New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-02
ORLEANS REPUBLICAN,, SATURDAY. DECEMBER q 1876

stands upon the other and opposite side
The revolutionists have smptied the gut
ters Of calumny upon those who have
taken shelter under the law. They have
assumed that to oppose the revolutionists
is to oppose justice. They demand thai
everywhere the Republican authorities
shall be deemed in the wrong, and tina,
the Democratic candidates for honorable
and for lucrative Offices shall be declared
in the right.
The issue which we have stated has
grown above the diatribes of the Last
Ditch press, the philippics Of its orators
or the bubbles of its attorneys. It has
risen to involve not merely the lives and
liberties Of Republicans in the South, but
the life of the nation. The nation now
looks at the universal intimidation which
has prevented free will suffrage, and has
even perverted its exercise to the support
of principles Numerically opposite and
utterly fatal to such suffrage. The nation
has seen that, beginning with disturb
ance in Georgia, passing through the
murders. whipping and exile in Missis-
sippi, copied into and eliminating in the
unparalleled violence and shame of the
Louisiana Democracy, the whole South is
terror stricken and dumb under the will
OF armed and desperate men. The ma
ton will uphold the law. It will not
see the republic plunged by conspiracy
into the same struggle from which it has
been just rescued by terrible war. The
mild professions of Lamar, Hampton,
Nichols and Gordon had lulled the ma
tional vigilance; but the horrible revela-
tons here and elsewhere have shown q
power ambushed behind these plausible
leaders, who await but q signal to rise
and revolutionize the government This
revolutionary force is not 90 rash as to
encounter the Federal forces. They now
appeal to the North to move in resistance
to the laws. One vehement organ of
Northern resistance says:
As the times are drifting, 1t seems i'm
possible for the Reform party 10 escape act.
ing on the aggressive.
It recites the injustice of excluding
50 majority of the people," hum
cry for the fruits of victory so
signally won. It reminds this pop
ular majority that ''the bone and sinew
of the North and West" are impatient to
relic We the ''sobbing South" from which |
comes "this cry for deliverance." 1t sug-
gests "what power is the people when |
they rise to assert their rights" It grows
. little mysterious when it says 'this
time is now where the masses may be |
and all ineligible meaning |
fades out in the inegmatical observation.
''They"-the American masses-"will be
with nothing short of this assur-
ance, and it must come from those who
are appointed to guard their rights"
The American people intend the law
shall govern. The Democracy are deter
mined that the law shall not govern.
This is the issue. The bulldozer party
ire supreme in Feliciana and Ouachita.
They are q little doubtful whether they
would be equally dominant beyond the
Potomac. They call on the Democracy
# the North to inaugurate opposition to
aw, and, as quoted above, expect "the
zone and sinew" of the North and West
o array itself against the law. We have
10 such apprehension. The Democracy
f the North and West will not back their
lilies, the bulldozers, to the peril of the
Union or Of themselves. The law will
riumph according to its power, aud the
american people will guarantee whatever
lay be determined North or South by
hat standard alone.