The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-11-18
The Great Issue for 1879.

One portion OF the Democracy opel
iy denounces the amendments as
:" fraudulent and void" and write
" repeal" upon it's banners. Another
portion is laboring to "sink the amend
ments out of sight" as issues in the
next campaign, for the purpose OF
gaining power, when they also would
shout the cry of g fraudulent and
void" and raise the standard of ssre-,
peal" Still another portion of the
party would be willing to let the
amendments remain as "a nominal part
of the Constitution, believing that q
Democratic administration could rem
der them wholly inefficient. These
three divisions differ in policy with
out o distinction rs to the ultimate
object, that is, to restore sectionalism
based on the fright of secession;" to
throw obstacles in the way of the I'M
migration from Europe, which has
grown SO large under Republican rule
and to deprive the negro OF the rights
of citizenship and put him into con
dition of peonage at least as bad as the
slavery from which he has recently
been delivered.
Of the three divisions the openly
avowed sepealers may be regarded as,
the most honest, and, therefore, LEASH
dangerous-yet not much less SO, fOi
asmuch as the disguises of the other
two divisions are as thin as those gos
samer webs of the Indian loon, which,
on account of their lightness and tran
sparency, are popularity called moon
shine
All three of the divisi8ns-repealers
per Sc, repealers sab rosa, and repeal
ers by notification, are fully repre-
sented both North and South. Whether
they can unite on any common ground
makes no difference, inasmuch as that
ground would be either the actual o.
. virtual disappearance Of the amend
ments from the Constitution 1t the
two sections meet in convention and
declare for repeal,n it will have Go
be done in the face of certain and ac
knoyledged defeat. If they can agree
upon some form of speech protesting
an acceptance of the amedments,
it will be popularity understood as i
triumph of tie nullifiers, or of the pol
icy of starting the ball of repeal aftel
the attainment of power by the Demo
cracy, If bargain be made, by which
the Southern Democrats remain, with
their own consent, out of the conven
ton, no human power will be able to
make the great majority of the peo
pie believe that repeal or nullificatiol
i is not at the bettom Of such an ar
rangement
Thus, however we look at the maj
ter, it seems certain that the great is
sue in the next canvass must be the
amendments question of securing
OF of abandoning the results Of the
war-and in that case nothing can pre-
vent the Republicans from sweeping
the country.
Upon all the economical questions
which can enter into IA national can
F yass, the Republicans will have thu
same advantage over the Democrats,
that the present national administra
,, ton would have in comparison, or IA
, ther contrast, with Tammary. A
!. least, the Republicans can make /;
, showing and present platform as re
, CARDS economical matters which vii
T do nothing to impair and much t.
, strengthen, their position as the sole
supporters of the Constitution as it is
and as the only barrier against reacg
ton and revolution No brighter
, prospects could be desired by any par
ty.-HoustOn Daily Union