New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-11
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS AND SOUTHERN
REPUBLICANS, r-s<~s e-s0r

, Democrats are SO anxious once more t
rejoin. Our attention has been draw
; to the adoption OF new party cogno
men. 1t is that Of Southern Republicans
We have not been in communication will
these gentlemen, and therefore can cnl,
see in the name suggested q wish to secure
the established principles of Republican
, ism by presenting on all occasions thu
names of unexceptionable candidates, sc
!, that The principles Of the Republican
party will not be obscured by imputations
against the character of the men. We
presume the name adopted, then. is in.
tended only to mark the cordial union Of
men who are identified with the South by
indisputable evidences of interest, and to
| afford them justification in saving SUI
fering country from the compulsory en-
forcement Of the laws upon one hand. and
from q social strife which cuts off the
South from all outside sympathy on the
J other
Those who have adopted this sectional
distinction have not intended, we infer, to
divide the Republican party. but to re-
move the prejudice OF Southern men and
admit their alliance With the Republican
party. Perhaps their object may Be effect
ed just as Mr.. Jefferson, three.quarters OF
century ago, proposed to defeat the
''monocrats" and paper money men Of
that day. He says:
This may be done peaceatiy by The people
cOnfining Themselves t. the choice of Repre-
sentxtives and Senator'S to persons attached
to reDublican government and the principles
Of l7s6: not office hunters, but persons
whose interests are entirely agricultural.
These gentlemen having had no occa.
sion to regard the adopted appeflation in
any other than local point Of view. have
not, perhaps. remembered that tho Re.
publican party first originated in the
South; that the Republican party Of the
South elected the great Republican chief
Thomas Jefferson. and that the appella-
ton now timidIy veptured on. is one
which was once moro hohored in The
South than any party has ever been since.
The Republican party Of the South was
based, As the present party, on devotion
to the rights Of man. 1t was founded.
established and contaminated by South
trn man. It fought the war Of the Revo. |
luton and the war Of 1879 against the
weight of monocrats and paper men, |
against aristocracy and the unlimited dis. !
erection OF the federal executive.
As we can not condense history in !
newspaper article. We will give few ex.
tracts from the writings OF Nj. Jefferson
showing taat he was q Republican and
nothing else. The term Democrat was
applied to him as an equivalent for .
Jaccbin Of France, but we do not know
that he ever called himself by that appel.
Faticn. He ha6 ''sworu upon the altar of
MS country eternal hostility to every form
II domination over the mind OF man."
Hence his interest in the elections He
writes in 1898 from Philadelph;a:
So far ~ We have heard the even. has
oeen generally in favor of republican sud
against aristocsutic candidates.
In this State tho election has beeI tri-
,mphantly carried BY the Repu nlicans,
heir antagonists having got but two out of
,1even members.
Mr.. Anes. of Ma" :huse:ts. the Colossus
It the nonoc'a's and PAPER men. will be
zept out or hard run.
He considered the revolution in France
IS fight between 1.-THE republican pa.
riots and the fnonarchist patriots" and
le said Of the war:
My own affections have been deeply at.
ected by some of the MARTYRS Of this cause.
ut rather than it should have failed. I
you'd have seen half the earth desolate.
To friend. who was shocked by the
trocities Of emancipated France. be wrote: 3
Excepting the little party who look TO ,
le establishment of monarchy, the success
reDublicaniem in France has finished
1em Except these the country is entirely I
spublicau, friends to the constitution, anx-
ms to preserve 1t and to have it admins | I
'red according to its own republican prih- =
piles. t.
Why did he express himself so tiercely e
bout the popular sentiments Of the !
rench revolution: Because the mon. i
rchists and autocra.s in America looked il
pom this as an argument in favor of
ereditary and discretionary monarch.
ecause Thomas Jefferson was Republi.
IN, and as such the friend of human :,
eedom and human equality. He re-. :.
afded the French strife as the war Of .e. "
ablicanism against monarchy, and the ~
artyrs were but as any other dead SOL :,
ers on the battle fields of Edgehill, or :.
exington, or Yorktown, or New Or
ans. He expressed the doctrine of the -
epublican party then. as now, in these !.
ords:
Our countrymen are essentially repubH- -
u. Thew retain unauthorized the pria. .
pies of rs IL
He expressed his own political opinion te
that of Volney: "Volney is for the +
use of republicanisrn, or of man on "
g broad scale" Mr.. Jefferson opposed p]
e administration of Mr.. Adams. He az
d even apprehensions that the stately W
rms of court usage adopted by that CO
and republican, President Washington,
ght tend to reinstate monarchy. The
en- and sedition laws, which gave to
9 executive such power over the citizen. e1
voked his jealous and uncompromising &C
tired. His celebrated resolutions of SO O
re drawn to protect the individual I'M O,
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