New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10
CERT oMNI DEUS VINDBY.

teachers and leaders Of the Southern
people. Through the false teachings ant
bad leadership of these men the Soutl
has been led into fatal errors. She wa
first taught to cherish slavery and th'
traffic in human beings as a means Of ac
cumulating wealth. She was then laugh
TO combine these for political strength, ant
afterward used that strength foP electnG
Presidents. members Of Congress. extend
ing slavery into Territories andnew States,
and controlling the government o. the
United States This the South did for a
series Of years successfully and with a
purpose Of making slavery national in
stead Of sectional, as il was declared
to be by those persons who were opposed
TO its extension. In the attempt &c
force slavery into Kansas, the slave power
aroused the friends Of freedom TO q full
sense Of the danger that surrounded them
and threatened the American Union. The
contest between slavery and freedom had
| now fairly commenced, and soon led 70
! the formation of the Republican party.
This party first encountered the Demo-
cratic party the party that welded the
slave power Of the South-in 1856, when
General Fremont was the Republican can
didate, and Mr. Buchanan, Democratic
for President. Although the Republican
party suffered defeat in its first trial with
the Democratic party on the issues that
were made between freedom and slavery,
the vote it then obtained gave hope to the
country that in 1860 the government,
through the popular voice, would be
transferred to Republican hands; to
the keeping Of men who, while
they were disposed TO be just
to the Southern people in the exercise Of
their peculiar institution, were not in
clined to be unjust to the people Of other
sections Of the country, who thought
slavery all evil, and were not in favor Of
extending it. And sure enough the presi-
Dental election Of 1860 Terminated in a
victory for freedom and the Republican
party. 1t was peaceful, lawful verdict
Of the people against the extravagant pre-
tensions Of the slave power and was rem
dered in the cause of civilization and right,
and not for the purpose Of exciting the
vengeance Of q slayeholding oigarchy.
Yet the election Of Mr.. Lincoln was made
the cause for rebellion on the part Of the
South against the United States govern
ment, and an attempt to establish by force
a Southern Confederacy in the interest Of
slavery. The object Of the leaders
and advocates Of slavery in building
q new government, founded not upon
reason but brute force, was clearly
10 take vengeance in their own hands.
They unquestionably thought they
could establish q government strong
enough to finally subjugate the free States
and bring them under the dominion of
the slave power. But they reckoned with
out then host. They failed to build up a
power strong enough to overcome those
who were arrayed against them on the
side Of freedom. God sided with the just
against the unjust, who, while endeavor-
ng to faSten more securely the letters on
)ne race, were preparing for vengeance on
! portion Of another that dare interfere
With the growth Of slavery, and the up-
ust leaders and teachers Of hatred for all
Who favored freedom and the old Union
we're at last compelled to yield and sue for
oeace, Peace and liberty were granted to
il on condition that they would 90 to
heir homes and resume friendly relations
With the government and their fellow
itizens Of the old free States. How
hese conditions have been complied
18th the work Of reconstruction, and the
art the Democratic party has taken,
ided by Southern diScontents, in the two {
residential elections that have occurred !
nee the close Of the war, must tell. 1t s
now almost seven years since the war .
as brought to a close by surrender of +
ms and promise Of return to friendly I
Iations; and if we can believe those who i
e writing in the interest Of the Demo ]
attic party, and who profess to be au- Z
orized to speak for the Southern people, b
ey are as much opposed as ever to the il
apublican party and all that has been "
me since it came into power, The force
at rebellion rendered necessary to com
i obedience to the laws and legislation
at has been done by Congress to meet g
e wishes Of a majority Of tie American Il
ople are pronounced the work Of an u
esponsible despotism by the minions Of II
exploded slave power, who now live to U
ate about justice and freedom, and are e'
ain talking Of vengeance and deliver p
ce. The Southern people have already "
ttered too much from the lessons Of sec =
nal teachers TO be led astray by them IL
this time They should recollect that o.
ire is an ayenging God, and that when q
"A do wrong through the instructions Of C
lers they may be punished tos il, equally p
h Che more guilty II
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