Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-24
The Record and Purpose of the Parties Holm Jay in the International Review.l


 A complimentary paragraph, attributed to the Richmond Dispatch, curiously illustrates
 the variance between the northern and south ern types of Democracy, and may interest those who are disposed to think that with the abolition of slavery have disappeared the class habits and prejudices which for centu- ries it had engendered or encouraged: "Gen. Hancock represents the conservatism of the army, of family pride, we might also say of 1 a privileged class.' This recommendation to southern Democrats of a northern candidate | as representing the conservatism of privil- eged class Illustrates the spirit with which | the shareholders were accustomed to regard not simply the slaves and the free blacks, but | also the poor whites whom the system of slavery condemned to ignorance and degra- dation it illustrates the tone with which, | now that slavery is gone, they announce and exhibit their intention of preventing the tabliShment on the southern soil of that foun- dation principle of free society-free and 1 fair elections, unmarked by fraud, intimida- tion or violence, upon which, as they justly 1 admit in theory and in their platform, de- pends the preservation of all rights. The Richmond Examiner said, a few years since: ''The experiment of individual liberty has failed. The evils of free society are insuffer- able. Free society is in the long run i'm practicable. Policy and humanity forbid the extension of it's evils to peoples and to coming generations, and therefore free socie ty must fall, giUe aody to c class society,-a so cial system old as the world, universal man. D SSA And again ''The South maintains ! that slavery is just, natural and necessaryxa and that it does not depe1ad u1'on the color cf complexion
 On this basis rested the Southern theory for the solution of the problem of reconcil- ing the interesrs of labor and capital, so as to protect each from the encroachments of the other: By making the laborer himself cap- ital the conflict ceases and the interests be- come identical :" and to MT. Herschel V. Johnson was attributed the remark that
 capital should own it's laborers." The con- venient solution of the labor problem is for the time-and so far as the older system of slavery Is concerned we may reasonably be- lieve rever-impracticable; but from the progress already made in stripping the South ern Republicans of their constitutional ri ghts we may well fear thdt, should the North now
 permit the solid South to establish under color of the ballot 'the same principles for
 which the confederation under Lee and Jack son fought for four years, y our brave allies of the South may soon find themselves ill a servitude little less galling than that of slav
 cry, unmitigated, perhaps, by the right of exodus
 Despite the mistakes committed by the Republican porty (and some of them should still be rectifed) in career filled with diff culties and obstacles which the great powers of Europe-excepting always our true friend, the Emperor Alexander, whose fidelity de- serves our eternal emembraHce-regarded insuperable, the record of the Republicans during these twenty years is unsurpassed, so far as history informs us, by the record of any party in any country or in any age. Take, for instance, the picture of the country as drawn by two distinguished American states men-not Republicans the advice of their friends in England in 1864. In the au- tumn of that year MT. w. s. Lindsay of the House of Commons delivered an address to his constituents, in which, after quoting a resolution passed by rebel sympathizers in Ohio he said:
 "A member of the Federal Congress writes to me that meetings are being held through the West and adjoining States for securing peace and separation, and he asks me to make known these meetings in this country. He adds, There must be a Western well a Southern Confederacy, for the party which advocates this course grows stronger every day. I am glad to see that feeling arisingin the Southern States, and the feeling is in- creasing in the West. A very distinguished statesman, a member of the Senate writing to friend of mine,-a statesman who occu- pies very high position in Europs, and was a minister of the United States Cabinet,-I writes, We are tumbling to pieces fast, and
 unless Europe steps in and saves what is left,
 we shall go headlong to destruction :"
 It does not seem probable that all the Dem- ocratic statesmen of the North who denounc
 ed the war joined in imploring Europe to save the pieces of the Republic. Gov. Sey mour showed no doubt in regard to his State, when he said, Tn the downfall of nation, and amid it's crumbling ruins. we will cling to the fortunes of New York D and the Hon. Fernando Wood desired apparently no for
 eign aid, when he early prepared to make the city of New York free and independent city.
 But the dispatch of Lord Lyons, printed by +1oa1y
 him by Democratic leaders in the conference at New York, the allusion by M Drouyn de Lhuys in the Napoleon circular, inviting Flu ropean mediation and intervention, to the en- couragement afforded for the scheme by the progress of the peace party in the Northern States, and-more significant, perhaps, than the action of the English tories or French imperialists-the bolder action of the Roman pontif, who alone of the European sover- eigns received the emissaries of Davis, and alluded to the nation and it's government as ''the people of America and their rulers,' showed prevailing impression that we were hastening to destruction, although the letter of his holiness alone suggested our national dissolution.
 One difficulty which the Republicans some times find in arguing with their Democratic friends is the apparent inability of certain gentlemen to recognize the force of historic facts and official statistics. In recent re- port by the New York Herald of an interview with the Hon. Robert McLane, that gentle man is reported to have said:
 First, that the claim of the Republicans to have put down the rebellion is lie; and, second that the claim of the Republicans to haue resumed specie payments, lessen ed taxes, and relieved the people from financi al burdens generally, is ie.''
 The feature of the Republican policy which most impressed the mind of Europe after the war were the gigantic forces and the military successes which culminated at Appomattox and Advertisement to theirihomes and domestic occupations by illustrious generals with the quiet disbanding of the victorious army The next extraordinary feature, at which they still continue to wonder, the reduction month by month of the national debt which from $6O, ,O0O, 900 in 1860, had been raised by the war to S2, 75O. GOO, GOO, 1865; and which to day has been reduced to $1, 919 900, 900, while the annual interest has been reduced from $50, GOO, 900 in 1865 to less than $S0 900, GOO in 1880.
 The record of the Republican party, as briefly alluded to in its resolutions, is singu- larly brilliant.-the suppression of rebel ion which had armed nearly million of men; the reconstruction of the Union States, with freedom instead of slavery as it's corner stone; the transformation of 1, GOO, 900 human beings from the likeness of things to the rank of citizens Cif, indeed, they really possess that rank); the raising our paper from thirty eight
 
 tional credit from six per cent bonds at eighty three to four per cent bonds par; the extra l ordinary increase in our import and export l trade; the increase of our railroads from 31 ,0OO miles in 1869 to S2, ,OOOin 1879, the 1 great revival of immigration at this time; the 1 revival of the various industries of the coun- l try the increased demand for labor ,and | higher rate of wages following close upon | resumptom that signal triumph of MT. | Hayes administration, which ihas placed the | name of John Sherman at the ~head of the l great fnanciers of this nineteenth century. Successful Experiment in Rice Culture.
 From the Albany tGa) News.l
 Colonel Nelson lift has on his plantation, | about two miles from the city, the Balls l mill rode, twelve acres in rice, which avera- l ges three feet high and promises an abundant l yield The rice is planted on ordinary up | land pine land. and has stood the drought | splendidly looking fresh, green and vigorous. It is an old theory that rice culture requires very wet seasons and, following this notion, the rice fields on the coast often flooded But the success of Colonel Tift's experiment