New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-01

stencil in the nostrils of loyalty. And I'll
they we're even to succeed, ami their policy
carried out, aud your plans for receiving
remuneration for emancipated slaves and
damage dOne by the war accomplished
| your real interests would not be promoted
Such measures would only bring on a
deeper ruin by their excess, ending in MAX
| ing the whole government money worth
less. Your true interests are to be found
in quietly submitting to the laws of Con-
gress, and acting in union with the pre-.
dominant political opinion Of the country.
You should remember that by your rebel
lion you have forfeited all your Political
rights, which can only be restored to Won
by the government
You seek an alliance with the Demo-
cratic party of the North. You sought and
obtained the sympathy Of that party during
the war Was it of any avail to you? except
TO deceive you and cause you to continue
your struggle until the strong arm of the
government had crushed out the last
vestlge OF your power. But for that de-
ceptlon you would have most likely aban-
doned the contest long before you were
compelled to give it MP from sheer ex-
hanstion of strength. You were deceived
with the belief that the Northern people
would be so equally divided that YOU conld
without fight escape. But what decep-
ton that was. The Northern people were
largely against you on the subject of the
war, and your especial friends, but who in
TACT were your worst enemies were power
less and so they would be again. You
surely thought, at the beginning of the war.
tiat the Northern people were towards
and would not resist you. How terribly
Jou were again deceived let the war
answer? You thought they would fail
IN resources, instead of which they only in
creased in wealth and numbers and now.
IN your crushed and PROSTATE condition,
you seem still willing to be further de-
celved by this Democratic party. What is
1t that you most want in the South Ger
tainly YOU ought not to want TO send men
10 Congress who led you into rebellion
who taught you the false political doc
trines that a man owed his supreme
allegiance to a state and not TO the
general government men who taught
you the political heresy that the remedies
for legislation that you did not like. and
Tor political opinions you did not approve
We're to be found in the secession of a State
and who led you into open warfare against
the sovereignty of your government, and
brought ruin death, and desolation to your
homes and your section of the country.
You certainly ought not TO want such men
to leglslate for you in the future and vet
that seems to be what you are really seek
ing through the aid of the Democratic
party OF the North. In our humble iudr-
ment the things you stand most in need of
are things that will stimulate the industries
Of the South. You should seek to have
capital and labor, energy, and enterprise
brought here, and schools and colleges
established in greater numbers than you
now have them. You really want manu-
featuring to prosper and commerce to -four
lsh, and you eau be blessed with an increase
OF none of these so long as you affiliate with
party who would by their excuses
bankrupt the nation, nor so long as you
have the prescribing spirit that characterizes
your political conduct at the present time.
Men are not coming here to be reproached
with being mere political adventures,
fanatics, and the like, nor will European
emlgrauts come here until you allow the
country to be quieted, SO that its industries
may be safely resumed and protection to
person and property insured. II you will
be true to your country, act for the
good of all men Of all races,
Tor the Union, and for the integrity
VI NV E"DAlS uNbLY luG NOELuGIu
people will gladly help you with their
| labor, enterprise, and capital. They do
not want your property nor your lives.
They are not in favor of confiscation, nor
do they ask for any kind of punishment
except the exclusion of rebels from power:
but they do want harmony, union of
States, of people, and of interests, and they
will rejoice to hear that you have laid aside
your old prejudices and peculiar sectional
views, and have become more national in
| all your political conduct. If you will thus
act they will meet you halfway and bury
the Ratchet, and let bygones be bygones.
Let hate and bitterness be cast aside forever
SO that you shall feel at home any where in
the North, and they at home anywhere in
the South. If we are all true to ourselves
and our country, our future is to be more
prosperous than it ever was in the past, for
| our resources are almost without limit, our
soil is wonderfully productive, our crops
| are the great staple Of the world, our mines
| are Sll but inexhaustible, our population is
characterized by most wonderful energy,
and our country extends from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to
somewhere near the north pole, minus a
few latitudes belonging to England on the
| Pacific coast, and if immigration to this
country continues in the future as in
the past, that, with our natural in
! crease. will give population
before the end of the present century num-
bering from seventy-6ye to one hundred
millions The South will be densely pop
| ulated, if not equal to the New England or
! the Western States, at least approaching
them. The now improbable cotton plan
tations Of this section OF country will be
worked as the Western farms are worked,
by men who own them, aRd who make
money by having the avails of their own
crops for their own labor. The large tracts
of forest lands Of the present day will be
Transformed INTO cultivated fields, and
made to yield TO the labor of the husband
man; schools and churches will be greatly
multiplied; manufactures will be seen in
all the cities of the South, and along her
streams, as they new environ the cities and
line the rivers of the North; and the eoun-
try, the whole country, from Maine to
Texas, and from Charleston to San Fran
cisco, will be inhabited by people pos
81 ssing more wealth, more intelligence,
more enterprise, and capable of exerting
for good greater influence over other ma
tions than any other people on the face of
the earth. With such future before us,
why should we waste our energies
in domestic strife, bitterness, and hate?
Why attempt to bankrupt the government
Or why should any despair Frequently
hear of Southern men who feel that all
before them is a blank, crushed to the
earth by the consequence of the war, and
not viewing the action of the government