New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-28
THE SOUTHERN WINGS vIHDIcATED.

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seems apprehensive that the Wings of the
South will escape from the control of the
Democracy. 1t is thereupon we infer
that the journal which still proclaims it.
self in accord with the Democracy, eulo.
gizes the Wings, and especially theil
great leader, the "defant, belligerent,
valiant, wise and spirit-moving leader and
captain, ,sdenry Clay" These are flatter.
ing words. When they come from the
party whose chief capital in politics was
the charge of bargain and corruption
against this statesman, with denuncia.
ton of his protection of American manu-
facturers and construction of roads and
canals, there is an amount of acknowl
edgment of political error and injustice
that should make the Wings proud. Il
it be added that the last days and hours
of Clay were dedicated to the preserva.
ton of the Union and the defeat of null.
LITIGATION and secession, any praise from
Democratic lips must be regarded as the
supreme perfection of hypocrisy or the
most abject confession of injustice.
Why the Wigs, who fought the war Of
secession as an invasion of their country
should feel themselves under obligations
to surrender their right to administer the
government in favor of a party which had
proven itself 80 incompetent to manage
even the Confederate government, has ap'
peared to US one of the most mysterious
results of human action. The Wings Of
the South held line of policy antagonistic
at every point to the Democracy. The
Democracy held every Office in the South
in every State and locality where they
were in the majority. They held every
important Office in the Confederacy.
Every single national principle that De-
mocracy ever professed has been aban-
doned. Every single national principle
and measure that the Wings ever professed
has been established. Wsuld it not be
supposed the Wings would say to the De-
mocracy, ave always vcld you that your
doctrines were wrong and yourselves in.
adequate to administer the State'or federal
governments. You have had blood and
ruin enough under your administration.
You have filed the South with turbulence
Give way, we pray you, for those princi-
pies which Henry Clay, Daniel Webster
and John NJ. Bell, and Rives and Prentiss
advocated. .. s.. ...
The separation of principles and meas
ures represented by Henry Clay and John
M. Bell and other Southern Wings, was
as complete from that advocated by
Messrs. Calhoun, Mason and Sl;dell, as
the extremes of complexion which di-
vide the American citizens.
Have the Wings, expelled and excluded
from public service by the Democracy,
just as if they had been political lepers,
abandoned their faith? Will they remain
magnamimously silent at the dead failure
of the Democracy? Will the Wings con-
sent to forego the triumph and establish
ment of their principles? Have they not
political integrity to vindicate-a politi-
cal wisdom to prove-a political duty to
perform?
The Southern Wings should undoubt-
eddy see that whatever party shall succeed
to the administration of the State or
Union, shall respect the principles which
the Wings maintained and which they were
denounced and defeated by the Democ-
racy for maintaining.
The Republican party presents its prin-
ciples and policy for examination. If
these approach more nearly to the teach
ings of Clay and his Southern compeers,
then will the Republicans be required to
present such names for Wing suffrage as
will conform to the standard of integrity
which the Southern Wings always main
tanned. If the Republican party maintains
its protested .principles there must be
peace, order. industry and prosperity
throughout the South. If the Democracy
pursue the same path as in the past,
there must result the opposite of every
one of these republican conditions of
society. Wings Of the South will neither
be cajoled nor cudgeled into the support
of a party, their antagonists in everything,
who are responsible for much of the pres
emit evils, and whose continued ascendency
will always be equivalent to prolonged
civil war.