New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-27
THE War OVER AGAIN.

THE War OVER AGAIN.
No impartial observer can doubt but
that the same principles which were de-
cided by the late war are again in issue.
Senators Bayard and Salisbury and their
Democratic followers were never required
to take an oath that they accepted the re-
suits of the war as embodied in the con-
stitution. By consequence they are not
under the same obligation with the ''solid
South" which, by accepting amnesty, as
we'll as by constitutional provision, bind
themselves in law and in honor to abide
by this final construction. We see it
reported that the Democratic Governor of
Georgia intends to renew the question
whether the State or the Federal govern
ment is paramount, by directing the citi-
zens of Georgia to refuse service in the
posse comitatus, or in the militia service
which may be ordered by the
Federal government to enforce the
Federal laws. There can be no reason
why q Southern State should, now,
esteem an imaginary sovereignty more
than Western or Eastern State, because
there is now no difference anywhere in
the political rights of the people. We
could understand why the small New
England States, with Rhode Island and
New Jersey, may insist upon their State
hood, since it gives them an amount of
political power equal, in one branch of
the national government, to that of the
largest and most populous State of the
Union. There appears but one reason
why the Southern States should insist on
being regarded as SO many close corpora
tons, within which no outside or supe-
rior authority can enter or exercise au-
thority. 1t must be, that discontinued
with the act Of emancipation, and the
elevation of the colored people to
political equality aud to equal legal
rights, they would prefer to inclose
the emancipated people within the iron
pale Of State sanctity within which these
rights may be prac tically annulled. We
can see no other reasons for the intoler-
ance, the excitement and the prescription
toward all those in the South who sup
port Republican principles. Did not the
Democratic South accept the grant and
guaranty Of the rights to which We have
referred? Did it not bestow its solid vote
upon the Republican Greeley, the known
and noted author and advocate of this
great act and Of the settlement? Why,
then, visit upon others such condemna-
ton for doing the same thing that De-
mocracy has done? There can be but
the reason stated. 1t is a determine
ton to appeal from the battlefield back
to the ballot-box. It is to reverse
this decision Of the people, and re-
construct the government as q congeries
of separate nationalities. In this mode
of realizing the purpose of Calhoun
the Northern Democracy are perfectly
agreed. They did not 60 into the battle
to aid the Confederates. They were sim
cerely in favor Of Union successes be-
cause they wished to conquer their allies,
and employ them in acquiring the spoils |
Of Office. The Northern Democracy are
too weak to effect this result, but that the |
of their Southern serfs has |
been again secured is evident from
single fact. The ''solid South" would
give two-thirds of the electoral vote |
Necessary to elect the President, but the
nominations for President and Vice Pres
dent, with all the executive patronage,
ave been given to Northern DEM
crats who can furnish but one-third of
he vote necessary for election. What
signal triumph Of Yankee sagacity!
What proof of Southern subservience!
n all this there can be but one motive. 1t
3 the Inauguration of another contest,
be object of which will be the nullifca-
ion of the constitutional amendments by
tate law and federal non-intervention. In
his the colored people of the South are
lore interested than any others. They
ill be the prisoners Of the war. They
ill be inclosed within the pickets and
cad line of fgurative Andersonville.
hey may be subjected to copy of the
w of Texas or of Georgia, or to the co.
al despotism of Mississippi or Ala
anna. Within their fatal inclosurs
ley may groan in political bond
&c, but with the exclusive right
the State to administer its own laws
yer its own citizens-with a President
ho will not intervene to protect citizen
the United States, unless called upon
do so by the authorities of the State
thin which the citizen resides, there
i'll be practically no protection. If The
emocratic party shall conquer in this
ar they will carry the colored voters into ,
captivity from which there can be nei-
er ransom nor escape. Let them come
} to what may be their last free ballot,
men who have before them the alterna-
We OF political freedom or of political
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