Year: 1876

RESULTS OF DEMOCR1TIC VICTORY


Every person who proposes TO vote for Nr.
Tilden must be prepared to be satisfied with
the following results of a Democratic Admin
istratiOn:


l. "The South" would participate i'll such an
Administration as a political unit. Whatever
such voter may think OF the present attitude
of the Southern States, he cannot doubt that
Democratic Administration would, with all the
resources at its command, ultimately bring all
of them under the control of the Democratic
party. He has only to consider, then, how they
would be likely TO act in such case. lie will
remember that, even before the late war, they
always exhibited a tendency 10 unity, and to
the discipline of unity, when their sectional
feeling was excited, and that the habit
of acting as unit was educated by
that war. OF course he will not expect
them to put aside an habitual inclination,
so inveterate and so recently strengthened by
practice. On the other hand, he cannot fail
to know that the Democratic party i'll the
North accepts and relies upon that organized
unity The language and tone iii which its
leaders and organs are now asserting that " the
South is solid for Tildcn" are something
more than an assertion Of fact they assent to
and approve a sectional unity. The tendcn-
cies of the South, confirmed by such encOur-
agement, cannot fail to accomplish that result.
Every voter for Mr.. Tilden must accept it,
then, as fOregOne conclusion, that the South
would participate in a Democratic Adlninstra-
ton as political unit


II. That political unit must constitute the
controlling element of the Democratic party
Under a Democratic Administration the States
which regard and describe themselves as " the
"South would be able to send to Congress
about one hundred Democratic Representatives
and, ultimately, thirty-two Democratic Sena-
tors. With this strength III Congress and their
one hundred and thirty eight votes III the col
lcge of electors they would, by reason of their
numbers and of the discipline of which expe-
rience shows them to be capable, and which
their situation would inexombly impose upon
them, constitute solid force to which the
Northern Democrats could oppose no eqmva-
lent Even in days when the South was not
a Democratic unit the Southern Democrats
were able, by reason of their numbers and
| their superior unity, to control their
party. 1t is not to be supposed that
they would accomplish less with the
same unity and larger numbers. Every person
who proposes to vote for Mr.. Tilden must,
therefore, accept it as fact beyond question
that under Democratic Administration the
South would not only operate as unit, but
would be the dominant force of the Demo
cratic party. This statement is not made for
the purpose of arOuSing the antipathies and
passions of the late war. 1t demands, on the
contrary, the most dispassionate reflection.
Every person who admits its correctness Is un-
der an obligation TO consider what course the
South, occupying such a position in Demo-
cratic Administration, would be likely to
pursue.


III. At the outset the South would as
sumo that attitude with full appreciation of
its natural effect to intensity general feeling