Abstract

Editorials

The article presents political news from the United States. The Democrats have been encouraged in much of their policy during the past three months by the reflection that they have been only imitating the action of the Republicans, in cases where the latter happened to be bent on something to which U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes for the time being was opposed. A correspondent writing from Illinois, takes a somewhat gloomy view of the future relations of the Northern and Southern States of the Union-gloomier, than the facts will warrant. The Northern people, who have the fairest conception of the Negro's rights and take the most hopeful view of his future, and have much more experience and patience than Southerners in dealing with helplessness and misfortune, have and can have no direct part in his social training.