New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-07-30

to the Northern Democracy, and proposed
the renewal Of the ante-var compact. 1t
is curious metaphysical distinction, only
visible to the professors of the Charleston
school, that the Connecticut or Massachu-
sets man who calls himself a Democrat
thereby ahsolves himself Of the crime Of
being yankee" and is permitted With
the utmost cordescension to vote for
Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
All others from the same country taking
different view Of politics co1tir.e TO be
detes.able and dangerous.
The war and the subsequent social
anarchy starved out naIy Professors Of
this Charleston school. Some went to
New York. others to such points in the
South IS offered tie best prospec: Of
domestic hostility and foreign interven-
ton. New Orleans has had the full bene-
ft Of these coccseis. The organ Of these
irreconciiabIes seeks to perpe.ucte sec
tionalism by printing tie North and
South with initial capitals. aud charges
the ruin Of tire whole South upon the
Capitalization of :oe federal sove:nnent
thus:
Capitalization !. now made Ire.ominan:
by the power 0: .he North.
1t addresses category Of questions as
to the cause ti decentralization" ard puts
in an unauthorized arswe. &c. louisiana
and the whole South:
lie: the State cf Louisiana-cnce proud
State, Low ac .gnom1nlUus dependence!
wasting away ..Ce- he military rule Of
the United Sta;es--aEd the whole South,
struggling uDGe: IS foul tyranny, answer.
They all give rs tee same response. Cen
trailzaticn IS Gespc.:s,u, a.G Cespo1is,l IS
debasemenc ana :-.n.
We must. upon authority Q: the same
journal. thus contradict its theory that
the '.who.e South" suffers ruin and de-
basement from this centraliza:;or. ]. says:
The numerical strength Of immigration
into Texas during the last six months can
no. fall shor: OF sixty thousand souls.
Now possibly Texas is no: "a Southern
State She sen: troops who fought gal
lantly all over the Atlantic States. and
was the last to surrender to the federal
arms. She is six degrees nearer the equa-
tor than the tomb OF the prophet Of nulli-
fcatior. Well, she may not be "a South
ern State within lis or about four hun
dred miles nearer the South than the
authorized definition whatever that may
be.
The Richmond school fought itself
into the admiration Of the world in the
war cooked up for it ty its Charleston
allies. But it refused strrdily to continue
the war after the fighting ceased. It
would neither &c led by Tammany nor
Charleston. Hare is the schedule Of this
school, as published in the Richmond
Wing:
Virginia IN times pas. has paid ucdue at
tenton to her social and political welfare
to the neglect vi her material interests,
while the States Of the North and West
have made themselves strong and great
and prosperous by developing the indus
trial and commercial interests OF their
people.
The real question to be decided in the
coming contest is, whether Virginia shall
be restored to her former identity and hon
orable position in the peerage OF States
and before the world. or whether through
corrupt and Mercerary influences she shall
be suffered to pass forever into the tomb OF
buried COmmOnwealths.
When we speak Of restoration we do
not mean a restoration outside of and ire
spective Of the restraints imposed by the
constitution OF the United States, but in-
side Of it, and with due regard to the re-
strctions therein contained, and the obi
cations implied.
The restoration we desire is that Virginia
shall resume her identity, her Individual
| ity, and thereby lie enabled to construct a
State policy that shall look to and within
| itself. and not outside, for that resuscita-
| ton which is to lit her burdens and make
her prosperous. We mean that restoration
which eschews politics as an occupation,
| and seeks through a fixed and we'll defined
| and intelligently devised State policy to
develop and mobilize all her resources.
| taking care that in so doing others shall
only realize and enjoy such advantages and
| profits arising therefrom as she shall have
been unable to appropriate.
Now while the school Of hostility 10 re-
| publican government teaches the remedy
Of agitation and outcry as means OF
State restoration Virginia relies on fixed
and we'll defined system Of State policy.
The peripatetic philosophers who conduct
the funeral procession of buried CON-
monwealths" cry woe to the Babylon OF
federal Capitalization and corruption.
The philanthropists Of fixed and well
defined State policy wish "a restoration
not outside and irrespective Of the fed
| eral constitution, but inside and with due
regard to its restrictions. No Eu-Kluz
dark lanterns. no cleaning out by rio!
or assassination. but working out OF
difficulties by open. honorable and
American methods. It may be remarked,
in reply to tina: ruin and debasemen,
business" that Virginia has not increased
her public debt one dollar since the war
Capital and population are seeking hel
lands. and although her losses by the wal
will compare with those Of any othel
State. she is bravely. and rithoM complaint
getting over them. The dynasty Of the
malcontents has been for ever dethroned
their last attemp. to excite disafection to-
ward the republic has been made in Lou.
isiana. and in q few short months they
will be no more heard Of, save in The
pages Of the historian, OF perhaps in II.
| half civilized States of Mexico.
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