New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-28
A Lost OppoFtunity.

New YORK. September @. 1876.
The nomination of Mr.. Adams, of Mass
schusette, offered ono of those oppo rtani-
ties for good upon which the Dem ooratic
leaders of the North have 90 often turned
their backs. An earnest effort has been
made by men long identified with the Re-
publican party to give response from the
South to this nomination in the interest of
peace and independence of party politics.
The same Influences which four years ago
destroyed the Liberal Republican move
ment under Horace Greeley and Charles
Sumner have now set Themselves to work
to belittle the same movement in Massa-
chusetts under Mr.. Adams. We have, as q
result of this NJ Massachusetts move, the par
rading here at the North of the cd Confed-
crate leaders, now without q particle of
love for the Union or of sympathy for civil
liberty, These representatives Of dead
past come forth in their winding sheets
and, sending forth the dank odors
of the political grave yard, ask
the vigorous, healthy, I've" Amelioan
to become the worstiper Of what belongs
to the dark ages. Bayard, of Delswars,
is one of these brill ant Southern statesmen.
And who is Mr.. Bay ardl A monarchist,
and believer in poll ical este. As law
yer, viii undertake to find twenty men
who practice at the New York bar who are
his superior. As an orator, I will find twenty
men on the lecture lists of Northern
lecture bureaus who are his superiors.
As statesman, he ranks with Mr..
Davis, General TOombs and Mr.. Lamar.
These are the kind of men who under
take, in thu hour Of supreme interest, to
shape the destiny, not only of the South,
but of the ma ion. How little do they con-
prehend that the Northern school teacher
and the voting negro are forces Which have
already eaten away the foupda'i ms on
which the Confederate idea reats for sup
port! How little do tLese men understand
that one negro voter in Louii ana, who an
nually polls freeman's vote and makes
his ten bales of cotton, and educates Lis
ch ildrep, is q greater source of political
power than Mr.. Bsyard and General
Toombs and Mr.. Lamar combined. This i,
go because ths negro citizen, as producer
and an educator, represents an ''idea," q
"pliaciple," which is des iued to pulverize
| Southern caste and feudalism into powder
f iner than that produced by the finest -four
mill in Richmond, Virginia.
The opportunity which Mr.. Adams nom.
ina ion presented for strengthening the
Democratic position is thus FILTERED away
Honest and earnest Republicans v ho really
want to see change of administrator be-
cause they regard the long continuance Of
| any one party in power as certain to breed
corruption, are more than ever satisfied
that the time has not yet come for such q
change. The result of this is an increased
| impetus to the peace element in favor ol
Hayes. Governor Hayes is more and more
looked to now a. the man who is to solve
our problem. But the reaction does moi
end here. Every body eees that what the
South wants is new blood, and hence the
German papers and the American popers ol
the North are beginning to agitate in favor
of emigration to the South of German and
Northern colonies. Now when these Ger
man colonies and Northern colonies ge
down South and join the negro citizen and
the New England teacher, what will become
of the Bsyards and Toombs and Lamars'
Where will the leaders of Tammany Hall
look, then. for alliesf
The transformation of the South through
the schoolhouse, the ballot and small farm.
is thing of absolute certainty. The worl
may be postponed. but it will go on until
the land which once knew slavery alone
and all of it's accursed infamles will know
only liberty and the blessings which she
ever brings in her train-freedom, nation.
ality, civil equality, education.
These form the foundation of all social
and political life in America. As stand the
everlasting hills, so will these stand. They
! are for all time, and for all races and fol
ell men. B.