The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-18
THE RADICAL KEY NOTE.

The State election in California will be held
on Wednes lay, September 1st preparatory to
which the Republicans have met in conven-
ton to nominate candidates. One Of the
resolutions of that body is IS follows:
RESOLVED, That tho conduct OF that portion
of the people in the south who defy the Fit.
teenth Amendment, and seek, BY intimidation
or force, tQprevent the lawful exercise OF the
elective franchise by the great body OF colored
citizens resident therein, is rehelhous deh-
ance of the national authority and an attempt
to prevent the election of the next Presi-
dent by the people, is calculated to arouse
the worst passions of men and to disturb the
peace of the nation, and should be met by all
law abiding citizens, North and South, as an
effort to revive the flames of civil war. While
admitting that differences Of opinion exist as
to the extent of the conspiracy against the
constitu !ional election of President in 1876,
we deem it we'll to caution the people against
Numbering in the face of danger.
At other times this libel upon the people
of the South would require no comment and
might be passed over as the expression of ef-
fervescent political spleen; nor can it now be
looked upon as expressing either the feeling
or the opinion of the intelligent masses of the
Republicans of California. Its significance
lies in the fact that it indicates one of the
methods by which the Democrats of the
Northern States are to be attacked in the
grea. campaign now about opening. 1t is in
like manner hint OF the course which the
Radicals intend to follow in the event of their
candidates defeat by the vote Of any Of the
Southern States.
The force of the Radical orators and writer's
will be directed toward the South. The
chief labor will be to show that the Republic
can party has not yet fulfilled its mission.
They will claim that their party has main
tanned the union of the States and the unity
Of the government, but they will urge that
the Union is still and constantly threatened.
They will claim that Republican energy and
Republican patriotism, Republican! money and
Republican lives, savedjthelcountry and over
came rebellion; but they will insist and try
to prove that rebellion is an always present
danger; and always ready to raise its banner
They will affirm that it was the act and deed
of the Republican party that set free the slaves
and endowed them with the rights and
franchises of full citizenship, but they will
declare and endeavor to prove that their
work is about to be undone and defeated
by Southern whites who will not accept Of
emancipation and equal civil rights as q
fnality. They will yaunt and boast of what
has been done while the Republican party
has been in the ascendant, and they will call
loudly upon the people to maintain what has
been won against the invasion, machination
and violence of the party which they have
already began to stigmatize as the "Confed.
crate Democracy when speaking of South
ern Democrats, or as the "Ca:holic Democ-
racy when speaking Of Democrats in the
North. They will claim as their own all that
has been accomplished, and they will try to
cast upon the Democracy at large. and
upon the Democrats Of the
South, the responsibility for every
thing which they have failed to do.
They will work very industriously to con-
vince the people that the war was brought
about by Democratic influence, and that the
whole merit of bringing hostilities to close
was due to the Republican party. In short,
the Radical leaders inteF to reopen the is
sues Of 1872, with such variations as oircum-
stances may suggest, the burden of their
theme and song being the misdemeanors and
The rebellious behavior Of the Southern
people.
But the resolution of the Radicals of Cali
Fornia, in State convention assembled, indi-
,ates something more. If it happens that
hose Southern States wherein the negro
population equals, or nearly equals, the white
give their electoral votes to the Democratic or
mt. Radica! candidate, it is the deliberate re-
,olve of the Radical leaders, not alone of
California, but of all the Northern States,
hat such votes shall not be counted. With
his intent, the passions Of men" are to be
Iroused in advance and the peace of the ma
ion is to be disturbed. The Radicals are
for vigorous, protracted aud spite
III war in the House of Representatives at
he approaching session. A Democratic ma
ority in that body will prevent any corrupt
MEASURE from passing, but it will not pre-
rent line Of tactics on the part Of the
Radical members and their lobby friends
rom blowing the flames Of party strife
INTO fercer fire than has ever, before
,een known. The Radical minority, des-
itute of legislative power, but with the
senate, the Executive and the judiciary
o keep them in countenance, will fight
ike stays at bay. There are some
Malignant voices familiar to those walls
which will not be heard in the Hall of Repre-
entatives, but there win be enough of the
irulent and belligerent class Of Radicals
here to keep up continuous strife, the
hesis Of whose anathemas will always be the
'outhern white Democrats and their North
m sympathizers. The House will be bear.
arden of debate, in which the issues will be