New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-15

Pssescsaes Or ssuehera RsDaDllssas
The rebel Democratic have taken pains to
make 1t known that they mesn TO have tho
South solid for their friends, and for Tilden
and Hendricks, the Democratic candidates
for President and Vice President. Since the
war closed, with frmer Uaion than evor,
and free republic. there seems to have
ing in the States under Democratic CON.
troll that BODIES NO good to somebody. Poo
pie we're disgusted ct the eruption of Con-
federates in the House of Representatives.
without intelligence or character, without
patriotism or qualification, congressional
rebels were placed upon important commit
tees; and the temper with which investiga-
tiOns were ordered, their unusual numbee,
and the manner In which they wore made,
panied the country to an extent such men
can never understand.
There was not Confederate in Congress
that had . right to be there had justice
been done. 1t was like opening the door Of
Murderer row in the T0mbs and asking
the gentlemen occupying the cells to step
out and ascend to the judges bench. The
Republican party had been true to its mis-
sion. 1t saved the country which the South
ern Democrats would have destroyed.
The rebellion of the Southern Democracy
caused the war and created the hugo
public debt. While Southern rebels wore
seeking to divide the Union to perpstuate
slavery the States in rebellion paid not ono
cent to the national treasury. Men like Mr..
TildeD, who eympathized with the South,
grew rich during the war, but they would
not even pay their taxes If they could escape
them. The burden of taxation fell upon
the people of the North, who not only had
to pay II, but to withdraw hundreds Of
thousands of producers to fill the ranks
of the armies Of the republic. The North
had, indeed, to fight the rebels and pay tho
taxes to keep the men in the field and equip
them. While 90 employed the congress
sionsl rebels were their enemies, and having
vanquished them in their treasonous appeal
to the sword, it certainly was surprise to
find those enemies turning mp in Congress
as legislators, having shaken off the cOnse-
quences of their treason like an old glove,
but as rebel a. ever.
In the rebellion of the Democratic party
in the South the nation was outraged and
DIT fed. Had it not been for the courage
and wisdom of the Republican party the
Southern rebellion might have struck
down the noble work Of the fathers.
and left . Union crippled and weak
ened, and NO longer the hope or homo Of
down.trodden humanity. Yet it was
rebels in Congress struck the first blew.
They did not know that in arraigning tho
Republican party Democrats arraigned
the nation, for the principles of the Re
publican party were the principles of
the bone and sinew of the republic and
of the men Of tho greatest worth and in
tslligence in it. So the congressional
rebels who had been beaten in the field
thought they could slur the character of
Republicans who had made themselves
conspicuous by their patriotic deeds. of
course the Confederates failed. They
wasted the session. In their ignorant ven
geance they would have crippled the gov
eminent: But the men who had worn the
though they had helped TO make Demo
cratic majority in the House, and were
foiled in their treason0us purpose.
Some of the C0nfederates in Congress,
who had NO sense of shame 1t the
bloody, brutal deeds resorted to to got
there, were 90 elsted that they boas6od
that they had made . mistake in trying
back in the Union, and wero resolved to
get in tho Union all they had lost in the
field. They must be paid for their
slaves; they must have slavery re-estat
lished; they must have the cotton tax
refunded; they mean to obtain from the
national treasury indemnity for the South
ern claims, amounting to 81 ,OOO, OOO, eco.
to indicate that whatever were the political
opinions of the people in the South, the
Democrats meant to hold control and rule
with rod of iron. This boast was hardly
credited. That rebels. who had once e.
capped the halter through Republican
lenity, should again risk their necks by
defying the Federal authority, and keeping
the South IN murderous excitement, was
not expected. But the condition of the
south and the daily life of the Den ocratie
leaders is an evidence of the existence of
widespread conspiracy to defraud the peO-
pie of an honest election for the presidency.
The Southern Democracy, who are rebels,
want Mr. Tilden to be elected. He is their
best representative, because he WAS dis
lOya to the Uni ~ during the war, and is
still in sympathy with the South. And
they propose 10 elect Mr.. Tiiden by murder
and intimidation.
But the Southern Democracy are likely
to he disappointed in their programme
| Murder ana assassination will not be
allowed to run riot. Mississippi is Rspub-
| llcan Louisiana is Republican and South
| Carolina is Republican. In all these States
the most atrocious Outrages have been COM
miited. 1t seems that Southerners will take
| no warning The shooting and uprOar in
South Carolina are appalling. 1T is said to
| be part of the Democratic plan to make .
solid South. The government knows
| I0AU Luo00 tuC00 Ot6L06 8Co uuu0l l4Uly NO
publican on national issues, and that they
will rs surely 60 for Hayes as Vermont,
unless the majority is overcome by most
outrageous brute force. IL is known that,
if the Democratic rebels carry any one of
them for Tilden, it will be by force-it will
be by fraud, for these States are not Demo
cratic, and Tilden has not the remOtest
chance. Other Southern States are feeling
the iron heel Of the murderOus oppressOr,
and the same hope of u solid South guides
the enemy of Republicans.
Ii ever there was an honeet election in
the Sou Il the country has resolved tina,
there ehall be one next November TIE
President has been intrusted, with the
means to promote this and protect voter
in the exercise of the franchise. Why
should not the South be IS safe for III
citizens to cast their ballots as Vernon
or Massachusetts! Simply becsus,
Southern Democrats have no true ap
probation of republican principles
which recognize the rights of all mel
under the law. Those rights are now to b'
protected. A mighty struggle is being car
ried on by Confederate Democrats as /
they thought to frighten away or defy thu
national power. If go, they were never
more mistaken. The President will use thu
army, if required, to keep the polls open
and to protect the voters going there. Th'
pretense of the Dem ocracy in the South tina
the army will intiWidate, sounds strang'
when that same Democracy are supporting
their claims by cruel and bloody sssassi
nation. No one is deceived by this Dem
, ocratic pretense. No troops have been o
, will be used to intimldate the whites
which means the rebel Democrats. Tn
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