New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-09
THE WAR IN THE UNION.

| IL Is 10 % IOuBut, aS was ADVISED Ny SOme
of the more wary Democracy before the
war, in the Union. We do not hesitate
to say that we should look upon this in
vidious attack upon the duration OF this
Union with more apprehension than upon
war in the field. The chief warriors in
the conflict may be the post prelium heroes
who, like the priests of Europe, never
see enough blood shed by other people to
satisfy either their enmities or their am
bition. We are now threatened with
renewal on grander scale Of that conflict
which has arisen in Louisiana. The con-
tinued conflict of races and of sections
which has destroyed the social peace and
industrial property of this State will
shatter the social cement Of the Union as
well. This fact the cunning malcontents
who wish s'the war in the Union" know
perfectly well.
It is this determination to revive this
question which has inspired the speech
Of Mr.. Tucker. 1t is this hostility of
sections that excites the avowed violence
of Mr.. Toombs. Neither of the parties
represented by these speakers will
willingly let die the feuds that made the
last war. This attempt to substitute po-
litical sedition for armed warfare has
alarmed the Northern Democracy into
the assertion of national sovereignty.
They are protesting the anti-improvement
doctrines of the Southern Democracy to
give notice that if Messrs. Tucker and
Toombs press them to the wall on State
sovereignty, the Texas Pacific railroad
and the levees may take care of them
selves. This war in the Union has also
alarmed the Conservatives of the South.
We refer again to the fact that Mr.. Lamar
deprecates the renewal of this sectional |
strife. Not only has he proven in his |
reply to Mr.. Tucker that the States can
not be sovereign, since they have Identified
powers indispensable to sovereignty, but
he has avowed an unqualified devotion to
the Union. We can not believe this
gentleman to be insincere when he uses
such language as the following:
1t is my desire to see the pacifcation of
these sections; to see my people of the
South restored to the proud position of dig
under the constitution they are entitled.
Aud to do that, it is necessary that these
representatives of the EOrth-and if not
they, then their constituencies-should be-
come satisfied of the longing and desire of
our people to live with them in peace and
in q restored and fraternal
Union. Before that cherished purpose and
inspiration all others with me sink into in
[Applsuse.l
This truly centennial sentiment was
followed by compliment to Charles
Sumner for his support of amnesty, for {
and for the equal rights Of all"
md Mr.. Lamar proceeds to quote from
he Cancellation speech of s'that great phi
anthropist, that statesman, that sympa-
:hizer with human rights and human sor-
.ows."
We have never seen any comment in the !
Democratic organ or its subs upon this (
position SO bravely taken 6
~ Senator Lamar. It, however, proves a
o our mind that the Northern Democracy I
re determined the Southern Democracy
hall not dictate the party issues. 1t is 3
violence also that, whether on principle
u on policy, there are Democrats at the !
south who are not willing that Mr.. Tucker
Y Mr.. Toombs shall commit them to "a
var in the Union" which shall repel from G
be South the conservative sentiment Of a
he whole North. For these practical .
'atriots know that with sectional intoler- o
nee as it prevails to-day in Louisiana,
be immigration of enterprise, industry
7 capital is impossible.
The American people now demand to -
now whether the capitulation, the am !,
esty and the amended constitution as :
ccepted by the Southern States meant
nything? If these acts leave the question .
+ the war unsettled of what use to lend f.
apital to the South or send it numbers :? y
t is not usual for sensible men to arm {,
nemies for q decisive combat. It be- Q
ONES important, then, for the Democ- Il
acy of Louisiana to proclaim their posi- t.
ion upon this issue. Are they in favor :,
establishing the separate and unquali- o.
ed sovereignty of States, or do they be- 9
eve that sovereignty to be represented S
y the whole people of the Union? p
We may be answered by TRADE against s
le ''usurper," or an explanation how te
,e official profits of Republican tax 10
,llector should be cut down, while a D.
emocratic sheriff should be allowed to to
nploy the princely perquisites wrung CT
ON an impoverished people, during the ci
,suing political campaign, and until the
thirty-frst of December, 1876" P
The organ and its satellites may decline tt
say whether they are in favor OF "a al
ar in the Union," but they may rest 81
'sured that, according to present indica- g
ons, the Northern Democracy will not
i've them national dollar for any work G.
Southern improvement. co
If the Southern Democracy wishes sill
war in the Union" to reconquer the or
ui;s of a war outside Of the Union, they Sc
i'll find tle Northern doughfaces baked G,
hard as flint by the flames of civil war. M
he Southern Democracy may follow to
amar, or Tucker and Toombs, but thew fu
ust decide and avow their decision Tc