New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-29

.onisn Repoblicsn party in 1886 bad die
snd his mantle had fallen on tho shoulde
of Mr., Tyler. Consequently, In the totl
convention that followed ct HerTfeoul
after Harrison was nominated = Prosade!
70 represent the National Republicans, n
Tvler was nominated 90 Vice President
renreseut tho Jeffers0nian Republican
still true to tho record Of his lite and IN
| of his father. Tho allies, composed
.ha.e two distinct elements Of party, .
snmed the nsme of Wings, and their tick
VA oyerw helmingly elected.
Rut Providence 20 ordered IL that IN on
month after the installation of Mr.. Hs
rison and Mr.. Tyler into their RESPECTIVE
af;cas ME-. Harrison died, and BY his dest
me National Republican element OF ID
| Examination lost their President, and tn
j, ff.rsouisn Republican element OF tn
com bination gained . President after tn
lapse of sixteen years from the terminsno
of the administration of President Monroe
in 1926, to the accession OF Pfesidens Ay'e
in l84l.
facts of history what becomes Of the Sian
derous charge of treason to party harped
mon by these Democratic trsducers agains
Mr.. TYLER, because as President he remained
true to the only party he had ever SOS
tnined-the party of JeffersoniOn Rspub
licapisn-the more especially sfter the mail
object of his al lance with the National Re
DubIicsns had been achieved in oustinl
from power the Democracy with their cor
rupc officials and ruinOus administrative
policy that had bsnkrupted the country
and the treasury both slkts
FIR whatever of corruption and embezzle
MT NJ may have occurred during the sixteen
wears of rule of the present Republican
party there is this that may be justly said
In The first place 1t had to encounter fol
four years one of the most expensive and
terrible wars recorded in modern annals,
necessarily giving rise to enormous con
tracts and billions of expenditure: and ia
the second place, it has of itself purged
itself of its corrupt officials with . zeal
worthy Of the republic, and evidenoing q
devoted patriotism. In the third place,
moreover, il has, in despite of all, lifted up
and maintained the public credit among al
the nations of the earth, aud at homo -
we'll Is abroad, at . higher figure than it
has ever before reached, and higher than
tho sun, while not only preserving the
Union intact and greatly extending its
bounds, but adding to IL State after state,
and knitting the whole together, moro and
more, with the most stupendous works Of
improvement yet achieved. 1t has indeed
been = marvel in its energies and forces and
economies.
But what can be said in behalf Of the
Democratic party for the condition in which
it left the government and the country, tho
army, the navy. the tressury, our foreign
aud domestic adAirs, the private and public
credit, the war with the Indlans in Florida,
the unsdiusted difficulties with Great Brit
ain, with Texas rej-cted under the over
mi n nd
ruptcy and official corruption prevailing
after twelve years OF misrule in . time Of
profound peacef One single fact will illus
trate the tenor Of every thing associated
with the administration of this party dur
ing its first twelve years Of rule, terminal
ing with the administration Ut President
Van Buren,. In Florida, at Tampa, where
nothing but forests covered the land, dur
lag the Seminole war, $35 were contracted
to be paid per cord Tor wood supplied to the
army, and so in proportion for Hour and ell
other supplies. LIST Us hear NO moro talk
from these gent!em n about honesty. for
Heavens sake, with such . sho wing Of their
own.
But they have furthermore attempted TO
make it appear that have sought 10 shane
my letter IN the Chronicle more to pass an
encomium upon the admins, alton Of Pres
lden, Ty Ter than anythu g else. There sksll
De no escape here. That administration
was, as is now clearly seen. Republican
M ninistration of the government, and
right-d the government and country from
oil the misrule, cOrruptions, oaizscies.
neg LICENCES. and inconpetency OF its Dem
'cra &c predecessor, reOrganiz ng the army,
restoring the navy, re-escaolishing the
finances and the credit of the government.
GJusting our foreign relations. terminating
he Indian war, introducing florida as Q
state IN the Union and removing the In
iians. annexing Texas and closing up the
iavery agitation, opening mp the com.
nerce OF the Orlenf, fostering equally our
'reae manufacturing and agricultural in.
eresss, and rewsrding virtu-. integrity
md merit 10 all directions. Yet what fol.
owed after its closet
1t was deserted by the South, the admin.
stration of this true Southern Republican,:
his true disciple OF the fathers If the
the Un,on, the governments
no the country; this true successor of JEFF
ersoD, of Madison and of Monroe: thia sd
which had exrerminsted ali
pilferers and plunderers, and
uring which not ono dollar had been Ioe,
, any manner to the public revenues And |
reasnry; and this man who had. - q South.
m man in the United ates SENATE, icon.
rdized all bis future political fortunes in |
pposing eingly and alone the coercive l
leasures of Andrew jackson and the De. |
locracy to crush in = Southern Safe.
,ey,, the Southern PEG. l., des ,rted,
haAdOned and eonRht to strike down, with |
leir usual characteristics OF ehOrtslxh,ed
lily and i0grAtitude, in the purely selfish
nx'ety Of their political leaders to return
the spril and plumber system of Martin
an Buren,.
TsAy went into convention in B 4ltinors
1874, and cast their vote for Mr. Van
1ren to be President again, and with all
q politlcal otfenses standing out sgainst
10, and failing TO carry his nomiu alton bv |
e required twO-thirds vote, they then
animated James X Polk as Pre- sident.
Id he was elected. restoring the Democ.
cy to power, with what sad and djsas
Gus consequences to themselves and their
,sterity forever they now best know. Hi.
Try first act was In effort to recall the
eseenger dispatched to The authorities of
,xas by his Republican predecessor with
g measures of annexation approved. in
hich attempt, if he had succeeded. Texas
ou'd have been inevitably lost to the
nited States forever and fallen under
'itish influences and the protection Of
reat Britain.
He next attempted to burst over the ad.
8 meGt tina: had been reached by his Re
lo!lcan predecessor N respect to the
'rthwestern boundary, in which if he had
oc-eded, he would have inevitably in
lived the country in war with Great
'itain. He then, in an effort to attach to
mself an eclat be had not the statesman
ip to achieve, forced upon the country q
sr with Mexico, aud entirely subverted
d destroyed the bene6csut policy of his
publican predecessor embraced in the sn.
xatlon Of Texas, and through the unwi.e
,aty Of Guadalupe Hidaigo, in regard to
D Territories acquired under it, reopened .
3 negro agitation never to be healed until | |
3 South shall become absorbed bv the |
nth in the Union, morally, socially, Do
cslly, and industriously. rs l have here.
tore repeatedly said, before, during and ,
ICE the War, aud which many sagscious 3
nds even at the Sou now begin T., ner. {