New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-16
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican. |
NORTHERN POLITICS.

Especial Correspondence Of the Republican,
NORTHERN POLITICS.
The Catholic Hierarchy, New England
Radicalism and the Negro Power and
Their Rslatisa to the Approaching
PFesideaeial Elecrien.
BOSTON. juno z. 1876.
Tho National Republican party of the
United States of America, will soon meet,
through carefully selected delegates, in
convention 1t Cincinnati. Upon the action
of this convention turns the future of civil
liberty and Protestant civilization in the
New World. 1t is, therefore, oppurtune to
bring into conspicuous view the issues in
volved in the political contest which this
Republican convention will inaugurate, and
not only the issues themselves but the con-
sequences flowing from these issues, and to
consider how we can best meet the crisis
which confronts us. Our subject, therefore,
divides itself by natural process into the
following headings:
First-The character Of the Republican
convention soon to assemble at Cincinnati.
Second-The cause of civil liberty and
Protestant civilization in the New World as
involved in the deliberations and action of
that convention.
Third-The consequences certain to fol-
low any abandonment of principle, or any
fatal mistake on the part of that conven-
ton.
Fourth-How to meet the crisis which is
now upon US as people.
First, of the character of the convention.
The makeup" of the Republican conven-
ton soon to assemble in Cincinnati will be
most remarkable. 1t will embrace all
shades of opinion az these exist in the
party of humanity, and be reflected by all
classes and races of men, from the day Ia
borer whose expenses have been paid by
his fellow workmen to enable him to make
the journey to Cincinnati, to the Repub-
lican millionaire who has journeyed to the
same place in . especial car" and who will
OCCUPY q suite Of rooms at the most ex
pensive hotel, and dine sumptuOusly every
day at his private table, robed as king in
purple and fine linen. 1t will embrace all
colors and shades of color. The coal
black and the snowy white will cit side by
side. It will embrace all creeds and shades
of creeds. It will be the fullest possible
reflex of the many side civilization OF the
great republic of America, whose popular
self-government is on final trial before
mankind, and where free government is
destined to sink rapidly into ruin, or where
Q new impulse is about to be given to the
principle which is to dominate the world.
The men composing this convention will
have been selected with great care, and
they will feel the sense of responsibility
which rests upon them.
The second aspect of our question in
wolves the cause Of local liberty and Prot
estaut civilization in the New World "a
these stand related to the Republican
party of the United States. Under this
heading We may examine and dismiss the
ideas it embraces by applying Q very simple
arithmetical rule to our problem: l. If the
Confederate element and the Catholic ele-
ment should both be taken from the Demo-
cratic party, what would remain! 2. If the
anti-slavery element and the Protestant Gle
ment should be taken from the Republican
party, what would remain9 The answer to
these two questions shows in what the
danger of the Confederate Democratic ALI
ance consiste, and shows also where the
vitality and strength Of the Republican
party is to be found.
The consequences which will follow any
abandonment of principle by the Repub-
lican party in this hour of supreme peril to
the nation, or which will how from any ia
tai mistake in the policy adopted at Cincin-
matt, should make every earnest man pause
and act with an unselfish and most con-
scientious deliberation. The consequences
adverse to Professionalism certain to flow
from any mistake made at Cincinnati. are
found chiefly in the fact that there exist
three great forces within the Union which
owe allegiance to something higher than
the Union itself, and that these forces are
now gradually coalescing l say "higher'
because the "higher law" is not only fact
in nature, but it is fact in American politics,
and fact connected with this very negro
question. Under this ''higher law" the Catho.
lie places duty to God above all other duties
and allegiance to God above all other forms
OF allegiance be they what they may. In
der this same "higher law" the New Eng
land Radical of to-day stands where he or
she did thirty years ago, when all that was
best and bravest in New England cried out
for an anti-slavery Bible and an anti slavery
God, an anti slavery Christian Church and an
anti-slavery republic, as against the out
rage and satanic spirit of Bible-defended
slave system. Now as then their humanity
and it's cause rise above all earthly consider
atoms with these lovers Of liberty. Now as
then the New England Radicals have
opened their arms to receive the greetings
of their fellow men of all lande, and races
and creeds, who are seeking to clasp hands
over the artificial boundary lines of selfish
nationalities in order to insugurate the
universal brotherhood Of man. Under thif
'higher law" the negro also seeks, as does
the New England Radical for life, Liberty and
Cn0 PURSUIT. VI uAppluco6' dOs wv, LOUIS oAo
his race-life is as much divine as the race-lift
of the white man. He, too, feels that he is 6
part of the common human brotherhood
and that white mans government based
on caste is but new form of the old wrong
which. under chattel slavery, crushed tbt
life aspirations out of the hearts of 1000, OO(
human beings under so-called Repub
lican form of government.