Abstract

Editorials

The article discusses some socio-political development in the United States. General Stewart L. Woodford, who went to Mississippi to assist in the prosecution of the Chisholm murderers, has given his impressions of the political situation at the South, formed during his visit, in an interview the report of which he certifies to be correct. It is very interesting and instructive in various ways. The Chisholm case has been used lavishly for the past two years by Republican papers of various shades of opinion as a case which illustrated the political condition of the South, and which proved, or helped to prove, the necessity of combining against the South, and making denunciation of it and hatred and distrust of it one of the principal duties of good Republicans. The nomination of U.S. capitalist Ezra Cornell points forcibly, and it is to be hoped in a salutary manner, the distinction between the party and the Machine. The Machine, when it condescends to argue the question of its own justification, assumes the role of the handmaid of party, indispensable, it is true, but still ancillary.