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

arrayed John Tyler, Q State rights Oems
crat, against his own party:
| Now, again. in 1876, sooner than sustai
Tilden, shall sustain Hayes. As 9 Soutn
ern man want no second Martin Van Blu
rem as President. There are thousands ye
| who live and remember the treacher0u
conduct of Mr.. Van Buren, to the South o.
the Texas question a. well az on otne
| questions NO less vital to the South, an
this, too, after the Southern people ha'
elevated him to the presidential office. Flo
| one can not forget the facts OF histOr
thus associated with Mr.. Van Buren,, no
can I cease to remember that Samuel j
Tilden in 1861 proved himself equall
treacherous to the South, and as unwOrth
of Southern confidence in an Issue still
more vital to the South than any that ye
had engaged the public councils.
The exact resemblance of this disciple t
his master Van Buren, is thus traced:
| Economy and reform are written on hi
banners, and his war upon the Tweed RIM
And the canal ring in New York give assul
ance, it is also said, that a. President b
will purge the government of the Unite'
States likewise of all official corruption
His supporters. moreover, strangely asser
that he commenced life poor in the world
goods, yet through manly energy and IN
dustry. although an honest man, has mad,
himself enormously rich professionally ant
apart from his role as New York p0liti
clan. If this be 80 then John Randolph
should appear with his black swan, an(
Diogenes ba raised from the tomb with hi
lantern. These are, however, all mere par
tisan cries, and those who are Willingly
credulous may believe them if they please
but with regard to the idea of New Yorl
politician from poverty becoming honestly
enormously rich simply say, Credat Judsat!
| Apel'a, non ego the thing would be inpos
| eibIe.
He subsequently says
do not entertain any very exalted ed
m,ration of Mr. Tildsn az faithless and
| treacherous Northern Democratic ally Of
the South in 1861.
We should suppose not. Further on in
his letter Mr.. Tyler gives even more sub
stantial reasons for his suspicion of this
Northern man with Southern principles:
But there is an alarming feature assO
ciated with the support of Mr.. Tildsn which,
as Q Southern man, seems to me full OF
dreadful import, demonstrating another
deiuge of blood and destruction to the
South, while shaking the Union to its CEN
tire. The Southern States are arraying
themselves seotiOnally again on the presi-
Dental issue, as in 1860, relying upon the
Democracy OF the North and West again to
stand firmly BY them in the event of further
sectional az tagOnisms.
Having contr asted this sectionalisn with
the Greeley prstenses, Mr.. Tyler offers this
open prediction:
1 will not follow them in this combined
course of hypocrisy, duplicity and Madness
and make the prediction here and now,
that. should they succeed, as they hope to
do. in making the South unit for Tilden,
there will quickly arise in the North an
other general and determined effort upon
the government in reference to the negroes,
to expell the negroes from the South, reduo.
ing the value of the lands Of the South to
mere song, and thereby opening up the on
tire South, without further hindrance of any
description. to the multi:udinous hordes
now painfully living in the fri2id regions of
the North, or that have been heretofore
sweeping over the further West in search Of
more comfortable homes upon soils more
productive and in climates less exscting;
and again will their Democratic allies IL
the North and West prove not only treach-
erous to them, as in the recent war, but be.
come again, as then, . part of the moving
mass impetuously descending upon them to
complete their ruin. Thus will they invoke
their final catastrophe, and thus will the
South become finally absorbed by the North
in the Union, morally, socially, industri-
ally and politically. I again say I will not
aid in the work of their utter destruction.
which is thus apparent to my own mind,
but upon which it also seems they are
blindly rushing.
Mr.. Tyler passes from q just comment
upon the absurdlty of supposing that the
Democracy are actuated by political VIZ
tue in demanding the reformation" of the
ont of office and the '.reforma-
tom of the Democracy into Office. He
brings in vivid review the condition of the
Federal government when President Tyler
came into its administration:
Upon his accession 20 the Presidency he
found the country, under twelve years of
Democratic misrule, PROSTATE in ali of its
industrial resources and occupations, with
private bankruptcy universally prevailing,
and government with an empty ex-
chequer, and without credit at home or
abroad. he found circulating medium
chiefly composed Of ''shinplas:ers." or the
private notes of any 7aOminis umbro who
chose to issue them for the purpose of de-
frauding the fools and dupes who chose
to take them, the nation having been
drained of its gold and silver coin,
and nearly every banking institution in
the land, as we'll as nearly al! individuals;
found the army in a disorg anized condition,
a1d every fort dismantled and defenseless
from Maine to Florida, while in Florida
few hundred half naked Seminole Indians
had baffied all the generals and forces sent
against them during six years, so feeble
was the military service of the government
At the same time the navy was, if possib e,
in q worse condition than the army, with
out fleet afoat in protection of our COM
merce. the idle exploring expedition of the
dler Wilkes alone appearing on the seas
All this, too, while our foreign relations
had been 80 loosely managed. and were in
30 disturbed q condition, as to render war
with the most formidable power
n the world. that of Great Britain, on five
distinct issues.
These are terrible counts in the impeach-
ns1t. That they were true was proved by
he conduct of the American people, which
lad just evicted the Democratic patron of
Mr. Tilden from power upon charges OF the
yrOssest corruption.
We can not refrain from publishing the
lila! record of public services Justly attrib- |
lted by Mr.. Tyler to his father We will
lot refrain, because it is said:
Nor was there any nepotism during this
splendid administration of the government.
out every member Of the Presidents family
retired from the executive mansion as poor
n the worlds goods as when they entered
t, Notwithstanding the unequaled opportu.
mites that presented themselves to amass
Ortune through the repeal of the sub treas
Try act, followed by the vetoes of the ma
iOnal bank; and they haze iUed in honest
,oyerty ever since, sooner than resort to ann
# the degrading practices of the age 10 accw.
,,u!ate ,ce0lth.
Here follows recital of the measures of |!
eform effected by President Tyler after