New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-17
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY, JANUARY II. 1875.
Stop and Consider.

Stop and Consider.
| In tho heated discussions which are now
the order Of the day upon Southern affairs,
! we constantly hear all sorts of successive
charges rung over the "hatred of the South
| BY the North" This is the stock in trade
| the grand climax Of Democratic, Liberal
| and independent newspaper logic and
| argument. We have been told from time
to time that the Republican party has Of
| late been based upon this one idea-that
outrages have been made to order upon
which to carry elections, and that. it has
| been the policy of the party to unsettle
| everything in the South, and keep that Sec
ton in constant ferment, in the belief that
the old patriotism of the North could be
I constantly drawn upon to keep it in power.
The ex.rebel General Gordon in the United
states Senate the other day. sung this song
to all sorts of tunes, representing the South
as only peaceful, lOng-suffering, and full of
all the milder and gentler attributes of
humanity. According to this high authority
about all the people want down there is 'to
De let alone" just as jeff Davis expressed
himself early in the war.
Against all this species of argument, what
are the facts of the case? When the war
closed thousands of Northern people wished
to emigrate to the South and take advap-
her genial climate, fertile soil, rich mineral
deposits, water powers, and other resources
with which she is 80 infinitely blessed.
They desired to 60, not as political adven-
turers-c arpet-baggers-for this class was
but few in comparison with those whose
mission would benefit every people and
every community. Where such people
carry their household goods, manufacturing
enterprises, improvement of the soil, bust.
thrift on6 tho o1o
inevitably follow. Schoolhouses and
churches would have sprung up on
every hand, and all Of tho highest and
best interests, both of che newcomers
and those to the mapor-born, would have
been conserved and fostered. For an i'm
migration of this character the South
has fallov ground. Few communities since
the war have ever stood in need of just that
kind Of renovation which the Yankee
would have effected. The South was i'm.
poverished. Her supreme needs wore those
ct capital and business, spirit and energy.
There Is not one Of our intelligent Northern
readers who can not point to persons within
his own circle OF acquaintance who went
south for the purpose of engaging-not in
political agitation, not in pursuit Of public
office, not in an effort to degrade 1.-THE noble
people Of the South"-but In the pursuit of
legitimate business interests. They were Of
tha that class whom the people Of any of our
thriving embryo cities in Illinois, iowa, or
any other Western State or Territory.
would have welcomed 60 their midst, do
mated them town lots, taken stock in their
enterprises, and encouraged them by
overy means in their power! But
what was their reception in the
South! Not only were they from the first
regarded with suspicion and hatred, but
their enterprises were discouraged, and in
the end they were made 60 uncomfortable
That they were forced 10 leave! This, we
say, has been the treatment Of multiplied
thousands Of Northern people, disinciined
TO take any active part in politics, and who
only went South for purposes which would
command the favor and praise of everv
man and every community not welded to
the restoration of tho lost cause. In the
city of New Orleans there were . large
number Of Northern men in legitimate
business enterprises at the close of the war.
At the present time Of those who were Re-
publlcans but three remain! The rest have
oeen driven out by one species of prOsecu
ton or another! In these statements we
refer not to the class known as politicians
office see kers-but to such as have made
our Western towns and cities what they are
TO day, 60 far as business, prosperity. and
the elevation of society are concerned.
Again, the assertion that the Republican |
pOIlcy mas D06n one OF hatred to the South
il moro than disproved BY the rapid man
ner in which political disabilities have been
removed and the States welcomed back to I
representation in Congress. That the Vice |
President of the Southern Confederacy, and |
scores Of rebel generals are in this Congress |
and te be il the ,ext. are due to tho spirit
}; kindness ana eOnciliatiOn which has
lctuated the ReDubllcan party from the
lay that Che South grounded arms at Ap-
'omatso1 Courthouse. The spirit in
which this elemency has been met is
hown IN the constantly rising tide of o.
reclsin. persecution and murder, BY which
mas been followed. This is the measure of
appreciation with which the efforts made
olely by the Republican party have been
net from the very first. In other lands,
ebelliOn quelled would have seen it's leads
rs hung. and its inhabitants either reduced
the condition Of vassalage, or deprived
or generation OF all representation or
oice in their government. The great mis-.
AXE which the Republican party made. it
too evident to-day, has been on the side
clemency-a clemency which, in it's
readtk and generosity, in it's purity, pat.
otisn, and Cfisinterestedness, has no par. |
|lel in the history of mankind. Such are
le facts as they will be indelibly recorded |
future years. and yet ''the outrage milv'
ripds On!-7utey'. Ocean.