The daily gazette., 1879-10-17
7rnIpAY. oCroBER II 1879.

The great Ohycct oi tno
Radical press seems to be to give TO tue
negroes of the South the power to chose
Presidential electors; so that by the help
of the negroes, who are incompetent
even ~ read, much less to distinguish
between fit and unfit Candidates, they |
may be enabled to elect such candidates
To the Presidential Office as will Keep all
the Offices in the hands Of Republicans.
This is their object, and not the good OF
the people, or the economical admins
tration Of the government. When they
passed the law however, appointing L.
=. Marshals by the Republican U. 5.
Judges, to supervise the elections tor
members of Congress, they overlooked
the fact that 1t would but partially reach
the South. Then they were harrassing
that section with troops and they may
have supposed troops would serve their
purposes better. Be this as II may, the
use of U. S. Marshals are more likely to
cause bloodshed and trouble in the
North than in the South. That col
lisions will occur between Federal and
State officers no one can doubt. 1t is
only amatter Of time.
The mode Of choosing Presidential cleo
tors was referred to few days since i'll
speech by Gen. Chalmers at Corinth. lie
then pointed out the fact that the super
visor laws were aimed at the great
Northern cities, and New York especi-
ally, and not at the South; took occasion
TO show how the business of appointing
Presidential electors could be absolutely
taken out Of the supervision of Federal
officials of all orders and degrees. lie
said that "as the laws now stand the
states of the South can, if they choose
select their Presidential electors by theil
Legislatures, and no United 5 ates su
pervisor Can even witness the election o
their members" and he might have gon'
much further and said that State ma
give the Appointment Of Presidentia
electors to the Governor, or make an
other provision for their appointment
that might seem expedient or proper.
The allusion of Gen. Chalmers TO r,
sorting to the legislatures to chose ele,
tors has thrown some Of the Radical p
pers into terrible fits of passion, al
they threaten all kinds Of retaliation a,
vengeance.
Really it does not astonish reasonal
men that the Southern people shou
want to get away from such faut-tin
ing neighbors. For it seems to be
much as life is worth to live with
reach of them. They complain Of t
acts of the merciless savages. But pl
sue towards the South precisely the sai
course that the savage Indian dc
toward the whites. They do not seek
have only the guilty punished. Not
would not answer their purposes. III
take advantage of crime committed
one man against another to hold VIII
States and communities TO answer the
for. The Indian seeks to take his
venge upon the first white settlem
he comes to. and the Northern Rad
newspaper raises similar savage
whoOp against whole countries
cities in the South for the murder ,
man whether white or black, an,
makes no difference whether he is !
for his crime or not. At the same t
assassinations and murders are of d
occurrence III the North and no sp,
reference is made to them. We pres
there are ten murders committed il
North to one in the South. But to
the Radical papers one might SUI
shat all great crimes of this char
were confined to the South. 1t is al
surprise that a southern man c
north at all; and we fear that the
Is coming when they will make
voyage to Europe in preference.