Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-11-04
THE DIE IS CAST.

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tbc chivalrous Hancock has met with
- signal defeat through the oa'lo'S
cost by the very Northern States
for whose supremacy in the Union h"
fought so calamity.
Even his brethren and comrades III
arms of his native State OF PrnnSS'-
vonia, whose soil he immorlal'zco oA
his voIor when he fell u hero, sealing
his devotion to the Union with his
blood on the victorious field OF Get
tysburg have, with Il" ""g'"'''''',
ness unparalleled in the history OF
Nations, insulted his glorious name
nv cl,yatng to the Presidency, i" his
stead, his unworthy competitor
Jfblood stronger than watorco''iScd
through the veins ofthc men OF Penn
svlvupia and of the East, The grand
character, the patriotism, the ch'val-
rous impulses that Hancock typl''S'
would have impressed them so, '"a'
with one voice, almost, they would
have named him the honorable Prcsl-
dent of that Union for the prcscrva-
ton of which he stakcd his life III a
manner SO magnanimous us to excite
the love, the confidence and the "o-
mir,tiou of those even whom he had
confronted so often on the lcld OF
battle.
He was, fgurcativcly, the owe
Branch of Blessed Peace, that the We
torious North should have cX'rndrd
+, thc conquered, bleeding and DIS
tractcd South.
twas not the voice OF God tha'
smoke through the ballot boxes, north
nf Moson's and Dixon's line on last
Tuesday; but it was that OF CAM
issuing from the depths OF the liner
nal Regions.
The soullcss, stupid majority otthc
East and the West repealed the leader
whom the disarmcd people OF the
South had chosen as a barrier against
the Unsuitable and blood thirsty Dem
agogues of the country. ,
It was enough for this cold hearted
majority, that the Southcrners looked
upon Hancock as the most noble, the
most generous and the most worthy
Of their former foes, to prompt them
70 cause the hero to bow down i'll sor-
row amid the humiliation OF the m
deserved atfront of SO marked u de-
feat.
THANK God that the Solid South
has kept her line unbroken to pay
tribute to that citizen soldier, whose
name deserves to be placed among
the galaxy of those whom the Nation
will ever be proud to honor.
Among the brightest pages OF the
south's history, the action of her sons
in sustaining so faithfully the "noblcst
Of the Blue Coats,' in the late contest
will do them more honor than almost
any other.
The Northern section has dccrced
that despite a truce of fifteen years,
the people of the South cannot and
must not be other than rebels,
Such is the meaning of the verdict
of their ballot boxes.
Our people have borne 80 many
humiliations, that they will accept
this other. As they submitted to
Hayes administration will they also
quietly submit to that of Garfield,
Hcnceforth they will look across the
Northern border with suspense and
anxiety to sec ifthc mailed hand of a
hostile Federal power is not raised, az
in the past to strike atthcir god given
rights and liberties.
The Southern people had hoped
that their fellow citizens of the North,
like them, forgetting the past, wished
for pcacc and reconciliation; but the
result of Tuesdays electoral battle
must surely umdeceivc them.
The South must raise the cotton to
simply the manufacturers of the East
with raw material on which their OPP
erotivcs will earn a livelihood. The
South must also be the market where
the manufactured goods and products
If the East and West are to find ready
sale The South in fact must bring