New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-10
CONSERVATISM AND IT'S DUTIES,

the war of races begins. Those laborers
who have been docile and industrious
with the pillow and hoe become suddenly
violent conspirators and assassins. The
employers for whom they have just secured
the means of subsistence are said to be
under the necessity of armipg for the de-
struotion of these laborers, lest they
should overthrow all social order and
rights Of property.
Those Republicans who have voted with
the negro are charged with having coun-
selled their alleged violence, and are
driven from the country, or shot down in
the swamps.
1t is an open fight between the Democ-
racy who have pledged themselves to
overthrow the right of negap suffrage on
one side, and the negro who believes that
not only his rights but his life are at stake.
This is the state of the campaign from
the Savannah to the Rio Grande. In our
own city we find terrible decline of bust
ness. Immigration of the white people
has ceased and emigration has set in.
The receipts of cotton and Western pro-
duce have declined, the imports of for
eign goods have fallen off, the wages of
the mechanics and the sales of merchan-
disc have undergone a corresponding
diminution, our commercial rivals of st.
Louis and New York seize upon every
riot, every assassination, every suicide
which occurs in our unfortunate city.
They fabricate cases of yellow fever, and
warn the merchant or traveller not to visit
city which offers the choice and chance of
dying by epidemic or being shot by mis-
take
In the midst of this fragrant war of races,
waged through hatred and aggression on
one part and terrified desperation on the
other, what is to become of the invest
ments of capital, the rewards of enterprise
or the rights Of labor? Yet, while the
wordy thunders and flashes of wrath
which precede the impending storm are
audible and visible all around, the Demo-
cratic party of Louisiana prepares to re-
sumo the political combat year in ad-
vance of any election, and in the midst
of the commercial calamities to which
We have referred it proceeds to close
Observation-Disclosures organization. 1t is
not for the recovery of the lost trade
not to replace it by newly opened
communication with other produc-
tive sections, it is to wreak vengeance on
all who differ in opinion; to subjugate
white and black, and to recover all the
Offices and patronage, State, city and
parish. To effect this object they dis
avow the compromise of the special SEES
sion as mere truce. They expel ell Who
do not obey their commands, and order
all Conservatives to report to Democratic
headquarters, on pain of the party whip,
for failure to comply with their inden-
lures of Contract" at Baton Rouge. They
postpone all the business of the season
for campaign which will effectually con-
fiscate the business of every mechanic and
merchant in the city; fill the land with
federal soldiers, and constitute the last
stroke of commercial paralysis, of which
the evil temper of Democracy has been the
exciting cause. The Southern Demo-
cratic campaign means industrial anarchy
and bloodshed. 1t is deliberate national
issue fought on and over every Southern
interest.
The Conservative interests of our city
and State see then the impending issue.
It is for them to determine whether they
will stand neutral through fear of politi-
cal prescription, or shame of party incon-
sistency, or come boldly forward to com.
mand and enforce peace between the labor
that produces and the violence that de-
stroys, between the harmony that attracts
and unites men of all creeds and celors in
the common welfare, and the intolerance
which will slay for the color of the skin Or
the fashion of badge.
The Conservative influence here is the
old Wing and Union element. To say
that they have ever acquiesced in Dem
ocratic principle or policy would be to
contradict history. They were compelled
to enter the war because their sense of
State obligations, the title to that which
they regarded as their property, and
the social danger apprehended from the
liberation of four millions of slaves de-
manded it. They fought for what they
deemed their rights, and under what most
of them deemed the paramount authority
of the State over the citizen. Did they
thereby make such q contract" as
binds them to the Democratic party for
ever? Would Bell, or Everett, or Lee, or
Zollicofter. or any of the thousand Wings
who fought the war have felt bound to
submit to the double subjusation, by the
federal government and the Southern
Democracy? Were they to acknowledge
double allegiance to President Grant and
Presidents Jefferson Davis2
The men Of whom We speak compre-
bend well that the sectional war is not
over and will never be until the Southern
Democracy shall reign over them and
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