New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-15

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thirteen States, which, as a matter OF neces-
sity at the original confederation OF the
| States, was put in, IN Order 10 preserve
unity among those States. was an unsur-
moantable barrier against the effective
efforts on the part of the friends OF freedom
of the North and West in the emancipation
of slavery. Had the tree States OF the
North been AS dsloyal as South Carolina
was when she passed the ordinance for the
| notification of the revenue laws OF the
United States, then instead of laughing at
South Cardinals folly they would have
marched their armies into the South and
liberated every slave. Instead OF the at
tempt of South Carolina to nullify the
revenue laws of the United States, or the
effective action of President Jackson in
strangling this little serpent of treason
| instead OF these circumstances overthrow
ing slavery, as some suppose, 1t had nothing
whatever to do with slavery, and instead OF
the slave power decreasing, It was still IN
creasing. The great constitutional ex-
FOUNDER, Daniel Webster. although he de-
molished the groundless dogma OF the right
of one State to nullify the laws Of the United
States, yet when the question came up as to
the constitu ional right of the slave States
to enact police regulation for the govern
ment of slaves, he never questioned the
| right; but whenever 1t was attempted to
legslate slavery into the common terr'toIle s,
protesting against the right OF carrying the
police laws of any one State into the COM
| mon Territories or other States, was heard.
| As the slave power increased, compromises
were resorted TO by both the great parties in
| Congress to prevent disruption OF the
! Union.
In the wear A. D. 1852. when the great
| Democratic triumph of Frank Pierce over
| General Scott had been accomplished, the
| slave power of the South began to be felt as
great political power. The administration
| then adopted it as one Of its great engines for
party success. This ATTEMPT foi ced large
| portion of the Northern Democracy away
| from the old organization.
In 1856, the great Republican party of the
free States had become organized, and came
near overthrowing the Democracy; but hav-
ing failed by small electoral vote, James
Buchanan was inaugurated. In him the
South found plant tool with whom to car
ry on their pet measures to completion.
Buchanan's administration was SO extremely
Southern that almost the entire Democracy
of the North and West lett him. During his
administration the Supreme Court of the
United States toreshadowed an opinion
that the slave owner had a right to prot &c.
ton for his slaves in the common terrific.
res. THAT the black man had no rights
the white man was bound to respect"
The Democracy of the South, resting
their faith upon this decision, at once
claimed the right to dictate terms to the
should be complied with many of the lead
ing men of the South threatened that their
respective States would withdraw from the
confines of the Union.
Ten years ago this very spring, and soon
after the sides of March, in the year 1850,
es the frost bound streets of the Northern
cities began to yield to the melting rays OF
f1a oh iph f hQ for 70
first time, sauntering forth from the brick
and granite walls, squads Of young men
who bore upon their cOunteDances marks
that indicated a determination of purpose.
They bore upon their persons no deadly
weapons-no arms or babiliments Of war.
They simply had suspended over their
shoulders vibrating lamps.
1t mad seemed to them that the star Of lib
erty that had been their beacon light during
their entire lives, had suddenly become be-
clouded, and darkness had pervaded the
land, and that they were groping in dark.
ness, and the lamps were to make up in
part, and to assist them in finding their
pathways (emblematicaliy). These young
men simply believed they had {. duty TO per-
form, and that duty was to maintain ard
preserve inviolate that grand charter OF lib.
erty their fathers had fought, bled and died
to maintain, and had bequeathet to them rs
their Inheritance.
This grand concave of liberty loving men
seemed to spring up from the hills and
the valleys of the North and the West in
countless myriads. AS the gloom pervaded
the land, and darkness eucompassed the
sea, the whole country was aroused by the
light that was seen breaking IN the west;
and as the lightning flashed along the wires
announcing the nominee of the great Repub- |
lican party, the name Of Abraham Lincoln |
quivered upon every lip.
The general expression was, in thy bosom, |
" Father Abraham" we must rest. To thee |
we must look for a solution Of this comp!i. |
Gated question. This great organization |
throughout the North and West, known as
the " Wideawakes for Freedom" became |
an organization that never before, nor since, |
has been equaled in the United States.
The result of the election of 1860 was the |
complete triumph of the Republican party. |
No sooner than it was determined that
the Republican nominee was elected, than
State after State in the South passed 'ordi-
nances of secession" This, certainly, was
the EST effective blow that had ever been
struck at the permanent establishment Of
slavery. The leading " fire. eaters" OF the
South were glad to learn that the Republi-
can party triumphed, that they might make
great capital from it to aid on secession;
while those five millions, then in slavery,
were soon to feel that it was virtually put
ting the power into the hands of the govern
ment that was soon to wrench from the
limbs of the oppressed the shackles that
had bound them lifetime in slavery.
The war broke out. The very argument
that had been used by Judge fancy that the
6 black men had no rights that white men
were bound to respect;' that black men
we're chattels; were goods, and "that white
men should be protected in carrying them
IA the common territories as property" re-
bounded back upon them with threefold
Orce when such property was cODfscated
md converted to the use OF the Federal
.rmy. The Federal army found that kind
If property very convenient in recruiting
is forces, and when the Southern slave
holders looked round to find out where their
hree or four hundred thousand of their
valuable property" in the army, fighting
or their liberty, with view of.having their
lights protected, Judge Taneys decision to
he contrary Notwithstanding. The result
las already shown the fallacy of the deci-
ion of Judge fancy sthat the black man
las no rights that the white man is bound
0 respect" and, on the contrary, we are
low assured that the black man has rights
hat the white man is bound to respect, and
uch rights are as eternal as the hills.
The white race having become convinced ,
hat "Shite" is one color, and black" is an
ther, and that one man has just as good a
light to be black as another man has to be |
White, and that color is only skin deep any
way, it now only becomes necessary for the {
black race to improve their time to the best {
Joss, BILE advantage. They have taken two {
teps already in advancement, one is the
tep from slavery to freedom, ard another
8 step from having no rights, to a cOndi- :
ion OF having all the rights that any man
an enjoy under our laws The third step /
J from lack Of knowledge to education.
There are many within the sound of my t