New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-27
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While there arc abuses enough in tie
South, and no wonder, thesroIe OF the Demo
| cratic press is to magnify and intensity
| them i'll agoDizcd rhetoric and charge them
| all upon the Republican party. In this strain
| the Missouri Republican pitches its voice to
| its shrilest key, and shreks out:
"WhO made Warmothf Who helped him
| into power over the heads Of hia Louisiana
| subjectsF Who maintained him in his place.
Who protected him while be forged the
manacles that eerve to chain his subjectsP'
etc.
We have distinct recollection of the
time when they whom the Missouri Repqlb-
lean regards as exclusively "the people of
Louisiana" were i'll exclusive control of
their State government, with their cOlored
people as their property obedientIy tilIing
their fields, the general. government rarely
felt but in its protecting and fostering and
helpful influences, and in its defense of
slave property. Between that condition
and the present the contrast is something
immense, and it is the change from those
golden days that disturbs our cOntempo-
rary. Tremendous revolutions have oC-
cured. There have been military and civil
and social commissions, and the slave of
1860 is the freeman Of 1879. Who dreams
that all this can have happened without at
tendant and consequent disOrders9 Who
imagines that transition so vast, with the
throes of which the social deep is still
heaving, can have included or produced
nothing deplOrabIe3 And the real inquiry
of our enraged contemporary comes simply
to this: Who is to blame for these Incl
dental and only to be expected disasters9 i
Whof Nobody more than the MiSS0ltri
Republican itself. The pretended friend, it
has been the cruel foe of the Southern peO-
pie. Its influence and counsels tended di-
recHV to work the ills it complains Of. It
helped to plunge the South into rebellion
ano misery. 1t was tlfe organ of the fire
eaters and HOtspurs that have all but ruin
ed that section. 1t did its prettiest to fire the
Southern heart to revolt Blinded by party |
ism, 1t could not see the sure progress of |
the age, making the extension and perpetu- |
alton of slavery impossible and devoted its |
energies to sowing for Louisiana and her |
sisters their late harvest of bl6Od and poy |
erty and tears. For all the enormities of /
all the Warmoths the Missouri RepubLicQp is
largely responsible Only one thing now pre-
vents that journal from repeating the muir
deFous counsels 1t once poured soincessantly
INTO the Southern ear, and that is that the |
south ID sick from having followed those
eounsels. 1t is for this sickness that the
Missouri Republican seeks to arouse against
me government the hatred that belongs to |
tself.
The Southern white people have the cure f.!
or their troubles in their own hands. LET |
lem themselves undertake the enforce
ncnt of the fifteenth amendment in 4 stvIe
hat will win the confidence of their mil
IONS of freedmen, and they will know no
more of national interference than in the
avs before they obeyed bad advice. But
they persist in listening to the betrayers
lat have already cursed them, they NAV
9 the prey of selfshly contending parties.
ST. EoitiS Globe.