New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-19
Unity im Principle o: the Repuhii.
can Party.

The Republican party, North, South, East,
| and West, is one in principle and in the
manner of presenting their principles to the
voters of the different sections. The same
argument achieves victory in Maine as in
North Carolina. The same speakers are as
effective i'll the one as in the other State.
Not having put on the coat of the Democratic
party to deceive Democrats into voting for
their candidates, the Republican party, I'M
like the Greeleyites, stand firmly and boldly
upon their platform in all the States of the
Union. In the North and West the Liberal
Republican Democratic party lay great stress
upon unfolding the amendments to the Con-
stitution and protecting freedmen in their
rights; in the South Greeley orators and
writers encourage their people that the cleo
ton OF Greeley will be an opening of the way
to restore to the white race the "supremacy
which OF right belongs to them as the supe-
rior race Some of the Southern advocates
of Greeley's election in the South are frank
enough to say that Greeley is accepted for a
temporary purpose only, and that temporary
purpose is to give to the Democratic party the
machinery of the Government, so that in
four yeais or less the full control of the ma
ton will pass into their hands and the long
hoped for reaction in favor of oppression and
rebellion will have taken place. This, too,
is our view. The local self-government
plank of the Cincinnati platform was I'M
doubtedly adopted to give to Southorners an
argument for supporting Greeley and Brown
and the equal rights plank was adopted to
enticc Republicans in the North from their
allegiance to the genuine Republican party,
with the hope that the neutralzing effect of
the local self-government project upon the
protection of equal rights by the National
Government would not be seen at the North.
If any one thing has been fully established
in relation to the South since the war it is
that the white people of that section are very
reluctant in their loyalty to the nation, and
that whenever opportunity offers to give
vent to their reasonable hatred of those who
love the Union, it is embraced with devilish
alacrity. So notorious was this year ago,
that the candidate of the Ku-Klux party of
the South, sorehead Republicans of the
North, and office-hungry Democrats gener-
ally, called for the measure which General
Grant has used in quoting largely the dis
orders of the South. With the same alac-
rity that Ku-Kluxism was adopted when it
was thought that it would tend to restore to
power the enemies of the Union, the rebel
Democracy Of the South rush to the support
of Horace Greeley on his local selfgovern-
ment platform, with the assurance that his
election will be the stepping-stone to a per-
manent victory. Not desire to accept the
change brought about by the war, no willing
ness to regard man, of whatever race or
color, as entitled to the equal protection of
the laws, can rouse the ex-rebels to activity
in political affairs but hold out TO them the
possibility of restoring the old order of things,
and they are alive and active, giving their
support to whoever can be of service to them.
The local self-government plank and no in
reference from the General Government, is
what is now firing the Southern rebel heart
for Greeley. With that principle accepted
and acted upon, what care they for the
equality before the law plank? Nothing.
At the South one portion of the Cincinnati
Baltimore platform is masked or skipped over;
at the North all sorts Of sophistry and
duplicity are resorted to in its consideration
before the people.
In presenting the claims and principles of
the two parties the advantage is certainly
with the Republican party. Its principles
are universal in their application. Justice
and loyalty are good for every square inch of
the nation, and the honesty of the country
will undoubtedly so act that the party of
false pretences will be crushed by the regular
Republican party and its standard of justice
and honor will be accepted for the whole
country.