New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-09
Communicated
The Party that "HOld the South.N

leaders at the South denounced the North
and all Northern people, who did not
belong the State rights Democr party,
as abolitionists and yankees It is
notorious how they kept up underground
intercourse with the Democracy of the
North during the war, and how they
fastened, at its close, to verify t he saying,
that "half loaf is better than no bread"
by recognizing upon the natio nal De-
mocracy as soon as the war was over.
We have now this hypocritical fattery
Of the Northern Democracy by the South
ern Committee of Seventy:
True that there is objection on the part
OF some to the Democratic name. Let
such remember that the Democratic party
is grand national organizations; that upon
its arm hangs our sole hope for the over
throw of the national Republican party;
that it has been fighting our battles when
we have been pow erless and vOiceless, and
that to-day, in its grand onslaught ON the
wavering lines of Radicalism in all the
States Of the Union, its fercest battle cry
is, Remember outraged and wronged Lou
isiana."
The position of the Republican party
at the North was always open and out
spoken. 1t advocated Union, and the
enforcement Of the laws. 1t gave honest
notice to the South that if secession were
attempted the power of the government
would be employed to restrain the people
of the United States within its paramount
jurisdiction.
Under this avowal of doctrine the war
was fought and the Southern people re-
duced to obedience. Then there was
amnesty and equality of rights reaccorded
to all. A Republican admin stration is
acceptable to the South, and Republican
Congress makes no distinction in the
national appropriations, or appointments.
The State rights Democracy of the
North protested the identical doctrine as
the Democracy of the South. They were
united in the Democratic convention at
Charleston and voted for South ern Demo-
Gratis whose principles of secession had
been avowed in hundred platforms and
| orations.
In urging upon the people of the South
the possibility of peaceful secession, the
assurance was given that the States rights
Democracy of the North would never
unite in compelling their Southern DEM
ocratic brethren to violate an immemorial
and notorious common principle of the
national party. The war began. The
| Democratic leaders of the North fastened
to throw themselves into the Union
ranks. They gave their sons and their
substance and their votes for the prosecu-
ton Of the war. They voted for the
appropriations which constitute the
present debt of nearly s3,OOO,O0O,OO and
they took with avidity all the contracts
they could get under those preparations.
They have maintained at the N orth that
their patriotism and prowess had done as
much or even more for the subjugation of
the South than that of the Republican
party. 1t was as mach as the Republican
party could do to keep Mr.. Lincoln in
the presidential chair against the Demo-
cratic Union-saver Mcclellan, and the
services of Messrs. Seymour and Blair in
ssputting down the rebellion!" ere held
to have been greater than those of General
Grant himself 'There is objection
of some to the Democratic name"
No, it is objection to Democratic hypoc-
risy. Southern men who were manned
by Democratic bullets, Southern men
whose farms were ravaged by the Demo-
cratic cohorts, see in that name, not the
stern execution Of political principle,
but the detestable desertion of traitors to
truth, who had led them into an ambush
where they were slaughtered by the very
hands so recently clasped in hypo critical
friendship.
Whose Democracy dates furthe back,
or was more blatant than that of Andrew
johnson who put his brother Democrat
Davis in prison? Who was the true
friend of the South. The State right
Democrat johnson, who would have tried
Generals Johnston and Lee for their
lives, or the Republican Grant who in
terposed the guarantee of their parole to
protect them.
This clique of Southern Democrats
resumed their party allegiance before the
war closed. They imported Democ ratio
op,;cco r;as q ,rocc the lines and ATTEMPTED
to secure guarantees. They even aspired
to regain the control OF the federal gov
eminent through Democratic nomina-
ton for the Presidency.
At the South the great strength Of this
clique consists in their denunciation of
all Northern men. Yet they took up Sey-
mour who was Governor of the great
State of New York from 1862 to 1864.
That State sent one hundred and twenty
thousand men and contributed three hun
dred millions of dollars, cash and credit,
to subdue and devastate the South, and
surely when Governor Seymour the DEM
ocrat was elected by a large vote over his
Republican competitor, the Nor them State
rights Democracy are entitled to some
share of the glory Of the conquest. The
biography of Seymour thus speaks Of the
Southern cause:
The bravery of our army and navy, and
the sacrifices of onr people, had restored the
Union and INDICATED the sun 4acy Oh INC