New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-06
EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY.

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An cid fogy who signs himself a
Southern Woman in the Ptcayeme, is
pratinS about the Southern man being
the peer of his Northern brother. We
have reason to believe this same old fogy.
belongs to class Of our Southern
brothers who, when the aialum Of war
was sounded in 1860. vauntingly pro-
claimed that one Southern man was equal
to six Northern men. He was then a
"fre-eater. opposed to equality. and a
sticAler for Old things After ded;cating
a column almost exclusively to the abuse
OF the Republican party-the only cham
pion that true progress and equality has
in this country-the fogy makes the sin
gular admission that 2 Southern man is
| the peer Of his Northern brother. We
say the admission is singular because We
think il odd-we might say laughably
pecular-that an old fogy and dre-eater
should make this discovery almost de-
cade and half Of years after the fact had
been abundantly established tina: our
Northern brother is at least the equal Of
our Southern brother. The Repub-
lican lerty is working to unity
the American people On the sub
ject Of equality before the law, the right
Of citizenship and the matter Of good
government derived from reason rather
than physical force. The ''fre-eaters'
attempted to prove the inequality of man
By physical force, on the broad assump-
ton that one Southern man was the equal
OF six men coming from any other Sec
ton OF the American Union. They
fought with valor worthy of better pur-
pose to sustain this bold assumption Of
mans inequality and failed to harness
the disgrace upon men who in reality
fought the battle Of freedom; and now
the fre-eater, true to bis class, attempts
once II ore to revive sectional feeling by
undertaking Northern intellect and virtue.
He reverts to the past and tells Us that
for sixty years the influence Of Southern
statesma nship made the United States
the admiration Of the world. The Sec
tional partiality Of the P::caya.ne's corre-
pondent is rendered far more palpable in
this decla ration than the truth Of history
or his sense OF justice. We will
admi: tha: for sixty-we wi, even
50 further and say seventy three
years-American craftsmanship has made
the United States the admiration Of the
world: but to accredit Southern states
manship alone with the glory of having
accomplished such great ends is not only
untrue. but libel Of American states
manship. No one has a greater respect
than we for the statesmen Of the South
who have labored since the declaration Of
American independence for free govern
ment and the integrity Of the American
Union, but sense Of justice and duty to
the whole country compels US to expose
any attempt to renew sectional feeling by
the false assumption that the success of |
the country and its free institutions has
been achieved by sectional rather than
national influences. The South was forced |
to take a false position in 1s61-not
through Southern statesmen, but through !
Southern leaders who exhibited in their |
unwise course a great lack of statesman
ship-and she Can not afford to
be placed in a similar position at
This time bC those whose Sec
,ional feeling still inclines them 70 hate
rather than love their brethren O: other
sections Of a common country. They
come here as Americans. and no sectional
feeling can deprive them Of the civil and
political rights conferred upon American
citizens. They come here to re-establish
IN American feeling by building homes
or themselves and aiding in the estab-
ishment OF a better civilization than had
yrown up under the institution Of slavery.
When our Southern Nodocs" are thor
,ughly Americanized we shall hear no
more about the Northern, Western or
Eastern carpet-baggers. All the courage.
-irtue and genius Of the nation will nA
'e confined to any section. The man
possessing these high qualities will then
'e recognized here as elsewhere, and
southern society will move On grander
Gale than ever before, for the chief glory
Fill then consist in promoting American
haracter and building up American insti.
utions.
A modest Young man from Cbica % Nrifea |