New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-08
VICTORY OF TIE YANKEE DEMOCRATS.

VICTORY OF THE YANKEE DEMOCRATS
The term yankee" has been always
used by the Democracy as bugaboo to
terrify naughty persons who do not Vote
the Democratic ticket. The French Creole
population is especially exasperated by
any imputation of this sort. They have
an abomination for abolitionists and
heretics, which they consider the quail
ties of all residing cas-: of the Hudson.
This luminosity has been sedulously
inculcated from the days when Mr.. Slidell,
the Democrat, objected to Mr.. Conrad as
Wing and therefore little better than an
abolitionist, and tainted with that original
political sin, the United States Bank and
the protective tariff.
But while the Democratic leaders have
always babe their followers beware Of a
Yankee or of any one who associated with
or voted for Yankees, they have granted
special dispensations to such Of their own
party as could derive advantage from a
loan Of Yankee money, or Yankee ap-
pointment to any sort Of an office.
Notably these Southern State Rights
Democrats kneeled down at the feet of
the Yankees when they voted for New
Hampshire high tariff, abolition and
ION to Richmond Yankee as President.
They voted at the same time against
Missourian who had always differed from
| the native Of New Hampshire. Our
/ Southern Democratic journals are de-
| lighted with the Democratic victory" in
Connecticut.
A Yankee, according to its strictest def
milton, is man who dwells in New Eng
land. The Objectionable qualities attri-
buted to him are an imputation upon the
morals or manners Of all people who dwell
in that country. To have been born in
New England is to be Yankee, and to be
a Yankee has been, in the Southern Dem
ocratic creed, to be an object of distrust.
These imputations upon the people of an
entire section are unfounded and absurd,
but this constitutes the chief political
capital Of the Southern Democracy, A
Yankee is, then, a man or woman heretical
in religion and political opinion, or
capable Of taking any advantage OF those
who deal with or confde in them. Let
this Democratic definition stand for mo-
ment. Is not every inhabitant of New
England equally subject to this charac-
ter? It can not be said that large
portion of the people Of New
England are no. Yankees because
they are Democrats. The time has been
in the history OF New England that a
large majority were Federalists and hos
tile to Democracy. How happens it, then,
that with such a despicable and danger
Gus character as the Democrats have
assigned to the New Englander, the Dem
ocrats Of New Orleans rejoice in Yankee
Democratic victory in Connecticut? It
proves that there are more Yankees in
Connecticut in favor of the Democratic
doctrine than opposed to it. Connecticut
IS one home of industry, intelligence and
thrift. It is also the precise point at which
the Eastwood ham originated. Shoddy
Of shoes and cloth fourishes in Connecti-
cut. There We're manufactured the arms
Of precision, and we believe the spades,
which subjugated the South. Why then
should these Democratic politicians, who
INSIST upon again intrenching the line Of
Mason and Dixon, and who hate eyery-
hing north of that line as Frenchman
hates Prussian, rejoice over a victory of
iankees? We should as soon expect
I1acNIahon to hurrah for a successful can
lidate for q seat in the German Diet.
We have always expressed surprise that
ny Southern Democrat could ever place
enewed trust in Northern State rights
Democrat. No one at the South ever l
xpects Northern Wing, Union man t
L Republican to consent to q separation (
f the States. But every one at the South e
id expect the State rights Yankee Demo- t
rats to unite in resisting the attempt to +
ompel obedience of the Southern States t
here were thousands of men at the South | e
no on principle would have resisted any 1
tempt to compel the obedience of State d
the federal government, but there were s
any more thousands who were told that | 81
e Yankee State rights Democrats would O.
ever invade sovereign State or permit p
invasion. We boldly say, then, that IL
e positive assurance of Southern Demo. a.
ats that Yankee Democrats would aid ca
e South or stand neutral had q material CT
tueuce upon the secession vote. n
How did these Yankee State right Dem ~
rats meet this assurance? BY Offering
me faint opposition to the proclamation l
Mr.. Lincoln, yielding to the pressure th
public opinion and going in for every re
iltary contract or commission which tx
nd be obtained at Washington. As a re
ecimen of the manner in which political en-
stractions will yield to personal obliga- tn
ms We cite two distinguished cases. Of
neral Dix, in his eulogy of Stephen \. ed
'uglas, native of Vermont and citizen at
Chicago, atlirms that when that states
n, forgetting the party antagonism De
ich had separated him from Mr.. Lin. It
II, visited and rendered him lis aid in tn
approaching conflict. he also remarked th.
a friend that he had but one regret. 1t
was that he had ever been separated TIL
n the section Of his nativity, and with he