New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-03
Especial Correspondence of the Republican ]
NORTHERN POLITICS..


lcp0cAl correspondence OF the k0PuDAcaAJ
NORTHERN POLITICS.
Too Lases
NEW YORK, July 28, 1876.
The New York Herald having scanned
the political field in America with its usual
comprehensive sagacity, serves up the need
of the Confederate Democratic party thus:
Here, then, are the points which Gov
ernor Tilden should make with due en-
phasis: Reform, one term, protection to the
South, specie payment, pacifcation to the
South and repose to the country. This let
ter he should write at once, and in doing SO
take command of his canvass
This may be called an excellent summary
of Governor Hayes letter OF acceptance.
1t is compliment to the Western peace
maker which is we'll deserved, because
Hayes letter Of acceptance saved the Re-
publican party, rendered a Confederate.
augurated q new era in the politics Of the
country. 1t is therefore "too late' for
Governor Tilden to fall into the wake of
Governor Hayes. "Ohio leads the van" in
the great and glorious work of reconetruc
tion, national as we'll as sectional"
We are to have government at last of
which all Americans will be proud, gov
ernment in which political purity in admin
istration is to supplement higher type of
craftsmanship in Legislation and clearer
in all parties, of what constitutes the true
dignity of citizenship. It is TOO late" also
for any wing of the Republican party, as q
party" to lay plans for managing
Hayes. If the object of the politicians of
Cincinnati was to secure man who could
be thus controlled, they made q terrible
mistake in selecting Rutherford B. Hayes
as that man. If this was their reserved
purpose" then. to use q common express
sion, they Caught q Tartar" Governor
Hayes, by his letter of acceptance, has
made himself the leader of his party es-
sentlally-thst is, he is stronger than his
party-he is more important to the party
than the party is to him; he is, in word,
master of the situation.
It is too late, likewise, for the Southern
Confederates to organize an effective oppo-
sitlon against General Hayes, or his South
ern policy in the future. He stands before
the civilized world as the wise and Rener-
GUS friend of the South. To turn from such
q friend in order to plot treason anew with
such Northern leaders as Hendricks would
place the Confederates forever hereafter
under the ban of perpetual distrust. 1t
would be to proclaim to the North
that less than the absolute and uncondi-
tional surrender Of the government to the
Confederate Democracy will ever satisfy
the Lamars and Hills, and Reagans of the
South. Can the South afford to occupy
such position as this? What further and
other step is the North required to take to
opacity" the land south of the Potomaca
Will not the refusal to accept Hayes in
1876 be exactly similar to the refusal to
accept Lincoln in 1860! Did not Mr.. Lincoln
make every overture man could make to
prevent war and inaugurate q peaceful
solution of the race problem? Were not
all his advances repulsed with naughty
defiance? Was not the nation forced into
war! Did not the Confederates strike the
first blow in Charleston harbor! Did not
Senator Wigfall, Of Texas, in his place in the
United States Senate, taunt the North with
the expression, in regard to the first blow
given in Charleston harbor, "There is q
blow in the face for you" Were not Mr..
Lincoln's efforts vain to stay the tide Of
madness which "precipitated" the cotton
States into revolutiOnf And what did the
South gain by thus refusing Mr.. Lincoln's
friendship? And what will she gain by
turning her back on Governor Hayes, VIII
liam NJ. Evarts, William Cullen Bryant,
Charles Francis Adams, Robert C. Win
throp, and the other conservative leaders
Of Northern society,"
Is it "too late" to recall those who have
stake in Southern society to q sense of
the evils sure to result from this Confed.
crate Democratic coalition if it should get
control of the nation9
do not draw my conclusions or my facts
in this matter from Republican sources
alone, or even from "independent" sources.
l find as much in the Democratic press of
the North as in the Republican press to
warrant me in warning the Southern people
against the danger of Confederate leader
ship in politics. Here, for instance, is
leading editorial from the New York Sun,
which commend especially to the atten-
ton of Louisiana Conservatives:
GOVERNOR TILDEN AND THE SOUTH.
few timid but ill-intormed people really
think the country will put to hazard some
of the good results OF the war if Samuel j.
Tilden is elected President. There are
ter, but for partisan purposes affect to be-
lieve the same thing These two classes
are making 80 much noise On this subject
that it may be we'll to state what have been |
Governor Tilden opinions ard course con-
cerning the main issues on the slavery ques-
tiOn and cognate matters that were involved |
in the war, and were settled by it.
From the outset of his political career |
Governor Tilden was = member of that |
section of the New York Democracy known !
as Barnburners, whereof Silas Wright, |
John A. DIX, Azariah C Flagg, and the |
late B. F. Butler were the most distin- /
guished leaders. In a modified degree |
Martin Van Buren belonged to this faction.
just previous to the organization of the Re- |
publican party, General DIX, Sanford Il.
Church Preston King, James S. Wads-
worth, William Cullen Bryant, Samuel j.
Tilden and John Van Buren, were among
the chiefs of the New York Barnburners.
This section or wing OF the Democratic
party was opposed to the extension Of ne
gro slavery from the first moment that con-
troversy arose. In 1874 Mr. Van Buren,
was defeated for the nomination to the
Presidency because he had written mod
crate letter in opposition to the annexation
Of Texas. Mr.. Tilden, in company with