New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-13
AM uIHALLOWBD ALLIAH0R.

An UNHALLOWBD AlbAANOh.
We have never bean able to understand
how party calling itself Southern should
have ever united itself with the Democ-
racy at the North. Up to the war the
platform of the Democracy recognized al
the doctrine of State sovereignty and OF
State separation. During the war De-
mocracy failed to come to the front and
assist the South. Fearing the total loss
of power, it affected . SUPERFICIAL devo-
ton to the Union. 1t took contracts and
hired substitutes. Under Mcclellan it
howled around Richmond for the best
blood of the Confederacy, and under Blair
invaded the South with one of the first
negro regiments. Since the war Democ-
racy has voted for such measures as
would crafty the locality interested,
but it has sedulously cut of every
appropriation in which the South
ern people were concerned. Ihe
Southern representatives rushed to WASH
ington, thinking the time had come for
reversing all the legislation Of the past,
or at least for receiving their share of fed
eral appropriations. They were snubbed
and silenced in caucus and in the House.
They have been employed in aiding the
national issue of investigating the few
corrupt officials in an army Of employees
numbering about two hundred thousand
in the past few years. The proposition is
that because there were corrupt and in
competent officials under prolonged Re-
publican rule, therefore, under q Demo-
cratic administration, there would be no
corrupt or incompetent official.
The pusillanimous abandonment Of
principle, this unworthy pursuit of their
Southern associates, this treacherous en-
couragement of the Southern people to
engage in secession and the Jealous
strategy to have them whipped back into
the Union as the subjugated serfs Of their
Northern Democratic masters, would, it
would seem, have excited such indigna-
ton IN the heart of the Southern chivalry
as that never under any contingency
would they have trusted again to the dis.
ciples of Van Buren,. Of him it was said
by Southern man: "You have deceived
me once; that was your fault. If you de-
ceive me again it will be mine" And now
chivalry of the South clasp to their
bosoms this treacherous party. They
speak OF are silent at their bidding; they
rejoice at Democratic success, and accept
with thankfulness any job Of investigation
which they may be employed, Like detec-
tives, to work up.
There is even more disgraceful phase
of this obedience. The Southern Democ-
racy command all Southern people to fol-
them, as if the country was still at war.
If some refused to support Northern
candidate renowned for his unAinching
support of abolition and protection; if
others, remembering the perfdy Of
Northern Democracy, refuse to trust
them further-those who have as
sumed command Of the South, repudiate
soldiers who bore the Confederate banner
from Manassas to Appomattox. The
Confederate Democracy Cast off Moseby
and Longstreet to take in their places Nc
Clellan and Blair.
This extraordinary disregard Of prin-
ciple, this unexampled forgiveness of
treachery, this shameful sacrifice OF
friends who shed their blood, for enemies
whose failure to lay the South in ruins
was but due to the courage of the men
thus sacrificed, are all applicable upon
one theory. It is that the Democracy OF
the South would sacrifice any friend and
combine with any foe to secure power
and the spolis of power.