The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-11-12
ON THE RESULT.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Nov 1.-The News
and Courier concludes its leading arti-
Gle on the result as follows: I'VE do
not for a moment imagine that the Amer
lean people wish that any state should
be ruled by aScott, Moses, ar o Rul.
lock- The truth was that the control
that was necessary and even indispensa-
BILE in local affairs, carried with it con-
siderable influence in national affairs
with the help of two northern states the
south could elect the president, and be
master of the government. We know
or think we know, that their power
would have been exercised wisely, but
the conquerors We're not ready to be
ruled even to their own advantage by
the conquered, nor would the south
have been if Grant instead of
Lee had surrendered his army
fifteen years since. Besides this latent
war feeling there was the mighty inf1u-
ence of the brokers, merchants and shop
keepers who bad no particular objection
to the Democracy coming into place ex.
cept that it involved change of some
sort and they wished no change of any
sort. Why should theyP Business is good.
money is cheap, every department OF
currency Is in an unstable condition but
cool headed citizens, not in debt, would
not expect, from a party which prostitut-
ed itself to the Plaisteds and De La
Martyrs, better dollar then would be
furnished by Chittenden, Morton and
Sherman, and we may add that with eyes
open to all its faults, the white people
north of the Potomac had come to the
conclusion that there was better pros
pect of good government from the Re
publican party than from the Democra.
tic. Whatever the exact way in which
it came about, 1t is hard fact that the
government of the United States for the
four years will be Republican in speech,
purpose and action, the Republican pres
ident will appaI entity have at his back a
Republican congress, and what they will
they can do with the southern states and
their people. We hope and believe, how
ever, that the business interests, which
were the mainsprings of Tuesday
work, will be opposed utterly to any leg
islation that would in any way embarrass
the agriculture and manufactures and
the trade and commerce of the south. 1t
is to the interest of the north and west TO
take this position, and they will do it
whenever and as soon as the people of
the southern states cease to be posses
ed by politicians, as these would.
be autocrats of the Union that they did
their utmost to destroy. When this
spectre of southern supremacy is laid,
the northern people will be freer to ex-
hibit their kindly and interested feel
Ings, and one of the first questions the
southern whites will haYe to ask them
selves is whether the warfare of the
south has been and is likely to be him
dered or advanced by alliance with the
Democrats of the north. If it does not
hurt these gentry to be beaten, they are
sure to have just equal governments in
the south. In losing politically the
south loses in pocket and peace of mind
Will the south remain on the loosing
side, and if So on what terms and foI
what purpose? The southern people
we fancy, will make themselves heard
on the subject be fore the winter is past. "