Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-10
What the Creenback Organ at
WashingtOnS Says About the Ana
hama Election.

Oam8 ElccIlOus
From the National View Washington
While the result of the election IN Ala-
hama has been such as to justify all that Gen.
Weaver said as to Bourbon rule, and has mace
still more apparent the hopelessness OF sue
cessfully contesting democratic supremacy
where it has any powar over the decisions OF
elections, there is no reason WHY IT shouio
discourage greenbackers as to the general re-
sult IT the more conclusively shows the
necessity. if any security is to rest in the bal
lot at all. that this party, which so unscrupu'
lousy falsifies 1t. should be kept from any
larger control in the country. Hherere'
democracy lifts its interruptions head INFO con
troll, ITS opponents may oafH"mter /" teo 'e
one. but they riH nererthetess, BE NASIPu'
LATED INTO MINORITY BIZ DEMOCRAT
nc DISHONESTY. 1t may please the pres
and the politicians to talk about sectiona
feeling laid to rest and unity OF interests
but eyeryone at all oonversant with Southern
feeling among Bourbon leaders can tell yor
that never was the spirit Of domination mors
rampant than it has been in the years las
mast The slaves have been freed, but the
element which made slavery a cherished In
s,itution is as vigorous to-day as it was ir
1850. 1t is even stronger, for spirit OF re-
yenee is added to its intolerance. which only
burns tho hotter at every struggle OF Its people
to throw offthat dominance. The feeling thai
A. ,c,,1f class the
South, impelling them 10 alarger understand
ing of the rights and duties of citizens, Is
looked upon as one of the results of Northern
interference. They fight against all liberality
and independence, as they fought against the
Yankee Interpretation Of the declaration that
all men were born free and equal. The con-
Aict between that element and the real doc
trine of freedom and equality is as irrepres-
sible now as it was twenty years ago. That
conflict has in some measure changed ground
but it has lost nothing of its ferceness. 1t
is as determined now as it was in any year OF
the desperate war 1t is a conflict between
truth and falsehood, between inalienable
rights and the nsurped privileges of few,
who have by fraud, by force, by every evil
means, constituted themselves ruling
power We hare this conflict on our hands.
The laws which enforce its adjustment are
as immutable as God. 1t is still an irrepres-
sible conflict. 1t rests with powerful few
to decide whether it shall be adjusted AMID
THE ROAR OF CANNON, OVER HEAPS
OF DEAD AND DYING, UNDER THE
HOT GLARE OF CONGREGATIONS
LIGHTING UP FIELDS RED WITH
SLAUGHTER, or whether peaceful solu-
ton be reached by the ballot The peaceful
solution of reason and the victory of argu-
ments whose strength lies in their truth, is
the victory we hope and work for. None the
less do we see and recognize the other ter
rible alternative. Long continued snbmis
sion to recognized wrong has become impos
sible to men in this age. They are as swift
to punish as they are to understand and
patience is no longer the dumb patience OF
ignorance. but the patience that sternly wait;
for Judgment.