New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-10

ANOTHER VIRGIN1AN SPEAKS
The Son Of Ex-President JOHN Tyler De.
clares for Hayes and Wheeler.

We regard the letter OF Mr.. j Ohm Tyler, Jr
dec.aring his purpose to support Mr.. Hayes
~ document of no common significance.
'Xs. Tyler is representative man. BE in
hscited the State rights sentiments OF his
disAuguished father, aad entered with him
iate tie cause of secession. President John
Tyler died at an early period of the war,
but there can be no doubt, that from the
.o;ear and cogent character Of his mind, and
dis extr aordins:y fidelity to pledges and
principles, he would have done as the
State of his birth and affections has done
fought, as legal and honorable obligation.
Mr.. John Tyler, Jr., has done this, and
gives reasons which have induced him to
support the Republican rather than the
Democratic ticket. We propose to extract
from his letter, published in the Washing
ton Chronicle, come of his reasons for this
caCrse.
His fret hostility is directed against the
doughface Democracy of the North. He at
once couples Tilden with his master. Van
buren,. He cites the further fact that "these
game New York Democrats, together with
those of Indiana, as well ss those of Penn
eylvania and the balance Of the North and
West, with Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks.
Seymour and Blair, Randall and the rest of
them, after having, through their alliance
with the South, led the South into the recent
war of secession, basely deserted the South IN
Ute,r peril, and took up arms against the
Southern people, and IN the arar became the
raost destratctire soldiers to Southern property
i,t the field"
He then Indignantly demands:
In the light of these facts and circum-
etauc es, is it aeked of me now, as Southern
Ulan, and, from Southern standing point to
put them in possession of the government, SO
that they may enjoy all of its chief donors
and enotuments, for the sake of few Of
the crumbs that may be scattered to the
people OF the South from their rich and
abundsn. tficial tables9
Yet this is precisely what is proposed.
The Southern Democrats a,e to contribute
q hundred and twenty odd, the Northern
dou ghfsces are to furnish forty odd, and
taat faction which "led the South into the
recent war OF secession" and deserted the
South in their peril, are to be put in pos
sessi OF Of the Federal government, and
4tenioy all OF its honors and enoluments."
Then there follows this just and scathing
deaurciation Of the spo;ls Democracy at
Che South:
As complete and absolute az was the ne
CATION OF al principle, honor and character
on the part Of the Democrats ct the South in
w fiotS <,,,i i &
has a. ways marked the Democracy, whether
AT the South or North, they Endorsed audjsus-
ts,zei Horace Greeley tor the Presidency;
yet even that was more excCsable than their
present support OF the war Democracy"
OF the North and West, through their advo-
caoy of the ticket OF Tilden and Hendricks.
Marx Mr.. Tyler's reasons for this dis
,anction:
For, in the forme. case, it may be
Nsaid they generously respected an open,
frank ana manly enemy, whereas, in the
latter case they are sustaining before the
world treachery as a principle, and the i'm
presentations of Pst'sica tdes.
He would rot support
Greeley, propaganda. q socialist and
an sbOliticnist, who had educated the minds
OF the Northern agrarian and communist
masses into hatred Of the Southern people,
1AA Aou WAOu&AC up Ju6u the RESOLUTION
Of war against the South, to overthrow its
Institutions and to secure to themselves
either mediately or Immediately the landed
occupation of the South, and no man lived
in the Cnired States who was go responsible
for the bloedshe and ruin occasiored by
the war as Horace Greeley.
Mr.. Tyler voted for Grant, who had done
nothing whatever to influence the minds Of
che North against the South prior to the
war, "and during the war had obeyed the
orders of the government at Washington
which had educated him for its uses"
But above and beyond this he had, by
the course he pursued a. General-in- Chief
Of the Northern armies at the surrender of
the Southern Confederaoy, protected. pro-
vided for, and s0red the leaders Of the South,
10th ciri and military. from the designs OF
the Greeleyites in the North. which were to
have been carried into execution under
decl aratiOn of treason and c0nfscation
against them all, and which otherwise and
mt for General Grant would surely have
been done.
These are sentiments Of genuine honor.
They display commendable sense Of graft
tude toward msgnanimous foe.
Mr.. Tyler, unfortunately for those mer'
,n7ary Democrats who attempted the
1asisa of 1872, remembers tho political
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