National Republican., 1876-09-25

judgment comedies with all patriotic men,
viz. that the triumph of the Republican
party in 1876 is the very best thing that
could happen to Southern people. Enter
tanning, as he does, these and other ad-
vanced views in keeping with the tenets of
Republicanism, we are gratified to know
that the Republicans of one of the New
Orleans districts have done themselves the
credit to nominate Mr.. Burwell as their
candidate for Congress. If he should be
elected, and we have no reason to doubt
but that he will be, he would make things
lively for some of the mall-fry Southern
Democrats. The partisan Tucker and the
Sin" -corruptible Goode, who are the
veriest pigmies in comparison with Bur-
well, would be as chary of throwing mud
in his direction as they were at encounter
ing armed Yankees. Mr.. Burwell would
be a power in the House for good to the
South, and the more sensible people of
that locality would not be long in making
the discovery.
The colored people of the South, not
withstanding their lack of educational ad-
vantages, are wise enough to know that
their interests lie in suppoI ting Republican
principles. Democracy, with its free-trade
heresles and its revolutionary instincts, is
not in accord with the best interests of the
country, and no class of the American
people know this better than the colored
voters. 1t will be impossible, therefore, for
the Democracy, either by Establishments or
intimidation, to win any considerable num-
Der of these people to its embrace. When,
then, we see men ofthe stamp Of Mr.. Bur
well stepping TO the front and aiding in
shaping the minds of the recently enfrau-
chissd in the right direction, we cannot
fail to regard it as an augurY of better times
for the people of the South, irrespective of
color But for the unrelenting anImositles
of the Democratic leaders of the Southern
masses there would doubtless have been
many more of the influential men Of that
section who would have joined James L.
Orr. Gen. Longstree. and others who could
be mentioned ia their wise efforts to direct
the minds aud laboIs of the freedmen in a
proper channel, and within the pale of the
party to which they naturally and instinc-
lively belong. If, as the Democracy have
charged, the South hes suffered by reason
of adventures who have essayed the role
of leaders among the colored people in
States IN which the latter have prepon-
derance Of votes, the unreConstrdcted and
destructive Democracy nf that section are
alone TO blame for it. R ght glad are we,
therefore, when native citizens of the South
possessing the brains and enegy of Mr..
Burwell emerge from political retiracy and
unite their voices and influence with the
party of progress 10 directing the minds Of
their people in the vital concerns that per-
tain to the commercial interests and mate
rial development of the South. One such
man is worth more to them than a ten-acre
field full of Hills, fuckers, Siugletons, ct id
omne geBus.
We propose, at another time, to refer to
the contents of Burwells letter more at
length. For the present we can only pre-
sent a brief paragraph wherein the writer
exhibits his desire to make friends. by rea-
son of self-interest, of the former enemies
of protective tariff in the South, and
especially commend the concluding para
graph to the ''philanthropists" both North
and South
''Upon you, sir, has been devoted the mainte-
nance of the existing tariff, which you think is
menaced by the pending and postponed legisls-
tion Of Congress. Does 1t not occur to you
that the system would be stronger if you could
secure an alliance with those whose representa-
tion was once opposed to your system, but who
may now be taught that is their interest to en-
courage the industry of all sections and of
both races The demonstrations that the sys-
tenn pror 3ced increases the value of our staples,
supplies some local wants by the employment
of local labor otherwise unemployed, and thus
convert q charge upon capital into an element
of production, must tend to concentrate al
who love their country or their land, and
teach the South the advantage of universal
employment without regard to age, sex, color
or past condition. You have said that you
advocate such a system of protection as would
enable our miners and manufacturers to in
duce skilled workmen to ernigrate to the
United States and enable them to become
liberal consumers. VIII you not do as much
to encourage tie skilled workmen Of the
United States to migrate FROM one part of
their own country to another l assume
that with our public debt and expenditures,
and with the system Of revenue collections by
duties on imports, the rates of revenue will be
sufficient to efford in most cases protection to
American fabrics. Cannot the Southern peo-
PIE, without even a dereliction of opinion, sc-
cePt protection part of the inevitable stu
alton! With the same protection extending
over that part OF the Appalachian hills that
lies in the Old cotton States may not the es-
sent:al ingredients of Bessemer and cruci5le,
or cast steel, as well and as honorably p.rtici-
pate in the protection of the existing tariff as
the 'iron-bearirg States of the North"
''It would not be respectful to those philau- |
thropists who some years ago interested them |
selves so much in the emancipation of the ne
groes, and who have always incisted that a
variety Of labor would so much promote the
welfare of the white man, to suppose them in-
different to the future of the one or afraid of
the competition Of the other.
at is to this proyidentisl commerce of SER
vices, to this concurrence of purposes, that the
philanthropists of the North aid the patriots
of the South should address themselves. They
should unite in this practical policy to secure
to the colored race the political rights and the
moral destinies to which they are entitled to
lcok forward, and to protect the whites from
dilapidated fortunes and the social pestilence