Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-30
The First Sign.

The result of the New Hampshire
election is very gratifying. 1t is the first
immediate popular response to the words
and acts of President Hayes, and shows
that there is no fear or doubt among
those who supported his election. Not
only is his majority more than sustained
in an ordinary State election, when the
figures of the preceding Presidential
year are seldom reached, but there is II
Republican gain in members of Congress,
which brings the next house nearer to a
tie. The election in New Hampshire is
but one of the many signs of the un-
alterable opposition of intelligent North
ern sentiment to Democratic ascendency
under such control as that of which the
country had plain glimpse in the clos
ing hours of the late Congress. Col. In
gersoll in his late lecture did but justice
to the manly patriotism of the Southern
Democratic leaders in withstanding the
Bourbons of the North. Could they
have had their way, could Field and
Knott and Cox and Springer and Beebe,
and the other anarchists and revolution
lists, have prevailed, the country would
have been plunged into immeasurable
calamity.
gent, industrious and conscientious peo-
pie like those of the Northern States
from the mad fury of the spirit of '93 in
France which explains the steady and
virtually solid opposition of the North
to Democratic su premacy. For that ele-
ment shows itself only in the Democratic
party. Thus, in the last desperate strug-
gle of the revolutionists in the House on
a. &c or of
had declared that the Chair would no
longer submit to the disturbance, and
had appealed to the members to be in
order, a Mr.. Sparks, of Illinois, shouted:
"The Chair is simply the Speaker of this
House of Representatives. We are the
representatives of the people" 1t was
precisely the spirit and tone of the old
French Convention. 1t was IN appeal
from tAa lawful order instituted by tAe
House itself to the passions of mob.
] That was the feeling upon which the
anarchists played. 1t was happily re-
sisted by Southern Democratic leaders,
| and by others from the North, in accord
with the Republicans. But it was a
thoroughly Democratic element, andit
| is this element, always strong in the
Democratic party, which the country has
now plainly seen, and which deepens the
invincible distrust of that party in this
part of the Union.
There is now no question before the
country which, so far as appears, cannot
be settled upon the general principles
announced by the President, by cooper
alton between the better elements of
both parties. The only plausible pre-
text for the existence of the Democratic
party is what is called local self-govern-
ment at the South. The Democratic in
depreciation of that phrase is practical
disregard of equal rights, race hatred,
and white supremacy at all costs. The
Republican Interpretation is race amity,
and the consequent natural leadership
of intelligence. Toward this interpreta-
tion the Southern leaders incline. This
is the keynote of the policy Of the Adj
ministration, as stated by the President
in his inaugural address. This is the
wise and Just solution of the problem.
! And the result of the New Hampshire
election is the first significant sign Of the
hearty national approval which is sure
to attend it.-Hdrper's Weekly. m