New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-10

VOLUME X.-NO. 5
Especial correspondence Of the Republican,
NORTHERN POLITICS.
The Papal Recognitlen Of the Southern
Cenfederacy and its Beariag o. the
American PresiAential Election Of 1875.
Boston, June 2. 1876.
Deep down beneath the grass covered
and flower decked surface of the earth, are
the forces which produce and keep alive
its vegetation. Underneath the everlast-
ing mountain ranges Of America, Asia,
Africa and Europe, are the solid founda.
tions which sustain them. Beneath the
mighty seas and lakes and oceans is the
firm bed on which they rest, and around
them are the shores which hem them in and
fix by immutable decree their boundaries
and control their mnltitudinous waters.
Above the earth is the world of planets on
planets, to be counted only by the millions
OF worlds, each greater and grander than
this globe of ours, and beyond all these in
the untathomable and ncomprehensible
depths Of space, is the One Supreme Author
OF all and King Of all and Ruler over all.
AZ in the material 60 in the moral world
there exists deep down beneath sill human
institutions the law of life and development
which will govern them and shape their
growth, do what man may. Above all
forms of human government imperial, MOE
archical, autocratic or republican, is the
one divine will which shapes all things ac.
cording to His sovereign pleasure. The at
tempt of men by any scheme of self asser-
tion. selt-wisdom or sef-providence to
escape from this divine administration of
human affairs, is as foolish a. would be the
attempt to arrest or resist the law Of gravi-
tation, to unsettle the foundation of the
mountains, to set free the waters of the
ocean, or blot ont of existence the stars of
heaven. Man can do many things. He is
divine in his spiritual capacities and God.
Like in his reason; he walks upright in the
moral image of his maker; he is the para.
gon # animals and the equal of angels.
But great and divine as man is, he
is not greater than his creator. He
can not circumvent God. And 70 all
forms Of human society in their devel
Opment must sooner or later encoun.
tor the forces which make or unmake
political life accordingly as . people are
true to the things which are in harmony
with the divine will, the divine Justice and
the divine love. Such an epoch the Pro-
testant republic Of America has reached in
this the centennial anniversary of the de.
of American independence from
monarchy and separation of Church and
State. In the person of the man who was
once slave, this proud, naughty; mighty
nation is confronted at last as it were with
God-with the cause of humanity which is
ovar the cause of God-and with the in
te6rity Of nSAsse oopXictions on which the
kka(Ens of Ansrica were
faasas4 Ia lz76. T16e epoch brings itSperil
With it The perifh toune 4 the IA bat
The saaae spi<it whichin l776 foEzSd / al
lianes eetw6eu the African alave trade snd
the declarations ef the rights Of maan SOW
seeks to rebuild the once endangered union
by the spirit Of slaveryj by
forming . white mans government with
negro serfdom as it's corner stone. As it was
perfectly safe for the signers of the declara-
ton of American independence to engage
also in the slave trade, SO it is now deemed
equally safe to remand the emancipated
race of the late slave States of the Union
to the political custody of their former
masters. while proolaiming civil equality.
But can this latter-day act of inconsistency
and wrong be done with safety Here is
the rub. This is the question which must
'give US" as q people "pause." The Ito be
Dr. not to be" for the republic may turn
finally ON this attempt to outrage humanity
and subvert justice. But from what quar-
ter will the negro's deliverance come if the
Protestant North and Confederate South
both unite to reduce him to serfdom and
hold him In serfdom9 propose to answer
this question.
There is q human government on this
,arth claiming to be divine in it's origin,
divine ia its mission, divine in it's power,
md having its supreme head in Deity itself.
This government is already worldwide in
is organization and membership. 1t is not
,nly government in itself, but it is gov
ineide of all other governments.
and enforcing the supreme allie
glance of its members. This government
3 known as the Roman hierarchy, and the
Papal see is its highest earthly representa-
i've. This mighty government, during tho |
ate war between the Confederate South |
md the national North, openly espeused
he cause of the Confederate power, and
openly ranged itself sgainst the Protestant
Union of North America. The act was one |
f deliberation. It was taken at time
vhen the Union cause was sinking in |
lespair. Tho blow was struck, a. 1t were,
It . cause already mortally wounded. The
allure of the Confederacy did not change
he Pspal purpose. 1t must ever be borne
n mind in this connection that the Roman
lierarohy never takes step such as that in
,olved in the Papal recognition of tho
jouthern Confederacy without full con-
ultation with it's bishops and cardinals,
md especially with its representatives in |
he country in whose domestic affairs it |
purposes to interfere. and the step once |
aken stands for all time. In England, for |
nstance. the Roman Church consults with |
he English bishops in al matters pertain
No to church interests there. In Germany |
he Pope acts only in harmony with tho
herman bishops. In both countries she de-