New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-12
:. Reproach to Republicans.

Mississippi has from 10000 to 10000 Re-
publican ,naiuliLy on a fuil vote. The State
has just been carried by the Democracy.
Almost every county elects the Democratic
Sicket. Every Congressman 10 Il Democrat,
With possibly Dae exception, and the Legis-
iature is overwhelmingly Democratic. Pos
sibly the Republicans felt no interest 10 the
election" saws one. On the contrary. the
feeling WAS an Intense one, Hs il usually Is.
Even i've mouths ago The excitement was
great. as The bloody scenes at Clinton and
YazoO City testify. 1t was not that. Ii
was not a lack OF interest, but it has simply
come TO this in Mississippi, that an attempt
to cast the Iull Republican vote OF the State
means wholesale murder and destruction to
those ate mptng II 1t means that every.
Republican must take his lite in his hand
when he goes TO the polls. 1t is not
very strange, therefore. that the peace
fully inclined people OF the State have
preferred to submit for the time and permit
the triumph ot the White League. We
think they. will discover that they have
paid too great price for peace; but of that
hereafter Pretty soon we shall receive the
tscts regarding the election OF Tuesday,
snd will SEQ The precise influence brought
to bear in bringing about this shameful
victory. Meantime we desire to direct the
attention of Republicans of the North to
the part they have played in this business,
and the responsibility which rests upon
them for the result. For two years the Re-
pubicans of Mississippi have appealed in
vain to their party friends in the North for
protection o. even sympathy. They have
been sneered al, ridiculed, slandered, and
by none 50 persistently and shametuiy ga
by these who profess to be their political
friends. Socalled Republican papers of
the North have teemed with attacks on
f.carpet-baggers;' they have been alive
with barbarous jokes gu the colUred
huN. hoe faF 70
break out in their ill-timed jests even
while colored Republicans were laying
down their lives 10 vinGieate their right 10
the ballot. Year after year this has been
going on. sympathy was denied them,
help was refused them, and even the tritiing
protection hat was now and then given by
the government was extended grudgingly,
and generally came too late Is it any
wonder that they grew dispirted aud
finally yielded--yielded, to, Just as the re-
turning reason OF the North began to tell
them that there was life still left in the
parry which they had reason to believe was
dying or upgratetul! But now what will
be the cost OF this victory in Mississippi
We need not hesitate for an answer. We
know what Democratic ascendency has
oOsJ in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Arkansas,
in Texas; and the same result will follow in
Mississippi. In the first place, the struggle
30 reclaim the State to Republicanisin will
ne an almost nOpeit 50 ask. IL was ulfflcuit
iJl the Republicans to sustain themselves
while they had possession of the State
offices and the militia it will be ten times
harder now. Unless there are CAUSES Tor
rhis defeat which do not appear upon the
surfaon, MisssSi ppi may be counted as
- 'nUcratio Ter years to come.
10 tie SECOND place, tue trump of the
Democracy IN the stsie means, an it has
meant lit i,Xi., Georgia aud tn. other
States named, The u'ath a. free schools.
The policy OF general education is AT war
with the DemOcs utIo iust'ncti Ill hose s. aiea,
and will not DO tolerated.
1nstt ad of educating and eleva,ing the
colOred voter, helping him tOra ard, pr par
ing him to discharge lntelligently the dui es
of citizt nship, he will be remanded, as lar
ton which naturally attends it. These, in
themselves, are results which good men
should mourn: but they may be supple.
mentsd by others still more disastrous, and
the loss of Mississippi may end in the prac
tical subOrdlnatiOn of the wbcls cOored
vote in the South to Democratic domino
ton. All this is directly traceable to the
apathy, neglect, and absolute inhumanity
of Northern Republicans, and especially
Northern Republican editors, who have di :
regarded the cry which has come up to
them, and have permitted their friends and
allies to 60 down before organized bands of
aesaseins without an effort to save them
The party deserves the blow, but the col
ored people uf Mississippi do not deserve
Tho its,a which bsr thus come upon them
, ERicQg0 inter Ocean