Year: 1868

indignant. If by the new, a positive wrong
would be done to both Scotland and Ireland.
If, however, the difficulty in England can be got
over, and the election all over the three king
doms takes place under the old conditions the
new Parliament would be moribund from its
birth, would not dare to be initiative and
could not count on more than few months
existence. Any decision come to by the people
in such circumstances would be worthless. II
would be the decision of a doomed constitu-
ency. No possible good could result from it,
either to the government or to the opposition.
1t would put the country to vast inconvenience
and entail upon members untold expense If
Mr.. Disraeli can hold on to October, and the
reform measures be not then completed, it is
difficult to discover reason why he should not
be allowed to hold on month or two longer,
when, the new constituencies being in full blast
general election will have meaning and a
determining character and the popular voice
will make itself heard as it has never before
made itself heard in the British Isles If Mr.
Disraeli does not follow the example of his
predecessors in Office and yield up his place to
the leader of the opposition it remains to be
seen whether the opposition will not force him,
by a vote of want of confidence, either
to resign or to appeal to the country. Mr..
Disraeli's colleagues have hitherto been
singularly steadfast in their adherence to their
chief Their continued fidelity is more ne
cessity now than ever. A break in their ranks
would be fatal to the party


Extraordinary Democratic Reaction in South


Carolina.


The telegraph informed us yesterday that the
democrats had gained majority of the dis
tricts in South Carolina at the recent local
elections having secured sixteen out of the
thirty-one districts. There are about five
white districts in the State-Spartanburg
Oconee, Greenville, Anderson and Chester
field. But this gives only faint idea of the
extraordinary reaction in the popular vote in
the State as compared with the vote on the new
constitution. We find that in Union county
the democratic gain has been nearly two thou
sand, in Kershaw over seventeen hundred, in
Laurens over thirteen hundred, in Chester
over one thousand, and so on throughout the
State These local elections show the strength
of the conservatives in South Carolina, and are
indicative of what they are capable of doing
when they bring out their entire force. Be-
side the practical benefit locally of the con-
servatives in the South polling full vote, the
moral effect in the North and West is highly
important; and we suggest that hereafter, at
every election, there be a united effort in all
the Southern States to bring out every con-
servative vote that can be relied upon. We
have always believed that the white conserva-
tives, with such sensible colored voters as are
not under the thumb screws of the radical car
pet-baggers and submissive to arbitrary mill
tary direction, are capable Of controlling every
State in the South 1t would be curious
but to us not unexpected event TO find the
Southern States instrumental in electing
democrat as the next President of the United
States. They can do it if they try.


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