Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-11-06
THE DIE IS CAST.

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The ehiyalrous Hancock has met with
n signal defeat through the ballots
cast by the very Northern States
for whose supremacy in the Union &c
fought so calamity.
Even. his brethren and comrades in
arms Of his native State Of Pennsyl-
yania, whose soil he immortalized by
his valor when he fell a hero, sealing
his devotion to the Union with his
blood on the victorious field Of Get
tysburg-have, with an unsrateful-
ness unparalleled in the history 'of
Nations, insulted his glorious name
by eleyating to the Presidency, in his
stead, his unworthy competitor.
Yfblood stronger than watercoursed
through the veins ofthe men Of Penn
sylYania and of the East, the grand
character, the patriotism, the ehival-
rcus impulses that Hancock typities'
would have impressed them SO, that
with one voice, almost, they would
have named him the honorable Presi-
dent Of that Union for the preserya-
ton ofswhish he staked his life in q
manner so magnanimous as to excite
the love, the confidence and the adj
miration Of those even whom he had
confronted so often on the field OF
battle.
He was, ; tigureatively, the Olive
Branch of Blessed Peace, that the vic
torious North should have extended
to the conquered, bleeding and dis
tracted South.
It was not the voice of God that
spoke through the ballot boxes, north
of Mason's and Dixon's line on last
Tuesday; but it was that of Cain,
issuing from the depths of the Infer
nal Regions.
The soulless, stupid majority ofthe
East and the West repealed the leader
whom the disarmed people Of the
South had chosen as barrier against
the Unsuitable and blood thirsty Dem
agogues Of the country.
1t was enough for this cold hearted
majority, that the southerners looked
upon Hancock as the most noble, the
most generous and the most worthy
of their former foes, to prompt them
to cause the hero to bow down in sor-
row amid the humiliation of the I'M
deserved affront of so marked de-
feat.
Thank God that the Solid South
has kept her line unbroken to pay
tribute to that citizen soldier, whose
name deserves to be placed among
the galaxy Of those whom the Nation
will ever be proud to honor.
Among the brightest pages of the
South's history, the action Of her sons
in sustaining SO faithfully the "noblest
of the Blue Ccats,' in the late contest
will do them more honor than almost
any other.
The Northern section has decreed
that despite q truce of fifteen years,
the people of the South cannot and
must not be other than rebels,
Such is the meaning of the verdict
of their ballot boxes.
Our people have borne so many
humiliations, that they will accept
this other. As they submitted to
Hayes administration will they also
quietly submit to that of Garfield,
Henceforth they will look across the
Northern border with suspense and
anxiety to see if the mailed hand of a
hostile Federal power is not raised, as
in the past to strike at their god-given
rights and liberties.
The Southern people had hoped
that their fellow citizens of the North
like them, forgetting the past, wished
for peace and reconciliation; but the
result of Tuesdays electoral battle
must surely undeceive them.
The South must raise the cotton to
supply the manufacturers of the East
with raw material on which their op-
eratives will earn q livelihood. The
South must also be the market where
the manufactured goods and products
Of the East and West are to find ready
sale. The South in fact must bring