New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-28
Special Correspondence of the Republican |,
NORTHERN POLITICS,


Reconstructed Under Confederate Aus.
pices, with Negro Seridom as the Cor
ner stone OF the Confederate South q
shall the Issues of the War be Re-
vivedf The Confederate Ostrich.
BosToN, November IL; 1875.
l have good authority for announcing
through the REPUBLICAN that the anti
slavery sentiment of the North will now
formally protest against the further recog-
milton of the Confederate power as polit-
cal force within the Union. The outrage
recently perpetrated in Mississippi will
form the issue, around which the new anti
slavery agitation will rally. This protest
will begin in the form of petition, and these
petitions will be forwarded to the RepubIi-
can Representatives of the people at Wash.
ington., 1t is certain that the Legislature of
Massachusetts will take cognizance of these
petitions and throw the weight of her
moral influence against any further attempt
TO conciliate men whose idea of civilization
consists in Mexicanizing the South
The new anti-slavery protest will embrace
three heads:
Flrst-A protest against the recognition
OF the Confederate power as an organized
political force within the Union, whether
Tor the control of the electoral college or
for the control Of the State governments of
the late slave States Of the Union.
Second-A protest against the right of
Confederate representation in the American
Congress.
Third-A protest against any form of serf.
dom or wage slavery for the emancipated
race at the South.
The blindest Confederate will see, even
through the darkness of his ignorance, that
t1e three points of this anti.slavery pro-
test raise an issue which will in itself, if
pressed, prove fatal to the Confederate
cause within the Union. 1t is needless TO
say that this protest will be pushed" II
will be pushed by men and women, who
are pledged to the defeat of the political
diplomacy of the pro slavery party. few
figures will Suffice to show that this move.
meDt on the part Of the anti-slavery senti.
ment OF the country ia made not an hour
too soon. The electoral college is formed of
soy votes; consequently $50 votes constitute
q majority or President making power
Vi this le0 votes, or majority" in the cleo
toral college, the late slave States furnish
l3S votes. twill be seen that it only needs
forty-twO additional votes added to this
Southern power" to control the govern.
ment. To obtain these forty-two electoral
votes from the North, while holding the
South firmly in hand as a compact social
and political unit, has formed, therefore, the
one fixed purpose of the Confederate lead.
ers from the day when Andrew johnson
adopted their policy of seconstructing the
South, on the basis Of negro serfdom. This
policy has been pushed with more or less
success, until the Confederates have nearly
reached the goal OF their desire. They have
captured every Southern State where white
msjorities prevail, including Delaware and
Missouri, from which latter State Carl
SphurZ (thia Of o-I A.
ceived instrument) has been driven
in disgrace. The Republican States of
South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi present the ouly opposition to this
scheme which exists Bt the South. l say
Mississippi, because the late revolution in
that State will not be permitted to stand.
The Confederstes have also obtained a firm
and a strong foothold in the American
Congress. 1t only needs to give them
the Presidency in order to reverse the re-
suits OF the war and restore the ante -bellum
condition of American politics. With the
executive power at Washington under their
control, or even neutralized by their in
tiuence, the Republican States of Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, SOUTH Carolina and Flor
ida would be speedily revolutionized, and
thus, the Confederate South, as compact
political unit, would be in position to die
tate the terms on which the American
Union should continue to exist. The negro
power would be merged politically into the |
Confederate power, and both welded by |
the same men who in 1864 were the polit- |
ical allies of George b. Mcclellan and the |
Tammany Hall Democracy.
The idea that this huge Confederate vul- |
ture can play successfully the part of |
ostrich lie simply absurd. The Confederate
conspiracy may bury it's head in the sand,
or in negro blood, and imagine that it's |
body is not seen. But this illusion will |
soon be dispelled. Mis-. issippi has opened |
the eyes of the North as to the purpose of |
this Confederate conspiracy The wisdom |
exhibited by General Grant last year in |
sending Sheridan to Louisiana, is now fully
indicated, and also fully appreciated by |
the North. If the Republican leaders in |
Congress had stood by the President then,
We should not have had the Mississippi |
affair to recttfy now. Arkansas and North |
Carolina would in such case have been sure |
Republican States. But the Confederate
purpose now plainly visible at last, and the |
danger OF permitting that purpose to cue
coed BY the capture of the Presidency, have |
combined to alarm the North. This alarm |
ie spreading. Just as the alarm in regard to |
the safety of the national securities spread |
at the prospect of democratic restors- |
ton" The forthcoming anti-slsvery protest |
will give voice and "body" to this alarm. |
The onus will then be upon General Gordon |
and others like him to prove that they are |
not "Confederates," and that Confederate |
sentiments does not control the political &C. |
ton Of the late slave States of the Ameri. |
can Union. This involves q burden of proof |
too heavy to be borne, and the Confederate |
scheme will sink and break under it. Better |
keep the faith, gentlemen, that you pledged |
through the surrender of Lee and give up |
your Confederate purpose. 1t is purpose |
which can never be realized. B.