New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-09
[srecial Correspondence Of the Republican. J
NORTHERN POLITICS.
The Calm.

The letters already dispatched to the RE
PUBLICAN in regard to the Tilden reform
movement in New York, gives you every
phase of the present remarkable political
bituation in this State. Tildeu, with an in
kellectual insight and tuition which gives
him perfectly clear view of his own needs
and those Of his party, is nevertheless. un
able to resist the ignorance and brutality
of Tammany. TildeD, for instance, sees
that the attempt to secure Confederate
Democratic restoration. organized as that
coalition now, is of Confederates on the one
hand, and Tammany Hall on the other,
will fail as often as it is repeated before the
American people. He fully realizes the
necessity, therefore, of doing in New York
what Packard is seeking to do in Louisiana,
i. e., to bring to his support some new ele-
ment which will enable him to prevent the
wors. elements in his own party from doing
further mischief. Where is this element to
come from9 Not from native Americans,
| because the people dread to be caught
| in this old Bourbon trap. Not from the
Liberal Republicans and Independents, as
was lately illustrated in John Kellys public
| insult to General COchrane aud his follow
ers. The new element which, according to
Governor Tilden, is to save the cause OF
reform, must come from the Germans. If
he can secure the German vote for reform
then he will be independent of Tammany
and it's Irish shoulder hitters. He will by
h this move secure, also, an element which
will counteract Confederate sectionalism.
n If Tilden could have his way he would
q succeed, because the ''liberty issue hav-
ing been dropped by the Republicans by
the peace departure of the Cincinnati con-
yention, the Germans have swung away
from the old anti-slavery moorings in which
4 they have been so long anchored to the Re-
4 publican party. They too are now ready
for some new departure" That departure
is indicated by the issue of reform. Tilden
proposes to develop this German tendency.
| This, in brief, is the situation to-day in
New York, and will continue to be until the
twelfth Against this reform Of the Con-
federate-Tammany coaitic Tammany pro-
tests, as it did against Randall's election
last winter as Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. In all probability Tammany
will rule again at Saratoga. Tilden will be
oyerborne; we shall have q straight out
Confederate .Tammany Democratic ticket:
straight out fight on their ticket, and
another overwhelming defeat of those who
who from 1860 to this day have been trying
to uusettle the foundation of this Protestant
republic.
Thus the Democratic ship iies becalmed
This old political hulk now drifts first one
way then another, with the sluggish ebb
and flow of the fuctuating political cur
rents which surround her. The sails are all
Tapping against the masts. Will she finally
90 to pieces, or will q new life impulse be
infused into her and new crew OF brave
and enlightened men swarm upon her
decks to repair her timbers and renew the
battle! A few days will answer these cues
| tions.
But if the Tammany ring is thus para
lyzed, the sagacious and active Republicans
are not. Nor are they forgetting the su-
preme duty which should rule them in this
hour of advantage. l quote the following
editorial from the Brooklyn Union, q paper
which is doing important service among an
important class of voters, to show that
Il wisdom" rules the hour among the con-
Il servative Republican leaders in this hour of
m Democratic frenzy and confusion:
NJ Ths hour of advantage in the face Of An
81 enemy, is ever the hour Of peril and OF in-
f creased respopsibi'ity. The blunder of the
H leaders of the Confederate Democracy at
Saratoga seems for the moment to have
practically determined the result OF the
Presidential election; It Is IN strong ga con. n
Saratoga in the Republican convention,
where the pledge made at Cincinnati was
confirmed, and thus strengthens US in
u double sense. We have given the country,
in the persons of Governor Hayes and Gov
ernor Morgan, the honest assurance that
the Republican party means reform ana
/ peace, and that the true statesmanship and
moral purity of our organization will sway
it's councils and control its inf lence in the
future. -,
Ii is on this high food tide of honorable
purpose, swelled by the blunders OF the op-
position, that we are now being borne 10
success in November. But it Is not SIMPLY
the election of Governor Hayes and Gov
ernor Morgan IN the contest before US which
jmparts special significance to this success.
| 1t is the future which this success will in
augurate which is most important to the
country. In that future ls bound up tne
solution of the race conflict at the South,
the pacification of the long estranged sec
tions of our common country, aud reform
in the civil service of the government. But
while this flood-tide is now sweeping us as
a party and as by an irresistible current
into new lease of power, let Us not forget
that the food may be even in our case
turned into an ebb. The mind OF the Amer.
ican people is steadily bent on pesce1ul
solution of our Southern problem through
the methods of peace and on q reform IN
the civil administration OF the govern
ment through q ''change" in the admin
istration OF the Republican party itself. On
4 these two points public opinion ls liked
lmm0vable, and not to be tritled with. Gov
eruor Hsyee, in his letter of acceptance,
measured and met this public sentiment:
Governor Morgans nomination reaffrmed
it. The pathway to peace and reform
through the conservative influence OF the
conservative sentiment OF the Republican
nartv thus opened is the path of safety ae
wali as of honor. Let not any advantage
cf vhatever character, therefore, or any
Democratic blunder ct the North, or any
Confederate outrage at the South, divert us
for one moment from this path. Let Us &c
forward firmly. steadily, and with states
manlike eelf-control in the great work Of
moral reconstruction at the South, and OH
cial reform at the North which the tlme,
demand, and which the people deman0
also, and to both of which the Repuohcar
party is pledged.
ask any gentleman in Louisiana to draw
the contrast between the spirit which thu
animates the two great parties of tht