Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-06
SSournal an0 Courier.
Friday Morning. Jan. 6. 1882.
THE UNSOLID SOUTH,

| Ever since the election in Virginia the in-
 dications that the ''soIid South is fast losing
 it's solidity have been increasing in number
 and significance. Even the hide-bound
 Bourbonism of Mississippi feels the new im- | pulse toward a better political condition.
 The Vicksburg (Miss.) Commercial, whose Bourbonism has always stood in striking ! contrast to the iberality of the Her01d of I that city, has been taken to task by some of l its Bourbon contemporaries because it saw fit to 'sreiterate the expression that the mate
 rial development of the South at this time | stands above and beyond all other considera- I tions that we put no great store in the past and its sacred memories as an energetic force in the contest for substantial prosperity on ! which the South is now preparing to en- ter !; that the holy South and sacred North are but sentimental dreams and of no prac- tical utility" It says now: ''The expres- sion is true, not only as to the Commercial, but of all the Southern people. We have &C., cepted the situation and are striving to make the most of it." In other States the signs of a gratifying change in feeling and political opinion are still more pronounced than in Mississippi. The Hon. John B. Ellis, a member of the House from Louisiana, has been Bourbon of the Bourbons and represents district in which are many of the wealthiest and most influential members of the party in his State.
 In the course of a long interview just pub ished in New Orleans Mir. Ellis said: 1.-The Democratic party is dying naturally of ti- midity and inaction. It is without men or
 measures It is not agreed on any policy. In the States of the South it is losing ground. Virginia is gone. There are grave fears for
 other States It is disrupted and broken in- to divisions and factions in nearly every
 southern State. You know it's condition here. It is past praying for, and if the South breaks
 up tia Democratic party is a thing of the past. In this State and city for six Or eight years past anybody without morals, brains or principles could be elected, providing he nation, and all because of tyrannical public opinion that almost ostracized a man who ayowed himself Republican MT. Ellis seems to expect that upon the ruins of the two existing parties in the South two other parties will arise which will be on their good
 behavior and which will have respect for each other.
 h Texas the outlook is very bad for the Bourbons, according to Senator Coke, who was elected Governor of the State not great many years ago by Democratic majority of 100,0 900. He says of the situation: five been in political life great many years, but can't remember time when there was such a spirit of independence in our State as can
 be seen there to-day, and it seems 10 spread in all directions. For instance, we have about 200 Democratic papers il, Texas that heretofore have been flat and unswerving in their support of the Democratic platform and nominees, but gradually they have been growing restless under the restraint, and are shooting of on to various side tracks of one sort or another, till it can hardly be said to- day that more than three or four of them can be called reliably unchangeable in their devotion to the party under any and all cir. cumstances."
 All this is very sad for those who cannot accept the new order of things, but it is very cheering to those who know that the we'll being of the South depends upon the spread of the leaven which is now working in that region