New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-03
Tho Germ Of tho DiRlc uiey.

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Northern Republicans will remember % 4
most uncomfortable men Co meet in geay
Uniform. has been telling the people of New
Orleans what he thinks of the situation. In
the course IS his gemarks hS made tho fol.
lOVing centre shOt, which evinces deeper
insighs into the Southern character and the
ultimate causes which tlnderlie The present
aectjopal strife shan anything We lave
0een. lie Said:
s'Men can't all fhink alike. and the trouble
with the Southern people always has been
shat they wont tolerate any difference Of
opinion. If God Almighty had intended all
men to thiDk Just alike Re might az we'll
have made but ono man have decided
and acted as I thought duty required, and
ether men are ct liberty 70 do the same."
That ono phrase. 'The Southern people
Won't tolerate any difference Of opinion
IA Of immense Significance. 1t ia one Of the
characteristics which distinguish the Latin
races. Compare, fOr instance. and election
in England with one in France. There the
Saxon and LStin chsrat eristics are brought
int contrast. In both countries leaders
and masses grow very hot and excited over
tho campaign. They shout and call names.
and mail the lies Ot their opponents, very
much 40 we do in America. Bat it is when
she election IA over that tho different char
actsristics 81 race ere most apparent. Tne
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nofe desperate with defeat. and At ones
ondeavOrs - start revolution. The
Onority Is aos willing 10 accept The
Guile Of shS snajsrity, and il is f,r this
reason that profound political thinkers
have SO little faith in ehe permanent que.
esss OF kepnblicsnism in France or Spain.
There 10 always y aiscontented minority
echemhg tOs . change Of government.
Just the sAins contrast exists in the
H1ni0nh AfofoA LIZ fho Nnpth na
vile remarks. the iowa meeting 10 the
tope Of government In the town snee'ing
the vote OS the majority ends discussion.
From ats decision there 10 No appeal. No
matter how heated and determined our pc
litic2 esntssts. the day att4c election finds
every one good hatured, bets are paid, the
newspapers dilate on the ''lesson- Of the
result and the war paint 10 laid aside until
che next campaign. In the South, par,icu-
iasl1 IN Louisians. there Is enough Of
french blood and sristocrs.ie IDEAS to give
paf lisaA politics . wholly different charac-
Vef The White Democrats Of the South
can oct get ever the idea that they know
shout ss much "a three Republicans. white
Or colored, and they therefore feed abused
becsuse one Sluebloode6 tote does not
count 40 much ~ those of three OF four
Northern white men or negroes. The
equality of suffrage is to the naughty Gre.
rank an sbsurdity as was the theory in
1861 thst regiment of Yankees could hold
its own against regiment Of Southern fire
caters. The rebels learned during the course
Of the var that . Northern Yankee,
slough ne had never carried revolver or
bowie knife at home. Was just as brave and
effective . soldier as Southern desperate
who had fought q duel or two. and carried
weapons since his boyhoOd But there still
eemains in the Southern tempe rament tina.
intolerance OF opposing opinion, that nn-
readiness tOascsps the verdict of majority.
Chich existed before the war. This, rs tien'
prai Longstreet SO shrewdly points out. Is
the underlying causes of nine,tcnths OF the
political troubles at che South. They pre-.
tend to have accepted the results of the war.
but in reality they have only made '''-
tense of doing SO because tie s.'..'' 90
nothing better ~ the time. .h'v e" ESQ
The disco..enseS InSnarch5''s j. -'.1t..
forced 80 I've arder rs4n0...an -o'.'n.
rea, .hiis they are ut heart IN revolt
.sainss ito most essential principles-the
Quality Of citizenship and the supremacy
II ps iSyitiss. -Clerelamd Leader. 4