Abstract

Editorials

The article focuses on issues related to politics from the world. It is common offences to persist in assertions of innocence up to the moment of execution, in hopes thereby of obtaining a reprieve or some other modification of sentence. Admitting that the Democratic party is now in full possession of the government of the State of South Carolina, and that practically there is now no effective opposition by the Republican party, Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain adds: "It is a fact that there is now peace and good order throughout the State. So far, in the State at large, there have been no outrages of power or abuse of the colored people or Republicans generally," an admission, which should be somewhat comforting alike to Democratic and Republican critics of the President's policy. There is no doubt that the course of French President Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon in dismissing the Ministry is something both serious and unfortunate, but it would be a great error to suppose that there are not two sides to the quarrel. Prime Minister Leon Gambetta has made an eloquent and exciting speech in support of the view that the President's course is an inexcusable outrage on the Assembly, and an act of hostility to parliamentary government in general.