New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-05
PEACE or AGIrATI0N---WHICH7

A better opportunity was never offered
than will be presented on Monday for the
people to bury all matter Of strife in the
State of Louisiana. The question at issue
is plain one. Itmay be fought in differ
ent ways by different men, but it will come
back to the one central suggestion after
all is said and done. Are the people pre-
pared to accept of the system Of reconstruc-
ton proposed by the fourteenth and ff-
teenth amendments? This is the fact to
be settled. The Republican party pro-
poses to stand by the settlement The
Democrats do not. Any well meaning citi-
zen can satisfyhimself concerning the truth
of this statement. All he will have to do to
convince himself is to ask any Democrat
he meets if the Democracy proposes to
allow the colored people all the rights OF
other citizens? That will settle it. Let
him ask any Republican the same ques-
ton. The answer will still further
settle all controversy and remove all
doubt. The line is plain. The conclu-
sion is easy to be had. We know Of no
quicker way Of determining the point in
dispute than this. One party intends to
uphold the law and sustain universal
liberty. The other proposes to evade Or
annul the law and to limit the rights of a
portion of the people Democrats always
make long story out Of their denials by
referring to the question Of social equality
This is only dodge. 1t is the bait that
covers the barb.
Now, we say to the people that they
have an opportunity on Monday to put
an end to this treachery, and to terminate
all the turmoil which has kept the STATEN
trouble for four years. Let them go to
the polls and say by their votes that they
accept the law. The Republican ticket
represents the law. 1t stands for universal
Justice. 1t is the advocate of "every man,
without regard to race, color or previous
condition. This principle must win. If the
Republicans are beaten Oh Monday, they
will continue to agitate and to demand
what they have agitated and demanded
for years. We shall have the same un-
easiness and injustice that prevailed in
1867. If the Democrats are beaten this
time, they will learn lesson that will do
them good. They will discover that the
people are no longer to be infamed by
hate and prejudice. The entire country
will accept the result as an evidence of
our peaceful disposition. Congress and
the nation will see in the success of Re-
publicanism the success of rcconstruc-
ton.
Every interest of the community de-
mands that the Democracy should be
taught one more lesson, in order to make
it give up its revolutionary and disloyal
The people have got to pro-
nounce Judgment against the dogma of
hate and persecution before the disciples
of that banefUl principle will consent to
let it go.
On Monday next, then, let us have an
end of sectional feeling, Of personal pro-
scription, of individual hate. The Re-
publican ticket, which contains men
worthy to be supported for their personal
merits, represents peace, while the Demo-
cratic ticket, Objectionable in many of its
standard-bearers, represents prejudice
and agitation. 1t is for the city Of New
Orleans to say which she prefers.