority would indi-
cate. The three million HATES votes at the
North represent, not the ritf-raG OF the cities,
without which TnDEN oould not have Sc
cured an Electoral vote of the North, but the
vested interests, the commerce, agriculture,
and manufactures and enterprise generally,
the brain and the Drawn OF the Northern
States.
Sagacious Southern leaders like BEN Hull
know, too, that that part Of the TuDEN vete
of most consequence in the North-that part
Which represents most intelligence and most
influence cast by dissatisfied Republic
ans under protest, and that inevitably that
Influential element will shortly find its way
again into the Republican party. This ele-
ment would certainly quickly desert TnnEN
were he inaugurated, in fact, has already
almost wholly deserted him,-and would cast
its weight against his Administration. It
would, too, inevitably gravitate to the sup
port Of HAYES Administration. To sum up,
the Administration of TnpEs could not es-
cape the weakness TINT comes Of lack of the
support Of the controlling elements, OF lack
Of morale, of lack Of coherent, practicable,
weu-de6ned programme. Besides, it would
encounter popular distrust throughout the
entire North to degree most embarrassing.
The Southern leaders-who are not the ir-
lunatics of the States rights
school, but live men of capacity
the hopelessness Of looking to such an Ad-
as would be TmDEN;s for the t
change they ask. It is not question Of |
post-ofices and custom-houses. They per
ceive their opportunity to establish better |
with the real North, not the
bummers and ward politicians who clamor
for gore and who must be rated lower than !
the ''nigger," since their votes are ever for |
sale, but the intelligence, enterprise, and !
vested interests that direct public opinion. |
These the Southern leaders do not propose to |
league. against them for the sake of captur-
ing the post-ofices, They have settled that
they are not going to fight for the post-of-
fees. Nor are they going to embark in
any bulldozing on account Of the aforesaid
post~otdces. They are ready to admit that
they we're defeated, and from present indics-
lions, unless some extraordinary revolution
OCCURS, they will adopt the wise policy of
the TnDEN cause, leaving the
revolutionary conspirators who are breath
ing slaughter to offer themselves as live ma
Eerial to be transformed into corpses when
The gore flows.
MOODY AND THE MAGDALENS.
Brother MooDYs campaign against the
world the flesh md t1,o dap,1 4rh;ob !