Year: 1879

A great change has couie ''e


spirit of the Southern press since 'he
elections in Ohio and Iowa, ana 'he
Bourbon leaders are beginning 10 open
THAR ewes at the change of the North
arn pronnd-swell. The election IN
Maine, so long as the Republicans h"'
not a clear majority of all the votes
east, was explained by Northern papers
to mean Republican defeat, and the
same was the case with the California
slsctiop. 1t il true that with three par
ties in the field IN Maine and four IN
California, the Republican vote IN
neither State excelled all others com
biped, but il was SO much larger than
that of any other party in the Held
that it shows that had there teen but
two parties pitted one against the other,
the old time war maiorities would have
been given. This, however, relates
only to Maine and California. In ohlo
Foster has decisive majority over all
opposition, and in Iowa Gear has some
where between SO, 900 and $4,000 ma
jority over Democrats and Greenbackers
combined, and had the latter ticket
been out OF the field the old-fashioned
Republican majority of 10000 would
have been given. These are omens OF
coming defeat to the Southern Bonr-
bons, and are filling their bosom5 with
fear, and as consequence there is less
of that arrogance and intolerant spirit
which characterized them in the past.
The result of the elections has taken
all the starch out of the imperial stiff
ness of the Southern Democratic bull
dozers, and they have all at once be-
come plant and cringing. This, how
ever, in the face of the experience OF
the past, will deceive nobody of intelli-
iigent minds, and who have given the
political situation of the country intel
ligent attention. The Southern ex-
rebels are the same now that they
we're during the war, and they
have never lost sight and never
will. of obtaining that one darling
object that lies nearest their souls -
southern contederacy. JEFF. Davis re-
mark which has been urging through
the press of the land, that he had
never vet seen reconstructed southern
woman, was in great measure true,
and might with great appropriateness
also be applied the eX-rebels. Their
great aim of life is the disruption Of
this nation by whatever means comes
within their power. They thought they
could do it by force of arms but they
made mistake and now they are try
ing to accomplish by Legislation what
they lost on the field Of battle. In
possession of the government in all its
departments their ends would be &C,
compIished provided their zeal to rear
the fruit of their victory did not out
strip their Judgment. The late elec'
tions have shown that they must pur
sue a more moderate course and it ii
seen in the toning down of the south
ern press that they are willing to do so
that their southern policy may becom,
more popular in the north, upon th'
principle of the familiar c0uplet that


"When the devil was sick the devil I
saint would be- but when the devil wa
we'll tie devil saint was he" Th'
southern people have shown that they
can be either saints or devils to sui
the political emergencies which are con
tinually arising, and since the Ohi>
election they have put on their sanity
garbs as the most appropriate TOR thu
occasion, to gull and deceive unsuspect
ing northern people who' they are at
tempting to rope into their party. /
any body of intelligence is deceived
they are victimizad with their eyes wide
open. The south is the same arrogant
overbearing south it always was, with
its hatred of the north intensified by
the loss of its slave prosperity, and the
people of the north might as well make
up their minds now as well as at any
other lime, that the only way to pre-
serve TIE peace and stability of the
nation, is to keep her IN subsection by
the force of public opinion expressed
at the ballot box.


The driving ont of Mrs. Price and hel
husband from Grenada, Taylor from
Virginia, and hundreds of others who
might be mentioned is no myth. The