New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-04
Views Of an Ex.ReheI.

l'PSNldL ~ the new York Tribune,
CINCINNATI, April 29.-Yirginia has a
strong delegation present; the question OF
candidates bias not come up before the dele.
CATION as a body, although Mr.. Stearns an.
m the majority in favor Of acting
with the delegation from New York. Mr.
oteaIns brings with him a letter from Gen
eral lmb0den, which he says fairly repre-
sents the current of opinion in virginia.
Alter an introduction defining his own posi-
tlon, the General calls attention to the Gin
clnhaLl movement as an absorption by the
new Republican party Of the old Wings of
the south; with this the majority of the ne
gro population will join to overthrow the
corrupt carpet-baggers. He continued:
understand your aim at Cincinnati will
oe, hrst, to reform the gross abuses that
ten or twelve years of absolute control of
the federal government has ~engendered in
the Republican party: and, secondly, to in
auguFate a new era of good will and har-
mOny between the lately discordant sec
tlons, by embOdying tOrgetfulness and for
glveness of past differences in general
amnesty for political o~ffenses. You and l
know Southern character well enough to
feel assured that such a policy, frankly and
mantully proclaimed, will bring to the
party which adopts it the warm, earnest
ana constant support of the intelligent and
thinking men Of the South, and that its
success in the coming Presidential election
would lay the foundation of a party that
would for long years to come control the
South, in spite of carpet bag Radicalism on
the one hand and fossil Democracy on the
other. My opinion is that any party, to be
permanently useful IN the South, must en-
brace a large proportion of both races.
The Democratic party can never succeed
In winning to its support the great body, or,
indeed, any considerable numbers of the
negro population, for reasons that are
founded upon the history of the past ten
years, and for equally strong reasons the
Radical Republican party can make no de-
cIded impression on the general viii g
population of the South therefore, we see
that party lines here are almost synonymous
with race-lines of demarkation. This state
OF things is productive of much mischief,
and tends to perpetuate a struggle between
the races that, in the end, will force the
weaker race to their own destruction. 1t is |
impossible for the Democratic party to win
the negro, and no movement it may put on
foot will do so; therefore | esteem it a most
fortunate circumstance that this new move
ment originated IN the Republican party, |
and is managed by distinguished men of
that party.
The ticket to be put forward must be Re-
publican, or it will fail. You know the
character well enough to agree with
me thai the mere subtletles of a platform
will make no impression on him, unless that
is embodied in the life and public
career of the candidates representing it.
They must be no new men, but names ia
niliar to the negro ear, even when, with
bated breath in the quarters cabin years
he discussed the possibilities of eman-
Through the agency of these
Early friends of his freedom. of whom he
hen heard something, perhaps from the
debates of c~Ontending parties on the
which he would listen to, you must
dominate men whose names are associated
With emancipation before you approach the
and ask him to abandon the party to
which he feels indebted fOI his freedom.