Year: 1868

what III he Is Elected, According to


Southern Opinion.


The Louisville Democrat contained recently
the following:-


Let us say in the beginning that from a calm
not on the opinions of one, but all parties, we
believe Grant will be defeated. This Is our sim
that the result is by no means certain. The
questions are so new, the people so unsettled.
the indications so unreliable, aud the great
lever Of control held by the radicals In Congress
30 powerful, that the election of Grant is pos
sible, and we look at that possibility.


ADVISE The South to resist, who assert tnat it
will resist, or under the circumstances think 1t
to ySa ond be
believe IL. There may be some in the North
who urge them to take up arms; but these are
organized in The South, IL would be met as 1t
was before, by the whole power of the North,
and crush ed as IL was before.


We say this not because we believe there Is
the slightest intention In the South to resist,
but because we see the silly utteran ces OF some
in the North and used. There is no such de-
sign in the South. They are powerless and
oppression can come 1t must be first organized
and commenced In the North. 1t would then
be right and and proper for 1 the South to strike
10 strike q blow before that time.


There will be, therefore, no resumption of
condition of the South. We do not believe dis
tnrbances in that section will greatly increase:
We 90 not DeneV6 Jne RADICALS themselves Will
carry out the threats of their speak ers, and we
do not believe Grant will allow IL. We have no
confidence in his humanity or statesmanship.
or his consideration for the Southern people.
We rest our hope on a lower level suited to his
character and capacity. Grant is discipline
rian. He is arbitrary, but he will have no
orders but his own. The probability is that he
will depend more on the army, which he
knows. than on the people he does not know
He will not have much respect for these bogus
governments in the South, but he will aim TO
keep up q sort of order by the military.


There Ia another point in Grants character.
Although he is now the head instrument of
radicalism, Grant Is, by education, prejudiced
against the negro. IL is not the prejudice of a
philosophic statesman, who sees their tnoOm-
petence 10 discharge the full duties OF citizen
ship but the narrow prejudice of caste, and it Is
personal against the negro. When he comes 10
be tried, when his natural pecultarities are
allowed 10 come ont, just as he would have
been cruel as aslaveholder he vii be cruel and
violent as a ruler. Thestron xpreJudice will find
vent. The negro will not be protected In his
likely he will be prosecuted. II will be a vim
dictive government. The negro, when he COM
mits any violence. will be extirpaLed, aud the
race VIII be tire tied by Grant with cruelty and
contempt. The Southern white may expect
little sympathy from him; the Southern negro
need expect none 1t will be bad government
In the South-as bad as can be- Siill, IL W i'll be
government Grant IL not a man who will
allow his rule to be a nulity He is much more
likely To be a tyrant Than q King Log. He
may be arbitrary, violent, vindictive: but he
will not permit anarchy and a disregard OF his
edicts-and tyrant is better than MOB.