The Holt County Sentinel

What must be General Hancock's feelings when he reflects that his election means the triumph of the men who fought with Lee and Jackson to destroy the Government?

Wade Hampton's speech frightened his party so badly that no doubt the most stringent orders will now be issued to every Confederate brigadier not to say what he thinks and believes until after election is over.

There is no reason in history for the Solid South. The excuses offered are false and frivolous. The Solid South is aggressive, and is the reappearance of the Southern Confederacy. The American citizen who does not know that fact ought to have a surgical operation performed on his head.

What does General Hancock think of Wade Hampton's candid avowal of the object of the "Solid South?" Doesn't he feel a little queer to be at the head of the party contending for the same principles for which Lee and Jackson fought? Can he look at the "Stars and Stripes" floating over Governor's Island without a blush?

The same elements which elected Lincoln to the Presidency in the face of the threats of the Secessionists of the South, reelected him in spite of Northern Copperheads declaring the war for the Union a failure, recognize in Garfield another Lincoln, whom they will this year elect to the Presidency in spite of the unreconstructed rebels of the Solid South, and their obedient, time-serving Copperhead allies of the North.

The Greenbackers held a meeting in the sacred Mississippi city of Vicksburg on the 21st, and there was a Democratic meeting on the same day. The double meeting had a tendency to divide the Solid South. Everybody didn't seem to remember that he was a Mississippian and owed allegiance to the Southern Confederacy through the Democratic party. Hence bloodshed and somehow or other the Greenback leader was shot.

To be compelled by the stress of circumstances to take a "Yank" as their candidate for the Presidency is no doubt disagreeable to the Southern Brigadiers, but should he be elected, they propose, as Bob Toombs says, to take their revenge in managing him, and should he prove less pliable to their purposes than they anticipate, they propose to run the machine themselves.

They are not toiling for the principles for which Lee and Jackson fought for nothing.

The Democrats admit that they have no hope of carrying Indiana in October. They have filed a petition asking the Supreme Court of the State to reverse its decision on the legality of the Constitutional Amendment, thus putting the election for Governor over to November. This is a confession of defeat, as well as a bitter satire on the judicial character of the Court. The petitioners virtually declare that they think the Democratic judges will decide anything the party wishes them to.