The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-11-23
"0NE COUNTRY! ONE DESTINY ~
- remarkable Declaration by the AbIest
republican Newspaper In the United
States.
From the Ner York JYp,,,

from the Netr York Times.
Inc whole country will necessarily be
interested in the view taken by the lead. :.
ers OF public opinion in the South as Tn
the recent elections. One of the most
telling" Of the arguments nut forward
by Mr. Jay A. Hubbell, the yicerov Of
.ne republican managers in the late can !.
."ss. "hen ne undertook to justify the
enforcement of voluntary contributions,
vas ihat they were absolutely required to
enable the Republican party To save the
country from the greed. and p5liu;inx
grasp OF the Southern Confederates. 4
similar exhortation was launched by Mr..
John T. Smyth on the eve of the elec.
tlons IN this State. That close student
OF the currents of public opinion in.
formed the voters Of New York, in effect.
that the defeat of Mr.. Cleveland was
necessary, if they did not wish to see the
fruits OF the war turn TO ashes upon their
lips, aud the Government of the country
pass under the control of the rebels,
Neither one nor the other of these
prophets was listened to- The voters
had their own ideas Of the dangers of
oouthern domination, and g good unany
OF them, if they really believed that the
choice lay between the snccees of Hub.
oeii ana Smyth and the return Of the
South to power, deliberately chose the
latter as the least of two evils. But most
OF them understood that there was no
such choice, and that these eminent
statesmen were simply trying to frighten
them into aiding in the retention Of the
unscruPulous band whom Smyth and
Hubbell represented.
1t is, nevertheless, gratifying to find
the Charleston Ntus and Courier. one of
the strongest of Southern newspapers.
declaring that the South has no interest
IN the result Of the elections different
from that OF the rest Of the country, and
recognizing that the Democratic party,
to profit by the present revolution, muet
place themselves in tho front of that rev.
oiutlon, and give to those who helped
them to achieve it the results which that
revolution was intended to accomplish" !"
These results the Neus and Courier de.
ihnes with precision and candor that
leaves nothing to he desired:
The Democracy" it says, "must ban
lsh from their councile any politicians
who would on any pretext tamper with
the finances of the country, or who, d.
rectly or indirectly, would degrade the
currency. They must support to the
utmost such q scheme of civil service re.
form as that which is proposed by Sena-
tor Pendleton, and which finds favor
with so many Republicans. They must
insist on tariff reform in the direction of
q tariff for revenue only. They must
show themselves to be the steadfast on.
ponents of commercial moBopolies as
well as of political monopolies."
If the voters who. having before been
Republicans, joined the Democratic
ranks in the contest of last week had
formulated the result which they hoped
to bring about by th..r action, the Ian
guage We have quoted would very fairly
have answered their purpose Il vas for
failing 10 do precisely what the Neus and
Courier requires Of its party that these
voters left, far tine time being, the Re
publican ranks. If the South responds,
in any reasonable degree, to the views
expressed by this leading Southern jour.
nal, the day has gone by forever in which
"a solid South" can have any terrors for
the best portion Of the Republican party
of the North. The latter will be only
too glad to see the South, from the Poto-
niant for these principles.
Il shis C1nnSI;iuu nc Iuay uuu inui Inc
protest of the NesOs and Courier against
the manner in which Federal patronage
has been used in the South, and its CON
clusion that similar abuse in the North
had much to do with the recent revolu-
ton, will be heartily approved in this
section. We need not remind our read
ers that the perversion of the Federal
patronage in the South has been long re-
garded by Us as one Of the chief obsta-
cles to political progress in that section,
and particularly TO the creation Of Re-
publican party there with which the Re-
pubicans of the North could cooperate.
We hailed the avowal Of civil service re-
form principles by President Grant as
one of the most hopeful signs in the
future Of the South. When he had
abandoned the struggle and Mr.. Hayes
had come to the Presidential Office, we
urged. throughout his term, that no
Cancellation" was worth talking of
which did not include, what the latter at
one time promised, a reform thorough,
radical and complete" Of the civil ser.
vice. We pressed The same view with
the utmost earnest less upon the admin
is;ration of Mr.. Garfield, and, even when
there was small hope of its receiving at
tention, upon that Of President Arthur.
We are by no means confident that the
Democracy will be equal to the duty now
laid upon it, and 80 clearly defined by
the Neirs and Courier, but if it should be,
it would be doing hundred. fold more
for the South than its best lovers Of the
South ever dreamed of, and its service to
the whole country would not be less.