New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-20

ellis. At the close of the war the Demjc'
racy nominated Mcclellan, Blair, aAd al
last Horace Greeley. It is probable that
Colonel Mosby was Wing. Not impos'
sibly he considered the obligation to de-
fend the South under Democratic com.
mand terminated with the war. He may
have had the temerity to suppose that il
one citizen of the South voted for Nc.
Clellan, Northern Democratic soldier
another would be permitted to sup
port Grant, Western Democratic
soldier. In the simplicity of camp
faith Colonel Mosby fell into the
fatal mistake that if a Southern secession.
list could vote for Horace Greeley, Re.
publican, an abolition list, protecticnist,
another citizen who was not a secession
list might be allowed to vote for another
Observation-Disclosures had been, We
believe, neither an abolitionist nor pro-
tectionist. Colonel Mosby is what Mr..
Rhett calls scallawag-that is, a South
ern soldier who claims an honorable mill
tary and political discharge from the SER
vice of the Democracy, North and South.
Mr.. Rhett will support Mr.. Tilden be-
cause that statesman has claimed connec-
ton with Democracy even while he sus-
tanned Lincoln in "the adjustment of
slave institutions ''to break down the
lost cause and make the war against the
Southern Confederacy successful. :"
Colonel Mosby opposes his election for
reasons given in his excellent, logical
and temperate letter, which we publish
in this issue. He distrusts the political
integrity Of Mr.. Tilden. BE does not
believe that plant nurtured in the hot
bed Of Tammany Hall will bear better fruit
when transplanted to Washington. He
sketches the connection and protection of
Tweed by Democratic judges, charged by
Charles O'Conor with bribery, liberated
from prison with the connivance of Dem
ocratic jailor and the continued political
cooperation of Mr.. Tilden with Tammany
Hall. Colonel Mosby will now see that
while he was fighting to resist the inva-
sion of the Republican armies, Mr.. Tilden
was sustaining that cause. It will be
difficult to explain how Mr.. Rhett can adj
vocate the election of this abolitionist,
freesoiler and invader, and reproach
Southern men who will not support him
with infidelity to their section.
In fact, however, the opinions and
purposes of these two representative gen.
tlemen have no longer the importance
with those of A. P. Butler or of James NJ.
Mason. In the immense growth of the
republic, Virginia, from having been in
the second or third class of States, is now
numbered in about the ninth class. South
Carolina stands in the nineteenth or
twentieth class. Take away the negro
numbers in right of which South Caro-
lima takes more than half her representa-
lives, and she would stand along side of
Delaware, Florida, Rhode Islands, ETC.
She aoould hare a smaller cote in the cleo
oral college than Kansas, against whose
Statehood she made such violent resist
ance. And yet Mr.. Rhett reno unces all
power held through Ignorant and ire
'ponsible numbers!' However it may
yrieve Mr.. Rhett to witness the suprem-
ICY of this class, he had as well adapt
himself to the inevitable, nor do we sup
bose that free soiler and advocate of the
and slave emancipation of the
south is precisely the agent from whom
hould be expected the repeal of univer-
al suffrage, or the restoration of State
sovereignty.