New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-06
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opposed Tie Republican party for $50
tional reasons. It has called it . radical
party. Il has assumed it to b the enemy
Of the South. and it has proclaimed and
proved the purpose to vote for any man
proclaiming any other than Republican
principles. This has drawn anew the
sectional line It proposes to place in
issue the question upon which the Repub-
loan party fought the WAT. That it has
been the effect of this Democratic policy
is shown BY numerous evidences. It is
the testimony of Senator Gordon
Tho war Issues will be brought into the
canvass in order to fill the Northern mind
With apprehension, and Nth more effect Nan
ossr people at home generally imagine.
A partisan Democratic correspondent,
accredited by the Democratic press, says:
The Northern mind il still prejudiced,
suspicious, very susceptible and easily
aroused by any demonstration on the part
of the South looking to an effort to obtain
. foothold in the government.
And says of Senator BAyard:
The simple and single fact that he comes
from so-called Southern State is sufficient
in itself alone to Justify, in the opinion of
mspy. his exclusion from the Presidential
chair.
The powerful speech of General Butler,
delivered before the Northern soldiers,
places this issue distinctly before them.
His imputation of infdelity to their
pledges and hostility to the Union pre-
SCENTS to these soldiers the possibilities of
. new war and repeated campaigns These
men have laid aside their arms and are
now surrounded by their growing and
dependent families. They do not wish
new campaigns. It is evidently much
better to reconquer this hostility to Re
publicans and to the republic by going to
tho polls than enlisting in the army.
The speech OF General Butler and all
the representatives of the Republicans,
are spread throughout the North and
West with every pulsation of the Ameri-
can press. The violent abuse and intol-
Grant deeds of the Southern Democracy
have no circulation beyond that which
their Northern Democratic allies can not
suppress. and which the Republican press
for the conviction of the whole
Northern and Western mind. When Mr..
Hill or Mr.. Singleton denounce the
Northern people, or Mr.. Tucker argues
the Virginia resolutions of 1873 have still
the force Of authority, the Northern De-
order them peremptorily to keep
silence, and the Southern congressman
have, under the lead of Mr.. Lamar, ut
tered no further sentiment Of sectional
hostility. The Northern Democracy are
afraid to defend their Southern allies.
When, however, the Republicans take
up the assassination at Coushatta, the
brief narrative of General Butler will 60
to every farm house on the prairies. It
will be in the mind Of every man as he
plows or reaps, and the women, catching
the aspect of care that saddens the brow
of husband. will anxiously ask him if he
will have to go to war again. She will be
told that with the election of Democratic
there will be the same questions
in issue that made the last war, and she
will implore her husband to avert the
Of possible war by going to the
polls and voting the Union ticket.
Hero is the brief narrative addressed by
General Butler, as if it were a general
order to his comrades in the Southern war:
Almost in the same day q leading Re-
publican Senator. of the State of Louisiana,
with his brother-in-law in exit,
10 be ferried by q negro over the Missis-
sippi river. A man. disguised, and armed
with . repeating rifle. who lay IN wait for
him, having got his man thus helplessly ex-
posed in an open boat, commenced DELHI |
crate fire upon him, and wounded him in
many places. He then deliberately shot
and murdered the brOther-in-law, and
when the wounded Senator threw himself |
over the side of the boat to shield himself |
from the assassin's rife, he leisurely walked |
down to the shore, fred upon him with his |
revolving pistol. until . lady who was in the |
assured him that his victim was |
lead. when the cowardly murderer mount |
I'd his horse and rode of unmolested; and |
yet to this hour no due steps have been
aiken for his arrest. By this murder the |
political majority in the Senate Of Louisi.
ina was to be changed. not by the ballot,
,ut by the bullet. Let no man say, then,
his IS mere sporadic instance OF crime.
t is . murder in pursuance Of set pur-
nose, to make murder an element in politi-
al action in one part of the country.
Is this the liberty, order, and law-abiding
which We were promised at Appomattox
las the country carried on this lOrg and
bloody war for no other better and greater
esult than this?
1t will be very hard for the Southern
Democratic press to correct or counteract
his statement. The Northern Democ-
acy do not dare come to the aid of their