New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-10
MORE OF MASON AND D1xoN's LINE.

MORE OF MASON AND DIXOhS LINZ.
Major General Nathaniel P. Banks,
once in command of the Department OF
the Gulf, was elected to Congress as a
Liberal Republican or Independent. He
was not relied on by the Republican ad-
ministration. He says;
Tilden and Hendricks can only be
elected by mob law, violence and murder
in the South. Sixteen lsic] States in the
South will be carried in this manner.
Major General B. F. Butler, who had
commanded the same department., has
taken a similar stand and made similar
declaration. Speaking of the colored
dead who fell on field of battle when he
commanded, he says:
looked upon the upturned faces Of the
dead and took an oath that would never
| desert these my comrades and my cOun-
| trymen. and God help me, never will.
The Louisville Courier-Journa affects
horror at the use of such ''villainous
stuff" by General Banks. That and other
journals which have been in the habit Of
instigating civil war and then evading the
military consequences, had better take
timely warning by such declarations, as
well as by the steady organization of
Northern sentiment against what they
call ''the new rebellion" The line of
Mason and Dixon no longer marks the
boundary between free and slave States.
Why is this extraordinary separation
of people whose institutions are now
wholly homogeneous Is it an en-
Uttered hostility against the rule of the
American majority? Is it demand for
the autocracy of the State? Have por-
ton of the people sworn to revise and
repeal the constitutional amendments
by assuming to the Southern States
the right to annul those amend
ments, without interference by the
Federal government? These questions
which arise We can not answer, nor is it
indeed necessary. The extraordinary unity
of the States on our side of the line will
Of itself constitute similar combination
on the other. General Dix, in the funeral
Grafton of Stephen A. Douglas, says that
the deceased and distinguished statesman
had gone to Washington and rendered
his arm and aid to his political antagonist,
President Iincoln, that he had said
he had but one regret as to his public
course. 1t was that he had ever separated
from his section for moment
It will be seen, then, that the same
trumpet which calls to arms on one side
of Mason and Dixon's line, awakes and
alarms the other. There can be no such
thing as to steal march upon the North
and West The very men driven before
the late war from either the North or
the South, went back to excite their
fellow-citizens by infammatory reports of
personal injustice. Intolerance and vio-
lence on the south side Of the line, have
provoked the Indignation of the north
side Of the line, and We may expect to see
an array Of Northern and Western States,
as solid and compact as met at Manassas.
We are aware that there are some
Southern Democratic States, such as
Kentucky and Maryland, far more ram
pant at an election than in fight. We
know that my Democratic Maryland per-
mitted that State rights Democrat Nc
Clellan to arrest the State Legislature,
and that after the plot to assassinate
President Lincoln in his coming to Wash
ington, the destruction of some bridges
and the attempt to obstruct Massachu-
sets regiment on its way to the war, my
Maryland was very little heard of during
the war. She furnished Fort McHenry
as Federal prison, and rendered other
military services to the Federal govern
ment, but she gave no further trouble to
the Union arms. We know that Ken
lucky, with her Democratic Governor Nc
Coffin, was very valorous before the war, as
she has been since the wal, but We know that
the Democratic ex-Secretary of the Treas
ury Guthrie was most violent Union
man, and that the patriots of Kentucky
filled the pork and mule contracts Of the
Federal government and accepted its COM
missions, political and military. Such
defenders of Mason and Dixon's line are
very fierce and ferocious at the polls.
They may do much to ALLEVIATE the Sec
tons, but if the military line be drawn
and fortified, the Southern men who are
sincerely opposed to republican form
of government will find no more aid in
Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky than
they did in the late war. The doughface
Democracy of the North, and the pork
and mule contractors of the border, will
disappear with the first symptoms of
armed hostilities. We desire the peace
of the country. We regard the perma-
nence of the Union indispensable to the
prosperity and liberty of the South. We
do not like to see intolerance and pro-
scription draw line across the Union.
But we respectfully remind our fellow
citizens that if they permit this line to
be drawn they can not complain if the
nation should take measures to insure
that it shall be obliterated forever.
THE CHARLESTON RIOT.
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