New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-19
REPUBLICAN, VICTORY IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.

REPUBLICAN, VICTORY IN NORTH Cal
OLINA.
II The Associated Press agents are nc
paid for sending reports Of Republican
gains, and all dispatches from North Cal
DINA have been most carefully worded
, reserved like. as one would speak whe'
breaking TO friend the news of a friend
! death. \ special dispatch from Greens
5oro' TO the National Republican claims 70
the Republicans popular majority o
$4,000. with the complete defeat and de
noralization of the Democrats. This will
be the vote for the President in 1876. Not
witbstanding two counties in North Caro-
] lima were wrongfully given 70 Democrats BY
Democratic commissioners. the Republi
cans will have sufficient majority to con
troll the action of the convention, and thai
body will probably adjourn without &C.
comprising the object for which j: was
called by small Democratic majority in
the late Legislature. This overthrow OF
the Democracy in North Carolina is but a
part Of the tidal wave seen in the de-
creased naajorities in Kentucky. and
which will reach to Ohio and be felt in
other States holding elections this fall.
While this may be true, yet there is no
sympathy between the Democrats OF Ohio
and those OF North Carolina in the ques-
tons at issue. Ohio Democrats claim TO
want an inflated curf ency instead Of hard
money. and they have roped in poor
laboring men to ciamor for rags
instead Of gold as paymen: for wages.
The Democrats Of North Carolina are
equally unmindtul Of the interests Of poor
men. They were working for a new con.
stitution ior the State. and one Of the
amendments proposed was to establish
a high poll tax, and an infamous property
qualification for voters. They even went
SO far as to advocate clause which should
allow landholdeE to east one additional !
vote for every five hundred dollars worth
Of property taxed. They said this would
beat the niger, and nothing else could in
that State. The plan was exceedingly |
popular with plant ers. who saw way TO
buy land and send themselves to Con-
,ress, as they had voted in the old tines
'otes limited only by the number Of slaves
owned But just as the nabobs make ready
o beat the niger and capture the State
he poor white trash step in and say what
viii kill the poo, niger will kill polite
lily the poor white IN an. They also ask
in the establishme emit Of whipping posts.
I'D whipping men and women for minor
3enses, it might not happen that col.
red justice OF the peace. in the perform
nee # his duty, would not be found
'hipping a poor white man. What the
democrats of North Carolina do want is
W which shall work only one way, and
nat against celored men. The rights of
ocr white men can vel! be sacrificed,
ley think, to secure the great boon Of {
erpetual Democratic Office holding in the I
tate. g
What applies TO North Carolina applies c
) Texas and Alabana, where the Demo- +
ats think they have sufficient strength 4
ID are attempting 70 change eonstitu. d
'ns. In North Carolina they have q S
'od State constitution, satisfactory to a
ajority Of the people; but the Democrats !,
y it is Candy constitution, adopted n
len United States troops were in the
ate, and they did OF then have chance {,
shoot a sufficient number of colored y
N aud shape the new laws in their b
liking. The constitution is. therefore. y
'tastefol. They forget the changed order a.
things, and they forget that under the e,
n il slave States was necessary. Good a
ough constitutions were made and "
opted; they harmonized with the IL
lended constitution Of the United
stes. There is now no good reason to
,erfere with State constitutions. Such
,truments should be held sacred, and v;
knocked about according to the NJ
ICY Of every party in power. As well s.
We no constitution as one liable OF
be every year mended and tink- re
ID to bolster up political party. Now M
It in the Union, and consequently in all D
ties the rights Of all men are equal un- h.
; the law, and conflicting State consti. =,
ions have been mended to suit .he new
Ter and status OF men lately enfran- "
ised, there is no further necessity for the te
1stitution thinkers, and will not be until e
pular sentiment declares that women g,
Ill vote. 1--WE were publishing DEM D
ATTIC paper we should warn Southern fe
against pressing their bottoms p'
African snbje c.ion before the people at lie
5 time. They are making pills which if
rthern Democrats can not swallow, and &C
rhaps they will yet rejoice that their E
nd zeal failed to accomplish anything to
North Carolina. re
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