Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-08
ENCOURAGING SOUTHERN LUTHERAN
 CES.

1 ENCOURAGING SOUTHERN LUTHERAN. CES.
 1 A very interesting and encouraging result
 of the election is visible in southern news 1 papers. Nearly all the leading ones are dis
 posed to look at the matter candidly and &C., cept the proof that southern solidity is mis-
 take. The Charleston NeoOs and Courier be- lieves that the Republican party will not l through its representatives legislate in any way to embarrass agriculture and manufac- 1 lures or the trade and commerce of the South It believes that the North will be true and patriotic ''as soon the people of the south ern States cease to be posed by the politi- cians as would-be-autocrats of the Union
 that they did their utmost to destroy" This l is pretty well for Democratic paper pub
 lished in the State of South Carolina, but the
 Neocs and Courier goes still further. Ad- dressing it's Democratic constituency, it asks
 whether ''the welfare of the South has been and is likely to be hindered or advanced by an alliance with the Democrats of the North!" That is to say, upon the great economic questions which enteI ed so largely into the Presidential canvass, the Neaos and Courier is after election-squarelyu upon the Republi- can platform. It also intimates pretty clear ly that the Southern Democracy is no longer inclined, in the words of the Augusta (Georgia) Constitattionalist, to ''be led lamb like to the slaughter, by it's northern breth
 ren. Both these Democratic papers speak in terms not complimentary of their north ern allies both in almost so many words say that Republicanism in it's party as well as Re publicanism in it's constitutional sense, is necessary for the progress and prosperity of the South.
 The Duly Register of Columbia, South Carolina, thinks that if General Garfield is half statesman in the true sense of the word he will hold his own and be his own sue cessor in 1884. And it says further: ''Not only this, if he bravely and broadly opens the way for ways of peace and the sway of broad common sense in the solution of the troubles and antagonisms which have arisen under the shallow headed, mean and vindictive policy hitherto pursued by blind partisans, he will find the solid South meet ing him more than half way, while he shall have earned the surpassing honor of having inaugurated of prosperity in which the country, the whole country, North and South, East and West, will forget their jeop- ardizing hatreds and sit down under their own vine and fig tree, with none to mo1est or make them afraid"
 The Memphis -AoaLancle finds fault with the manner in which the Democratic cam paign was conducted and charges Barnum with its low tone. It also says 'sThe con- sequences that follow Tuesdays elections will be the dissolution of the two solid sec tions that are now arrayed against each oth- er The Louisville CeuaTer-.Joaanal, whose editor, assisted by David A. Wells of this State, furnished the fatal revenue tariff plank for the Democratic platform, also foresees that the present defeat of the Democratic party means the end of the party as repre- senting ''the principles for which Lee and Jackson fought" and the spirit of sectional ism. It now looks for a breakup of par ties, the first step in which will be the disso- lution of the solid South.
 All this is in accordance with General Grants prediction and with the position ta- ken by the leading Republican papers of the North, and these indications of southern feeling will be heartily welcomed and re- ioiced over in the North. The Republican party has stood together not for the benefit of the North alone, but for the good of the South also When the South is ready to yield to the new spirit of the new Nation. to accept and enforce the doctrines of national ity, equal rights, impartial justice and the rule of the majority everywhere there will no longer be a sectional question in our pol itics.