The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-08-21
DAILY DEMOCRAT,
=. J. HEARSEY. ...........E EDITOR,
GEO. w. DUPRE. BUSINESS MANAGER
OFFICEr-74 CAMP STREET.
WHAT WE HAVE NOT ACCEPTED.

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As an intellectual effort, the speech o.
Mr.. Lamar In the House on the I'D inst.
In relation to the policy Of the Republi.
can party and the political condition o1
the South, was perhaps unrivaled ID
the last session Of Congress. And yet
that speech was not what the South
needed and required at the eloquent
Mississippian' hands. He laid the
foundations OF conclusive justification
OF the Southern people. But he seems
to have lacked the courage to complete
the noble edi1ce he begun, and upon
the broad and solid foundations OF as
grand defense Of a people as we're ever
laid, he reared what that people neither
needed nor desired-a splendid apology
for their acts. This defect in Mr.. La
mar . speech afforded Mr.. Garfield an
opportunity to attack the South in a
plausible and rather brilliant reply.
VI course It IL not our purpose TO re-
view Mr. Garfield's speech; we simply
propose to suggest an answer to one OF
his most plausible charges againt oul
section. Mr.. Lamar claimed that the
South had cheerfully accepted the re-
suits of the war. To disprove this affir-
nation, Mr.. Garfield reviewed the pro-
tests Of the Southern people against the
reconstruction policy, cited their restive-
ness and the occasional outbreaks In
several Of our States under the new
order OF things, and the utterances OF
individuals and OF certain newspapers.
Concluding this grim record Of our
sins, he triumphantly exclaimed that it
was conclusive against US, and that the
Democratic party, because Of our con
nection with it, and of its sympathy
with us, could not yet be trusted with
the control of the Government, the
mission OF which was to make prema-
nent the results OF the war. e EFE
Mr.. Garfield, In all this, very inge-
niously confounded the legitimate re-
suits OF the war with the cruel. lawless
and corrupt policy Of the Republican
party toward the South. The first, as
Mr.. Lamar affirmed, the South cheer
fully accepted long ago; the latter, it
has never accepted, and we trust 1t
never will. II the Southern people have
been restive under carpet-bag rule; If
they have Indignantly and un-
ceasingly protested against the op-
pressive policy the Federal Govern
ment has. pursued toward them !;
II they have united, almost as one
man, against the Republican party;
II there have been scenes OF violence
and bloodshed in their States, the trou-
BILE Is not that the Southern people have
refused to accept all the Legitimate re-
suits OF the war, but that the Federal
Government, under the control OF the
Republican party, has pursued toward
them q policy 50 cruel, Irritating and
ruinous that it has been too much for
human nature to patiently endure; q
policy under which prosperity and
peace have been simply impossible.
Perhaps the most extraordinary book
that was ever written on government il
Machiavelli's Prince. For upward Of
three hundred years the atrocity of the
theories advanced in that wonderful pro-
duction have shocked the sensibilities
Of princes, statesmen and philosophers.
And yet we find nowhere in its pages
any recommendatioHo such senseless
and inhuman policy toward conquered
States, as that which the Republican
party has pursued toward Louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina. Nay,
that policy is referred to and condemned
even by Machiavelli as wicked, danger
GUS and impolitic. AS policy which
only conQuerers, as senseless as they are
inhuman, will pursue toward their VIC
Tins. e{y1 ssA-
The author OF that atrocious book,
"The Prince" suggests two ways of
States newly conquered.
One is to leave them in the enjoyment of
their old laws and privileges upon GER
tain reasonable conditions; and the
other. Is to promptly ertinguish all who
can or may oppose the designs OF the
to abolish all old laws
and customs, and to introduce
new ones in their room. This
Prince I" regards as the safest and most
certain. In support OF it he cites
the wise conduct OF Caesar Borgia,
who quieted his States by assembling
the Ursini at an interview at Sine
gaglia, where he had them all sum-
marily murdered. Our author also
greatly applauds the sagacity and mill
tary virtue Of Agathocles, who assem-
bled all the people Of Syracuse In q
for consultation, when his
soldiers, at given signal, set
upon and slew all the sena-
tors and principal citizens, and thus
quieted the State under his rule.
We find this diabolical book frequent
ly applauding such policies as this on
the part Of conquerors. But we find
nowhere in its extraordinary pages a
to conquerors to sub