Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-05
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT,
A Expressed Through the Edi'
tOrial Columns of the Charles.
ton New, and Courier.

CHARLESTON, November 4.-The Ners
and Courier concludes the leading article
on the r4sult as follows:
1--WE do not for a moment Imagine
the American people wish that any
State should again be ruled by 4 Scott,
Mos @, or a Bullock. The truth was that
the control that was necessary and even
indispensable i'm local affairs carried
with it considerable influence in Nation
al affairs. With the hel p OF two Northern
States the South could elect the Presi-
dent and be master of the government
We know, or think we know that that
power would have been exercised wise
ly, but the conquerors were not ready to
he ruled even to their own advantage
by the conquered. Nor would the
south have been il Grant, instead OF
Lee, had surrendered his army fifteen
wears since. Besides this latent war
feeling there was the mighty influence
of the bankers, merchants and shop
ket y rs, who had no particular oblec'
ton to the Democracy coming into place
except that it involved change oil some
sort. and they wished no change OF any
SOFT. Why should they? Business is
good. Money is cheap. Every de-
psrtment OF trade is hourishing.
Ii is true that the cnrren-
cy is in an unsettled condition,
but a cool-headed citizen, not in debt,
would not expect from party which
prostituted itself to the claim that
t'laisted and De Ii Mst;r had a
b ,tter doll,r than would be fur
pisbed hy Chlttenden, Morton and
Sherman, and We may add, that
with eyes wide open to all its faults, the
white people north OF the Potomac had
come To the conclusion that there was a
better prosuect Of good government
from the Republican party than from
the Democracy. Whatever be the exact
way in which it came aboat 1t Is
a hard fact that the government
of the United States for the next
four wears will be Republican in
speech, purpose and action. The
Republican President will apparently
have at his back Republican Congress.
What they will they can do with the
Southern States and their people. We
hope and believe, however, that the bus.
mess interests, which were the main
spring OF Tuesdays work, will be OPP
posed utterly to any legislation that
would in any way embarrass the agri-
culture end manufactures, and the trade
and commerce of the South. tits to the
interest OF the North and West - take
this position. They will do it whenever
and soon as the people OF the Southern
States cease to be posed by politicians
as the would-be autocrats OF the Union
that they did their utmost to destroy.
When this spectacle OF Southern supre-
maCy is laid the Northern people
will be freer to exhibit their kindly and
interested feelings, and one OF the fret
questions the Southern whites will have
To ask themselves is 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. 1t
does not hurt those gentry to I've beaten.
they are sure to have just and equal
governments in their States in any
event. Not so with the South. In
losing politically, the South loses in
pocket and in peace of mind. Will the
South remain on the losing side, and it
so, on what terms, and for what pur-
pose? The Southern people, We fancy,
will make themselves heard on thissub'
iect before the winter IS past.