New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-14
Especial Correspondence of the Republican
NORTHERN POLITICS.

Republicans to Guide the Hep0bncan
Party-The Mission Of the Party Not
Enaed-shali We Have Confederate
Americae-Robert Toombs. Of Geor.
Gia-What the Appointment Of Chandler
as Secretary Of the Interior Means
Close Up the hanks.
BosToN, November 8, 1875.
Ipresume that intelligent Republicans in
Louisiana have by this time arrived at the
same conclusion which has been finally
reached by representative men of the party
at the North in regard to the mission Of the
Republican party, and in regard to the
duty which its members owe to the sacred
principles it represents in the New World.
The mission of the Republican party does
not end with the overthrow of the Northern
Democracy, or with with the passage of the
fifteenth amendment to the federal consti-
tuition. The Northern Democracy has been
| overthrown before, and we all know the
value to place upon paper constitutions"
when it is the interest of men bad enough,
or strong enough, to evade or violate their
written obligations" The mission of the
Republican party can not be said to be
been utterly annihilated, and until the
cause of civil equality for all men of all
races and of all creeds, before the law
is placed beyond the reach either
of revolution, reaction or ruff anism.
So far as the Northern Democracy
is concerned. its life consists in just
one thing. and that Zone thing" is Southern
sectionalism. Tue Northern Democracy has
it's living impulse now in the Confederate
sentiment of the South. The overthrow of
this Confederate power as an organized po-
litical force within the Union is consequent.
that the Tsmmany Hall is broken. The
Republican fire will consequently be direct
ed with concentrated ieroeness on the
Confederate party. The Southern Con-
federates, as such, must now expect
to make good their right to recognition as
political force within the American Union.
They must show why they keep up the
name of Confederates; why they keep up the
secret leagues which are composed exclu.
sively of "Confederates;" why men like
Longstreet are ostracised; why fidelity to
the Confederate cause is the passport to
social recognition, to business patron age
and political preterment in every Southern
State; why, in short, men claiming TO be
men of honor, should seek by false pre-
tences of love for American nationality, to
obtain political power inside of Union. The
position of Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is
thoroughly understood and respected at the
North, because it is thoroughly honest,
manly and straight forward. Toombs de-
clares that he is still Confederate" and
will die Confederate. He makes no
pretense of loving the Union. He
does not conceive that the ray
ment of the national debt is a matter
which involves either his honor or
his interests, Strange as it may sound to
Ge neral Gordon, of Georgia, and others of
his following" the day is not far distant
when this same rebel, Robert Toombs, will
WELD an influence in the North before
which the political diplomacy" of other
Confederate leaders of the South will pail
into insignifcance. This s go because
ToOmbs is true representative of Con
federste sentiment and purpose. AS such
he will show the North the only way to
peace. That way consists either in ami
hilating the Confederate party or in incor-
porating it into the Union. rs England in
corporated Scotland after the contest for
supremacy between these two kingdoms.
No man need be told which of these alter
natives will be selected by the North. A
Confederate-America is a thing which
neither Toombs, nor Davis, nor Gordon
will ever live to see. The Confed ds.ate debt
will never be recognized.
The duty of all Republicans to their
principles is now clear. The appointment
of Chandler to the post of Secretary of the
Interior shows clearly that the era of con-
ciliating the "apprehensive' element in the
party is over. If the party is to stand, it
will stand by its own strength and be
directed by it's own chosen and trusted
leaders; by men who have been tried as it
we're with fire. The day of the Springfield
Republican and the New York Tribune is
over, SO far as their influence as Republi-
can journals ia concerned. The Repub.
lican party is strong enough TO reform it.
self; strong enough to beat the lite out of
the Confederate Democratic coalition, and
strong enough to complete its grand mis-