New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-03
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN,, SUNDAY, DBCEABHR 8 1875

North no moro forever. Fa9e -.
! Amsre abject tool Of the peculiar instttu-
ton could not have boon selected among ali
the white slaves that i2fest eur Northern
States. Page IS.
he knew tho demoraliz;ns effect of it,:
The degraded and thrifMess esnsdition Of
the people (the poor whites Of tho SOuthE.
heritage of centuries Of bondage, will pave
the way for land monopoly inmore Erevious
forms than have yet beer recorded In an
Gent or modern times. PseB 22I-'
! 1 agree that slavery had done much to
drug the conscience Of the country with its
insidious poison. know that w. had SO
long. made our bed with slsvoholdsrs that
kicking them out WAS rather IN awkward
business. PAge 20.
One of his remedies he describes as the
con6scation of the lands owned by rebels:
Having learned hew to strike at slavery
as the wicked cause Of the war, and to arm
now lay hold Of the lands of rebels. Page
2l9.
We shall certainly win, and our tsaumph
will inevitably divest the title to . vast
body of land IN the rebel States, and place
it under our sontrol. Page PIG.
He understood tho condition of society in
the South with. the old system systematically
restored:
Under the tendency of false system, &C.
ciety will steadily gravitate toward the ex
some estates are larger than two or three
of the smaller States of our Union Psge
222.
Society can not possibly be organized on
Q Republican basie, because grinding axis-
tocrsey, resting upon large landed estates,
will convert the mass of the people into
mere drudges and dependents. page 22l.
Mr.. Speaker, nothing can atone for the
woes and sorrows of this war but the
thorough reorganizing of society in these
revolted States. Now is the time to begin
this work. We must not only ont mp
slavery, root and branch, but We must see
to it that these teeming regions shall be
studded over with small farms and titled
by frssmen. Psse ga.
Instead of the spirit of caste and the
law Of hate, which have 60 long blasted
these regi0ne, We must build up hamogen.
GUS communities in which the interest of
all. Page 224.
Having helped the negro to freedom, he
would protect him in the rights bestowed:
If, after calling on the negroes to help
save the natien's life, it could hand them
over to the tender mercies of their old ty-
rants, the nation would deserve To- perish
for Its wickedness; and 1t would. Page
273.
At Indianapolis in 1866 he described his
character - he then knew it. IF he be-
lieves the tales now told by his enemies he
has indeed modified" his views:
Show me o man whose heart il right and
he will do to trust ell the time. The negroes
heart has been right ell through this war
true as>the needle to tho pole. He never
betrayed trust; always knew the differ.
ence between grey coat and q blue one;
always knew the difference between treason
and loyalty; and that is more tAan JED
Davis has found out to this day with all his
knowledge. Page G8.
With these qualities and the services of
the negro to his country he would give
him ths. ballot and the lands of the rebels:
Gentlemen, when two or three years ago
the government decided that the negro was
fit to oarry Q gun to shoot rebels down, it
thereby pledged itself irrevocsbly to give
him the ballot to vote rebels down, when it
should become necessary, and the nation
never can 90 behind that act, Page 49,.
Universal suffrage is one of the surest
means of securing higher level OF intelli-
gence for the whole people. Page s2s. .
It any people have divine hight to these
tropical lands, they are the slaves who
have bought them, over and over, by their
sweat and toll and blood, through centuries
of oppression. Degraded and embruted by
servltude, mere children in knowledge and
self help, we require them to compete for
their homesteads with the sharpened facul-
ties of the white speculator, schooled in
avarice byUgenerations of money getting,
who believe the almighty dollar is the only
living and true god, and "wOuld run into
the mouth of hell after q bale of cotton"
Page 22S
If the promise to the colored man that he
should have forty acres and mule, SO
often ridiculed by the Democrats, has been
q false one, Mr.. Julian certainly made halt
OF it. He may have forgotten the mule,
but in advocating the bill for contiscation
he said:
The third section provides for the survey
of the lands in question as nearly as may
be in forty acre lots. Page 226.
In other points he would disagree with
his friends in New Orleans. He, even now
certainly would not refuse the aid of col
ored votes to gain oefoe, though some OF
our parish candidates lately condemned
this doctrine:
1t would not disgrace q COpperhead to
have few negroes vote for him, If they
were 80 crazy as to vote on that side. Page
I'll.
When Mr.. Julian heard the stories OF
Ben James and 8enry Burrell, did hi
think of the words he uttered in the House
of Representatives in January, 1862 Here
they are:
As might naturally be expected undel
this system of reconstruction, loyal men art
more unsafe in the revolted districts nov
than they were before the war, while TIL
condition of tbs negroes in very many 10
calities is more pitiably deplorable thar
that of their former slavery. Pags 32s.
Or these other words at Dublin. nearl!
three years lasers Did these thoughts u.s.
to trouble him when he turned away from
Eliza Piukston? Her husband and thou
sands of others endured political death TO
generations, and now have suffered MOI
tally in trying to keep the political lit
that he helped to gain for them:
When tasted political death had TIL
consolation of knowing that | went dow:
with my eolors flying. Page 465.
have encountered for q number of year
past an amount of political venom and pei
sonal v;tuperation which have rarely bee
eoualed and never exceeded in partisan wal
fare. Page AL.
A Good Idea.
| "A Dolls Fair" is to be held in Boston
in December. Boys and girls Throughout
the country are invited to send coils an
TOYS of their own making to the pablishez
of Vide A,cche, D. Lothrop & Co., Bostol
These are to be exhibited, and on Christine