New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-30
WHO ARE FOR THE UNION 7

indebted to the Republican party for
their freedom and for their rights. are
united, man, woman and child, in main
tanning form of government and Of adj
ministration, upon which they think
| their title to themselves is wholly de-
pendent. The larger part Of the Con-
federates fought for solution OF the COM
parative powers Of the States and OF the
Union. The arbiter TO which they
appealed decided against their doctrine
The courts of war removed the question
of property in slaves. These two issues
settled, the Confederates who fought,
almost to man, with Lee, Johnston,
Longstreet and others, accept the Union
as fact established. They compare the
prosperity and content Of this republic
with the dangers which pervade all mon
archical Europe, and conclude that, after
all, this is the best government and the
happiest people in the world.
These elements of Unionisn make, per-
haps, ninety-nine one-hundredths Of the
| citizens of the United States.
There is, however, an unreconciled and
! irreconcilable percentage of discomfort,
! wholly opposed to the Union. They
| would gladly see each Southern State a
province" of France, of England. or OF
any other powee which would establish a
foreign satrapy and place them at the
head of it.
These men called themselves State
rights Democrats, before the war. They
were never Democrats in any sense Of
the term. Their whole political power
was employed to maintain themselves in
Office. They acted at Washington with
Democrats who lad never been anything
else than freesoilers and tariffites.
Succeeding to power by the organiza-
ton of the Confederate government.
these men established as close a party
communion as had ever before existed.
Their President and. Cabinet officers.
their foreign missions were given al
most exclusively to the States rights
Democrats. So far from carrying out
either Democratic or States rights princi-
pies, the action of the Democratic admin
istration was in derogation both Of the
rights of the people and Of the States
Upon this dereliction Of principle was
based the opposition of Governor Brown,
Mr.. Stephens and Mr.. Toombs, for the
latter has never said anything half SO Bit
ter of President Grant as be had said Of
President Davis.
And these leaders, availing themselves
of the common amnesty, have returned to
their original aspirations, to rule the
Union or overthrow it. If any foreign
trouble occurs they are prepared to throw
the weight Of their neutrality against the
scale Of their country. If any domestic vio-
lence arise, they seize on it to excite the
popular prejudice against the President
and federal government. They stand ever
ready ...
To lead Won forth
Triumphant out of this internal pit,
AbOmnable, accursed. the House of Woe.
And the dungeon Of our tyrant.
The present manifestation Of these mall
contents is found in their submission only
to tie physical force Of the federal gov
eminent. They sheer at the federal mill
tary, remind them of the yellow fever,
fidicule the naval force, and compare it to
the war force before employed for similar
purpose. They have said in print that
this force should only be submitted to
the extent Of its power present at any
particular time or place.
They have said that to maintain the
State government the federal government |
must keep and continue to keep troops |
III over the State, thus signalling
he distinction between submission |
o the force and obedience to the |
avs Of the Union. One particularly
erocious journal publishes a wood cut
wherein Louisian is depicted as victim
laughtered at the footstool of Grant the
yrant. This makes the federal govern
nent response BILE for the consequences of
domestic riot. The constitution has
wisely defined treason to consist only in
ewing war against the government, or
living aid to the public enemy. It has
left to all men to say or print
nything they choose against the govern
lent. But the whole action Of the State
ights Democracy throughout the South
as been to defame the federal Union in
he estimation Of the people. and to at
'ibute every evil complained of to the
Malignant influence Of the Republican
administration.
The time seems rapidly approaching
hen our citizens will be again called on
} decide whether they really love the
'nion and will band with those who
ave ever supported it. or will continue
} obey men whose hostility to this form
government is covert and concealed.
hese malcontents have found nothing in
since the war to approve. and their
hole influence has been addressed to
ring it into the hatred and contempt of
i. This band of malcontents have COM
lifted no overt act, and it is to be hoped
ley will commit none, but all prudent
nd conservative men who, whatever may
ave been their party opinions, now deem
lie federal Union the most just form of
overnment, had better separate them
Elves from those who mean mischief and