New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-10


perity to an unexampled extent, all resting
upon Q solid and permanent basis. In ad
diti0n, he opened up the uast commerce o.
the Orient for the first time to the mercan
tile marine Of the United States through
his treaty nth the Chinese Empire, aud en-
laryed the bounds of the Union from the
Sabine to the Rio Grande, over the magnif
cent domain of Teras. He not only closed
up the Indian war. which had been 80 long
procrostinated by President Van Buren, ana
the Democratic party, in control of the gov
eminent, at an enormous cost to the people
but removed the hostile Indians, and on the
third day of March, lS45, introduced Florida
itself as . State into the Union, with its
peace and prosperity assured. And he not
only on the first day Of March. 1845. com.
pleted the ANNEXATION, of Teras to the Unioa,
provisions he caused to be adopted in the
joint resolution of the Congress settled the
slavery question in such manner as to quiet
the agitation in both sections of the Union,
and so that a rise statesman T0nld nereT
hare reOpened the issue, as ,cas afterward
done under another Democratic adminiStra
ton Of the government through the treaty OF
Guadalupe Hldalgo, opening up train OF
| evils to the South eliminating in civil war,
| suoversion and subjugation, and which will
| never be terminated until the South be-
| comes absorbed by the North in the Union,
morally. socially and industrislly, as we'll
| as politically.
OF the citizens of the South he says:
Indeed, it has seemed evident to me that
the former citizens of the South ever since
the close of the war have taken counsel of
their mere chagrin, passion, and prejudioes.
rather than of their reason and Judgment.
The denomination of the mercenary poll
ticians who are dragging the Southern
States into the condition of dependence and
degradation which he has described is
equally caustic and just:
And among those with whom unreason.
ing passion and disposition to revenge has
most ragged. may be found those Southern
Unionists who never donned the gray, nor
contributed dollar unless enforced, nor
lifted q finger, nor uttered word of cheer
in support Of the cause of the Southern
Confederacy until the war was over, and
they found themselves disappointed in
their expectations of being constituted by
the authorities at Washington the recipients
of sll favors, and in being made, a. they
had seltshly calculated they would be, the
rulers and governors of their own people
because of their treachery and poltroonery.
However much l may commissrste others
now and prospectively, have no compass
sion for them. They are like those fallen
spirits in Danre's Inferno" who
"Sor the rebellion joined. nor yet were true to
Bu, for themselves were only. Mercy and
Justice pass them by alike in scoro.'
I deny to such rrstches eren the privilege
Of vOice IN aug of the present affairs Of
the South, and wnen they undertake to wag
their venomous tongues against any brave
Southern soldier who rentured his life in the
war for the sake of the Confederacy on &C
count of any political attitude he may nor
think proper to assume as best for those for
vhom he gaze his all and imperiled his life,
they simply play An Impairment part, only
worthy Of contempt. All principle. all
fidelity. all honor and all patriotism with
by some disreputsble game with an Office in
view to themselves personally.
From the standpoint of fidelity to hon.
CRADLE obligations, we are not surprised that
the personal character of Mr.. Hayes has
won the confidence of Mr.. Tyler. His refer.
ence to the derivation of the Republican
candidate may seem somewhat Whimsical,
yet, after all, it is well to teach our children
that integrity of character is valuable
possession to enjoy and to bequsath to
those who come after them.
Mr.. Tyler has said that President Tyler
signed the West Point commission of
Ulysses Grant
And bestowed on Stonewall Jackson one
of his appointments at large to West Point
without the Intervention of any member of
Congress whatever in the case, because,
with Judgment that rarely failed him in
his estimate Of character, he discovered
that there was metal in him. to use the
very words that fell from his lips when he
ordered the warrant to be made out and
brought to him for his signature as Presi-
dent.
This is an entirely political "Reminiscences,
and proves that President Tyler was no
since these boys we're the sons of
the poor, and did not owe their commits.
sions to political influence or social posi-
ton. The reader will then see that in
the extraction of Mr.. Hayes,
Mr.. Tyler indorses his honest reputation
and not any autocratical pretensions of his
ancestors. The reader may therefore laugh
if he chooses at the eccentricity of Mr..
Tyler:
In conclusion, there is one fact associated |
i
err, that should be received with especial |
interest by all Virginians who have not lost |
becoming respect for "the breed of noble |
bloods" among themselves. As his name
imports, he is of Virginia parentage, and
in his veins flows the tide that warmed the
heart of that Colonel Rutherford, of Rich !
mond. who, in my youth, was mayor OF that |
city. meriring and receiving for himself and |
al his race the unbounded esteem of the |
of R,,th d
may have differed in his views of the late |
war from those entertained by his kith and |
kin in Virginia, and sided with the action |
Of his own State (Ohiol in the contest But |
throughout that struggle, and in every re- |
alton in Life, both private and public, he has |
borne himself bravely, justly, humanely,
and honorably, in proof of his ancestral !
origin; and, as a man of honor, probity and |
courage, his word as to that he will do as 1
President contained in his letter of accept |
ance, is an assurance of reform in the 1
,ivil service"
But this heightened Southern man goes
yet further and let's the world into some
chronological vanities Of the Southern popu-
alton which can not but prove interesting
% professors of that multifarious science. |
Mr.. Tyler thus defines the difference be.
;ween the virginians and the Southern men
nearer the equator:
Mr.. Hayes, being a gentlemen by birth, by
blood, by training, education. association,
md conduct, can readily understand he
would scarcely be acceptable to the tainted
tocks and the overseer, tin peddler, and
gambler, cross.breeds in the planting
States of the South, who glory in brag-
,ardlsm, pistols and bowie-knives, Ku-Klux
in the shape of Democratic
'eform clubs, and cowardly assassinations;
nut in Virginia and among Virginians,
Fhere these forms of civilization do not ex.
st and are not countenanced, gentleman
II such high order should at all times com. |