New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-10
The DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME.

President Jefferson Davis" which says:
1t must be exceedingly gratifying to every
true Scutherner to learn Of The continuous
ovation rendered to this distinguished and
patriotic statesman. From the moment he
touched the soil Of Texas. at Galveston, 1T
Houston, at Austin. at Dallas, even at
Brcnham, crowds OF people Of all classes
and conditions made the welkin ring with
their acclsmations. jeff Davis has become
| the representative man Of Southern feeling
| and OF Southern ideas. He is capable yet of
! accomplishing = vast amount OF good. No
Southern man doubts that the people pos
! sessed the innate and the constitutional
| right to do what they did in their attempt
to resist oppression. and in appealing to the
| arbitrament OF The sword Success would
have only given us the phi, steal ability to
| teitUre entaled upon them the loss of the
right OF secession. and the right 70 hold ne
! groes as slaves. hut il did not abrogAte our
right 20 indemnity from the government for
/ dep'lving Us o. our property. Our political
rights are now distinctly defined and recog-
f! nized. and the day il not far distant when
! the government sill! doubtless pay us for
our slave property, Of which We were TORCH
bly, despoiied.
The HeyuH fairly represents the senti.
ments Of the Democracy Of Texas. 1t is
true to that party. and true 20 the prin-
ciples Of the Confederacy. Mr.. Davis is
a relic of the lost cause. and in Texas he
everywhere met with an ovation as Pgesi.
dent Davis. The Herald says he is the
representative man Of South ern feeling
and Of Southern ideas. That is not denied
by the Confederate Democracy South.
and the Democrats Of the North must
meet them on the same ground in
national campaign BY force OF arms the
South was prevented from seyering the
Union Of StateA This, in Texas language.
was oppression. Treason is by no means
odious in the Lone Star State. Texas
lodged in under cover Of tho Union in
1916. and the army OF the United States
Immediately formed on her frontier and
protected her from Mexican invasion. 1t
had previously maintained a separate
government. sort Of squatter sovereignty.
for nine years. and joined the Union
upon terms acceptable to its people. !
Mexico had never recognized the indie.
pendence Of Texas. and would have
wiped out the State if left unaided. To-
day the people Of Texas talk hippantly of |
the oppression Of tue United States gov
eminent. and at the same time CRY for
help whenever a Mexican cattle thief
crosses the Rio Grande. Texas acknowl-
edged its fealty to the Union in 1915, and
in 1861 it joined Southern Confederacy
and did its best to break up the old
Union. It would have been more re-.
spected if it had joined Mexico. for that
government was at peace with the -nited
States. and the crime Of secession would
have been desertion instead of parrici de.
The plan now is to stay in the Union and
make It pay for the losses sustained by
war which the South inaugurated. The
abolition OF slavery was q result Of
the war. 4 certain number Of men
claimed to own other men. In the
South they bought and sold them. set
values and prices upon them. These
traders of men brought On war, and in
the conflict lost their grip on their So
called property. There is no man who
would buy a negro now. The market is
ruined. but the old owners propose to
make the government pay for slaves at
the old prices. The idea is monstrous.
but such an indemnity is hoped for and
openly advocated BY the Confederate De-
mocracy. Such thing will be promised
in the coming cam paign. and in Texas it
IS believed that the day is not far distant
when the government will ask the old
slave drivers to call the roll Of their
human cattle and receive pay for them.
cotton and sugar taxes are to be returned
Il ike manner. and it is probable that
Jay for Confederate soldie rs will be de.
handed. covering loss Of time in trying
o destroy the Union.