New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-15
OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH
"our OF THE GATES OF Hell"
The following is from the Philadelphia

Inc 1onOWlng ID from the PhllAd6lphla
Press-Forney's psper-of November IL:
We have no more doubt that Hayes and
Wheeler have carried Louisiana, South
Carolina and Florids, than that they have
carried Pennsylvania and Ohio; and if
Pennsylvania and Ohio had been subjected
to the same fraud used against the other
certain to 90 for Tilden and Hendricks as
New York city. The whole case is in nut.
shell. The quiet people of the North, and
the fair people of the South, must be
brought to Q fair understanding Of it..
Wherever the government of the United
States has asserted constitutional power q
fair election was certain. President Grant
waited for long time before he interfered
with the South. but the proofs of the ipjus-
tice Of the Democratic leaders became
finally so clear that he ordered sufficient
force to secure fair play in three of
the Southern States. His young and
able Secretary of War, Hon. J..
D. Cameron, is executing this or
der with resolute perseverance,. The
great General of all the armies of the
United States, William T. Sherman, has
reserve in the South to secure q fair count
Of the recent presidential ballots. AS we
said at tho beginning of this article, more
than half of the present Southern States
belong by fair majority of the Republican
party. We have been cheated in the face of
Heaven out of at least five of these States,
three of schich ICE shall tear out of The jars
Of the fiery furnace Of rebel fraud at ,rAat-
erer cost, and these are Louisiana, South
Carolina and Florida. The two great SEN
fences of the Presidents proclamation of
Yesterday are deserving of repetition here.
He interposes in the South not for fraud,
but for fair play; not for party, but for
q country; and when he declares that tno
man worthy of the Office of President
should be willing to hold 1t if counted in
or placed there by fraud" and that
in the result, but the country can not afford
to have the result tainted by the suspicion
of illegal or false returns," he simply pro-
claims q precept worthy of Abraham Lin.
coin. We demand nothing but Justice in
this Northern country. We submit to the
gigantic frauds of New York, Jersey City,
Connecticut and Indiana; but these we can
cure by using the power OF the honest citi-
zen against the dishonest foreigner. When
| it comes to choice between poor, perse-
cuted race of black men like thoss Of the
South, and q class of pardoned rebels who
exercised gu fra &c simply by the msgnanimi-
| ty Of the North, the balance between the
submission of the one and the ipgratitude
Of the other is easily struck. Great Britain,
,r;l send her army and her Macy to rim
| dictate The rights Of a single Englishman,
eren ii this rindication bankrupts her
treasury and loses her thousands of
ices. To be an American black or white
man is the proudest title on earth. ~ am
Roman citizenw was the exclamation sen
turies ago. The Republican party OF this
great country intends to maintain it's faith
in this idea at Whatever cost. No man,
white or black, who obeys the law, whether
| foreigner. rebel, or the redeemed slave, can
be touched in his supreme franchise by any
other man; least Of all shall a rebel ques
ton or abridge the right of his fl llow-citi-
zen. To this fundamental duty sl the
| majesty of the executive, all the sanctity of
the law, ell the deliberations of Com ress.
shall be organized and enforced without
reference to foreign municipalities or pow
| ers, and PROFESSIONALLY without reference
to the passions of local politicians. whether
they live in the North or in the South.