New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-16
There's q Diviaity that Shapes our
EnAa.O

There's q Diviaity that Shapes our
Ends.''
"Man proposes, God disposes." The cam
psign was fought on the basis of . solid
North W. solid South. A Republican vic
tory on this line would have been complete,
but, after all, fruitful of sectional bicker-
ings and full of the old time antagonisms.
It would have perpetuated q geographical
division OF the country, and enabled the
South to continue lis CLAIM that the North
was inspired by . policy of hate, to which
the North would have retorted that the
South was consolidated by Q policy of re-
bellion. As it is, the victory of Rutherford
b. Hayes can not be criticised as sectional.
He loet the Empire State Of the North. He
lost the hermaphrodite ''Stsit of Moo Jer-
eey." He was defeated in the bluest nosed
State of Yam keedOm. He failed to carry
Indiana. one of the leading States of the
West. He did carry all the Pacific States
where the population is almost equally rep
resentative Of every one OF the older States,
South 40 we'll as North.
On the other hand, Tilden is whipped by
the turning votes of Southern States.
be ehell, just as Grant predicted it would
be, in q military point of view, when he
cent Sherman on his march to the sea. South
Carolina, the core of State sovereignty and
notification, casts her vote for Hayes.
Louisiana and Florids, States of the ex-
treme South. 60 tor Hayes; Will, sturdy
North Carolina, it is reasonably probable,
will fall into line. This is as it should be-.
1t disposes Of the Ohio river as political
divisor. 1t breaks down forever the middle
wall of PARTITION batwoen the freemen of
the North and the freemen of the South.
1t knocks into q cooked hat also the white
line policy attempted to be put in force by
the ex-rebels in the South. It dignifies the
freedman by plainly setting him forth as
the true arbiter OF our political destinies.
What Q thought! The cringing. cOwed,
scared, manscled black man of 1861 rising
from the dust and, in the role of citizen,
fixing the exec 1tive and the policy of the
nation in this centennial year! Truly they
as they that humble themselves Even the
prophetic mind of Lincoln could hardly
have predicted this day. Yet it has come
in the order of Divine Providence; come at
q time when it was necessary; come as We
believe in time to preserve the nation and
to prevent the terrible train of evils which
would follow transfer of the govern
ment to those who fought to destroy the
nation. 1t has fixed the status of the De-
gro as political power, and that will settle
the question OF his political equality. He
can say to the nation, ''Will you permit the
man by whose vote you are saved, to exist
among you any longer as q suppliant for
the commonest rights guaranteed to your
citizens, or shall he forever hereafter be
made equal before the lawp If it has been
true that, through overmuch patience, or,
perhaps, the notion that the North had
done enough for tho negro, We have come
short of our final duty to carry out in
good faith the contract made with
the colored man by President Lin
coin in his proclamation, and by the
people in solemn constitutional and
legislative enactments, there will now
be no further negligence or delay. If the
negro has been under obligations to the Re.
publican party for striking off his sbackles.
that debt is now fully discharged and the
obligation shifted. five rescued the black
man from FL avery, be has rescued the Union
from disgrace and possible annihilstion.
Thus the good that men do lives after them;
thus the blood Of our slain heroes becomes
the seed of perpetual Union. Thus is re.
paid into our Cuisines and bosoms," with
interest, all our losses and all our pains.
with what measure ye meet, it shall be
measured to yon again" This day is
this scripture fulfilled in your ears."-Chi.
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