Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-07
From the New York Tribune.
In Line For 1880.

| Its victory throughout. Cornell is Tow
ernor-el.ct of New York. The doubtful
States are made securely republican, Butter
is routed, Pennsylvania comes up like a
second Iowa.
Solid North sends greeting TO Solid
South. Yesterday answers the last session
of Congress, and all the insolent disloyalty
which, after growing for years, found express
sion there. The grand and resstlcss upris-
ing which followed the shot in Charleston
Harbor in 1861, finds an echo in the returns
of to-day Once more the North is united
The work which men did with their bullets
they have determined not to spoil with their
ballots. Here, on the very threshold OF a
victory which means, if they are wise,
tw enty years more of power, they serve no
tce upon the South that there is no yindict-
iveness in their triumph.
Yes. Men of the South we have done
enough for Cancellation. We offered you
Horace Greeley, and insisted upon amnesty
for ALL The same Northern element which
then failed has since found means to offer
you better terms than you ever expected
President HAYES held out the hand of recon
Citation. Troops were withdrawn; advice
of Southern men was heard in appointments ;
everything was done that could be done TO
leave the South without excuse for hostility
What has been the answer! The South has
| answered BY its Ku-Kluz claus, its rifle-clubs.
and its systematic assassination of republic
cans 1t has answered by the complete sup
| preston of the colored vote. 1t has answer
ed by the late Confederate Congress, and the
swarm of war claims, and the countless
Southern jobs which crowd the record, and
the nearly solid vote of Southern rcpresen-
tatives for every form Of reputation. 1t has
answered by the open alliance of men who
rebelled with those Northern men who sym
pathized with rebellion; by the conspiracy of
those who carry Southern States by force
with those who try to carry Northern States
| by fraud. A baser, meaner and more dan
gerous conspiracy against free government
than the old South ever concocted has been
very near success.
Men of the South, YOU have your answer.
You had almost clutched the National Gov
eminent Had you been little less eager,
had the pirates crew remained hidden under
matches only little longer, possibly resist
ance would have been too late. Thanks to
the Confederate Congress, the recent session
showed the Southern purpose. The coalition
of Southern rebels and Northern sympathiz-
ers rashly threatened to strangle the Union
unless permitted to rule it. The work
of a long session was condensed by Senator
Hill in his recent declaration that no South
ern man of self-respect would ever admit
that rebellion was crime. These acts and
words came like a fre-bell in the night to
awaken the North. The real intent of the
South was seen, and at once the North an
swers. The history of the country for TWEEN
ty wears has been settled in one Summer.
Let the South do what it may, from this time
forth: it has planted convictions already
which quarter Of a century will not uproot.
This day the Solid South is farther from the
rule of the country by more than twenty
wears than it was when President Hayes took
the oath of Office.
The future belongs to the republican party.
Only by some new act of folly or faith
lessness, can it forfeit that public confidence
which the elections reveal. Unless it wan
tonly throws away that confidence, its future
for many years is the future of the United
States. 1t has no reason now to look for
democratic blunders. Neither has it cause
to fear any democratic washing and selfpur
fcation, for democrats can never become dan
gerous again unless by republican folly.
Best of all the republicans have no occasion
now to nominate any other than their ablest
and worthiest man, for it is certain that with
such candidate they can triumph. They do
not need to get under the shelter of any name
Tor to hesitate in the avowal of their convic-
tons, nor to shrink from giving its full re-
ward to splendid service. The confidence of
the united and loyal North will sustain the
republican party as long as it is true to its
principles and convictions. After the mag
nifcent victories which are to-day recorded,
it will be the fault OF republicans themselves
if they do not hold the public confidence Sc
curely until the rebel democracy has ceased
to exist