Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-11-13
THE TEMPORARY TRIUMPH OF
EMPIRE,

appears tObO 0I0AVS SOhnAHs5S No'AA
eron, Logan have been elected President
1t appears as we wrote that the effect OF
the October election was too potent to be
overcome. This October effect has never
failed to make itself felt in our presiden-
tial elections. While Pennsylvania was
an October State the other States follow
ed Pennsylvania like sheep jumping down
a precipice. The methods by which Ohio
and Indiana we're carried in October are
known to the country. 1t was these
methods, therefore, that won the election
yesterday, for we assume that it is lost
to the Democracy. What has triumph
ed Sectionalism has triumphed; Chinese
cheap labor has triun,phed; the coercion
| of the white workingnan has triunphcd;
| fa}seloods in newspapers and Oh tho
stump has triumphed Capitalization has
triumphsd !; the Empire has triumphed.
1t is not the triumph of Garfield, it is the
victory of the stror man " b" came to his
rescue il Ohio and Indiana before the
twelfth of October, and in whose hands
| he is. We cheeyfully announce to the
people of tho United States, or the large
portion of them who will read THIS issue
of our journal, that we can endure those
victories if they can endure them. We
are certainly in as good a position to suf-
| fer them as the laboring men of the Unit
| ed States. We shall continue business at
| the Old stand, notwithstanding the tran
sieut triumph OF q cause which ought not
| to be the victor.
Who and what have been beaten!
brave Union soldier heroic in battle
noble and splendid lover of civil liberty
| in peace, has peen defeated. The beauti-
| full sentiment Of union, the harmonious
| impulses that should fill the hearts of the
people of one country, have heen for the
| moment crushed. It is disclosed by the
methods we have indicated that union is
not wanted. 1t is announced that the
great rivers that flow like arteries through
this continent to the gulf, bearing upon
their bosoms the rich argosies Of an indus
| trlous people. begin in one country ana
end in another That was tho command
| ing argument OF the canvass, and that is
the interpretation to be:placed upon the
verdict. This, therefore, is not the TIL
| u1nph in which the patriotic American
| finds cause for exultation. There is i'll
| the victory no flavor of fraternity, no
| gentle belief that this country is to be
| one IN the affections of the future as it is
ore in history, in interest, in geo graphy,
in beauty. The Republican party in
conducting this campaign and this cleo
tion have done all that they could to de-
stroy this sentiment of union.
We do not say that the result is with
| out Democratic fault. 1t is needless now
to enumerate the causes of the result.
There were some ambitions in lndi-
ANA which insisted that Indiana should
be made an October State by the dec!s-
ion of the Supreme Court OF that State,
in order to force an Indiana nomination
at the Cincinnati; convention; ard il H.
diana had not been an October State, we
firmly believe that the result would have
been different. We take also some mali
cious satisfaction i'll saying to some of ou'
Democratic friends who surrendered the
Presidency four years ago that presiden-
cies of the United States are not so easily
won thattthey should be readily surrender
I'D when won. -Four years ago 1T was not
> the rights of one man but the rights of a
= great party, tho rights of Suffrage in this
country that were at stake. The Demo
cratic behavior four years ago was spir
it[ess, cowarlly, and these qualities az
, not winning, and the effects Of that sur
render were felt yesterday. The strang
S disposition to applaud = victorious wron
is seen in tho sutfrages given yesterday +
f the party that elected Hayes prcsi'!el
n and Nichols Governor Of Louisiana b
. the same votes.
! But the triumph of yesterday ia ~
| permanent. The Democratic p:;n"lpi'
, the iGe:. which llnhe-irs onr continent o
u which that government, is as lasting
II tho continsnt on wll,cl! that ,ov"rn!nr:
t. dwelIs, The democratic patty, nid :
II the century, can survive tue t!a!s!Is 81
n. quarter of the century. 1t has '';N,in"'
i forth the trumprs that shall nc""" e.
Il retrcat"-whi!o the srpEpiie live, Il "
live. If the country seems row -, I
' feet ofa spirit OF central;Za: :on, Of cr
~. tral zed power that does not differ II.
oi the Empire. it is in spite "t Dcmncra
re- protest; and tie D.,n"cratia partT, ~
ed withstanding the !c!nrnTary reverse, u
ie falter not from it's lefty spirit; WI
o. not in its final pnf pose; VIII "nntinnc
splendid march l. the cansr of the pee"
against power. IL tie caiSc"i Dem era
There is a story Of Il ps''!'le wh" were I
''' ty years in ,lm .w!)i'rTncs'-' THEY ""%
sia cd in no better ulns. 1i;,n that OF De
of ocrncy on earth. The Democratic pa
il one nt invircib.e hopr; and it has
lief in the doctrine,
'''o' ..Rirht forever on the aCa ftO,;l,