National Republican., 1878-05-20
NORTH CAROLINA rEpUpLIcANIsM.

all in his power to expedite its passage.
NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANIsM.
Our North Carolina correspondent, "H,"
furnished us with q letter few days ago
burdened in every line with complaints
that the Republican party In that State has
been misused and ignored by the Adj
ministraton in the matter of official
patronage. al" ascribed the present
despondent condition of the party down
there to this fact, and asked what encour-
agement his fellow Republicans have to
exert themselves in the future when GER
tainty exists that the result of their exer-
tions will simply be to place Democrats in
office? There is meat in this question, but
1t is not suited to our palate. We decline
to chew it, and dismiss the question with
the admonition to our North Carolina friends
that patriotic devotion 10 principle will
not be unrewarded in tho long run,
even If at present 1t does look as though
Northern Republicans leaders are satisfied to
use Southern Republicans as their equals
only when IL Is to their advantage
must be remembered that in politics, as in
war, the battles brunt is borne by the men
in the ranks, and 1t is impossible that the
entire command shall wear epaulcts and
bear swords. If the Republican organza-
tion can only be kept up-a supposition that
we deny-by the cohesive power of public
patronage, it is time it should be abandoned
and allowed to go to pieces. If the pr, sent
situation at Washington, by which we mean
the distribution of offices, is not satisfactory
to the rank and file, and has disappointed q
few or many Of the 10000 Republican
voters of the State, 10000 of whom are
whites, it is to be regretted; but the better
plan is to ''picli your tlints and try again"
Time will amend the errors Of the past, and
the lesson of wisdom is always learned
best by the teachings Of experience.
1t is natural however, considering the
part North Carolina played at the Cincin-
natl Convention, that the Republicans of
that State should look back regrctfully
when they recall the fact that their influence
in that body secured results from which
they have, us . party, rcaped very little
benefit They were about equally divided
as delegation between Mcssrs. MORTON,
| CONKLISG, and BLAINE for the nomna-
tiOn, and tied themselves to the Pennsy-
vania delegation for the purpose of aiding
| Mr.. CONKLISG. Even the BLAINE dele
gates did this willingly, while the MORTON
element in the delegation, remembering
Mr.. BLAIYE'S opposition to the bill to Pro-
tcct Electors and his alleged antipathy to
President GRANT, were satisfied to aid Mr.
CoNKLING because he was rs nearly n rep
rrscntatiye Of the principles of South
crn Republicanism as they could take
up when Mr.. MoRToNs name was
Withdrawn. But when the critical moment
came these men cast their ballots for, and,
with the aid Of Florida and Mississippi,
nominated Mr.. HAYES. At any time before
this moment they could have, and We're
sOrely tempted to, lead successful break
for Mr.. BLAINE. All this, it IS true, is his
tory, but none of the inIts therein will
justify an abandonment OF the struggle for
Rcpublicanism simply because President
HAYES or any member ofhis Administration
has seen fit to favor u few men who were
opposed to him both before and after his
nomination. Republicans in other and all
Of the Northern States have the same prov.
ocatiOn for luke-warmness and for utter
indifference to party success and the victory
of principle; but they have to man risen
above n suspicious, to say the least, greed
for selfish and personal advancement, and
the party was never before, since Mr.. LIN.
coins reelection or General GRANTS first
political campaign, in better fighting trim
in the North than it is now.
Meantime, while ii" is grumbling and
showing his s0re-head, the Charlotte Oh
scrrer, the leading Democratic paper of the
State, is taking advantage of the situation
to assert with assuring impudence that
North Carolina is not a Republican State; that
ku' Klux intimidation has completely died
away, and that freedom from the Influence
" exercised by Federal troops aud Federal
domination generally" has restored the
Democracy to q rightful supremacy. We
deny these assertions most positively, as We
also do the declaration by the Observer that
" the Ku-Klux has not existed in this State
for years" The truth is, the spirit of Ku-
KluXism did not die with the accomplish
ment of the objects of the organization. The
penitentiary doors were closed by
Judge BOND on a few, compare,
lively few, of the immediate per.
petrators of the Ku-Klux outrages
of 1872, all of whom if we are not mis-
taken, have been pardoned and wide
spread resort to violence has been Temporal
rily abandoned. But the State has never