New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-20
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON'S PRESCRIP'
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J | over the case of the sick South. Accore
ing to special to the New Orleans Time!
he has written his prescription and ser
it to the Springfield Republican for pull
LEGATION. It runs as follows:
The Republican party must change it
| policy and bring to the front good men Il
the South who accept the results OF the wal
We do not know where Mr.. Wilson ha
r been during the past two or three years
that he should appear to be unaware tina
his proposed remedy IS exceedingly trit
and unavailing. 1t has been repeated
tried, without the success which well
meaning people hoped would result fron
it. And the very Democratic papers VIII
will now herald Mr.. Wilson's advice fortl
as sublime discovery can be cited a
witnesses against its efficacy. Their file
will show that from their standpoint sucl
rara auis as "a good man Ia Republican
in the South who accepts the results o
the war" is an impossibility. The momen
Southern man, no matter how high hi
standing, how irreproachable his charac-
ter or distinguished his services in the
Confederate cause, joins the Republican
party, or takes issue with the dominant
faction of the Southern white mans party,
he loses caste, and is reviled in oil the
papers and denounced by all the dema-
gogue orators in his State. Generals
Longstreet, JEFF Thompson, Hebert, and
even Eeauregard have been demonstrated
| with, scolded, denounced and abused for
| departing from the regular Bourbon last
| ditch faith. The last named gentleman
Of disapproval, having upon one occasion
attended what was called unifcation
meeting, composed of prominent citizens
of both races, held for the purpose Of at
tempting to reconcile the graver difficult
ties which divide the white and colored
people in the South. Although thou
sand or more names were signed to the
platform Of principles adopted at this
meeting, the professional politicians, not
only in this city, but throughout the
South, raised such cry Of abuse against
it that it was finally virtually abandoned,
and the movement, which was begun in
the right direction, failed, stung to death
by what was made to pass for public
opinion. Had General Beauregard and the
other honorable gentlemen of irreproach-
able character persisted in their patriotic
intent, and gone SO far as to accept Office or
nomination from the Republican party,
or the unifcation party. they would have
been denounced from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande as traitors to the South, rene
gades in the cause of the people. They
would have been characterized as "meh
who once stood SO high, and were SO
trusted by G. confding people, but now
fallen SO low" There were brave men ir
that movement; soldiers who had faced |
death on many holly contested field.
Yet they seemed to be wanting in courage !
10 face this furious fusilade of coarse !
abuse from the exceedingly small but |
guns Of the political batteries.
If Mr.. Wilson, or Mr.. Hoar and his
committee, who are expected to arrive
lere soon to do the work another COM
nittee neglected to perform, want any
estimony upon this point, there are
,lenty of unimpeachable witnesses to be
ound. Perhaps Mr.. bingham Law
ence, who published about o year ago,
ne of the best political letters ever given
0 New Orleans public will be willing to
xplain to the committee some Of the I'M
comfortable results OF his attempt, as a
God man, to come to the front and accept
ne results Of the war. He found the pres
IRE too great, and without being alb
olutely fayed alive, fguratively speak
lg, escaped to his plantation of three or
'ur hundred hands, where he hopes by !
lture good conduct to merit and receive
rgiveness for his one political mistake
is sole public act of folly. Il
There are few men in this country who
I'VE been called harder names in the
)uth than MIR. Wilson himself His old S
,olition sentiments before the war, his t
n or twelve years service in the United
ates Senate, during which lie was faith t
! and true to his country, have left an t
Tor attached to his name that no length .
time can efface, and in comparison c
tn which garlic smells as precious Il
ice. Mr.. Wilson is a good man, and s.
'uld be SO regarded in any truly Chris G
n community in the civilized world. ie
s private character is regarded without IL
Flemish, even in the South, where be is re
nply regarded as political devil, but a N
r man otherwise. But, with his present ii
d life long sentiments he would not re- II
We the support Of any white con- :"
tuoncy south Of Mason and Dixon's OF
e. If be were to cone from Massachu- OF
Is, he would be classed as a thievinp as
if he could boast Of resi- ez
ice of twenty or twenty-five years, his ha
K would Ds scallawag, while native Oh
,therners who have the nanliness to OF
,ress Mr.. Wilson's sentiments are tn
led traitors to the South. Es will see, tn
refore, that there is no opening left for Ii
good men in the South who have &C. tn
ted the results of the war" 20 come to tn
front as prescribed by him except lat
oush the agency of colored votes and sh
Sc OF tie few thousand white men here cas
, have the extraordinary, the signal PR
rage 20 proclaim their allegiance to an