New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-09
Weniell PhillinA, Views.


Wendell Phillips being called upon by
your correspondent, did not require the ap-
pllcatlon OF an lnterOgatOry force pump to
draw out his OppniOn regarding the third
term letter. tor he seemed to be entirely
prepared to discourse upon the subject.
Mr.. Phillips said-.I like the letter 1t
does not change my Judgment, however,
which IS that. all things considered, Grant
is emphatically the man for the next Presi-
dent. | scout all this prattle about concilia-
tiOn. We babble like children about peace,
before We have secured justice; We exhort
each other to forgi We before the sinner has
even professed repentance. But the fact
remains that the white South has never for
given her cOn4uerOr and never epted the
first idea of the declaration of independence.
The wild Southerner has been tanned; he
will never fight the flag again. The cum
ming OF the madman is left. He seeks to
write over the flag its old lie. Calhoun
taught. and every white adult in Tho South
believes to-day. that this is a white mans
government. Th61gh you bray them with
the pestle Ia a mortar you will never crush
this folly out of them.
The personal ambition or party indltisr
ence which killed the force bill revealed
Northern weakness. Congress showed its
unhtness 10 deal with the epoch. We needed
a statute which showed the nation equel .a
the hour, and its wish to intrust the presi-
dent with the means to meet It. II is always
dangerous to trust men wholly. Better far
70 aid, direct. and inspire then by laws az
eqUate 70 the crisis. When Congress refused
the force bill. ehe lett the true men ot TIE
nation With one alterEauve-We must take
tor presIdent a man "ho is himself a .urCc
bill-that is. Grant l am certain tia. UL-
der no other man can the Republican parry
hope for success. II we must be baked and
put back let it not DO by the N-pUbllcans:
but as England was by the traltor james.
who necessitatea the revolution @. 1888.
Johnson treason IN 1866 saved US. Demo.
cratic treason i'll 1876 may save Us again.
4 Republicans treason would be d9ubly
dangerous. With these views demand Of
Grant that he lead us again TO victory.
Blaine aud Morton are stron. ruen. but
they can not carry the nation. Ii Grant
Goes not give us the use of his name, III my
opinion. the Democrats will elect their Pres
ident. That means the white South victo.
rious, as / was ridiculed for anticipating il
1866; it means civil rights tramplet under
foot the Confederate debt recognized and
paid in part or in full; it means cOmpensa-
tion for the slaves whom the war freed
Congress will discuss these issues for the
next four years. The North, with a sensi
tive pocket, may rally and prevent the full
success of these sche mes, but the very discus
sion will carry down our bonds twenty per
cent in every market. l know the objec-
tions to third term" l remember points
of policy and single acts OF the adninistra-
ton, acts to which l could neither give
sympathy nor support, acts which were
neither craftsmanship nor those of an
honest man; but the work of this era is 90
stereotype into statutes and ineXOrable Gus
toms the principles which carried our flag
to the gulf; to blot from American civi! lite
the distinction of race; to make our re
public cease to be a sham and our citizens
a herd of hypocrites; to practice what our
fathers have disgusted the world by emptily
protesting: to make good the noble boast
that our flag everywhere protects every
citizen.
claim for General Grant that no man in
public lite has done more than he has 10
help on this time OF decent consistency be-.
tween profession AID practice. l support
the man who made peace in New Orleans
rather than the committee which traded it
away. The fate of the negro is still the
problem of our politics. There is no public
man whom l should feel perfectly safe in
trusting it with. But compelled to choose,
Ulysses Grant is, by all odds, by choice for
the next President. If the superstition of
two terms shuts him off from tho race,
should witness, with profound anxiety, the
success o: aDy man who opposed the force
bill.
If New England were privileged to fur
nish the President no friend of the negro
race and of a prompt national pacifcatioa
would dream of suggesting aDv other namo
than that of General i. r. Butler -Ner
.Ovi Heygfy