New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-16
SHAM REPUBLICANS.

| SHAM REPUBLICANS
The New York Tribune has taken posi-
ton where, under pretense Of independ
ence, it may stab the party to which tina
journal has owed its past existence. I
pretends to censure the Republicans O
Louisiana for an alleged detection from
the principles of Seward and Greeley
1t is either in malice or ignorance that il
mistates the facts in regard to our State
| ticket. The Tribune should have known
that our ticket has received the respect o,
| our opponents for the personal integrity
of its members, and that it is in that re.
spect in entire accord with the standard
of Hayes and Wheeler.
The Tribune has chosen to defame the
Republicans of Louisiana as ''sham Re-
publicans. We would not descend to
retort upon journal which has retained
the appellation of Republican only to
give more effect to its SANDER upon the
Republican cause. It charges the Kepub-
licans who have since the war emigrated
to Louisiana. Who sent these immi-
grants? The Tribune did more to bring
on the war than all other newspapers in
the Union. It broke up the Wing party
and formed the Republican principles on
the basis of universal freedom, manhood
suffrage" political and social equality.
It urged war ION to Richmond" and
would never pause until the last armed
rebel, with rope around his neck, was
suing for freedom at the foot of an out
ragged national sovereignty. The great
purposes of Horace Greeley have been
carried into effect. We have sovereign
nation, with universal freedom and po-
litical equality. This was the object
of the Tribune. Many Republicans
who trusted to the protection of law
and amnesty came to the South. They
were justified by the Tribune in expecting
all those blessings which the triumph of
Union arms would have guaranteed them.
They came to introduce the rights of the
colored people, for which the Tribune had
contended. They came to aid in the per-
lection of the great doctrine which the
Tribune inaugurated. What has been
their surprise to have seen the Tribune re-
nounce its principles, discard its respon-
sibility and turn to demonstrate that free
dom was a mistake, equality impossible
and manhood suffrage" absurd. ''Scared
at the sound itself has made" the Tribune
has abandoned the standard of freedom
and taken the bounty offered by those
who advocate the return to bondage.
When Horace Greeley was the friend and
adviser of John Brown did he ever expect
his newspaper would send correspond
ent into the South to demonstrate the
negroes incapable Of suffrage or of self
government? Would it have been cred
ible that the journal created by the great
would have given up the
problem of right and equality and testi-
tied to the failure of his own purposes?
The text of Mr.. Greeleys ideas has
cost the nation immense loss and suffer-
ing. Is it true Repubiicanism to abandon
these ideas and admit this suffering to
have been in vain? Is it sham repuh-
licanism to abandon the victory Of these
IDEAS because of alleged incompetency in
M fn ha
Of these ideas has been intrusted. The
Tribune is mistaken in supposing that it
IAN escape tie responsibilities of abo-
ition. They will stick to it, as mark |
20 ingrained in its history as that it can |
lot be obliterated. Had Horace Greeley !
ived he would have acknowledged and met |
he responsibility of his acts. He would |
lave stood by manhood suffrage" He
would have defended civil equality. He
would have seen that the slave whom |
re insisted should be LORD of |
himself, that heritage Of VICE." should |
lot have been left in a worse sit
lation than be had occupied. Horace
ireeley would never have imagined that
le could disembarrass himself of this ter
IDLE responsibility by sheer at sham
nor secure the success of his I
wn experiment by taking refuge on the
erritory of neutral opinion or ingiorious-
, resorting to the protection Of his life
nemy the Democracy. The influence of
he New York Tribune has passed away.
he purchased and branded tool of a
1ercenary money changer, its advocacy
r antagonism are of no account. It has
'rinted column to explain the meaning
t sham repubiicanism when it might
nth single word give the most compre-
enslve, as it is the most degraded, ex-
mple of this political infamy. That one
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