New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-19

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would dissolve oil cohesion Of the party,
eli respect for its leaders, and eliminase oil
strength from the organization. Conee,
quently, but for the last rally OF faithful
men, the party would have been merely .
mob undertaking. to meet regular troops
II hae been 8 conflict against the trained:
skilled. we'll led and we'll oficered 0ody OF
troops which We call the Democratic party.
No wonder, then, that the kepuolcsn parry
mot deseryed success. It has not recog-
nized. a. It should have done in this conflict.
tho erapple of two civilizations. Its real
leaders have been ignored and deprecated
bv tho Journals. Blaine and Morton,
Butler and Boutwell-these arc the
men who are stemming the tide, who
have been fighting distrust and rebellion in
their own ranks e we'll a. facing the enc
my in front. Mr.. Phillips repeated the f.
Wing party, maintaining that, like that Or
gsnization, the Republican party ie now
sloughing off its deadwe0d, doing its re-
naming work for freedom; and paving the
way for new party. Its work has been
done to Q certain extent; but 1t will not be
finished in a'dozen yeers. The Saxon race,
North and South, 10 the same. No man
whom we would call manly can be whipped
out OF his ideas. Take Wade Hampton to-
have changed his opinionsf Do you sup.
pose he has altered his thoughts because Of
Gettysburg or Appsmattox9 The contest
between the dictum of Louis the Grand
81 am the State"-and the ideas of citizen
ship began in France in 1889. It is not over
yet. L. the contest between the North OF
Samuel Adams and the South of Calhoun
and Wade Hampton to be settled in day!
Suppose the contest had been other
Af Al
tox, that Lee had been victorious ct
Autietam, having driven back the
Union troops to their own soil, and that
the boys in blue had been sent On parole
to their homes, do y0u think that Massa-
chusetts would give mp her ideas and 60
knowledge that slavery was right No! not
If the old Bay State was sunk in the sea.
The Pine Tree flag of freedom for ell men
would wave to the last. Now, South Caro-
as Massachusetts. "The blood of the mar.
tyrs is the seed of the Church"-the seed
Of mistaken churches az we'll 90 Of the true
Church. The meaning of the saying 10
simply, that suffering for cause strength
ems attachment to It. Now, the Southern
ers did not disband and 60, one to the farm,
another to the factory, another to the bank,
% ct the North. The Southern white man
was never trained to any work. he was
at only to be gentleman" who owns bis
lands and does no work. You blame the
negro because he does nothing, said Mr..
Phillips, parenthetically; think of what
sort Of On example he had to aspire to, and
what his ideal of . gentleman has been!
The South il expert in only one thing-poli-
tics. Experienced, keen, adroit, the South
erner IL able to cheat the North today: On
this fact the S0utherner has stsked al
his hopes Of regaining power. Some OF
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other men and journals, like the Springfield
Republican, do not see this. Take Charles
Francis Adams man who has not known
for ten yeaEs whether he was Democrat or
Republican. He belongs in this latter class
of mon. That 10 right, said Mr.. Phillips.
I an glad you applaud him. He 10 . good
lawyer, . dignifed and high.toned diplo-
matist, who made the English Lerd feel
that he was his peer. have no word but
tho Court of st. Jsmas. l wish he had
stayed there. If next January should be
caught in . terrible snow storm down the
horbor, and the pilot had run the vessel on
q rock, he might bring me certificate of
membership in . temperance society and in
the Orthodox Church; but should say to
him: ''That's oil very well, but want
man who knows the difference between .
rock and water" want . leader who can
see through the storm do not care for bic
record, Just now. do not even care for bis
integrity; I want q pilot. And to-day the
only question is, where shall We find
pilotq We want not honest men simply,
but honest men with eyes. To illustrate,
Adams, Of Quincy, and Boutwell,, Of Gro
ton, are both honest. But the latter
has eyes, while the former can not see.
Again the curtain parts as in the cid anti.
slavery days: The bugle sounds, calling to
the new battle. 1t is the same power, but
Q new front. Certain men don't see this;
certain other men do. The result is sure Is
fate. These blind men must 60 aside like
Winthrop and Webster and Calhoun, in
the days before; and the sound element, the
Blaines and the MOrtOns, close up shoulder
to shoulder in the fight. The common sense
of the people recognizes the Issue. mean
no disrespect to any Democrat when / say
that there has been no calculation OF Til
den's success except that which begins with
solid South. This is the cornerstone. On
the other hand, no calculation of Hayes
election was ever made except on q disin-
tegrated South, which insufes that healthy
individuality of States for which statesmen
have longed. But if Tilden wins, q solid
South must cohere "a nation within o ma
tiOn"-the danger which Adams long ago
toressw. The 's0lid South" is simply the
slave power, dragged by Democratic sac-
cess over the chasm of the war.
Tilden's election insures this South power.
Hayes election breaks it up. Mr.. Phillips
debated at some length on the danger re-
sulting from the continuance of the South
power, as seen by such men as Sumner and
Andrew. And vet in November o Boston
paper, which Mr.. Phillips said he would
not name 1.-THE Zranscyipt), charges that
Grant and Blaine and Boutwell, are re-
sponsible for Republican defeat. He read
the editorial through, commenting on the
charges with severity. He then passed to
consider the issue of civil service reform,
which he secuted. will find, said he, q
in the land. The Congress which investi-
gated fraud was no better than Belknap,
and it we'll represented the people. Let
charge of any nature be brought against
public man, and two-thirds Of the people,
looking into their own hearts, believe the
charge to be true. For generations this
nation has been taught by press and pulpit |
to call that right which they knew to be
wrong. Can we expect to have a civil ser
vice of angelss Mr.. Phillips denounced
the attempts to make Office life possession
as creating a privileged and aristecratic
class, unrepublican and not to be tolerated. |
1t was the body of ex.olerks, who had been
in office sixteen years, who thought their |
places were for life and were held together |
by esprit de corps, that threatened most the |
peace OF Mr.. LincOln's government at Wash.
ingtOn. Rather than have such class, let |
every other dollar of the public funds be |
used. Mr.. Phillips repeated his |
argument in favor of election Of postmas-
ters, collectors, etc, and proceeded to con.
slider the issues Of the time. Referring to
the men who see and who do not see, he |
said that the contest in the seventh district |
vas between these two classes. The grand |
est success of the campaign makes the |
welkin ring with the name at hearing |
which every Southerner's lips grow white. |
This man is feared; his opponent was not |
feared. Wade Hampton we may admire,