New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-22

history Of the country ought to teach you
Bitterness, hatred, malignity, q disposition
to keep open the wounds Of the war do no
exist in the North, and have not been tn,
controlling spirit Of the Republican party
The Democratic party the party of peac,
Peace. with her gentle influences, is to b.
wooed at every cost except that O.
justice, and to-day we would welcome
every Southern rebel to the fullest enjoy
ment of his personal rights, if he were will
ling to extend to another that which he &C
arrogsntly uses himself. We may shut oul
eyes against it. Merchants of Chicago, yor
may bend over your ledgers, you may give
yourselves to the daily work, forgetful o.
the cruel atrocities disgracing us to-day
but that won't wipe out the blood stain; i!
vii! not oblitera.e tina cruel truths tina,
stare you and | in the face when we turn
South ward. To-day condition of things
exists in the South that is diegraceful To
Am erican civilization. Yet the Democrat s
tell us that thcse things are false or exag
gerated, and these apostles of peace and re-
Cancellation strike hands with men who are
assassins and murderers, and who are to-
day, by deliberate concerted scheme, at
tempting to rob mere than One-half of the
| population of the Southern States of their
| political rights. For it is nndeniable that
by concert. by Otficered organization, by
armed bodies of mel, there is a deliberate
attempt to carry through every Southern
State that scheme which was SO successful
in Miesiss ippi, By which a majority of the
legal electors of those States shall be muz
zled and suppressed. and put under foot.
and the arrogant minority, made up of
rabels who owe Life and every political
right tc-dsy TO the clemency Of the Repub-
| lican party. would assume full control.
| We are shocked the great world is
shocked, as VIC read OF those atrocities
which the cruel Turk has been perpetrating
| in the great province in which war is now
being waged. Even lethargic Engla and has
| at last stirred herself, and like u strong
man repudia.es all these violations of all
| the rules of war-these cruel, fiandish, d5v-
| ilish atrocities which have cbaracteriz, ID
| this war on the part Of the Turks. And
| yet here. in Christian, civilized America.
here in the country where we boast ot tho
dominance of law and personal security,
right here in many of our own States, are
atrocities which parallel almost the infa-
mics of those Turkish atrocities now being
perpetrated. And yet the Democrats say,
I'VE are the party of peace and reconcilia
ton" Now, these are not campaign stories.
They are not alarming pictures that have
been thrown upon the canvass to brighten
the electors in this campaign. You may 60
to South Carolina, and you find to-day a
condition of things which is disgraceful be-
yOnd expression in an American State. Why,
Governor Chamberlain, was elected as n
Conservative by Democratic votes, in very
large part. He was man of high charac-
ter, certified to BE- of high character by
the Democrats. He reformed the abuses
in the State administration, has been hon
est, faithful and devoted to the highest i'll
terests of the State. Now, say we have
the Democratic admission that that was the
character of his administration in South
Carolina; and yet Governor amberlain
has applied to day to President Grant for
troops that he and his fellow Republicans,
white and black, may exercise the common.
est rights of American citizenship.
We are assembled here in Chicago upon
an appointment made By some of your c;ti-
zens tor the free discussion of these pJlit-
lcal topics, and yet there isn't Democrat
IN Chicago who has any reputation for
truth that will venture TO assert that /
could address an audience down in South
Carolina and express my sentiments as
Republican withou. danger, without threats,
or intimidation, or violence. Now, that is
true. And the men that have brought
about that state of things and are perpe-
tcatipg it are Democrats. and arc doing il
in the interest of Democracy.
And tell you to-day thai, if Mr.. Tilden
'sAAA
iLose sweet. honeyed words Of peace, are
ever be President and Vice President of
the United States, it will only be by the
most gigantic political robbery that has
aver been ccDsummated il this country. A
voice, That's so The man who is credited
with having carried railroads OF in his
pocket, now seems ambitious to take whole |
States. 1t is just as certain that Mississippi |
md Louisiana and South Carolina are Re. |
a TAT tc
State. No intelligent man will controvert |
T. Upon fair, IN biased. free expression |
Vt political sentiment 10 those States, they |
ire by pronounced maiorities Republican, !
md their electoral votes are due in this |
election, and would be given if freedom
we're given in the exercise of political
lights to Hayes and Wheeler. How are
hey to be diverted to I1lden and Hen
tricks! By violence. My friends, the result
n Georgia is shameful. wonder that any
lonest Democrat whose blood is no. con-
ealed in his veins, who has any commu-
ication between his heart and his cheek,
hould not blush with shame 90 he reads
he returns from Georgia. They are still
owing over that. Eighty thousand Dem
cratic majority! Who believes that it is
onest! Twenty counties in Georgia in
1hich not single opposition vote was cast!
'utnam county. which, as see in paper
d II !
'rity OF 700 Republican votes, st the recent
lection cast just three votes tor the Repub-
can ticket. Will any man tell mo this
honest! Will anv Democrat who has
ny self-respect, affirm that this is au
Onest change of political sentiment! IA
Dice, "No."l My friends, if the Democratic
'atOrs, simply by the use of argument and
lustration, are as potent as that, would
ke to get few of them and bring them
10 frN full On nm cil do of |
they can convert to unanimity a whole |
,untry in single campaign they discount
'ebster, Clay and Writ, and all the great
en- that We have given credit for OratOry.
ut the truth is, IL has not been done by
10 tongue. 1t has been done at the mouth of
70 gun. 1t has been done by the sharp and
,inved argument Of the knife. 1t has been
me by intimidation and violence.
But, my friends, there is still another
lestion in connection with this Southern
oblem to which desire to allude for
tie time. 1t is the question of the pay
emit of the Southern debt. There is
rye claim down there, is there not! That !
they have large claim, not debt. !;
iere are great many people in the South .
no suffered losses incident to the war, TO :,
g passage of Grants army and Sherman's :
my through their borders. The amount /
destruction incident to the war-incident +,
the march Of those armies through 4
uthern fields and villages-incident to the :
bsistence of those men-in many cases in 4
9 South can not, OF course, be accurately q
timated; but, taking SUCH claims, the q
ton claims and others Of this character, y
,ich are being pressed upon Congress, in !.
Iigent men have estimated them as much =,
$4,000, 100000. Now, they will want "
sm paid, will they ro:l Those fell y y
rs down there are all Democrats r
'esn't the average Democrat want all "
) money he can get! I A voice, Eyes," :,
en- you can set it down for certain thar "
sre is a claim down there, in various O,
apes which have not time to more par ~