New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-27

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tuition, which says that the United States
shall not assume to pay for slaves emanci'
pated. The fourteenth amendment has
never been considered as expressing the
sentiments Of the solid South, and it only
leaves Mr.. Hlden the chance Of saying
what any schoolboy could say-that REIN.
bursement for slaves emancipated would
be unconstitutional. There are those
who think that treason. rebellion and Sc
cession were unconstitutional. Did the
solid South care for the constitution Of
the United States when she plotted, re.
belled, seeded and warred to break uI
the Union2 Every bit of love and respec,
for the constitution and its amendments
found in the Democracy of the solid
South has been pounded into it by the
patriotic North. Claim agents in Rich
mond commenced to make rolls of slaves
emancipated before the war closed, with the
ultimate design of presenting them to the
Treasury Department whenever Congress
should be properly fixed for bill OF re-
lief. The internal revenue department at
Washington is already crowded with
claims for refunding the cotton tax. Mr..
Tilden need not cay the solid South Is
satisfied, for the solid South will not be-
lieve him. We have published in these col
umns editorials from Texas papers assert
ing the right of the South to demand
repayment for slaves emancipated. "A
prominent Democrat in Tennessee said
recently, Il will not hush up. My Mig
ners we're my property. The United States
robbed me of them, and intend to be
paid back if can get the money Tilden
saws the fourteenth amendment to the con-
stitution was Endorsed at the st. Louis
convention. That was very fortunate for
the fourteenth amendment and the consti-
tuition, and good policy for the indorsers.
Tilden, with the aid Of barrel of money,
was Endorsed up there also. That was
very unfortunate for all persons benefited
by the fourteenth amendment
But Mr.. Tilden is very anxious for
future. He wishes 10 Giscdss questions
of the sometimes present, and the future,
and not those of the final past. For the
present be would forget the past. He is
appealing 10 the people for sup
port, and he hates the past. His past
and the Democratic past look ugly. He
sees q solid South in arms with the avowed
purpose of killing Northern soldiers and
destroying the glorious union Of States:
he sees mean little one-eyed man SYM
with the solid South, taking
contracts to make guns, introducing ex-
tract of roots for coffee, issuing wildcat
money in Michigan, wreckipg Western
running illicit distilleries, bag
cling ten millions year, and chucklihg
over an income return of seven thousand;
be sees Confederate Democracy fighting
10 perpetuate slavery, and numbering
President in the capital OF
he nation; he sees frightful things, and
N terror he asks Hewitt to take away the
aorrid past which broods over him like
IN iron nightmare. "Let us look at the
bright Democratic present" says Samuel,
and the dazzling future. Let US forget
he unhappy past. and look at something
heerful; look at me on my way to the
White House."
For Democrats the past is full of crime,
f shame, rebellion and treason. For
republicans that same past is full of
lory, of patriotism and honor. A Union
aved and four millions of slaves Set free
re their monuments. As Republicans
7e have been willing to rest the past in
campaign for the future. That
'as not the plan first adopted by AIr. Til
en-. He said, speaking Of Democrats,
Ours is an aggressive campaign 1t
in Congress with aggressive
melting committees and aggressive cheap
tatesmen. The smellers did not forget
ne past. They rummaged musty papers,
isited various States, spent thousands of
ollars and months of time, and have only
,e resignation Of Bellznap, an old Dem
crat, to show for their pains. The cheap
aggressive statesmen did not forget the |
asst when they recounted their woes
i'd insulted Republicans in the
ais of Congress; and this went on
ntil the lions were reused and the
tile Hills and Knots and Tarboxes were |
The aggressive committees
and the little aggres sive states
en- shut up. The tide turned, and |
amuel J. Tilden and his party were put
l the defensive. He has written open
tiers only to explain and apologize for
ings of the past. He could not con-
aue aggressive, because he could not
I'D his own. Now Mr.. Tilden would
we us forget the past. We are willing
forget the Democratic past, and to for
It Tilden, but there are glories won by
epublicans in the war for the Union,
ere are acts of sacrifice and heroism,
ere are men like the martyr Lincoln,
ke Sumner, Seward and Stanton, there
e dead soldiers left on strange fields,
ere are the grateful tears of people
leased from bonds, and there are thou