New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-21
Mr.. PHILLIPS, FULMINATIoNs,

carry on guerrilla warfare without look
ing out for the safety of their baggage,
they act as pioneers for the great Repub-
lican army which marches slowly but surely
forward to the contest, bringing with it the
heavy siege guns that must be used to bat
ter do wn the citadel of error and wrong
Mr.. Phillips little band of light infantry
also do good service in driving up stray
glers into our ranks, and preventing de-
sertions to the enemy. We have no quar-
rel with him, and if our friends can only
once understand what he is driving at they
will be neither alarmed nor disguised with
what appears to be his reckless extrsva-
gance and wild denunciatiOn. In Novem-
Der next Mr.. Phillips and every member of
the Arti-Slavery Society will walk up to the
polls and vote for Grant and Colfax; and
they are now simply engaged in drawing
the fire Of the enemy, and diverting it
from our ranks. Parties must move slowly;
if they go too fast they are certain to fall
into confusion, and like other great armies
they can only make their advances by reg
ular and systematic steps.
The history of the Republican party
since its birth in 1854 exemplifies this
truth. Had it then avowed the doctrines
which it has since indicated and triumph
antly incorporated in the framework of the
government, it could not have carried
single State in the Union no resistance of
practical value could have been made to
the slave power and to this day the gov
eminent would have remained in the hands
Of the slave oligarcby of the South. The
Republican party OF to-day is far in adj
vance of where Wendell Phillips and the
Anti-SlaVery Society were in 1854. But
it has accomplished this only by being
wise in its generation-taking one step at
a time-educating the people as it ad-
vanced-and taking care never to go so far
that a popular reaction would take the
power out Of its hands, and relegate the
country again to the domination of the enc
mics of freedom. First, the restriction of
slavery within the limits of the slave States,
and the preservation of the Territories to
freedom next, the offer of compensated
emancipation then partial, and finally
total emancipation and then citizenship
for the black race and universal suffrage
these are the steps whereby the Republican
party has gone on oeBquering and to con-
quer. There needs no wise man to come
from Boston or anywhere else to tell us
that had the party allowed itself to be led
by Wendell Phillips it would to this day
have remained a pewerless minority in the
land.
Remembering these facts, we can listen
to the hot denunciations of the Anti
Slavery Society with equanimity. Its last
Illumination came from Boston on the sec
ond Of May, in the shape of eight resolu-
tons, written with the flaming pen of Mr..
Phillips. The first sets forth that Sin the
defeat Of impeachment the Republican
party justifes the nation in distrusting its
leadership Well, as the party was unan-
imous in demanding impeachment, as thirty
five Of its "leaders' in the Senate voted for
it, and only seven others left their party
and called down on their heads its uniyer-
sal contempt end indignation by voting
against it, we do not exactly see the truth
of the resolution, and suggest that, at the
worst, it can only apply to exactly one
sixth Of the 'leaders'' in the Senate, and
to the party itself not at all. To the next
resolution we have nothing to say-having
said it all ourself long ago. F..
To the resolution calling for the expul-
sion of the purchased Senators, and the
arraignment and expulsion of the 'red-
handed criminals or 2 new impeachment,
we say 'yes"-if Congress can do it in
week-but not if it is to take six months,
during all which time all other business
must stop, and the Southern States be kept
kicking their heels in the ante chambers of
the Union.
The assertion that the nomination of
Grant and Colfax is only weak yielding
to expediency," and that "Mr. Chase and
his seven conspirators" nominated the
Chicago ticket, is not true--but it is good
ticket to vote, whoever nominated 1t. Can
Mr.. Phillips give us better one But of
the next two resolutions something serious
must be said: laaF adl .Ta2 A
Leru s.lagE f.ErH asai - Ess~ +-t
Resolyed, That in the name of Justice to
the loyal whites and to the blacks of the
South-in the name of national honor and
Of terrible necessity--wer protest against
the admission Of one rebel state until the
National Constitution Is Amended. and made
TO guarantee the suffrage Of b black race
and its education IN the SAND neasuFe that
the white race enjoys
Resotped, That If the rebel States are ad.
mitted as they stand at present, and the
negro left landless in the hands OF white
few years another power, equal In strength,
malice, and hate to the slave power, win
arise to vex, corrupt and endanger the
nation.
The loyal masses are the Republican
party, and they see that the way to make
things safe Is to admit the SOutheFn States
nolo, and use the increase Of power thus
gained TO make itimpoaslbls that the fruits
Of the war can be lost TO keep the South
ern States out until all that Mr.. Phillips
desires Is accomplished would be like
keeping out Of The water until you have
learned to swim. The only way to prevent
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