New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-05
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To those who look beyond the omces
won or lost upon political race, the con-
test in Louisiana presents encouraging
results.
Improves the superior value OF the
Union Of all the people to the separate
individuality of the States which COM
prise them.
But for the positive maintenance OF
peace by the federal feet and troops
which have appeared among us, the state
would now have been in anarchy. Inc
men and rule of force inaugurated on the
fourteenth of September would have con-
tinued. 1t would have tended to perse'
cution, and while one party might nave
been in military occupation Of all the
Offices, the other might have been driven
from all fthe rights of society. and the
election of Louisiana might be pending IN
the tedious and expensive chancery OF
Congress. The opposition are more In
terested in the preservation OF order than
the Republicans it was intended to pro-
tec.. It will now be acknowledged that
the government which secures legal
expression of the popular will is better
than rule Of force in which the political
condition of State is determined not by
the predominant force Of muskets. but by
the superior number Of votes.
The conviction of this truth must over
spread the minds of all true conservatives.
and even the most violent must confess
that the equipoise Of the Union as it
calmly moves in Its grand orbit can no
more be disturbed by the strife OF its
politicians than can the globe itself by
the revolutions of the human beings who
inhabit it. For it has been shown. as the
REPUBLICAN has claimed, that the federal
troops were not sent here in the interest OF
any party, but to preserve the imperiled
peace of the Union. The same troops
would perform the same service IN any
other State. North or West. This inn
partially grows out of the doctrine that
the Union is paramount to the States. To
maintain this doctrine it is necessary to
exhibit the purpose and the power essen
tial to its enforcement anywhere.
Another invaluable result Of the election
has been the now universal acquiescence
of all political parties in the legal valid
ity of the fifteenth amendment and the
consequent laws. For the first time in
Louisiana has the purpose been aban-
doned to defeat the suffrage Of the
negro. and to denounce all who advo-
Gated it. This has been Endorsed by
the avidity with which the votes OF
the negroes have been sought by those
who have heretofore sought to nullify
this vote by musketry. Whether the Re-
publican party gain or lose in votes by
this acknowledgment. it will find noble
rindication in the admission Of its anita.
gonists. This division of the colored vote
will protect the colored people themselves.
1t will give them choice among all the
candidates. and it will compel all the par
ties to put up men who have personal
popularity and merit rather than such as
rely only upon club discipline to promote
their personal purposes
The REPUBLICAN has taught months
ago that the true unifcation of races
was the urifcation Of interests--the cor
dial union Of capita! and industry.
The triumph of Republican principles,
which carries the planter to the polls al
the head Of willing and trusting laborers
will make the political rights of the negro
more safe than fleets or cohorts can
The contest will now be who can bes
protect, educate and provide for the col
ored voter: and while the late discovery
of this truth may cost the Republican
party some seats in Congress and tht
Legislature. it will be repaid by the &C
acknowledgement of its principles by sucl
distinguished converts.
The Louisiana election has. therefore
been a triumph Of the Union and OF Re
publican principles.