New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-23
correspondence of the New Orleans Republican.
NORTHERN POLITICs.

Brewing, Etc.
NEW YORK, September IL, 1875.
The issue which is to determine the fate
and the future of America has been Joined
in New York. The noticeable thing in the
makeup of the Confederate Democratic
platform and ticket is the retrograde chsrac-
ter OF both; "retrograde" SO lar as Demo-
cratic aggression is concerned. The Democ.
racy have retreated at both points where
the Republicans have lately assaulted them
These points are embraced in the old politi-
cal cries of measures" and "men" The
scheme of inf .tiOn has been aban doned in
New York. The old objectio nable party
leaders of the Democracy have be en- put to
one side. This is done to escape the "hot
shot" which the Republicans are now
pouring upon the two weak points of
the Democratic line. By repudiatipg
imitation the Democracy hope to Sc
cure the cooperation and sympathy of
New York capital. By setting aside the
old-line political leaders of the party it is
hoped that public distrust will be turned
into confidence. The placing upon the
ticket the names of prominent Republicans
is significant This is done in order to se-
cure two objects: First, to give character to
the ticket; secondly, to arrest the work of
reconciliation which is now going on among
hepuDIicans. How tar these tactics OF the
Democracy in New York will accomplish
the objects aimed at, rehains to be deyel-
oped by the contest before as. i feel conf
dent that the Republicans will carry the
State. The capitsli,ts t. and business in
.erests of the city of New York have re-
ceived notice from Ohio, and it is useless for
the New York allies of the Ohio Democracy
to repudists their "inf alton" friends of the
West. The setting aside of the old, otiec
tionable and disreputable leaders of the
Democracy will not give strength to the
party. 1t will produce discord and distrac-
tion in the household of the party and
alienate some of it's best workers. The Re-
publicans who have consented to transfer
Republican character and influence to the
common enemy will soon find themselves
without justification in the eyes of all hon.
orable men, and their n oral influence with
the public will cease when they themselves
will feel their owp degradation To sacrifice
ones position or life, if need be, for prin.
ciple or a great cause is one thing. To sell
out ones friends and abandon life long
principles from purely selfish or personal
considerations is quite another affair. Mr.
Biglow and his Republican associates will
discover this before many months have
passed. The policy of keeping alive discord
and division in the Republican party will
fail. The party is more thoroughly united
and better organized than it has been for
years. We shall henceforth present an un.
braken front to the euemy in this and every
other Northern State.
This, as "retrograde" action of the Con-
fedeIate Democracy, will surprise no one
who has watched the canvass in Maine.
where the Presidential contest OF 1876 egan
last month. If the electi Ii had come Oft in
Maine four months ago the Democracy
would have carried the State by 10000 ma
jor,ty. Indifference and dssensi among
Republicans would alone have secured the
triumph of the opposition. In three months
from his date the Republican majority in
Maine will be $4,000. In the Presidential
election of 1876 the "Star in the East will
rise Republican planet of the first magui-
tude. So of all the New England States The
proposition to recognize Confederate senti-
ment as a permanent and controlling
political force inside of the Union
and inside of the electoral college will
be rebuked by solid Never" from every
New England State in 1876. Thus the R.
publican tidal wave has set in from the
East. 1t comes tum bling in upon New
York like one of those mighty ocean waves
which, rising as it were from the unfathom-
able depths of the sea, and driven by
pbwer which is of itself, advances and
breaks with a reverberating roar upon the
headlands of the mainland. The d, mo-
cratic leaders can be seen standing about
in disconsolate groups, as if drenched
through and through with the spray of the
angry political surf which thus dashes,
as 1T were, in their very faces.
After while they will have to re-
move further and further back as
the tide Of public feeling and indignation
rises higher and higher. The experienced
sailor will see q coming hurricane in small
cloud as it scuds along an apparently beau
tiful sky. He will hear the first thunder
tones of the terrible torn ado in the low
"whistle" of an apparently harmless breath
of wind. The landsmsn will neither notice
the cloud or harken to the" " whistle" in the
wind. So of the terrible political storm
which is to sweep over this country during
the next eighteen months. The contest be
tween the Republicans and the Confederate
Democracy is going to be q death grapple.
The North is quietly Organizing and .pre-
pairing tor the emergency, just as she did in
1860. have had occasion more than once
in this correspondence to warn the con-
and responsible people of the
Sou tn in regard to the sinister purpose Of
Of the Confederate leaders in regard to
the certain consequences which will
follow when the Northern people fully COM
prehend the character and plans of the ON
,p;rators, who are once again aim NJ at the
supreme power. The contest in New York
will insugurate most Of the elements which |
will inevitably form the ''driving power" of
;he Republican party in this contest. This