New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-12

that any Southern man. or any Northern
man protesting to have the material inter
ests of the South at heart, who attaches
himself to the Radical party is either a
knave or fool.
The people of New Orleans, who
have heretofore enjoyed the reputa-
ton OF being as honest as the average
of mankind, are under obligations to the
astute editor of the Southeastern, who
thus. in his wrath writes them down
knaves: and the people Of the State, who
gave 10000 majority for the Republicans
in 1868, and will probably give the same
party 10000 next November, will feel
complmented to learn that their acts are
not approved by this country blatherskite.
He has set upa bug-bear which he calls
Radicalism. to rail Mt. Not knowing any
thing about its component parts, entirely
incapable Of comprehending the sublime
ideas of the Republican party he clothes
the whole concern in mystery and banks at
the image in mortal terror.
Such superficial men, with their limited
| information and narrow ideas, properly
belong to the Democratic party. They
naturally belong to the Pharisaical class
who, while Wanting their own claims to
honor and honesty for three-1uarters Of a
century, reaped the results of the labor of
the enslaved race. They took advantage
of the negros weakness to compel him to
toll that they might live in idleness and
uselessness. And when the gorge of man
kind rose against the barbarous, inhuman
practice, employed the means they had
filched from the slave to destroy his
Northern friends, and rivet his chains
the tighter This, and this alone was the
% cause" which the Shreveport nan
mourns as ''lost and which he attempts
to dignity by calling it ''holy." Radical
ism, against which he rails in impotent
rage. and vents his harmless spleen,
merely applied the principles Of justice
between man and man, and decreed that
all should reap the benefits OF their own
labor, energy and perseverance. That
one race should not be forced forever to
produce the fruits Of the earth and an
other enjoy the proceeds. That there is
such "a thing as human rights, and that
all men should be equal before the law.
SO deep-seated was the great wrong
that it required the strength Of great
nation to pull it up by the roots. But
the Republicans succeeded in the good
work they undertook. With steadfast
purpose and indomitable will, looking
neither to the right nor the left, they pur-
sued the path Of duty. They freed four
millions of human beings from degrade
ton, and added them to the civilization of
the century. Surely, this was not a work
for knaves and fools. 1t was task
worthy Of the grandest minds and the
noblest specimens of the human race, that
ever lived in the tide of time. They
into which it had been thrown by the
vicious institution of slavery, and pointed
out the way to true greatness. Sensible,
far-seeing men, honorable men, honest
men in every Southern State, already ap-
preciate these advantages at their full
worth, while the narrow-souled gentry
hang back, obstinately striving to pull
the whole structure back to the starting
point, when slavery was fourishing,
and all the people becoming brutalized.
Such small men are few in number,
and have no influence. Being incapable
alike of comprehending the vast reforms
the Republicans have wrought, or giving
single practical or rational reason for
the faith that is in them, they cling to the
last resort of low, groveling minds, and
vent their spite in bad language against
the great party and the great men who
have deprived them of the power to
wrong their fellow-men. Intolerance,
prejudice and hatred are their sole capt.
tai stock Having inflicted all the injury
they could upon the negro race for fifty
or sixty years, they naturally consider
themselves the enemies OF the colored
people, and of all their friends. But,
fortunately for the ends Of right and JUS
tice, half the white people OF the South,
and all of the colored race, take what the
Southeastern man would call the Radical
view of the question. Rather than do
wrong we are willing to be considered
"knave or fool or both, if he pleases,
by this feeble champion of the great ex-
ploded Evil. But we nevertheless reserve
our opinion Of those who are unable to
keep up with the progress of events, and
halt by the wayside to rail against every
thing that does not satisfy their selfish
greed.
THE REGISTRATION MANDAMUS CASE.