Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-23
SOME SOUTHERN OPINION.

If the prominent newspapers published ln the South are to be believed, Southern feel ing" is all right, everybody is suited with Hancock and if he is elected the country has nothing to fear from the claims and demands of the Southern portion of the Democratic party. This is all good enough, if not too good, to be true, but there are many indica- tions that the prominent Southern newspa- pers try to conceal the real feeling and opin- ions of a part of the Southern people. These crop out in the less important papers, whose editors have not been taught or are not in clined to practice the prudence beftting the situation
 The Beaufort (S. c. Crescent, for instance, after asserting that it was instrumental in molding sentiment favorable to Hancock's nomination, proceeds to point out what it expects from his administration should he be elected First among it's demands is the pudiation of the legislation of the fraudulent administration of the past four years;" second, the "authors of the conspiracy to falsely count the electoral vote of 1876 must be pun ished.'' This would include, we suppose, the President, his Cabinet, the visiting states men, the returning boards of the three dis puted States and the Republican members of the electoral commission, including the mem bers of the Supreme Court who acted upon it. How they to be punished is not sug- gested, but the ''crime is to be made odious," and it's repetition is to be made forever i'm possible by the exemplary punishment of it's authors.
 The Kingstree Star, published in the same State, protests against much dirt-eating in connection with Hancock's nomination. It says very truthfully:
 If Hancock deserves our gratitude for sub hitting the military to the civil authority, then Hayes merits our adoration for perform ing the same simple duty when it was prob ably not quite so plain before him.
 The Kingstree editor evidently finds it diff ficult to accept Hancock as a representative of Southern choice. He points out the fact that Northern Democrats fooled the South be- fore the war by professed sympathy, and when the plunge was made the South found itself deserted by its Northern allies, who joined in to suppress a rebellion which never would have been begun had the South sup posed it would have to fight united North. 'If ex-confederates, exclaims the Star, ''can
 
 forgive those who were Democrats to the last
 The Carolina Sun also puts in protest against the eagerness of the great dailies and the prominent politicians of the South to praise Hancock and claim him as the peculiar choice of Southern men,
 It is a poor recommendation to a Southern soldier that the man who is now to lead him to victory once moved down the ranks in which he stood, with distinguished skill. Men shake hands-after many hearty exchange of blows, and the vanquished can, if he is any thing of man, pay some tribute to the gen. eral fairness and pluck of his conquerors. But to force attention to the admirable way in which your best stroke was parried, to have your attention constantly directed to the especial brillancy of that attack which bore you to the earth, is not exactly calculated to enhance any affection you may be educating yourself to feel Let us close the door on the past, and shut out that clangor of steel, lest the cries of our own loved and lost find their way through the half closed portal
 The Kingstree Star has full faith that Han cock will be elected but does not think his success will be Democratic success. Against the day of election, says the Star, ''his following from the Republican ranks will be such as to amount, virtually to a wiping out of party lines. Their leaders will order the rank and file to break ranks, to avoid the shock of the charge, and after se- curing the safety of graceful surrender on the day of election, the radicals will reorgan- ize with full ranks open war on him as they have done on Hayes.''
 Such extracts show what are doubtless the wishes and opinions of many people in South Carolina and all over the South, and indicate that all is not peace and harmony in the ranks of the Southern Democrats The question is what will General Hancock do if he is elected President by Southern votes How can he make or keep his own party harmonious And, in the words of Sec retary Schurz, How will the unsophisticated