New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-21

| would have had before 1t longer Iease
| of power at the hands of the American
people than was ever granted to DO.
! fitical marty in the history of the world
| but, bl0ated with much power and count.
| less wealth, its career has, been full Of
wickedness, gradually but surely FORGETTING
| the confidence of the people, and driving
! the best elements out OF the party. This
! fact is strikingly illustrated by the history
| of political contests in 1864, when the waves
| of Radical misrule reached their highest
point in this State. A majority of u 900
was rendered against the Democratic party.
! Two years later, in 1866, we again met the
! same enemy, and reduced his majority to
+ 1900. In 1868 we fought under the same
| colors, and wiped out the entire majority
! against us, the Radicals only saving the
| State offices by fraudulent returns OF few
| hundred majority. Thus stood the contest
| IN. Indiana when the fifteenth Amendments
was never legally ratified fraud, in my in
/ dividual Judgment, on the American people
| was enforced, and gave an increase OF 10000
| negro votes TO the Radicals; yet in 1870 we
defeated this coalition of blacks and whites.
and placed about 5000 Of majority on the
side of the gallant and untaltering DeinOe-
racy of the State. Certainly this is not
record to beget discOuragement. 1t shows
a steady decay of the Republican party in
Indiana. 1t shows loss on its part in eight
years of at least 81 600 votes. It shows
further, that if the Democracy does as
usual on its own account this wear. we will
carry the State by $4,000 majority; and if
the Liberal Republican party can even
moderately well fulfill its expectations, the
vote of the State will be cast against the
administration party, both in October and
November, by larger majOrities than have
ever heretofore been. known in her history,
There 8 another branch, however, of the
domestic policy of the present administra-
y1rni nnrbana
duced the. present political movement
against 1t than any other, for it comprises
within itself the wrongs and villanies Of all
others. The condition of the South has at
last aroused universal attention, and al
most universal Indignation. That unhappy
section is at last recognized as a portion Of
our common country, and, as such, is en-
titled TO an equality before the law, with
all other sections. General Grant was
elected TO the Presidency, exclaiming,
Let US have peace but the cry has been
a cheat and delusiOn. There has been no
peace for the helpless people OF the South.
They have longed for it, and prayed for it,
than marching Of columns has preyed on
them; it has been a war of robbers, spies
and iallOTs. / say, without fear of intell-
gent contradiction, that in all that goes to
destroy the prosperity of country, and
crush the welfare of its people, the admin
the last three years has been the worst, the
most truly internal ever known in the his
tory Of civilized people. 1t is q subject
on which ] have bestowed an earnest at
.tentiOn, and with which | have made my
self familiar during the last session Of Con
gress, demonstrated from official proof, that
a system of plumber had been. pursued, and
the protection and approval Of the present
administration, by which the entire eleven
reconstructed States of the South had been
impoverished, and majority Of them made
bankrupt.
Debts and outstanding obligations,
amounting in the aggregate to at least
$500 0O0.0 600, have been fastened by official
thieves on the taxpayers of that bGghted
region for the purpose of aiding IN this
wholesale robbery by reducing the South
dn people to silence and submission.
While it'was going on, it has been falsely
assumed that they we're in lawless frame
OF mind, and must be placed under laws as
despocie and infamous as an Austrian edict
against Hungary in lS49, or British act of
Parliament against ireland in the last cen
fury. The true policy of bandit prevails
from Virginia to Texas. Wherever the
touch of this administration and its follow
ers has been felt, it has been the money Of
the people or their lives and lib
critics, and in the majority Of
the States they have not only
had their substance eaten out by adyentur-
GUS scOundrels, but they have been deprived
IN their own persons of every American
right. Their property is not only at the
mercy OF mercenary vagabopds, but, under
the legislation of the past few wears, any
us9and or father, wife or mother, son Oh
daughter, who was true to the South could
be consigned indefnitely.to prison on the
mere suspicion of any brutal and depraved
spy; whether white or black, there TO lay,
without the hope OF speedy trial OF release
on bail, until those who had deprived them
OF the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus
either burned them out or packed jury foI
their conviction. When | recall
and dwell upon these appalling
crimes against liberty and against the
common rights. of humanity l can not
wonder at the strong, bitter cry which
comes up from the South for nybody to
defeat the reelection of the man who has
inspired them, regarded them with grim
and. heartess satisfaction, and in many
committed them himself. The
man who is drowning, or who sees his wife
and children perishing in the flames; must
not be blamed for adopting any method
not criminal in itself, by which to save him
sell OF all that is dear to him. l have,
therefore, listened with perfect patience to
the voice OF the South in this crisis, know
ing as DO her extreme and immediate ne
cessItIes; Her urgent appeal for the nomi-
nation OF Mr.. Greeley has been regarded by
leF trends IN the North almost as the last
despainng-ery of brave and noble people,
reduced. to hopeless extremity, behold
ng, as they think, one more chance to save
themselves from a ruin infinitely worse than
leatH. L 1ervently pray God that their
hopes may De realized, and many a North
5In man Will suspend his differences with
VT Jreeiey, on account of the people of the
south, who would not do so on his own.
lheS believe the election of Mr.. Greeley
WI afford them relief, and in that belief
.heY demanded his nomination. 1t has
} zen accorded, more in Difference to their
Flsnes than to any other cause. If Mr..
Jreeleyi under these circumstances should
'e elected, he will stand pledged by the
tFongest obligations that ever rested upon
"a honorable man to bestOw upon the
south the blessings Of just, kind and fra
efnaI policy Of government If he did not Z
10 SO; after the confidence repOsed in him
y that section, ne would be accUrsed
.meng men.
Letus hope however, with our brethren -
q the South that the experiment may be a
ompIeteEs success; that his election may
'a1lsh misrule and plumber from their
mast; restore peace in reality as well as in e
lame; bring back a cheerful and contented
leEotlOn to the laws of the county and
Tlde IN ther1ag which affords an effectual
to all citizens. Let us hope that
ne deadly paralysis so long affecting the
0uJh and destroying her vast productive
nergIes may speedily beesuceeeded by per
eet health and vigor;
II our government is TO be restored to its
d llra1- proportions and strength, cur
rates must be as free in one section as in
vAeIss we must have no lines where free