National Republican., 1880-07-21
SOME SOUTH oAnoLISA OPINION


SOME SOUTH CAROLINA OPINION.
1t would be unwise to accept the promi-
nent daily papers of the south as the true
exponents of southern feeling. They are
too prudent to do otherwise than
studiously conceal the real political
wishes of the communities in which
they are published. They are no
more to be relied upon to indicate the
average thought of the people than are
such men as LAMAR and HAMPTON TO be
taken MS representatives of the ku-klux
which made it possible for them to be
called United States senators.
children and fools speak the truth" is
an old adage, founded upon the worlds
experience, and it is applicable to the pres
ent subject
If one desires to get at the heart of
the southern people he must 60 to the
little courthouse towns and hear politics
and political methods discussed by the
country politicians, and he must read the
dingy little courthouse weeklies
A recent copy Of the Beaufort Is. c.
Ores cent, for instance, after asserting that it
was instrumental in molding sentiment
favorable to HANcoCK's nomination, pro-
ceeds to point out what it expects from his
administration shonld he be elected. First
among its demands is the erepudiation of the
legislation of the fraudulent administration
of the past four years second, the" authors
of the conspiracy TO falsely count the elec.
toral vote of 1876 must be punished. This
would include, we suppose, the president
his cabinet, the visiting statesmen, the
returning board of the three disputed state:
and the republican members Of the electoral
commission, including the members of tht
supreme couIt who acted upon it. How
they are to be punished is not suggested
but the crime is to be made odious" ant
its repetition is to be made forever impossi
BILE the exemplary punishment of it
authors.
The Kingstree Star, published in the same
state, protests against so much dirt-e atinl
in connection with HANcoCK's nomination
1t says, very truthfully:
If HANCOCK deserves our gratitude for sub
mitting the military TO the civil authority
then HAYES merits our alteration for per.
forming the same simple duty when it was
probably not quite so plain before him.
The Kingstree editor evid emily finds il
difficult to accept HANCOCK as a representa-.
tive of southern choice. He points out the
fact that northern democrats fooled the
south before the war by a professed sym
pathy, and when the plunge was made the
south found itself deserted by its northern
allies, who joined in to suppress rebel
lion which never would have been inaugu.
rated had the south supposed it would
have had TO fight united no rsh. "If ex
confederates," cxclaims the Sta1, "car
"iorgiye any northern soldiers it should
"forgive those who were de mocrats to thu
"last."
The Carolina Sun also puts in protes
against the eagerness of the great dailes
and the prominent politicians of th,
south to praise HANCOCK and claim him as
the peculiar choice of southern men:
1t is poor recommendation to "a southern
soldier that the man who Is now TO lead him
TO victory once moved down tho ranks IN
which he stood, with distinguished skill
Men shake hands after many hearty ex
change Of blows, and the vanquished can, Il
he is anything Of man, pay some tribute b,
the general fairness aud pluck Of his con
querOrs. But 10 force attention to the ad
mirable way in which your best stroke wa
parried, to have your attention constantly
directed TO the especial briliancy Of that at
tack which bore you 10 the Garth, Is not eX
Rctly calculated TO enhance any affection yot
may DO educating yourself 10 feel Let II,
hl faat at.A Ill. al
clangor OF steel, lest tho cries Of our owl
loved aud lost find their way through the hal
closed portal
Such extracts do not tally with the as
sertions of the usually quoted organs tina
the choice of HANCOCK at Cincinnati is IL
be considered as complete surrendero of th
confederatos TO the union soldier. Shoul,
HANCOCK be elected aud should he nj
tempt TO make his admi nistration satislnc
tory to the national sentiment of the couu
try he would find rebellion within hi
party to which he would be obliged
yield or to take refuge in the nation,
republican party from the demands of I'll
very men who fought him in 1868 an
placed him in nomination in 1880. In fac
a fear of this can be obscurely seen eu
bodied in the following curious paragrap
from the Kingstree Star:
Wo believe that HANCOCK will bo eleete,
but his success will not be n democratic SUI
cess Against the day Of election, his follow
ing from the republican ranks win be such
to amount, virtually, To a wipng out of part
lines. Their leaders will order the rank an
file TO break ranks, to avoid the shock Of Il
charge, and after securing the safety Of grao
fu surrender on the day Of election, tho rad
Gals will reorgauize with full ranks open VIZ
on him as they have done on HAYES,