New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-04

AND you shall live, and IL 10 only half o.
scivilization. Men Of Colonel Lamar's IA
teiligenco and experience know that al
men have equal protection and shelter un
der the law, the manner of voting to be
copsidered afterward, and it is to be hoped
he eau instill such opinions into ths nlindi
of men who have constituted the mohs oi
Mississippi. The jackson convention, q
reported, certainly has good look.
The Welcome Of Fitzhugh Leo at Bestoa.
The welcome given to ADutherfm men who
attended the centennial celebration at
Bunker's Hill, Boston, and other places,
was en- evidence Of sincesity on the part OF
the North Nhich is not to beignored. The
people assembled at Boston are said to
have received Fizhdgh Lee with "ringine
bursts Of app3ause; men threw their hats in
the air and yelled themselves hoarse; ladies'
waved their handkerchief" ETC.; and it is
to be presumed that these persons had
grounds for the enthusiasm they exhibited.
They knew who they were greeting; they
knew they were not welcoming men who,
like themselves, had always loved the
quite aware that FitZhugh Lee had fought
to destroy the Union, to found which the
initial struggles occurred one hundred
years since, at Lexington and elsewhere
What were the sentiments of Fitz-
hugh Lee. at such . rsceptionl Did he
and his Friends assume that solitary
chee1 was raised because they had been
faithful to the rebellion: that they had led
rebel troops to slaug1ter the husbands and
sweethearts nf Tbs woman. or their fathers,
brothers and relatives in the Northern
armies Did they imagine that they at
tracted interest because they had pressed
based upon human slayery-slavery so re-
morselessf Shat there was no chance for nit
igation nr of freedom till death! Lee could
not think chat the cheers he heard, and the
kind words addressed to him, were in con-
sequence of his faithful participation in
treason which aimed at severingthe Union
the glorious work of the fOrefathers of the
people who received him. Nor. could he
suppose that in beholding him they were
inspired to continue the work of binding up
the nation which he had tried to disrupt, of
legislatiOn so as to cenfer.the largest free
dom snd happiness upon the ggeatest num-
bers. They could not even regard Lee as
model man insany sense. beeaase if they
sought to forget his record as q rebel, they
saw in him one who supported slavery prac
tically, which from tie depths of their souls
they abhorred.
What, then, lay at the bottom of the re-
cepti0n of Lee, . Confederate officer, who
fought in the rebellionl Doubtless the peo-
pie had no intention to. forget what he him
snd what he did. It is true they asked no
question-they called for 10 explanation.
They had heard that prominent Southern
men expressed surprise at an alienation Of
feeling in the North. They understood that
the South desired to return to the Union,
and that Southern men declared that the
ww ended at Appomatox; that they ac-
cepted the eituation; that they we're good,
loyal citizens. They knew also that cr1es
of distress had come out Of the South, for
the prosperity of which SO mach had been
wero oppressed sand hindered IN the exer-
else of their political rights; that those
men were 4epublicans on principle, or
from gratitude for what the Re-
publican party had goined for them;
that murders had resulted from the ex.
preston Of difference in political opinion
that society in the South was disturbed by
tho turbulence, not Of the roudy element,
but the element which prides itself upon it's
aristOcratio pretensiOns and tendencies,
which claims leadership because it is white
Blu OuCo OWucu eidVts-UoCauSo 10 wore
the gray or sympathizsd with the men who
fought on that side-and, having survived
the fearful struggle, have been enriched by
the magnanimity OF Republican statesmen,
who spared them and put an end to blood
shed, while they prepared way for fra.
ternal restoratiOn. AL this they Knew; snd
yet as that enthusiastic audience gazed
upon the pereon Of Fitzhugh Lee, they did
not stay: to ask If he was Fitzhugh Lee. an
unrepentant rebel, Or Fltzhugh. Lee. who
surrendered, with the sxQies oethe aS0ata,
everything for life, and promised everything
hat good citizen ought to perform,
and who had kept his promise On the
honor Of soldier. They regarded the pres.
,nce of Fitzhugh Lee on that occasion, as
evidence that he was no longer the Fitzhugh
Lee OF old time; that a change had passed
over him; that the lea%en Of treason had
' Tanished his heart; and that in place of it
was loyalty SO true and sincere, that it
,af impelled him to proceed to the soil
where the earliest patriots fell and sled
heir baood to found a republic. This was
he cause of the welceme. Feeling the
,lOw of patriotism in their own bosom.
hey evinced ito warmth, and strength, and
fiendlmess in aneech and action. They
never imagined the prevalence of con-
rary sentiment. They thought Fitzhugh
Zee was a convert from treason. If Fitz-
lueh Lee and other participants in the
ebellion are conscious that no such change
las taken place, ,-and all the talk of fra
ernization required, that loyal men of the
North must h6come Soathern in principle,
. the first aud only step to restore the
'outh to the Union and to unity-then the
welcome rendered thsm was
j ven uader . oiDongeption. If . radical
iference Of pslitical opinion still exists on
he poeA of she reeipiente, which sho ws THAI
nore haA been 90 oavance on the ROAD to
Dyslty, it is q pi1-U grsat pity--end .
reater pity-if thGrecord 10 true. Aud the
My nay - pnevo the record Antrus 10 to
i've I'D prove that the errors If the past
re effaced BY the life of good citizeeship
{ tedsy.-zAe Republic.
Sam Randall's Chances
The nearly unanimous verdict of Demo- /