igent New England Governor, who says
he is Republican from conviction and never ... a Democrat; that
he has no sympathy for Democracy or desire to be in its councils
... that as Governor he means to give ... honest government. The
news ... takes the Governor at his word and ... him on, while
newspapers over the border in Georgia mock and deride. If
Chamberlain succeeds he will divide the colored vote, and for the
first time array parties upon some other dividing line than that
laid down by Jefferson Davis when he founded his Confederacy.

_Hope for Carolina_

But whether he succeeds or not the movement which he began a year
ago, and which is now almost national in its extent, must go on.
There is no way for South Carolina to win a good government
except on this basis. Here the negroes are and in a large
majority. They cannot be driven away, they cannot be slain, they
cannot be disfranchised. They must be asked to take part in
government, to unite with honest men in punishing crime.
Education makes this more and more easy, and amid all this sorrow
and strife and tumult the work of education goes on. The negro
pants for the primer and the speller as the hart for the water of
the brook. I have taken pains, in some bookstore loungings, to
inquire about this. I learned in nearly every case that the
negroes were constant purchasers, and almost invariably of
school-books--elementary and advanced. I am told that the negro
is as anxious to read and write as he used to be to own a yellow
cravat. I do not suppose this education goes far, but it is
something. It is there I see day--there, and nowhere else. This
old feeling must die out. These memories of the Southern
Confederacy must be put away with the family laces and
grandmother' samplers. Leaders like Toombs and Hill must be
superseded. These negroes must be taught that freedom means
responsibility, and that honesty is safety and peace. These lands
and ports, these watercourses, these widely stretching and vast
acres, must respond to capital and energy, the money and the
skill of the North. Here is room in South Carolina alone for all
of New England, and in no State could the spirit of New England
work such marvels. But so long as the fogs of slavery and
misgovernment and ostracism and socia