New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-14
THE DEMOCRATIC DOMINION EXPOSED
AND OVERTHROWN.

posite sense. These two antagonist sects
1 Of the same church co-oporeted harmo
niously. though Jansenist is reported
by Pascal to have said: "We will suffer
martyrdom rather than consent to &C
knowledge redeeming grace in the sense
of the Jesuits, St. Thomas, whom we
have sworn to follow to the death, being
in direct opposition to their construction.
The Democratic party, having before the
war accepted the cooperation OF the liberal
Interpretation Of the constitution, occu'
pied the offices of the government under
Van Buren, and Buchanan. Their con.
struction of ''redeeming grace" authorized
high protective tariff, with large federal
appropriations for internal Improvements.
Believing in the doctrine Of State rights
and secession, they accepted the support
Of B. F. Butler, George B. Mcclellan, F. P.
Blair and others, who subsequently op-
posed with the sword the practical execu-
ton of this doctrine. The war exposed
this coalition of the Jansenists and the
Jesuits. The Southern Democratic party
took exclusive possession Of the Confeder-
ate government. They made its constitu-
ton, its laws and its administrative policy
conform to their ideas. Neither Plato
nor More, nor Locke, nor Robinson
Crusoe could have had a more uninter-
rupted opportunity to carry their ideal sys-
TENS into effect. The Southern people then
saw what State rights Democracy meant
as expounded by the Democratic govern
ment at Montgomery and Richmond.
They found that it collected all the powers
OF government and conferred them on
one man. They saw that the rights of
the States were subordinated to Confed-
crate law or an executive order. They
found consolidation combined with
Cesarism. They controlled the Southern
people by the dread of an armed enemy
on one hand, and determination to sacri-
fee temporarily ever. rights OF person and
property rather than weaken the capacity
for common defense Thus the Demo-
cratic autocracy compelled obedience to
its edicts There were fearless men who
fought the federal government with one
hand while they repulsed the Democratic
aggressors with the other. The common
people had now an opportunity to test the
capacity of these statesmen. They had
always control OF the Southern States.
Hostile always to popular education, to
commerce and mechanical industry, these
empires were compelled to relieve the
cotton want Of the world by exporting it
to Europe in exchange for arms and to the
Northern States in exchange for food.
The maguates Of Democracy lived high
and even grew rich on the enormous
profits Of blockade running. The people
had neither iron nor salt nor earthenware
Dor medicines. Separated from their SOL
1ier husbands, the women were almost
and their children almost naked.
Was it then strange that conviction
should have been fixed il the Southern
mind that government: which impressed,
starved and robbed the people could not
:eally love the people; and that govern
nent which could neither build ship,
make a gun nor blanket. which was
compelled to supplicate for foreign pro-
ection and import its arms. its clothes
nd its food, could not very well repre-
ent the rights of the States? The utter
Of these men to govern either
State or union Of States was SO sig !
lally demonstrated when they had gov
rrment exclusively to themselves that |
hey can never. under their own avowed |
lame and doctrines. recover theconfdence
i the Southern people. There is much |
historical evidence that had the war re-
ulted in the separation of the States.
his Democratic dynasty would have been
eld to a summary account BY the e1-
sperated soldiers and farmers vi the Sc
eding States. The Imprisonment Of Mr..
'avis gave him the only CLEAN OF popu-
.r sympathy ever manifested toward him
y the Southern people. Neither himself
or the exclusive clique which surrounded
i'm could have been ever reinstated in
outhern esteem. and the Democratic
ynasty. arrogant. insincere and oppres-
i've. can no more resume its authority on
lis side Of the Potomac than on the
ther. The yoke which arrogance had
nposed upon ignorance is forever broken.
We mentioned yesterday that Hon. H. S.
cote could trace the history Of the DEM
cratic dynasty after i. had exclusive
way in tho South. We also suggested
lat he could elucidate the state Of polit-
al morals in the Confederate Congress
ld its environs. We find in the Wash
lgtor Chronicle that he has performed a
art of tie task, and we subjo:n it. It will
e retorted that be is a voluntary and dis
onorable witness against his own asso-
ates. Mr.. FoOte pays the highest tribute
} General Lee. to his military associates
ad to the men led by them. His repro
alton is reserved for those who neither
Jared their dangers nor the honors
these men. The principal meas
res cited by Mr.. Foote as emanat-
g from the Democratic dynasty
e matters of historical record, and
rove that dynasty to have been inspired
Y ambition, and to have usurped arbi-
airy power. In an extract from the speech
Mr.. Foote. given elsewhere. We have
,purgsted the bitter personalities which