Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1876-08-05
RESULTS OF TIE WAR.


Gratis, for the Douglass faction were
Democrats rs well as the Breckenridge
party.
Can any sane man believe there
would have been a Republican this
side of Mason's and Dixon's line had
it not been for the enfranchisement Of
the negro and the importation Of
Northern men into the South TO poison
their minds against their old masters
and best friends? Certainly not. No
Southern man would have turned
against his native country had it not
been for the idea that it was better
for Southern men (Republicans) to
lead the negroes than for Northern
carpet-baggers to do so. For they
had so poisoned the minds of the
illiterate blacks that it was evident,
their opinions had become almost
fixed, that the Republican party had
broken the chains of slavery. Why
was this? 1t was known by white
and black that Lincoln, who was
President during the continuance Of
the Confederate war, was q Republic
can. 1t is hard to make the negro
understand the difference between the
motives and results of the late war.
The cause of the war was an attempt
to coercc the Southern States into the
Union for having claimed the right to
secedc, and the continuance of the war
the resistance offered by the South to
manage Der own affairs, which right
she claimed under the States Right
doctrine. The consequence was
long, bloody war, which was at last
ended by the power of the strong arm
Of the Federal Government. Toward
the close OF the war President Lincoln
issued proclamation declaring the
negroes free.
Let US illustrate, for example, while
the enemy were marching through
the South with large invading armies
they generally bursted open the doors
of jaHs, penitentiaries, &c, and in
many cases armed the criminals and
forced them to fight the South. Was
it for them the war was waged !?
just as much so as it was waged for
the freedom of the slave. The eman.
cipation Of the slaves was only one of
the many results Of the war. Sup
pose We take for example the burning
Of a city. The fiend applies the torch
at one portion of the city, the fire
commences, it increases, and finally it
reaches the museum where there are
many wild beasts of the forest con-
fined. The doors are broken open,
the beasts scamper off into the forest
iuto their native element. Is it the
Gend who applies the torch that libcr'
ates the beasts, or is it not merely the
result of the fire. Now it was claimed
by the United States authorities that
the Southern people inaugurated the
war. If this is the case, to whom
should the slave be Indebted for his
freedom? If the war freed THIN and
the South was the cause of the war,
the Southern people are those that the
slave should feel indebted to. We
contend, however, that neitber is the
case the emancipation Of slavery il
one of the results of the war, not that
purpose. 1t is no wonder the white
people of the South affiliate with the
Democratic party. If the slaves bad
been left alone TO their own choice
they would perhaps have been divided
as were the Democrats and Wings
before the war, but the policy of the
Radical party to array all the negroes
against the Democratic party South
has only tended to unite the party
the result Of which is that nearly all
the Southern States are put down as
Democratic. We copy from the
Lyachburg Nows:
EsrRAyoED FROM The REPUBLICAN PARTY.
We continually see IN the Northern Repub-
lican papers the TrJteTa,oa Of the threat in
their Cincinnati platform against the South
because of oar devotion to the Democratic
party. A solid South, say they, is a menace.
The South solid for Democracy means (tl,ey
repeaI scctionalisn. What we coull not
accomplish ly war we attempt by politics.
The South is determined to rule. All this
is Intended 10 affect those in the North who
have never beer South, aud who only know
that whic.. is written il Radical papers pub
lished in the intcre.s Of the Radical party
without regard to fairness, justice or fact.
Let honest Republicans North or South ask
themselves the question What has the
Republican party done, or even promised. to
induce the body of the Southern white pco-
pie to love or support itl. VIA; has il done
to secure the confidence of our best men
Have they been consulted about the govern.
ment Of a single Southern State from the
days Of reconstruction ill this day. Were
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