New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-10-15

| that the Democratic mob in Louisiana MUIR
dered the noble Dosty and a hundred others,
simply because they presumed to hold "a
Republican Convention. BY the way, Dosty
once resided in our County of Madison. In
1868 also, some two thousand more in Louisi-
ana were killed or wounded by these ku-
| klux devils.
| l said that the war was over. In point OF
fact it was not over nor is it yet over; nor
will it yet be over, until the Democratic
| party is dead. Its savage and wicked spirit
| is too chronic to admit of change. Ii is as
Interchangeable as the skin of the Ethiopian
or the spots Of the leopard. Only at the
death of this Party will the evil splt, that
has dwelt in it and inspired it for half cen
fury, 90 out of it.
| In 1873 hundred colOred men were muir
dered at one time in Grant Parish in Louisi-
| ana and now, within the last few weeks,
| the work of murder has been renewed in
several parts of this ill-starrcd State. In
| New Orleans alone not less than Il hundred
were killed outright or very seriously
wounded.
This recent outbreak of Democratic dey-
ilism in several Southern States is owing in
part to the encouragement which the Demo
| Gratis have received from the last elections
in Connecticut and New Hampshire. 1t is
owing, however, in greater part to the hope
in these States that, by flattering General
| Grant with the prospect Of a third term, they
would thereby purchase his forbearance, and
! his permission to continue their slaughter Of
black and white Republicans. When l saw
! their disappointment, and that the viglant
and faithful Government had scarcely let five
days pass ere placing sufficient number OF
| United States troops in New Orleans and
monitors to rake when necessary some Of her
principal streets, felt that, in Bible Ian
| sol, linr haI IN ha
Presidency ''for such time as this" More
over, and again in Bible language, | was
ready to cxclaim: SO king, live forever ~
l readily admit that in all but very eXtraor-
binary times two terms Of the Presidency are
enough for any, even the best, man; but
when there is a war to be put down, and es
pecialy such reasonable and internal one
as this, which the Democratic Party cOntn-
ues to wage, if we are so fortunate as to have
a dread warrior at our head, it is wise to
keep him there. The South acanted Grant
because she took it into her head that he
would tolerate her high crimes against hui
mainly. She now needs him to punish and
stop these crimes. In respect to these crimes
the Democratic press is either silent or apo-
ogetic. The South excuses them on the
ground, both that Republicans have not
got into office by fair means, and that Re-
publicans, especially if colored men, are not
eligible to Office. Frauds, whether practised
by Democrats or Republicans. are not to he
defended; but the shedding of blood is sure
ly not the remedy for them.
1t is true that slavery was once the great
curse of the country; but, for the last fifty
years, the Democratic Party has been its
| tar greater curse. In all this time slavery
has been as much less to be dreaded than the
Democratic Party as is the sword less to be
dreaded than the hand that yields it. Easily
| would the advancing civilization of Christen-
dom have disposed of slavery, had not that
bad Party chung to it, as its chief means for
perpetuating itself. Slavery and Rum were its
life; and to this day, its life is very largely
in its hope that either slavery will reappear,
or that some scarcely less advantageous mod
lfication of it viii take its place.
My old Temperance friends complain that
do not advocate Temperance ticket.
Whenever there is danger of the Democratic
Party coming again into power, as there was
in 1872, when il Cunningly nominated Gree
ley to catch reiOrmers with, and as there is
now, when with hands dipped afresh in the
the blood of Southern Republicans, it is NOV
ing earth and hell to regain its lost ascend
ency, my first duty-nay, my only political
duty-is to oppose the Democratic Party.
This abominable Party is the murderer CT the
colored race which my guilty country has so
deeply wronged; and | would let all men
become drunkards, ere | would, directly or
indirectly, join this murderer.
Although the Republican Party is, ~ COM
pared with the Democratic Party, Hyperion
to Satyr,' there is nevertheless, somewhat
in it to regret and be ashmed of. If this good
Party shall ever fall into a minority, it will
be because of its cowardice-and especially
its cowardce in not passing the Civil Rights
Bill. Had it, with the bold face Of conscious
rectitude, promptly passed this bill, which
lacked only So few votes, though every Dem
| Ocratic vote was against it, these recent muir
ders at the South would not have been en-
| tered upon. This wavering of the Republicans
to their righteous principles has its worst
effect in encouraging the Democratic Party to
fresh expressions of its wickedDess. Can our
poor cOlored brethren forgive this wavering,
this cruel injustice, this singing ingratitude ?
| trust they can-and will be persuaded that,
after one more triumphant election. this good,
but not yet good-enough Party, having then
enough courage to subdue its faint hearted
ness and enough integrity to overcome its
trucking, will hasten 10 accord equal rights
to the colored man.
Let me here repeat what l have SO often
said that the excuse offered by some Repub-
leans for the failure of this bill-the excuse
that it would be contrary to law for Congress
to pass it's as disgraceiul rs empty. Fudge
lci OUCH a III" ~ tiiclc IL SuCu u law 1ueS
say that it must be left to the several States
to provide for the maintenance of the colored
mans manhood. How contemplate is this
skulklng OF a great nation behind one Of its
States ! 1t was the nation that was reSpon-
sible for the long and weary years of the col
ored mans enslavement. 1t was to save the
nation that he SO torgivingly and magnani-
mously entered into the nqtion's army. 1t is
the nation therefore that is bound to see that
within all its limits he is treated as man.
Against Unborn human rights "there is no
law.' No law-boOk is to be looked into to
learn what they are-for no law-book eau
either make or unmake them. The law writ
ten so legibly upon mans sublime being, is
the only law by which to ascertain these
rights; and both judges and legislators are
guilty OF blasphemous and impudent atheism
when they would supersede this divine law
by human enactments. The question whe-
Their colOred child may enter the common
school or whether colored man or woman
may enter the car or hotel on self.respectng
terms, is to be answered not by quotations
from constitutions or statutes, but by Him,
who " is no respecter OF PERSONS" and who
"hath made of one blood all nations of
men,"
close by saying that there are crimes too
great to be forgiven. One of them is the
crime of the political party that deliberately
upholds slavery, and another is the crime of
the political party that turns against its
country in time of war. OF both these afro
cious crimes has the Democratic Party been
emphatically and persistently guilty. Hence.
though it may ever so humbly seek our for.