New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-05
ThOughts for the South.
From the st. Louis Giobe.l

| The political conflict of the past 6ecad
| has been settled again and again by tn
| country, and nothing is surer than that tn
| country will reiterate its settlement as OF
| ten as there shall even seem 10 be a part,
| challenging it 1t was the profound con
| seriousness of this fact that led the Democ
| racy to lay aside its standard and do BATH
| under Horace Greeley. The last natiOna
verdict was the strongest conceivable on,
! against Democracy, because it was rendered
overwhelmingly against Democracy even il
its cloak of Greeley-Republicanis Tht
judgment against the Democratic. party il
1inality. This nation viii repeal thu
Declaration OF Independence as SouE as i
will repeal any one of the later amendment
to the constitution, or relinquish its deter
minati0n TO enforce them, if necessary, by
the laws of Congress and the whole power
Of the government.
This is the statement of a simple fact
The part Of wise men is to recognize anC
adapt themselves to facts The CRANE
established facts in human affairs are uivine
institutions. One OF them is government.
Another of them is law in its severe equity
TO all-Iegardless of color er previous con
ditipn of servitude.' 1t is the fact which
has become immovably rooted in the foun
dations of the republic, and Can never be
uptorn bat in the dissolution OF the repub-
lie itself All the influences of civilization,
the theory and teachings of Christianity.
the principles of jurisprudence, the phi
losophv. poetry and aspirations of the age,
the public sentiment of every enlightened
land, and the military and political deci-
siOns Of this people, have liked and riveted
and c!amped the tinality of equal civil and
political rights for the white man and the
cQlored man. OIlv one of two things re-
mains.
1t remains for the whites, who constitute
i'll numbers about half the population while
the cOlOred men compose the other half in
certain States, and who form but one large
portion, while the colOred people form an
other large portion in every Southern State.
to accept the fact and make the best of it,
or to continue disastrous contest against
the inevitable. Republicans everywhere
look with regret upon any indications Of
the latter course, but the conduct of the
Southern people in the case concerns main
~ themselves. Tie national decision is
inexorably taken. A cordial and rational
policy in cOnsOnance Herewith will fill the
Southern section with a prosperity never
before known to it. That policy should be
simply to take the cOlored man by the
hand, in fullest acknowledgement of mis-
new estate, and to seek to tit him for his
n w privileges, without in the least propcs-
ing to abridge them.
In saying this we wUuld not he under
stood to say that there is not among South
erners an extensive disposition TO do this.
But il will scarcely be denied and it is
only to be expected, that there is also a
contrary disposition, and what-in all
courtesy and friendliness-we would point
out is that the sole solution of the race
problem in that section lies in discounte-
nancing the contrary disposition, and
making the former one prevalent Old
ideas and associations and the Democratic
politicians staple teachings dissuade from
this course. The Democratic press, North
and South, by its steady and violent warfare
upon the enforcement policy dissuades from
this course. But these old ideas and asso-
ciations-however worthy of consideration
because they are such-and especially
these ineulcations of Democratic politicians
and Journals, are the enemies of Southern
peace and prosperity. They are the curse
of the South. Their counsels can never
alter the resolution OF the popular masses,
and can only array Southern men and
communities in a vain and helpless contest
against that Oftresolved resolution which
viii still relentGessly confront them in the
nited States laws. the United States
courts, the United States executive, and
the United States bayonets. The naked
TACT Il, however unwelcOme, that the seDti-
nent of justice to which the loud politi-
,ians Of the South propose to continue
heir appeals Is III truth the sense OF JUS
ice, and as such can never be made 10
crget or to cease to defend the equal civil
md political rights of the freedmen