The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-24
Southern Expressions.

Our Southern contemporaries are
quick to realize that the election of
Gen. Harrison to the Presidency does
not mean what they said it would
signify, during the heat of the cam
paign. "The South" says the
Charleston Ne1OS and Courier, lean
afford to be hopeful. 1t need not
ride furiously forward to meet trou-
bic. Every day of devotion to the
promotion OF Southern industry and
the extension of Southern develOpe-
ment will fortify the expectation OF
security and will inyigorate the peo-
pie for any struggle that in spite of
ourselves may come"
The New Orleans TImeS-D Democrat
says:
We cannot believe that the Repub-
lican leaders will pursue new cru
SADIE against the South. To-day this
section is stronger, richer, more pow
erful than during the days of military
interference and occupation it is
more closely united, industrially,
with the North and West, has more
Northeln capital here, capital belong.
ing to Republicans as well as Demo-
Gratis, and these capitalists would
suffer severely from any Federal pol
icy that would create trouble and
confusion in the South.
Other expressions by leading
Southern journals are in the same
vein, and we are glad to see these
evidences of returning common sense
in the South, 1t rests, however,
with the leaders of public opinion in
the South whether that badly led
section shall experience the full ben
efits of Republican rule. All that re-
mains as a source OF peril, bad blood
and trouble in the South is the APP
parent determination on the part of
many leading Democrats that the
negroes shall either be DISTINGUISHED,
or inundated, or cheated out of their
votes. No man knows better what
we mean by this than ex.Congress-
man Chalmers of Mississippi, who,
in an able letter to the st. Louis
Globe Democrat. says:
If Cleveland had carried New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut,
and been counted in by electoral
votes of States where the cOlored vote
was in a majority and cOnfessedly
GI1nnrnSSn1 Xrnnl1 haNyn kpn0 n
we're strain upon the conservatism of
the Republican people to submit to
it, and there would have been immi-
nent danger of another civil war.
The election of Harrison averted this
and it should now be the aim, as it is
the duty. of every true patriot to pro-
vide against its possible recurrence.
That the local affairs of a State are
beyond the control of the General
Government all parties admit, and
no Republican desires to interfere
with local affairs of the South. The
junior Senator from Mississippi made
an able argument to show that where
the effects of race prejudice were con-
fined to local affairs the General Gov
eminent had no right to interfere.
If we should grant this to be true, al
though doubtful under strict con-
struction of the fifteenth amendment,
it would seem certainly clear that
where the exhibition of race preju-
dice does affect the welfare of the ma
ton, then the General Government
not only has power, but it is in duty
bound to interfere. The suppression
of the negro vote in Congressional
and Presidential elections directly
affects the welfare CT the nation. And
If counting the negro vote legally to
elect white Republican to Congress
exciteS the race prejudice of a South
ern democrat, certainly counting the
negro vote illegally by a Southern
democrat to elect President is we'll
calculated to excite the sectional pref.
udice of Northern Republican.
There is great deal of cold truth
in every one of the sentences we have
just quoted, and Mr.. John S. Wise.
in the eloquent speech that he made
to the "Spellbinders," stated the
same self-eyident propositions in
words that glowed with the ardor
and earnestness of convictions based
on personal knowledge.
Let the South be honest and the
North will be not only friendly, but
helpful IN the largest degree. N. Y.
Mail and Express.
Cleveland's majority in Old Vir-
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