The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-11-01
MISCELLANY.
oPpR EssIoN IN THE SOUTH.

There is one fact that settles all controversy
in regard to the terror exercised over the Re-
publicans in the South. 1t is a very easy
thing to convince Northern Democrat that
Southern Democrat has perfect right to
but when it can be confidently stated and
proved that no white Republican, avowing
his opinions, can attain a position in South
ern society or conduct profitable business,
we print what the most ultra partisan will
not dare to deny.
Every day brings us voluntary witnesses to
clinch this assertion. Tie have now ON our
table many confirmatory letters from native
white Republicans in the South which we dare
not publish. We point to the late speech of
the venerable Jonathan Norcross, late Repub-
lican candidate for Governor in Geolg ia, as a
potent public proof. Republican clergyfnen
cannot retain their positions in Southern pull
pits. A gentleman long resident in Europe,
visited his native Southern home few days
ago. and on his return personally assured us
that u Nothern Republican man or woman
was socially ostracized in the South. A dis
tinguished Union general, who has relations
in Virginia, gives the same information. A
conservative Philadelphian, largely interested
in Southern improvements voluntarily gives
evidence to the same effect. An officer of the
National Government, Southern man with a
Southern wife, q gentleman Of culture and Of
the highest personal character, whom we
have known for many years, informs lis that,
IA L.. lson
his official duties have called him for more
than two years. he and his wife are steadily
Stunned by the white people, and that after
he had rented q house, and when he was
about to close the bargain, the landlord refus-
ed to sign the contract because he heard he
was black Republican. There is a young
clergyman in Philadelphia now, of the high
est character, who has been compelled to
leave his parish in the South simply because,
though Southern born, he is pronounced
Republican.
Now, let us ask the merchants, mechanics,
manufacturers, capitalists, and scholars Of the
North, yes, let us even ask Mr.. Samuel J.
Tilden, himself, what would be thought Of our
public opinion If it did not permit the cx-
Confederate general, the pardoned rebel poll
tician, and the vociferous Tammany Hall
bully, to proclaim his sympathy with the
Democratic party all over the North, and even
to insult old Republican citizens on our pub
lie streets? Go into any of the cities and
towns of Pennsylvania, and you will find,
among the Democratic leaders of that city or
town, an open and defiant sympathy with all
the old ideas of the Rebellion. The Repub-
licans meet this violence not with anger, but
with argument, and steadily preserve their
social relations with their Ditterest political
advcrsaries.
A contrast like this, mutually fortified by
the daily experience Of both parties in the
North, and therefore utterly beyond contra
ports in regard TO the savage brutalities of
the Tilden Confederates upon the poor ne
groes of the Southern country yet, at the
same time, it proves that when the white
gentleman is, for his Republican opinions,
driven out of society aud business in the
South, there can be neither rest nor refuge
for the poor black man, unless he surrenders
TO the domination Of his old master.
Regular officers of the army and the navy
are claimed to be better, because more i'm
partial, judges Of the present Southern eondi-
ton. Too many Of these men born in tho
South have recently been placed in command
ing positions under the magnanimous policy
of the Republican party. Yetevcn this latter
class cannot fail to see, perhaps through the
spectacles of grateful sense of the new
honors conferred upon them, the shameless
prescription of Republican sentiment in their
own section. But let Union veteran, like
Sherman, or Sheridan, or Terry, or Crook, or
Burnside, or even Hancock and Hooker or
any soldier who fought in the regular army
against the rebellion, let him testify, and he