New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-30
ALIEN INTERMEDDLING.

1t has been always misfortune for the
South that the Democracy have looked to
some distant OF some foreign power to OBJ.
tain Office or secure the occupation Of
office. Before the war there was secret
combination with Free Sellers and protec.
tionists to effect the election of North
ern President. There has been but one
Southern Democrat POLK elected since
Jackson. Southern Democracy has taker
executive departments, foreign missions
collectorships and subordinate appoint.
ments without number. The party has
always triumphed on the strength of theil
Northern or Yankee allies.
During the last war they relied upor
the Intervention of foreign powers, an6
since the war they have renowned all sec.
tional interest and all political principle
and agreed to follow the Northern OF
Yankee Democratic Office hunters for the
offal, garbage and spoils of the chase
They support the political brethren o.
Tweed and Lord as reformers, and ap.
peal to the land of race and religious
strife and labor riots to protect them
against the instruction of freedmen who
were faithful and obedient while slaves.
Among the arrogant aliens who thrust
the ideas Of subjects upon the action Of
citizens comes the London Standard. II
was blockade organ during the war, and
like the os!ler in Shakespeare has ''never
joyed himself since the price of oats rose, y
or since the price of blockade cotton fell.
1t now pronounces magesterially that
there was plot Of instruction and mas
sacre among the negroes Of Georgia. OF
course, this alien concern knows better
than the Governor and grand jury of Geor-
gia, which found no evidence of any such
purpose. Itwould be highly improper for
any journal published in the South to as
sumo any knowledge whatever of the negro
condition. The Standard says the negroes
of the South are almost as stupid and
brutal as their kinsmen in Jamaica" All
who read history know that the negroes
intermixed as laborers and domestics with
the white people Of the Southern States
were far more intelligent than the Africans
placed under the overseers and drivers of
Jamaica. 1t would insult the Standard to
say that its conductors were as brutal as
ignorant and as oppressed as the English
in the coal mines, iron furnaces or gang
workers on the farms. Yet they are all
Englishmen.
These slaves in Jamaica and st. Do
mingo fought for their freedom. Many of
the Southern slaves obeyed and aided
their masters, when the latter were fight
ing to keep the slave in bondage They
are now free; why should those who would
not burn and murder for freedom resort
to these acts when they are free?
We cite this as specimen of the
wanton ignorance of alien Intermediates.
If the Standard loved peace and made war
on disobedience to the law, it would find
enough in domestic disturbances and in
the English oppression of the Irish. To
these people England has denied repre-
sentation, They will not allow the State
of Ireland State Legislature, or allow
any municipal authority unless granted
by British authority. If the Standard
wishes to tell of fires, massacres, social
discomfort and political oppression, let it
turn to the strikes, fires and assassination
of officers and employers, which prevail
in its own country to its standing army,
its arrogant nobility and its hireling
clergy.
The negroes have just made the best
cotton crop since the war. They own a
great part Of the proceeds. They are in
dustrious, docile, and obedient to law.
They form the only body of laborers that
have not struck for higher wages. 1t is
probable the cotton manufacturers CT
England had better call off such hounds
as these babblers of the Standard. The
valley of the Mississippi is the only cot
ton field upon which English spinners
can depend. The negro laborer can
alone be relied on to cultivate these lands.
When Russia moves on British India, the
cotton field of the Punjaub will go up,
and England will return to her exclusive
dependence upon the Mississippi market.
In such case, the effort of such arrogant
aliens as the Standard to foster a race
strife, which has already so much affected
the production of cotton, must have a
bad effect upon the interests of the manu-
facturers of England The Standard had,
therefore, better stick to its own domestic
troubles and let those of the United
States alone.
SOME OF THE RECOGNIZED SIGNS OF A
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.