Year: 1876

those who heard Chief Justice Quinn,


the other leading democratic statesmen last


evening roll out their eloquent notes In
favor of Tilden and Hendricks saw the
wisdom Of accepting our advice. Hayes
and Wheeler" has a squeaking, insignificant
sound, and we could imagine how a great
orator like Mr. Evarts, for instance, would
be distressed to find any euphony in it.
This may be one Of the reasons why Mr..
Evarts has not yet spoken in the canvass.


An Opportunity for Barnweu Rhett.


r. Barnwell Rhett. Jr.. has returned to
journalism, and his paper shows that during
his retirement he lost none Of his former
fire. Mr.. Rhett belongs to one of the Oldest
Carolina families. Before the war he was q
leader of the disunionists during the
war he was the fercest of combatants
since the war he has been chief of the
irreconcilables. Mr.. Rhett is respected as
sincere and chivalrous man, who would
gladly die for his opinions. He returns to
the press the chief of what was known as the
tire-eater party, and he supports with the
old-time fervor the reform ticket" Of Til
den and Hendricks.


MIR. Rhett could win great name if he
were to show that his support of Tilden was
also reform movement. We do not know a
party that needs reform more than that
which follows the lead of this high-mettled
and gifted gentleman. AS we read the
papers edited by the party which he leads
we feel as if we were in an asylum for the
insane or for womens nervous diseases.
We hear shrill voices crying in the night
hysterical sobbings There is no repose, no
foresight. The lost cause is fresher and more
potent than in war days. War issues
which we have long since forgotten gain
new life. All is wrath and bitterness. North
ern men are ''carpet-baggers. The Southern
man who votes according to his conscience
is, if he votes as republican, ''scalawag."
There is the same spirit of antipathy toward
the North that was manifested before the
war. The success of Tilden and Hendricks
is hailed as the dawn Of the new era-the
coming of the better day. In that day there
will be no more radical aggressions, no more
carpet-baggers, no more scalawags. The
heroic South will have free government at
last


cool man with wide experience. He
knows that what the South wants is indus
try, emigration and capital. He sees that
nothing would do his State more good than
to make it as free to emigrants as Illinois
and Oregon. He knows that the Sitting Bull
finite harm; that every negro who can hold
a hoe is SO much capital in the State. He
knows that if Tilden were chosen
President he could not do any more
for the South than johnson did, and
that Jolmsons course in inviting measures
of repression from the republicans to-
ward the South did his people harm.
The logical result of his reasoning
must be that the true policy of his party
is to throw over politics altogether, to take
the republicans as they proffer themselves,
and so to act that whoever wins the victory
will be with the South Mr.. Rhett will do the
reform movement, now in full tide, great
good if he will reform his own party. He
should follow the example of Thiers. That
great statesman, q monarchist all his life, in
his old age became republican. He saw
that the Republic was the safety of France
If Barnwell Rhett and his friends were to do
the same thing, if they would come out and
support the republican ticket, if they would
give the negro political equality and end
this nonsense about the lost cause they
would benefit the South. Moro than all they
would end the republican party. That party
only lives now because of the folly of the ex-
treme Southerners. Mr.. Rhett will become
power in the land if he will only lead his
followers into the higher regions of COM
mon sense and practical politics.