New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-02
Party Movements South-Fhe Rcpub
llcan Campaign.


The Republican committee makes AN APP
peal for money to aid its efforts TO organize
the Republican party in the southern
States. 1t urges the necessity of sending
speakers and documents to enlighten and
influence the public mind, AS well as Of or
ganlzing the party for vigorous and effective
effort at the polls. The appeal Will doubt
less meet with a liberal response. 1t is III
the highest degree desirable that any great
and powerful political party which holds
or seeks political power should be national
and not sectional in its organization and
character. The Republican party is now
dominant in the councils of the nation; and
it ought to have an organization aud add
herents in every State ana III every section
of the Union.
This, indeed, is indispensable to its use
fitness and prolonged existence. No sec
tional party can long remain IN possession
Of national power. Especially now that
slavery has been destroyed and all cause for
sectional differences thus removed, will it be
required of every party, as a condition of
public confidence, that its aims, its princi-
pies, and its sentiments shall be as broad as
the Union, and embrace the welfare of the
whole nation rather than that of any partic-
ular section. And the best service the Re-
publican party can now render the country
Is to extend its organization into every State,
and to labor zealously for the common good.
There is one thing preliminary to success
in such an undertaking, however, which
must not be overlooked. If the Republi-
can party is to become national in its action,
it must be national in its principles and
its sympathies. 1t will not answer to base
its new development on issues of the past;
it must have distinct programme for the
future. 1t must not rely for support any
where, exclusively or mainly on what it has
done, but on what it proposes TO do, for the
public good, 1t is not enough that 1t has
abolished slavery, it must now make that
abolition u blessing and not curse To the
nation at large. 1t cannot base its claim to
power on the fact that 1t has made suffrage
universal to the negro race; 1t must vindi-
cate that action by showing that the cOun
try has been benefited, not damaged, there.
by. And this can only be done by wise,
beneticent, and judicious action, by practl
cal measures, and not by loud professions,
and still less by clamorous "reminiscences
of the past.
Nor can the Republican party rely for
continued life and strength on the fact that
il stood by the country against rebellion
| that il carried the nation safely through the
war. Up to the present time, since the war
was closed, the Republican party has lived
| mainly on the odium in which its enemies
| involved themselves during the contest.
| That capital will not be sufficient always.
| The people never keep party in power any
more than they keep an individual in office
| from motives of gratitude. In the presence
of the fresh, new, and pressing issues to
which the necessities of the time give rise,
the past is always forgotten. The people
have no time for recollections; they demand
action in the present and Tor the future.
| The Republican party must not count, there
fore, on maintaining itself in power by re
miuding its opponents OF their past trans.
gressions and its own patriotic conduct. II
must show itself hereafter to be as much
! wiser, more just, more patriotic and trust
/ worthy than its enemie as 1t has hithertoi
| and that must be done by the superior wis
dom of its measures and its policy.
The financial condition of our affairs
demands the cordial, united, harmoni
GUS cooperation of all sections and al
classes of our people. We must cherish and
promote the industry of all sections-no'
derange and destroy it, We need peace
concord-a common effort for the common
good. The Republican party can secur,
| this, and every consideration of Interest
and of honor demands that it should do 1t
Ii should not sacrifice any interest or any
| right; but it owes it 40 the nation that tn,
sectional resentments and hostilities which
| led to the war should no longer vex the
public peace or check the public growth
| now that the war is over.-Neao York Times
az The comments of the Brooklyn UHt0i
on Mr.. Beecher's novel include the follow
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