New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-08
: DEr0CRArIC GRATITUDE.

1 SCUM WHICH require uOtlce. AAc NoI "
ern man who votes against Republical
ceases to be Yankee. He may hav
been one of the one hundred and twent
thousand Estates rights Northern Ne,
Workers who marched into the South o.
the alleged mission of murder and arson
It makes no difference. His vote agains
Republican candidate effaces the mem
DRY Of the bullet which he may have spe'
into the bosom of a Confederate, or evel
of the torch which he may have applies
to Southern property. Those alleged out
RACES are charged against Northern Re
publicans only. They are condoned ant
pardoned when. perpetrated by Northern
States rights Democrat. This violent de
clamation against Northern aggression
only played upon the political stage, WHERE
they hack broadswords and infict fictitiou!
wounds; behind the scenes these blood
thirsty comb Atlantis froth their ferocioul
moustaches from the foam of the same
porter pot. That not one particle of prin
ciple enters the hate OF affection of the
Southern Dem ocrat is shown by the fact
that he gave his devoted support to the
States rights Democrat, Mcclellan, who
certainly IN anifested as sincere purpose
| to subjugate the South as ever did any
| Republican. What was his force of in.
vasion? One hundred and sixty thou.
sand men of all arms, with every facility
and comfort that an army could have
asked. What have the Democratic non
cembatant politicians forgotten? Listen.
Draper, in his "Civil War Of America" de-
scribes the seven days fight which occurred
before Richmond. jackson and d. H.
Hill attacked the divisions under Porter
A high tribute is paid by the federal his
rorian to the desperate courage Of the
Confederate ''conscripts, who had never
been under fire until the day before.
Under this fire they went down like
grass before the mowers scythe. The
Confederate loss had been very great. In
Jackson's corps alone 5S9 we're killed and
2671 wounded. Mcclellan had lost about
nine thousand men and twenty-five guns. :"
Were none of those nine thousand
Northern State rights Democrats" Nc
Clellan's estate rights" friendship for the
Southern Democracy was shown by the
declaration: IF save this army now,"
he wrote to the Secretary Of War, II owe
no thanks to you or to any other person
in Washington. Upon the retreat Of
Mcclellan, Longstreet and Hill charged
McCall's division. "Randall's battery"
says Mcclellan, ''was charged upon by
the enemy in great force, with a reckless
impetuosity never saw equaled. They
advanced at run over six hundred yards
Of open ground. The guns Of the battery
moved them down, yet they never paused.
A volley of musketry was poured into
them at short distance by the Fourth
regiment, in support of this battery, but it
did not check them for an instant. They
dashed on and pistoled and bayoneted the
cannoneers at their guns" Longstreet
and Hill led these men in charge SO gal
liant and SO desperate that the impartial
federal historian does not withhold his
of admiration for the display
of qualities, American and national, in
their character. Of one brigade in Long
streets division General Pryor reports:
II crossed the Chickahominy on the
with fourteen hundred men;
in the fight that followed I lost S49 killed
and wounded and eleven missing" I'm
The subsequent battle of Malvern Hill"
says Mcclellan, brigade after brigade of
The Confederacy formed under cover of
he woods, started at run to cross the
open space and charged our batteries. In
several instances our infantry withheld |
heir fire until the attacking column,
which rushed through tbs storm of |
canister and shell from our artillery, had |
.eached within few yards Of our lines"
This battle was followed by dark and
tormy night hiding the agony of thou
ands who lay on the blood-stained slopes
# Malvern Hill and in the copses and |
woodlands beyond" The historian says |
hat there were something less than ninety
thousand men left to the federal army
fter the campaign. There were more than
en- thousands prisoners lost, which would
ccount for one hundred thousand Then
here must have been from fifty to sixty
thousand federal soldiers killed and
General Lee says that this ex-
eeded the Confederate losses. Yet it was
DE- this determination to destroy-for this
laughter of forty or fifty thousand South
IN soldiers that the Democratic politi-
ians strove to elect the Northern States
ights Democrat Mcclellan.
We need not contrast the humanity and
ourtesy with which General Grant tenn
cred his signal and final victories. They
ere witnessed by the Hampton Roads
difference, the capitulation of Vicksburg,
le surrender Of Lee and the Intervention
, prevent the arrest and trial Of Lee and
ohnston. One of these Generals is to be
,rgiven and promoted for all the misery
e inflicted in the prosecution of the war;
lie other has received his gratitude for
he forbearance and humanity which has
larked his actions toward the Southern
eople. We can very well conceive a
eople SO exasperated by sense of real
: supposed oppression as that they COM
rehend the whole nation of conquerors
one uncompromising and indiscriminate
but there can be neither sin
.r;tv nor sentiment in tho noDduof of |