New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-06
A FATAL ADMISSION,


| Democrats" assumes the Bulletin. Tn
Presidential election Of 1860 showed
! Republican vote of 23l, 200, against
Democratic vote of 1871, 900. There wer
. about as many votes given to Bell, tn
Union candidate, as to Breckenridge, tn
candidate of the secession principle
There remains, then, a Republican major
ity in Ohio in 1860 of more than 10000
In 1864 there was Republican majorit.
in Ohio of nearly G0,00) AS the frs
army was filled by volunteers we have
right to infer that the Ohio Democrat
who voted for Breckenridge, and thos'
represented by Mr.. Vallandigham, did no
enter the army to the same extent as thos'
who had voted for Lincoln. Whether thu
Republican majority of 1864 was caused
by the superior valor of the Democracy
which carried them into the war-or into
Canada can not say, but the assertion
of the Bulletin that the majority of Ohio
soldiers were Democrats" is by no means
borne out by facts, or, indeed, by proba.
bilities. sS<,
If, however, majority of the Ohio
soldiers were Democrats, the Bulletin
must perceive it has made an admission
most fatal to the principles Of the South
ern Democracy. For what was the war
fought? In Mississippi the vote for
Breckenridge (secession) was 10000, for
Bell (Union) $4,000, for Douglas 1888,
and for Lincoln (Republican) none. The
issue was, then, the right of State to
secede from the Union. The Democracy
Of Ohio in voting against Lincoln and
Bell voted for secession. In asserting,
then, that the Democrats who voted for
secession went into the war to defeat Sc
cession, the Bulletin affirms the treachery
of the Ohio Democracy to the principle
of the Southern Democracy. 1.-THE war was
fought to assert secession and the Ohio
Democra cy fought to defeat secession,
b ow can the Bulletin claim that the Ohio
Democracy is State rights party? What
can cause the difference in the standing Of
Sherman and Mcclellan with State
rights men of the South we can not see.
The one was an avowed Republican, the
other Q State rights Democrat. Each
carried the war into the South, with all
the injury which State of war authorizes,
yet the character of the one is vilifed,
while.the other was run for President.
General Blair was State rights Democrat
who is credited with having been among
the first to command negro soldiers; he
received as candidate for Vice President
the Democratic State rights vote in the
South.
We infer from these statements that the
State rights Democracy of the South can
condone the treacherous abandonment of
a common principle by its Democratic al
lies in Ohio, and can, in spirit of Chris
tian and fraternal forgiveness, pardon the
Southern blood which they have shed,
and the Southern property despoiled and
destroyed by them. According to the
Bulletin, more Democratic State rights
than Republican soldiers would have ac-
companied Sherman's march to the sea.
The State rights Democrat who took a
bale of cotton or horse was wholly in
nocent, and was eligible to Office by South
ern votes His Republican comrade who
co-operated with him in the capture was
of any confidence. A State
rights Ohio Democrat may have loaded
army wagons with Confederate cotton, and
is to-day politically sound, while Re-
publican who may have done the same
thing is objectionable. To our mind, the
who believed in the supremacy
Of the Union was justified, rather than the
Democrat who did not. The Republican
was justifable from his standpoint in dis
abling an enemy; the Democrat would be
lespised by all honest-minded men in
dining his political enemies to despoil his
political friends.
We observe the Hon. Mr.. Booth has
succeeded to the vacancy as national
yer, occasi oned by the abdication of Mr..
MARI. His last epistle treats, among
many other things, of ga national De-
Has that gentleman consid-
red the antago nisms of that party? Does
le really know that Democrat of Penn
;ylvania differs more from Democrat Of
Alabama than ink differs in color from
now? Yet such is a fact which must be
lnown to every American conversant with
he history of his country. Now, as Hon.
Lr. f. Boot tn has current access to the
columns of the daily press, We call upon
lin to lay down schedule of Democratic
principles proper for use in this Southern
and we will confront it by the
root that a public man calling himself a
Democrat at the North or West has pro-
laimed exactly the opposite doctrine.
70 talk of a national Democracy is, in
ur opinion. to err through ignorance
f American history, or upon the
that other people are
ynorant Of that subject. Long before
Ion Mr. Booth had withdrawn his vol
anic zeal from the vindication of suffer
ng Ireland, and transferred the same
owerful agency to the suffering South,
re have known this Democratic incon-
lstelcy.
Before the war, General Butler was a
tate rights Democrat the South.
Whatever may be said by his opponents