The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-07
POLITICAL DRIFT.
A PRANK ADMISSION BY A DEMO.
CRATIC CONGREssMAH.
The southern Programme-rhs Lost
Cause In the Light OF PhGnix-
The Republican Convention
OF Preston County
at KIngwOod.
THE LOST CAUSE ALIVE.

The Southern Programme Bent on Vie,
tory at Any Cost by Any Means-Trea-
sou yet Unseotched among the southera
Leaders.
WAsHNGToN, September 6.-The follow
ing are extracts from letter received by
one OF prominent clergymen of this city
froma native South Carolina Republican Of
high character:
We are now on The brink Of political
destruction, and failure OF the people Of
the North to vote solidly for Garfield will
leave the solid South master Of the Situa-
ton. The Republicans OF the South can
not possibly give single Electoral
vote for the Republican nominee,
from the fact that the Democrats have
control Of all the election machinery, and,
as heretofore, will count US out. Each
Northern State must be unmistakably
selid against Hancock and the great
system OF election frauds he represents, or
Democratic Congress will attempt 10 seat
their tool as President and another civil
war may be inevitable. But for the love !
have ior the Union and its prosperity and
the success OF Republican principles, |
would not raise my voice to prevent one
Of the greatest calamities that can possibly
betall the country, but would sit quietly
by and leave the people Of the North TO
feel the heel OF Democratic despotism as
we poor downtrodden Republicans OF the
South have felt It since President Hayes
and his Cabinet turned US over into the
hands OF our political enemies. One term
with Hancock as President would open
their eyes to the impending ruir, which
would be too late TO remedy the evil, May
God interpose to save people seemingly
too impotent to save themselves.
inclose an article entitled "The Gem
sus," clipped from Southern journal,
which SHOWS that the South has gained in
population nearly twice as fast as the North
In the last decade; this, too, in the face OF
the fact that we can't induce immigrants
to settle here, while hundreds OF thous-
ands are annually settling in the North
and West. You will, doubtless, remem.
ber my predictions in regard TO the ap-
pointment OF Democratic Supervisors OF
the census for the South, and II the state
ment contained in the article be true there
can be scarcely doubt that the returns
have been doctored. 1t is said that fig
ures don't lie," but it may be possible that
some OF our Democratic officials have lied
for them. and shows clearly enough th4t
the South don't mean to be beaten cit. n
in elections or population when her "ie-
form" Democracy has the count. This
makes the South solid, and will keep it so.
Aalthus and Munchausen are laid in
the shade, and the South is the master OF
the situation. Only a decidedly Emart
people can carry an election against the
will and votes OF majority Of 5000
voters, but alter they succeed at that they
can Just as readily count noses in the
census returns that do not exist. q
But there is no appeal from the decision
OF the Republican loyalists of the great
North, whe will, trust, vote as they
fought, tor freedom and the Union, and
seal the condemnation Of Garfield and a
Republican Congress, and thus once more
save the nation from ruin.
are marshalltng their hosts. The Conied.
crate survivors are everywhere organized;
the old tattered flags are thrown TO the
breeze, and the veterans OF the Lost
Cause" are again marching under their
folds, for-they know not what. They arc
10 be ready ioIlny emergency-expected
to arise, if there is any possibility to count
Hancock in. The principle issue of the
Democracy Is that Nlden was counted out
in the last election, which is made an ex.
cuse to count Hancock in. This is the
subterfuge. It Ii the old cry Of stop
thiei," and deceives none except their
own silly tools,
Don't be afraid to speak Of the glorious
deeds OF your gallant dead who fell in de-
tense OF the Union. Let their deeds be
vindicated by every living comrade, and
urge all to vote as they fought. Our op-
ponents will call each patriotic appeal
waving the bloody shirt" while at the
same time they will fauut their bloody
rags Of treason in the face Of every man in
the South. Then wave the glorious en-
sign OF freedom and the Union until
another victory shall be achieved at the
ballot box, and all the world shall know
that the great contest for the Union was
fought for principles which are near and
dear TO the human heart, and that these
principles are now more fully vindicated
by the great msss OF the American people.