New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-09
The Solid South was not only the cornerstone 0
the Drmorracv-it was its whole foundation.

The Solid South was not only the cornerstone OF
the Drmocracy--it was its whole foundation.
We venture TO suggest a compromise for the Dem
ocrat1c factions ut Albany. Let Mr. Kelly be prom
iscd the paIty'S nomination for Governor on con-
diiion that ne support Mr. ildcn'. denomination
for the Presidency in 1851. That would maAe
everybody happy
None of the Northern Democratic he Spapers seem
eager to comment on the negro exodus from South
Carolina. and their backwardue,s is easily ex-
planned Hitherto they have charged that Northern
Republican, have instigated all he movements 0!
this character among the negroes. hut they cannot
charge that now. because the Bourbon journals OF
the south admit that the is political Oppres-
sion. THIS bars out the Northern Democratic editor
He has not for twenty five years admitted that tie
southern Boubous can do wrong, and he Is not
going to admit It now; hence he keeps silent
General Butler has bought for $4,000 the LA iris
Community land, ar Portland, Chautauqua County,
in This State and there is considerable curiosity
concerning " hat he viii do with it. Tie Commu-
nifty was founded by Thomas Lake Harris
in 1857. and was started with 1000 acres
Of land The property was not held
in common. nor did the members of the Com
mmlty live as one family. They held that saliva
tion is only obtained t through self-renuncatOn
and a life of unscItish labor for humanity. They
have never houri,hcd and Harris left the State
several years ago. Perhaps General Butler intends
! loader is creed would fit Aim-wth some It.
strlcuOnS.
Sumpter County like Edceiicld, is bulldozed
section of South Carolina and from Sumpter a large
exodus of negroes A. preparing correspondent OF
The Charleston Ncrs and Courier says At least 500
families ere preparing to leave the county in the
early spring. The farming interests are greatly inn
pcrilied. The complaint IS; High rents Agh
taNea. tie Stock and Election laws
The Hon Ben. Hill is able to remark that the
independent movement in Georgia does not amount
10 ANYTHING Boob 10 yOu-pooh. pooh to you" is
evidently Air Hills subtle policy
Perhaps the grand Democratic Civil Service Re-
form tournament mt Albany will come to an end to-
morrow and perhaps 1t will not When the end
does come we predict John Kelly will be Oh top.
Are not the Stawarts undertaking too much when
they attempt to smash Blaine and smrch Garilelds
memory al the same umef
President Arthur gave the Mississippi Republicans
some good advice when they asked him whether
they would be wise 10 set up dual State govern
ment. "Wait till the next election" no said,
then YOU will be too strong 10 be counted out"
All signs point to the fulhlment of that prophecy.
xPresident Hayes told a correspondent of The
Philadelphia Press recently that he had no aspira-
tons for return to public life lie says Of his Adj
minisration: 1t was very pleasant. The first two
years of 1t were osome and fraught with all sorts
! of trouble and hard work. The country was not
prosperous The last two years were not so bur
dened and the country was prosperous. We left 10
So" He is opposed to the Malone kind of revolu-
ton in the South saying: There IT, think, ten
dency to prepare a campaign In the South on the
same general plan that Virginia was carried for
Malone. Now, am strongly opposed to that course
Oh prinoiple. II savOr5 OF dshOnOr IL IL repudla-
ton IN elect and TO foster that idea y dangerous,
aud undermnes the spirit of our best Institutions.
The South should pay its debt. IL Is not hara 70