New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
LETTER FROM GOVERNOR HEBERT.
Political Situation Reviewed.
We copy the subjoined letter from the

We copy the subjoined letter from the
NEW ORLEANS, May 90, 1872.
To the Editor Of the New Orleans Times:
| agree with you: "The Democratic party
has organized defeat too long"
ana glad to see the able and Jealous sup
port that the Times is giving to the Cincin
natl nominees and have no doubt your
articles meet a cordial response from large
majority of the people of Louisiana.
have watched with much interest this
| movement in the Republican party that
| lately eliminated at Cincinnati, and have
seen in it the only possible solution of our
national disorders.
| | have felt that the Democratic party,
unaided by fragment of the opposition,
| was utterly powerless to cope with the ad-
ministration in its gigantic struggle to pro-
| tract its power. Remembering the course
| of our people in Virginia, Tennessee and
| Missouri, have watched and waited for
| the hour and the opportunity when we
| could natiOnalize the policy under the sign
| of which they have been delivered from
Radical bondage and oppression. The hour
| and the opportunity have come. A portion
of the Republican party, wearied and dis
| gusted with the excesses and orgies of the
| national administration. has boldly re-
| nounced its support and challenged it to
| conflict in the interests of good government
and national reform. 1t has denounced the
course of General Grant, and, adopting an
unexceptional platform, has nominated its
candidates and put itself upon the country.
1t has heavily engaged a common enemy
| all along the line. Now, / say it is the duty
| of the great Democratic party of the Union
to bring up its legions and battalions to its
support, and, accepting its color bearers, to
aid in winning the fight it has so ndbly
| begun. .-
For more than twelve months our Demo
cratic press and leading Democratic states
men have INDUCED in no uncertain voice in
this matter. They have said in substance,
that without recruits it seems impossible to
defeat General Grant; that there was no use
in taking anew the census OF their party;
that so thoroughly intrenched was General
Grant behind his patronage, money-bags
and bayonets, that powerful division from
the Republican party alone prom
ised any hope of success. They did more,
and urged the discontented Republicans to
90 on in their good work, and give us a
good platform at Cincinnati, and that they
would take their ticket, asserting that the
| time-honOred Democratic motto has been
| always PriIlcipjG non HOnlilleS. This was
| the tone and temper of the Democracy
| from Maine to California. These people
| have acted on this implied pledge, and have
| given us a platform and candidates at Gin
cinnati. / say the Democratic party of the
country must indorse this ticket or forfeit
| its character for sincerity and good faith.
1t is under an implied obligation to do this
| quite as strong as though it were cove
nant contained in a sealed instrument, and
no artful lodging can escape from its CON-
initial.
We of the South have lost much by the
! war, but we trust we have saved our honor
| We can not afford to make ourselves liable
to the suspicion of want of faith, which
/ 4@E l1~y hsaav
| at our door, No, / say, we should take this
| ticket and support it cordially and earnest
! ly, and not only that, but we should say to
! our Northern Democratic friends that, if
| they wish to maintain any influence or au-
| thority over us, they must come up and do
likewise. We are in no situation to subject
ourselves to the charge of shutting or
| equivocation, nor do l think our Northern
! allies are either.
The Southern people are, at this hour,
aliens in this government. Out of the four
teen States south of the Potomac, there is
not one represented in General Grants adj
ministration. On the Supreme bench they
have not one member domiciled, even in
their midst. They have no representatives
abroad. The national government treats
them as provinces, and appoints its officials,
not from among their own citizens, but
sends down satraps from the North. All
this we could stand; except as showing the
sectional tendencies of the present govern
ment. this is the least of our troubles; but
soldiers are kept in our midst, and the sun
set gun and the shoulder-straps remind us
daily that the war is not over, and every
now and then the suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus admonishes US that the cltl-
zen is not "safe" from Seizure" Every
day witnesses the arbitrary arrests in the
States of Mississippi and South Carolina of
unofending citizens and their confinement
in loathsome jails.
When our people are shown the road to
deliverance from g government like this,
they are not disposed to stand ION the order
of their going but 90 at once" into it. And
all the severe talk of the New York World,
and the invectives of Mr.. Voorhees, about
Mr.. Greeley's 'record," fall upon dull, it
not suspicious, ears. The Southern people
fear the Greeks" who bear them the
present OF third ticket at such an hour
Of their peril They think ''it has no bust
ness there at such time"
I have no taste or time to discuss the
merits of the candidates presented at Gin
cinnati. The platform on which they are
nominated, and which they accept and
pledge themselves to carry out, contains all
our people ask or wish. | will say this
much. however, Mr.. Greeley is quite as ac-
centable on tie score of 'record" to the
Southern peopIe as Mr.. Adams, Judge
Davis. or Mr.. Trumbull. They were all
Republicans and abolitionists in their day,
: and have said offensive things to and of the
| South. Of them all, however, Mr.. Greeley
Is the only one who, when the war was
over, was in favor of its being over "sure
enough" and nobly advocated universal
t amnesty and a kind and considerate policy
, toward the South. believe him to be the
best candidate the convention could have
hosen. He has never been a sneak.
7 His principles he has never concealed. II
is not what he was, but what he is. We like
him for what he is. He suits US now, and
: we will vote for him.
/ One word more, and have done. inns
is battle of Titans in which we are about
to engage. An unscrupulous administration
such as General Grants, will use every
: means to prolong its existence. One instru
mentality it viii resort to, viii be to buy
all the Democrats that can be bought, to &c
= for straight" ticket, and Idle in the Last
+; ditch"
/ All have to say is, that such Democrats
! | will bear watching very closely. All the
roads from Greeley lead to Grunt.
Very respectfully, rn