New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

her legs, and We must invigorste the Who'll
system that che may stand equally upol
them; the more Won wound -oao leg <th
more You deplete the other of vitality.
Let US hope that turbulent men, Mindful
of the fOrbearsnce of the Union ct the clos
OF the rebellion, may soon cease from
crashing through the laws that house tn
citizen, aud acknowledge to that Union. b
dld Busgoyne to Schuyler, lyon show M
much injury" Let them feel that ss in de
tense Ajax stalked with his broad buckle
and drawn sword around the wounded
Ulysses, 30 stalks the Union around thu
humblest PROSTATE citizen. Hosea Bigl0v
rightly states: 1.-THE old Amerikin idee
to make a man Q man and let him be.
hear this section in 1868 refuse to colorei
troops Of the Union the rights OF SOLDIERS
and year later hear Davis and Lee pro
pose to organize colored troops. The negro
is tenfold more capable now than be
was then to contribute to the legitimate
defense of the same States and can not In
reason be secuted by those who then con
fesssd his utility and whose old statutory
I CONSTANTS alone upon his intelligence
have impaired that utility. Corral his race
by violence. if you will, within c0lOr-line
but remember that you thus compact the
race the more, even while you complain
that it coheres. You leave it no resource
| upon which to depend for its defense save
the might of its own numbers. You com.
press them as Great Britain compressed the
coloni@s to one people. The only policy is
humanely to allure the black out from his
race and assimilate him in the political
society.
see within and beyond our State an
absence Of that virtue which should dis
tinguish Pablo Stewardship; maggots in
our high trusts, brokerage in politics, usury
| and rapine, the same svarice that in the
| first eighteen monsbs Of the COnfederscy
could not account at Richmond for SO, 900, !
| coo, confided to disbursing agents. the same
corruption and i'm oecility," that in the
words of member of the Confederate Con-
| gress concerning the Davis administration,
sit grimiy enthroned where it vas once
hoped that virtue and ability would exer-
| else supreme sway" ana l recall and
shout back the terms OF Washington
in 1878. Il would to God that some
one of the more atr0ci0us in each
State was hung in gibbets a. high ss the
one prepared for Haman." l honor little
the partisan prudery that SCOTS at the re-
creant Secretary of War of 1876, and has
worn NO blush as we'll for the recreant Sec
rotary of War of 1861, who to assault the
nation, eecretly stole and stacked at the
South lbs 900 of her own muskete, while her
sworn servant. It is mock virtue that per-
petually strains ut gnats and bolts without
grimaOe the largest camels. Let rs rather,
ss Americans, bury our faces in our hands
for an erring steward, not debase ourselves
bv utilizing his error to cheap party ends.
We are admonished of the caution observed
in the selection of public servants in Con-
necticut before the revolution. where 1.-THE
voters convene in the westinghouse"
minister pr0nOunces Q prayer, another q
sermon and the cOnstables collect the votes
from the seated suffragans. There are
very severe laws against bribery" says the
contemporary Peters. THE candidates are
not suffered to give q dinner, or even q
voter" hear an element in our section
declaip against Capitalization" same
element whose experiment at government
at Richmond was an utter sbnegation of
the Estate rights" reason for attempting it.
The iron hand of an executive beckOned
his will to servile Congress, stretched forth
across Southern State lines and dragged
taxes, suspended the habeas corpus, robbed
the farmer of his stores, seized railways at
whim, and won victories by newspapers,
till neither State Legislature, citizen nor
journal dared dispute it's desp0tic sway;
aud l insist that such men stand eetopped
by their own experiment from assAiling the
system which rescued them from it, and
which simply forbids them from renewing
their mischievous blunder. If the asser-
tisn of supremacy by the national govern.
ment against such az forcibly dispute it be
Capitalization, so be it. Charleston was
wroth in 1861 at the national occupation OF
Fort Sumpter, but the humors of Charles
ton we're Of less moment than the authority
of the republic. After having violently
denied the Estate right" of North Caroline
peaceably to secede from the Confederacy,
and urged military interposition to arrest
her attempt, it is with ill-grace that the
if this State, bought with national moneys,
and erected as State by national will,
were invaded the moment q national SOL
der bivouacs within her borders. Rich
m0nd stands a historic witness that States
and citizens have no rights whatever.
Need we marvel at thisi No, the South
ern States, by the instinct of q common
interest, by reason Of . common jealousy,
and to the end Of . common defense of q
banded in q moral union of their own that
had asserted itself in our national ordi-
nances; nay, authorized marshal to leap
over State line after State line, even to the
Canada frontier, in pursuit of fugitive
slave. This moral union of these Southern
States grit itself for the field in 1861 ~ an
independent political union. The war was
y COLLISION OF inc TWO L 0lO0e-O00 Oeu0.
ficent, wholesome and dedicated to the pur-
pose of the fathers; the other baleful.
diseased and wholly subversive of that pur-
pose.
see House of Congress with no leftier
motive than that of partisan spleen, with
the two exalted instincts of the evesdrop-
per and the scavenger, devoting its ear to
official keyh0les and its nose to solemn
shifts over the country which it's members
largely sought to wreck, and l recall the
terms of the historian-"Party spirit ragged
lin 1879 among the people, and even the
members of Congress, too many of them,
disgraced Themselves and neglected the
grave duties of their position BY petty
squabbles, by unworthy disputes, by seek
ing to. pull one another to pieces and by
charges and nominations"
hear General Grant proclaim in 1776,
in the House of Commons, that "the Ameri-
cans can not fight" and see sitting in the
highest trust of the people whom that Brit
ish braggart crossed the Atlantic to crush,
robust answer in their own Grant.
see q great soldier named Lee twice |
withdraw his hand from the Bible, IN Wash. |
ington's hand at Valley Forge, in refusal of |
the oath of allegiance, and after Monmouth,
retire with clouded fame
l see British Webster rout the colonists |
at Camden, and an American Webster rise |
later to the kingly championship of the re-
public.
/ see an American Lincoln surrender |
Charleston, and q later and greater Lincoln |
pound on its gates with bombs till the |
Union strobe through!
see q new Warren at Gettvsburp a