Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-02

the happily false report Of the death of hia
! daughter was largely tributary to the kindly
respect IN which he was held by the Ameri-
can people. If he were thief, or the con
scious hacker of thieves, this would not be
80. he is. IS . man, at this moment, the
most attractive figure presented to the COM
mon eye, having the largest individual f0l-
lowing of any citizen of the republic; and 1t
is perfectly true to say that, if q Republican
is to DO our next President, he is the choice
of the whole South.
Let me explain. Gen. Grants election
! implies new order of things. 1t means
the overthrow of Democra ic institutions, a
splendid government, an era of movement.
in which the South will stand its chance
with the North, wipe-out and begin over.
Under this new system we shall get reor-
ganization and enlargement of the army,
and reinstatement of the old regular Off
GERS. We shall, by the obliteration of SEQ
tional lines and state lines in a magnificent,
centralized military power, get the confed
crate put upon an equality with the
federal soldier on the pension list. We shall
geta double-irack, broad gauge, iron bedded
and steel-railed road to the Pacific construct
ed by government looking only to material
development and progress. We shall have
the Mississippi river put on level with Long
Island sound, aud levied up to the moon if
need be. We shall have war, first with
Mexico, and then with England, Offering op-
portunities for the young bloods of the
country, consolidating us at home, enuob-
ling us abroad-in which the future of South
ern boys will be placed on footing with
the future Of Northern boys-The whole to
end with the annexation of Canada and Mex
leo. All this Gen. Grant will give us, if We
fall down and worship him. And surely it is
something; something more honorable and
more tolerable than the existing sneak thief
system under which we live; in which weak
administration is constantly chiseling us on
the sly; loosening our political and moral
under plnuing, to the end that, if Grant
does not lead the revolution that is inevita-
BILE, the day Will come when some worse man
may.
Why, then. the reader may ask, if the
things sketched are possible under Grant,
do Southern men not follow him and prefer
him TO an old fashioned statesman like lii
den, who is Jeffersonian and strict con-
structionist; rigid economist; the reverse
OF sensatlonalist able, aged and rich, with
no friends to reward and no enemies to pun
lsh; who, If President will nail the lid down
upon the dead past, and proceed toward the
future to the exceedi g slow, though har-
monious, music of the constitution?
Herein it is that the North Can not under
stand the South. Tue North is material
lst. The South is a sentimentalisr. The
North has been debauched by money. The
South is poor, and, having no money to be
vain OF, takes a certain pride in
being honest. Thus intellectual con
victlons, though on the wane, are not yet
extinct, and these rally about the fine, free
system of our fathers with tenacity born OF
a manhood undetiled by the sham morality,
sham patriotism, sham gentillty, sham and
speclous socialism pr. pagated by the Repub-
llcan leaders, in the pulpit and in the Senat
from Henry Ward Beecher to Roscoe Conk-
ling, and lumlnously illustrated by the pres
ent Republican administration.
The South, therefore, is still for Tilden
and reform. 1t is still for free elections and
the vindication of our elective system. 1t is
still for cheap government and honest ad-
minislration. But. if these are to be tram
pied under foot-if Hayes is to
DO succeeded by Sherman-the
South is for Grant. That which is best is the
restoration of the simple plan embodied in
the organic law. But, if this 10 PRACTICAL,
lost to us, the next best thing is the other
extreme-the one-man power under the in
splratlon and the lead of despot truly ma
tional, without convictions and without pre-
JUDGES, himself the author of his creed and
policy. Ill ...
The people Of the North had better take
these things to heart. They may seem to be
the emanations of On eccentric fancy, mere
vagaries meant to tighten summers leis-
ure. But. down in the bottom of the
Southern heart, they are ingraven as indel-
IDLY as truths of holy writ.