The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-27
GRANT AND THE SOUTH.

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The most careless observer cannot
fail to note that deep and strong un-
dercurrent in favor of a non-p partisan
support of Gen. Grant for the next
Presidency is working its way beneath
the Democratic strongholds in Georgia.
Your correspondent, after weeks in
vestigation, has found manifestations Of
this sentiment in almost every quarter
except among the great Democratic
leaders. Among the merchants, the
lawyers, the workingmen, and the
younger or less-noted politicians there
are to be found men outspoken in favor
of Grant. This very morning, in an
Atlanta paper, / note an open letter
from Col. r. A. Crawford, man Of
prominence, an old Democrat, in which
he openly calls for the nomination of
Grant by the Southern people, averring
shat such course would wipe out Sec
tional bitterness and restore the Union
in the best sense of the term: and an
to the Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, from Mr..
Il. W. Habersham, man of character
and distinction, advocating precisely
the same course. But before discussing
The manifestations of this sentiment, of
which enough will be found, [ will sum-
marize the motive that inspires it, as
gathered from innumerable CONVERSE
tons with persons under it's influence.
/. Many people of the South are not
satisfied with the course of the South
ern leaders for the past four years.
Their course in abetting and tolerating
the Electoral Commission has been
openly denounced, and will not be
readily forgiven by those who believe
that Mr.. Tilden was fairly elected, and
might have been seated had different
course been pursued. The policy of
starving the President into submission
to the House is condemned by many,
and, since the verdict passed upon it by
Ohio and the November elections, has
few defenders. The injustice of con-
demnlng the leaders for their conserva-
tism in 1876 and for their ultraism in
1878 is apparent, but this injustice does
not dull the keenness of the popular
dissatisfaction. The Electoral Com
mission seated Mr.. Hayes, therefore
many people condemn their leaders for
having gone into it. The issues made
by the extra session are generally sup
posed to have lost the October and
November States to the Democrats, and
the leaders are blamed for having made
these issues.
2. The mass of the Southern peo-
pie are heartily sick of sectionalsm.
They are tired of hearing of the solid
South and the solid North. They real
ize fully that the one will always make
the other, and that as long as the Sec
tions are arrayed against each other, in
essential or superficial hostility, both
must suffer, but especially the weaker
section. The South is thrilling with
new growth and ambitious for material
development. She needs peace, stabil-
ity, capital, immigrants. Her people
realize fully that as long as sectional
war is waged there must be strife, and
the suspicion Of insecurity for invest
ment; that capital will be withheld
from her mines and forests; that i'm
migration will be directed westward
from Castle Garden, and that her our
poses and intentions will be misrepre-
sented by the evil and misunderstood
by the Indifferent. It was this very
spirit, though then infinitely less devel-
oped, that led her people to give Horace
Greeley a virtually unanimous vote
eight years ago. She wanted peace and
tranquility then; she is much more
anxious about it now.
3. The crushing defeats that the
Democrats sustained in the late cleo
tions have strengthened this DISPOSE
ton to ignore sectional and party lines
by apparently removing the chief argu-
ment with which the leaders have here
tofore kept them in ranks, viz. the
hope of success. AS matter of course
the Southern Democrats would very
much prefer to allay sectional prejudice
and resentment by proving through
ma ational Democratic administration
that It's purposes are not revolutionary,
but conservative. They would en-
counter any reasonable risk in the hope
of getting such result. But many of
them feel now that it is practically use
less to continue the struggle any
further. They feel that they have been
misled, deceived, and betrayed. The
utter lack of patriotism displayed by
Kelly, Cox, and company in dividing
the party in New York has convinced
them that it is a question ofspoils rath-
er than principle.
4. The character and surroundings
of Gen. Grant himself have much to
do with the sentiment in his favor. 1t
is remembered that Gen. Grants in
stincts are right, as evidenced by his
noble conduct toward Gen. Lee at APP
pomattox and his report to President
Johnson after his tour through the
South. Tt is claimed that he was be-
trayed and misled during his admins
tration by men that he was not then
strong enough to resist or wise enough
to understand, but that now he is strong
enough to rise above any faction or