New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-23

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SPEECH OF GENERAL j. H. sYPHER.
The triumph of the national arms left the
rebellious states disorganized and without
constitutional state governments. The
shock Of rebellion disturbed their former
relations with the general government, and
there existed no legal authority within their
borders to re.establish these relations.
A wise and patriotic congress, which had
carried the nation safely through the sterm
OF rebellion, elected by the people of ihe Or
power, submitted q scheme of reconstruc.
tion BY which the people of the South could
form local governments, and again resume
their normal nositions in the Union. This
scheme was submitted in the form of an
amendment to the constitution, the terms
Of which were the inviolability of the ma
tional debt, the reputation Of the rebel
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of periured traitors. Because it failed to
return JEFF Davis to his seat in the United
States senate, and because it did not restore
Robert E. Lee to his former rank in the
army of the United States, the rebels of the
South, upon the adviceo their great cop
perhead high priest. in the presidential
chair, reject this lenient proposition with
contempt, stigmatiziDg its authors as
tMe tgrdnts of a runsp congress- Be-
fore they had washed their hands Of the
blood of union soldiers these rebels inso.
lently demanded admission into the Union
with all their former rights and political
privileges. -..if
The local governments were under
rebel control, their legislatures enacted
vagrant and apprentice laws equaled in
cruelty and barbarity only by the black
| code. Union men were nassacred, property
was destroyed, and the whole Southern
country was in state of anarchy, yet these
people were clamoriDg for their constitu-
tional rights. t--
sacrifice of blood and treasure in the name
of liberty and union, the loyal people of the
nation of right demanded that these princi.
pies should obtain in the formation of new
state governments in the South.
Impelled by the same spirit of patriotism
and love Of justice which characterized the
loyal people Of the nation during the war,
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the Southern states-not for the white peo.
pie, but the whole people, without distinc-
| tion of race, color or previous condition.
Under these acts tho power and response
bility of restoring the Southern states to the
Union rests with the masses OF the people.
Congress said tie people shall rule. and
that is good Democratic doctrine-not the
bogus rebeLcopperhead Democracy of this
generation, but the '.simon pure' demoe
racy of the fathers. Where under the sun
| is there q government beside our own in
which rebels are allowed to participate? (?
Where is there country beside this that
permits criminals indicted for high treason
to go at large on bailY In France they
would expiate their crime upon the gull
iotine; in Spain at the garrote; in England
at the end of rope; in Austria exile or
imprisonment in some old fortress. But
in America they stalk the land as if treason
was no crimeEthey luxuriate in hotels and
| exhibit themselves ut public places of
amusement, they repose in the bosom Of
/ ary notices of their public career in rebel
newspapers and magazines.
/ We do not demand the blood of any man.
we do not demand even just punishment
/ for rebeIs-but we do demand that the
rights of the black patriot and the white
rebel shall at least be equal.
We expect to get these rights, in the. Ian
guage OF the Commanding general, 'under
the civil laWn-I mean the civil law Just
That Is Just law, and we are assembled
here tonight to indorse and ratify it to.
gether with the candidates chosen as the
standard-bearers Of our party, by our repre-
sentatives in the nominating convention.
This is a glorious OCCASION. 1t is the first
ratification meeting Of the Radical Repub-
lican party in Louisiana. II will not be the
last, Andy Johnson and his rebel satellites
permitting. Imehn those blood and thun-
der fellows who meet At the st. Charles the
atre-those chivalric gentlemen who wade
in human blood un to their knees,
and build monuments Of loyal bones.
Ours is peace PARTY, now Il at
the war is over, and may We forever con-
tinue to cultivate those arts, until our coun,
try calls us to protect herlfiag against for
eign or domestic foeb.1 Aiter seven long
! years Of bloodahed and civil strife we are
now about to diaenthral our state from the
usurpatien of rebel officials, and proclaim
liberty and equal rights to all her inhab-
| itants. We are about 10 Law the cornerstone
Of q temple of liberty whf6h shall endure to
the end Of time. It shall be founded upon
the eternal rock Of universal Justice, and
dedicated to the proposition "that ali men
are created equal -
Il Its apartments shall be sufficiently spa