Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-11-08
The People.s Triumph.

The people have achieved notable yic-
tory. with the entire influence OF the most
powerful Government in the world oppo.
sing their efforts, they have nevertheless
succeeded 10 effecting change Of their ru-
lers. From the beginning OF the campaign
We treated as the most important OF those
TO be decided by the people the question Of
their ability 10 compel the Republican
party TO surrender the control OF
the Government TO the other party.
We are fully persuaded that IL by
the use Of bribery. intimidation.
aud corruption, BLAINE had been elected.
there would never have been another free
election in this country. An election a."
complished by such means could not have
been recognized as a free election. but it
would have been frcer THAI any that could
have succeeded it. IL is simply impossible
for free Institutions real republic--to
coexist with the appointment Of thousands
Of Feleral deputy marshals and supervi-
sors to oversee the casting Of the votes Of
the States; or with the appointment OF
Thousands OF intcrnal-revepue agents aud
postal officials, 10 traverse the land and
clectioneer for The perpetuation OF the
power OF the men who appointed them;
or with using the money cellecte from the
people 10 set at naught the peoples will;
or even with the collecting Of money from
keeping In Office party Of whose rule the
people desired to be rid. The people have
now hidden adieu TO sectionalism and sec
tional psrties-tO war records, TO war
memories, and TO war preiudices. We say
The people. because we mean that the whole
country is to be blessed by this victory
Of the Democratic party. And not the
white man only, but the negro. "All sorts
AID conditions OF men," to quote the
Prayer Book, will be benefited as h result
Of The peoples victory on Tuesday last.
Maine can shake hands with Texas, and
Massachusetts, with Virginia, over such
triumph.
The nae of the bloody shirt being iurled,
and war preiudices being dismissed, aud |
northern and southern parties existing no
longer, and dangerous sectionsllsm being |
buried, the political kaleidoscope will show
new combinations. II Is not the solid |
South only that will be dissolved, as it will |
be dissolved, but the solid North will share
fhe same fate. The West and the North
west and the South will hereafter be likely
10 combine. As mountains interposed
make enemies Of nations which had else,
like kindred deeps, been mingled into
one" 80 the Mississippi river. in the
absence OF q sectionahsm growing out |
OF war prejudices, will bind together |
in union more or less compact all the |
States in the Mississippi Valley. And as
that union will consist Of States half OF
which are now northern and the other half
Of which ere now southern, and will there
Tore have an interest in both OF these Sec
lions as at present constituted. the combi-
nation will prove beneficial 10 the whole
Union. II will be an indestructible Union;
and II the people will only see TO it that il
Il composed OF Indestruetible States, there
rau none but good consequences flow from
such new union.
The negro problem will find peaceful
solution under wise administration OF the
Federal Government. The negro will soon
realize that he is moi 10 be remsnded into
slavery. He Will seen learn that the Re-
publican party Is one thing and the
National Government another thisg. lie
VIII receive new light when once he sees
that Democrats can be Federal officials OF
all sorts-letter-csrriers mail agents, intel
nal-reyenue officials, marshals, district at
torheys, judges, and all the rest Of then by
whatever titles known. lie will
begin 10 look upon his State. and his coun-
~ or city or town as something worthy of
He will md out, in word,
that the best friends Of the negro race in
the civilized world are the white men OF
the southern States. In the hour OF vic
tory. the white men OF tAe South have none
hut kindly feelings for the negro. They
regard him with an indulgent vexation, as
il he were a hayward child. n there he
any negro in Virginia wbs fears Demo-
cratic rule, we tell him in the name OF the
Democratic party that his fears are ground
less.
But enough for enc day. We have net
yet reached the promised land, Though We
can see that
sweet fields beyond the rolling hoOd
stand dressed In living green
And SO we will conclude for to-day sn this
subject.