Year: 1879

The indications of the year are so far decid edly favorable to Republication California is clearly Republican as between Republican ism and Democracy The gain of four Con gressmen in a House of Representatives SC close as our present one is no slight matter ir any case. Moreover the Republican chances for 80 are sensibly improved by the turn mat ters have taken in California the present year In Maine the Republicans triumph effectually if not gloriously. Another month decides the status of Ohio; and unless reports are utterly unreliable, Ewing and Imitation are beaten ir advance.

 The political proceedings in New York fol the past fortnight have been curious game ot ''give away" The nomination of a man SC obnoxious to all who care anything for reform as Cornell, gave every chance of victory to a united Democracy. They, however, have a split of even more serious nature to encounter. A Tammany bolt may not carry the full | strength of that notorious old political machine against the regular Democratic nominee for Governor, but it will certainly lose him many votes at time when a Democratic nominee cannot afford to lose votes. Underneath the whole difficulty lies the old difference of Tilden and anti-Tilden. Gov. Robinson seems an honest, ndependent-thinking person, who has proved good governor, on the whole. The only serious objection to him is his alliance, or his supposed alliance with Tilden, and one excellent result of his defeat will be the defeat of Tilden for the presidential nomination, next year. On the other hand one of the evils of a Republican triumph in New York will be to give an appearance of strength to the Conkling machine far beyond it's reality.

 On the whole, therefore, the tendency of the present year is plainly towards solid North combining against the solid South. Recent events in Mississippi must inevitably increase this tendency. The murder of Dixon was bad enough, but the acquittal of the Chisolm mur- derers is worse. The evidence in this case, so far as reported in the papers, shows the guilt at least of man so prominent in the transac- ton as Henry J. Gully, beyond reasonable doubt. His acquittal can only be attributed, therefore, to the political prejudice of the jury, and to the fixed determination of the whites of Mississippi to massacre all who attempt the organization of the negroes against them.

 It is such conduct as this that is consolidat- ing North against South. No reasonable 'Northerner of any party wishes to see the South misgoverned. The renewal of the Car pet Bag abominations is the last thing any but the bitterest Stalwarts desire. But, on the other hand, such methods as those now practiced in Mississippi are equally unendurabIe A tyr amy of bulies is little if any improvement on a tyranny of thieves

 The feeling aroused by recent manifestations of Mississippi Bourbonism, is further intensified by the Exodus. The stories of wrong and op- pression told by the colored emigrants, exag- gerated as they no doubt are, indicate never thefess an inability on the part of the Southern white to grant anything like the rights of free- men to the Southern black. Much as we dis like the Stalwart reaction of the past few years we cannot but admit the occasions of it. Any just solution of the terrible problem of Recon struction seems as far off as ever Six years ago society in several southern states seemed relapsing into the barbarisln of St. Domingo. Now there seems danger that the tyranny of white over black will become as grinding here in America as was that of Saxon over Celt, of Protestant over Catholic in Ireland a century ago.