The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-08-21
WHEN HANCOCK rs ELECTED.

When Hancock, the SOluler-SlAleS
man, is elected President of tn
United States, there will follow
change in great many things. |
will serve rs an unerring index, point
ing to the completion of that revolution
in national sentiment, that was born o
necessity II few years ago, and tina
has ever since been moving steadily
forward with Increasing momentum
That event will be signal for TIN
breaking up of all those ties and com
binatiuns, that have been at once 81
hostile to the quiet of the country, ant
so pernicious to its material advance
ment. 1t will be like the breaking
| up of the ice on some northern river
when the wind swclls the white wings
of ship and craft, to bear away to al
parts of the world, the fruits of peace
and industry.
This will be IL distinguished era in
the history Of the country; one tC
which the student of coming times
will mrn with peculiar delight. II
will be "A kind of dividing line, that
separates the passions that were
kindlcd bya great civil conflict, from
a period that will be characterized by
II reunion in national sympathy, Il
just pride OF country and Il reverence
for the organic law of the land.
Morbid political sensitiveness will
have nothing to feed upon, and the
wave of the "bloOdy shirt will stop
forever. Bad men who have played
upon the passions OF the weak and
uniformed, will no longer have Il
conductor to carry of their pent up
fury. And men of fantastic airs,
men who barter and trade in politics,
whose cash capital consists of IL small
stock of brains and large stock of
brass, will find the market forever
closed against their wares. The man
high in official position, powerful in
the control of patronage, and unscru-
pulous in its distribution, will find the
seals of office snatchCd from his hands
by the united voice Of the people.
And the man who went into office an
humble mcndicant, and has remained
till he is surfeited with its spells, till
by brides, eXtortions and pillage, he
has accumulated vast piles of the
nations money, into his own pockets,
will find the "pitcher broken at the
fountain Under It +iiti
ent administration, whose policy and
intent are respect for the laws and
traditions Of the people, each state, as
in other times, will move on without
jar or iostle, in the path which has
been prescribed by "the supreme law
of the land" Then no official will
have the hardlhood to place his foot
beyond that line which so clearly
separates State and Federal functions.
No supervisors of election, and no
posse of deputy marshals paid out of
the pubic treasury, can be called in at
the polls TO Cypress and overawe the
in the free exercise of the bal
lot. And the army, organized,
EQUIPPED and maintained under the
constitution, to protect the people
from" invasiOn and domestic Violence
will no longer be called in rs the
Of questions that are purely
civil. 1t will be strictly confined to
those uses and duties wherein the
is not greater than the master.
Then will return that love and respect,
which was once bestowed upon the
sword as convenient but submissive
to aid in the preservation
of peace and good order at home, and
to maintain the rights Of citizens from
violence abroad.
The passions of war brought into
many men of the most
lcpraved type of political morals.
This was necessarily so. 1t was but
the familiar demonstration of the
the history of nations passing through
the like ordeal. In the natural order
If things, they rose to the surface of
/ sea that had been profoundly agita-
ed by the shocks and explosions of AN
conflict; and riding out on
he waves in their own native element
If corruption, they were buoyed there, |
md buoyed there TO stay, till wrench
d from their mo0rings by blast of
ightning, and buried in the foam.
After the close of hostilities, one eX-
.iting campaign was closed, only to be
ollOwed by another, and another, of
quail intensity and partisan bitter
less; while this school OF bad, cor
upt and INSCRIPTIONS politicians al
Ways rode the storm in triumph.
'hcse men fed upon hate and plumber.
hey kept the mind of the North in a
onstant state of agitation against the
,outh, charging the South with stand
ng in Il hostile attitude, and with a
Instantly uplifted hand, ready with |
ne stroke, to practically Obliterate
he amendments that had been added .
D the constitution since the war. The
We of the North has been constantly
urncd upon the South, ready to detect
ny thing that might verify the per-
ctualIy reiterated statement of the
ress, that the South was uneasy and
estive under the yoke. The whole
loral and physical power of one sec
on, was thus brought to bear with a
eculiarly Calling effect upon the
thcr section. And thus it is, that in
he election of Hancock, all that class
politicians that have been domi-
ant i'm the councils of the country so
ng, will be permitted to float off.
he South may hail with delight the
rent which will signify the fact that
ilh the Incoming of a Democratic
fine North means that