Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-05-17
lF'rom the n. Y. Herald, 4th inst.l
LINES or. NE " DEpART
URE.
AND POLITICS IN NORTH
CAROLINA-THK NEXT POLITICAL
BATTLE-FAILURE OF GOVERNOR
VANCE ADMINISTRATION.

CAROLINA-THE NEXT POLITICAL
BATrLE-FAILURE OF GOVERNOR
yANCE's ADMINISTRATIONS.
RALEIGH, n. g., May If one
may conclnde anything from the
tranquil effect which the South
Carolina and Louisiana settlements
have produced on the public mind
here, then President Hayt-5 Las cast
his lines of new departure ia very
pleasant places.
In SO far as North Carolina Is
concerned, the overwhelming public
sentiment Of the masses of this con.
servative old State is completely
responsive to the policy Of good
government inaugurated by the new
administration, involving, as it does,
the principles of local governments
in and tor all the States, those
North as we'll as South, and going
to the foundation principles Of the
Republic itself.
oIINA.
Political organization is broken,
and parties are now practically
disrupted ir this State. Governor
Vance rode into the executive office
on a wave Of popular clamor arising
from the manifold misdeeds Of Re.
publican administration in some Of
the Southern States, controlled by
the central power at Washington
and the stupendons faults, frauds
and indecencics of Outrage on the
part of the national administration
under the Grant regime, and not
from any favor or affection of the
masses toward the Democratic party
or the old Bourbon leaders Of that
now practically effrte and, as the
Herald has we'll said, ''baHkrupt,
worthless and isnomininns con-
Germ" Under the peculiar circum
stances surrounding the campaigns
ard the great disadvantages at
which the Republicans were not at
every turn, Vance should have
beaten Settle more than 1900 on
a total vote of 235, 900 to attest any
thing like pcrmanency of attach
ment on the part Of the people fol
the Democratic party and its leaders
here. Under the circumstance:
that surround the situation at homo
to day, with the favorable indlca'
tons all around the political horizon
of the country that are nov pre-
sented to the view of the people
Settle would have beaten Vance
10000 voses i'll the State.
But the Republicans realized
Waterloo at the polls in this Stat
last November. The shepherd wa
smitten ant. the sheep we're scatter
ed. 1t is as impossible now for th
Republican barons to marshal thei
old forces under the familiar banner
as it will be for the Democrat
! Bourbons to continue TO lead in soil
, column their hitherto blind follow
ers. Negro voters by regiment:
) brigaies, divisions ard whole arm
E corps will now desert to the victt
), rions lines. White voters. in equ;
{ or large numbers, hitherto held to
I gether by prejudice OF the negro q
a free man and voter, and on az
. count of the misgovernment an
tyranny of Republican authorit,
q will refuse TO re enlist under eithe
k banner of the present organization
t. and the result is an inevitable d,
e lnand for new party.
IS THE OUTLOOK FOR NEW PARTY.
# Forty to fifty thousand viii
II Republican voters who stood at Il
h +polls in this State last year a
Ie completely and irrevocably aiicna
&c ed from the democratic party, al
* will continue to stand in active o
ie position TO that organizations. Tw
J. thirds Of the negroes and one-thi
y Of the democratic voting strcng
:, + in the last election woald 90 wi
- - this 10000 white republicans in
10 new organization, thus giving
new party movement the reqnisi
strength for success in the gener
I election of 1880.
THE NEXT POLITICAL BATTLE.
s. An election is to be held in IL
% State in November, 1873, for mer
~ ~ hers of Congress, Judges of t
es Supreme and Superior Con
in and for members of t
ID General Assembly. The succ,
or of 1876 has undnly elat
d, the Bourbon leaders of the Dem
ot cratic party here. Their memh'
mt of Congress now elect have be
re re writing letters for publication in
:. 'es Bourbon organ in this city, a
mi nj speaking and talking generally
ed the language of 1861 The pr
! a of the State is almost universe
1al violent, virulent and proscripti
me The Democrats vii. in 1878 pi
in the field a Simon pure Bourl