New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-15
NEW ORLEANS TUESDAY, Is,
Especial Correspondence of the Republican J
NORTHERN POlITICe.

Especial Correspondence of the Republican
NORTHERN POLITICe.
Democratic Reaction AYrested-The set'
ting in Of the Republican Tide-Ths
Southern Question the lssue an which
the Next Presidential Election vii
Tnrn-Aspects Of this issue.
NEW YORK. juno 10. 1875.
There has never been presented . cleare,
| illustration Of the uncertainty of American
| politics than that furnished by the state OF
the public mind North to-day. A month
ago Democratic restoration was llooked
upon as foregone conclusion. But, uufor'
tunately for the party Of reaction. this con.
clusion was based upon the results Of the
Democratic victories won on local issues in
the Northern States during the last year.
The attempt to appropriate these local vic
tories thus won upon ''side" issues to ma
tional account has failed. The Republicans
who were induced to vote with tho IRE.
form" Democracy on these side issdes, in
peculiarly local elections, are not prepared
to surrender the government into the hands
of the Confederate Democratic coalition.
In addition to this reservation" on the
part of independent Republicans other
issues are flowing into the presidential
stream. which, drawing it's elements from q
Thousand different sources. begins already
to assume the magnificent proportions Of a
great national movement. The celebration
OF the centennial in 1876 begins to arouse
spirit Of nationality dangerous to the
sectional purposes of the Southern Con-
federate leaders on the one hand. and of
the Catholic Democracy of the North on
the other. This centennial celebration is a
practical recurrence to first principles. Now.
there is cornerstone underlying the grand
faoric Of American Republicsnism which
this recurrence to first principles lays bare.
This corner stone is being thus unveiled by
the agitation incident TO the celebration Of
the centennial. This cornerstone has en-
craven upon it word potent for the over.
throw OF wrong and cruelty, and eupersti-
ton and tyranny everywhere. The word
is not ''slavery," nor ''serfdOm," nor
Church and State" nor "Catholicism.-
nor ''arlstocracy." II is . word signi-
flying quite the reverse Of all this. and
this word will yet become the bugle call to
duty which will in 1876 rally all true Re.
publicans as one man against tho anti
American, anti Republican coalition which
now seeks to seize upon the national gov
ernment.
The action Of the Ohio Republicans Oh
the third term issue is also producing some
unexpected results. The Confederate Dem
ocracy nov come forth and assail the
policy of the President and assail the Re-
publican principles which that policy de
Tended. The Northern leaders of reaction
openly proclaim that the policy which en-
grated citizenship on emancipation was q
mistake, and that the only hope for the
South and the nation is to be found in un.
doing this mad and fatal policy. The Dem
ocratic remedy for the evil of negro citi-
zenship is negro serfdom. This sets the
people of the North to thinking, and when
once these Northern people can be brought
to think on any subject they are
very apt to get at the very bot
tom of the subject Of investigation.
Republicans can ask nothing
better than this, because We know that the
of the negro lies at the bottom
Of the wonderful industrial recYperation of
the South. We know that there can be no
middle ground between slave and citizen.
We know that it was serf labor which made
negro emancipation in the West Indies q
failure. We know that the uplifting in.
1uence Of American citizenship has made |
he negro. as q race, do in the United States |
what he has never done before. These facts |
will soon be well understood North. And /
hen will come the important question I
will not sertdom deprive US of the cotton,
ugar and rico crops which negro
abor has produced since emanclpa.
ion! "These crops have come forward
egularly year by year under Republican
the people will say, land
ach year shows steady and gratifying
Increase. Should. we hazard all this pro.
uctive wealth by reducing these laborious
negro citizens to eerfdom 40 the
me malls Of their former masters =
What will the Confederate Democratic
,aders have to say against the unieniable
acts with which the value of this citizen.
hip labor will be fortified! Free labor, as
gainst slave labor, is question which has
cen discussed at the North. The question
settled. Citizenship labor, as against
,rf labor. is a new question. and is yet to
. discussed. When it is thorough.
understood the bondholders and
nsiness men Of the North will begin to
cast their estimates in regard to the
aaucial wisdom of placing the government
ith its industries and finances in the {
ands Of such statesmen as Ben Hill, of {
eorgia. General Bragg. of Texas. General
llow. of Tennessee, Hendricks, OF In. I
ana, and other like eminded reactionists.
10 truth is, the South is to day the source | I
the financial, industrial and commercial d
osperity Of the nation. Lying at the very
Sc of this Southern wealth is the labor
the negro applied to the cotton. sugar
d rice lands OF the South. And the i
lotive'' which nerves the arms and j
'engthes the heart of every negro toiler in Ii
8 late slave States is the American Union, '
to be found in the ennobling. uplifting Il
1uence OF American citizenship. It is Z
9 which makes him work, and sweat and II
dure. Rob him Of this and you rob him o
all incentive to labor. You close the Al
'eway of better life upon him. You il
1t out from his children all hope and all "
lnce Of improvement. Despair and in OF
ence will follow such a policy. and the L