New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-08
WILL THE NORTH STAND TRUEe

WILL THE NORTH STAND TRUEe
4 Political Resume-A Question of Homo
as Well az Of Principle Will the Nortl
Stand by Her Principles and Vindicat'
Her Houov in the Next Presfdentfa
| Election4
BosroN, August 3, 1875.
| EDITOR REPUBLICAE:
In 1860 the American people elected
Abraham Lincoln President of the United
States. The election was a solemn protes
on the part of the free North against any
further compromise with slavery. The party
! which made this protest was necessarily q
sectional party, although representing the
| rights Of 5000, 600 of bondsmen and 5000,
| 900 Of poor ignorant Southern whites
as abject and degraded as tho slaves
go abject and degraded. indeed, that
! these livery negro slaves. looked down
| upon them with contempt. This in
| mense Southern constituency Of the North
ern ''liberty party" were voiceless IN this
| struggle between the sections. The negroes
were not allowed to think, and even if they
| could have thought and acted for them
selves they would not have acted with the
poor whites, for the simple reason that these
poor whites had, in their ignorance. been
made to look upon the negro Is their
enemy. Thus the Republican party took
shape as sectional party. to fight out the
battle which was not only to emancipate the
negro from chattel servitude. but which
was to liberate the poor white from the
mental and moral degradation which had
so long enslaved him. Against the Repub-
lican uprising Of the Northern people the
slave oligarchy openly :ebelled. 1t made
issue with tha North en- two distinct
counts"
]. That this was not a government Of the
people. but government composed Of sov-
ereign States, and that consequently a
numerical majority had NO right Of rule uD-
der our constitution.
2. That Abraham Lincoln was "vul-
earian,' the representative of "vulgariaus."
and that they, the Southern aristocracy,
would never live contentedly under a "vul-
gar" Republican administration Of national
affairs.
The leaders of this Southern oligarchy
proceeded to make these declarations good.
Under their promptings the Gulf States
withdrew from the Union. The representa-
tives of the seeding States me: at Mont
gOmery. Alabama, and there resolved them
selves into provisional government. Terms
Of peace were then offered to the Northern
States. These terms were embraced IN two
propositions:
/. The dismissal Of tbs Republican party
from power.
2. The recognition of the Democratic
State rights doctrine, as the true theory Of
tho government in opposition to the dogma
Of popular sovereignty. e,
These terms were rejected by the North
and wat followed. After four years Of war,
these peace propositions were renewed.
They entered into the Presidential contest
in 1861, and General Mcclellan as tho pres
nominee on the Democrat side
the Confederate policy. Again
the North rejected these propositions and
reelected Mr.. Lincoln President OF the
United States. The fal! Of Richmond
and surrender Of General Lee. closed
the military phase Of this politi-
cal struggle. Andrew Johnson's ac-
cession to power, revived the hopes and for
tunes Of the Confederate party. Again
were made the peace propositions which
had been twice rejected by the North. In
this instance the power :1d patronage of
The general government were thrown into
The scale on the side of the Ccnfederates.
all this, the North, as be. !
fore stated, rejected the Southern PROPOSE
ions. The executive power having by the |
act OF an assassin passed beyond the con-
;rol of the people, they. the people, filled |
both houses Of Congress with their repre-
and thus took possession Of the !
government. The executive pswee was
,urbed. Congress extended its jurisdiction /
,ver the late cohfedera.ed States. The |
,egro was enfranchised. The Southern
was gwen to understand tha. the
rec North intended to make its principles
,ood from the Potomac to the Rio GIande.
From that day to this the struggle has
continued. The Confederates have never
or one moment abandoned their purpose
f finally driving the Republican party
rom power. The approaching centennial
of the declaration Of American
is to be taken advan.
age of as a favorable time for the
enewal of tho peace policy of the
Democracy. The conditions
f this peace policy are practically
he same to-day that they were in 1860,
'hen made by the provisional government
ormed by the Confederate leaders at Mont
omery, Alabama. These convictions are,
1e overthrow Of the Republican party as
ational power, the expulsion of its adher
nts from every Southern State. the re.
landing of the negro citizen to the political
1stody of his former master, and the re-
wal Of the dogma of State sovereignty as
yainst the right Of popular msjdrities. II
Do the intelligent portion of the South
n people suppose that this programme
IN be carried out! How much longer will |
telligent Southerners consent to be the
ind followers of the blind9 Nothing is
ore certain than the utter defeat, in 1876,
this Confederate Democratic conspiracy.
he terms of peace proposed through
avis in 1860; again through Mcclellan in
81; again through Andrew johnson in 7
66; agian through Seymour and Blair in
G.; again through Horace Greeley in the
1T election. will be rejected in 1876. To
cept them would be q complete sur
nder of the North to the original =
mands of Davis, Teombs, Stephens and
.z, -, ~nodo - VQ6O M ono IN he%tor | Z