Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-20
Carry the War Into Africa.

The result of the October elections is the
line. The independent journals have bit
terly upbraided the Republican managers
of the campaign for making no effort TO
break up the solidity of the southern states.
In this matter, as in many others in which
the Boston Herald and Springfield Repub-
ican have bestowed much censure, as un-
needed as their frequent offers of gratuitous
advice, the managers have displayed the
innate sagacity and wisdom which have
marked the course of Republican leader
ship in every crisis of the party's affairs,
and in the administration of the national
government during the past twenty years.
In obedience to the rule that wise generals
follow in conducting military operations
never to leave an unsubdued fortress in the
rear, the council of the Republican chiefs
in New York, August 9th, wisely decided to
bend their energies first to the work of car
rying the midsummer and October states
in the north, and then, if successful they
would have the prestige of united and
victorious north to strengthen their hands
in the south. Having now captured the
enemy's stronghold in the north, Repub-
licans can work with decisive energy and
advantage in the south. They can now
give southern Republicans pledges of sup
port with indisputable proof that they can
and will make them good. This will not
only give the southern Republicans conf
dence and boldness to fight themselves for
their rights at the ballot-box, but will have
correspondingly repressive influence on the
southern Democracy. They have once be-
fore felt the heavy hand of solid north and
know what it signifies when the banners an d
the camp-fires Of their allies are no longer
visible in the northern horizon. With the
hopes of northern assistance gone, the mo-
tive-the possession of the government-to
commit great crime against the right of
free suffrage is taken away, and there will
begin to appear in the south the evidence of
the fulfillment of the prophecy that with
the cementing hope Of northern support
broken the political solidity of the south will
inevitably disappear. Now a vigorous cam
paign by the Republicans in few of the
southern states, Florida, South Carolina,
Mississippi and louisiana if it does not re-
suit in winning the electoral vote of some
or all of these, will lay anew the founda-
tions of southern Republican party which
will be powerful aid to the next admins
tration in its work of restoring civil rights
to the disfranchised people Of that section.
But we believe the electoral vote of Florida,
and perhaps other southern states, can be
counted for Garfield and Arthur, and it is a
curious circumstance that this is made pos.
sible by the operation of those very causes
which render their votes non-essential 10
Republican success. Garfield and Arthur
may be elected without the aid of a single
southern vote. Notwithstanding this, it is
only a little less desirable to carry as many
southern states as possible. Now that the
October elections have made it feasible, and
there is no menacing stronghold of the
enemy in the rear, let the Republican hosts
march southwark and lift up their victori
GUS standards where the hand of fraud and
violence, violating plighted faith, ha,
stricken down "the right preventative OF
all rights" "Carry the war into Africa ant
raze to its foundations that standing men
ace to our free institutional solid south
Five hundred thousand DISTINGUISHED voter
will welcome the invading army. The day
Of second redemption will dawn upon tn,
south, and Garfield will consummate tn
emancipation proclaimed by Lincoln an,
guaranteed by the constitution OF the nation