The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-08-21
MOSBY,S VIEWS.

a MOSBY'S VIEWS.
Col. John 8. Mosby is as decided a
partisan In politics as he was In war.
The prompting motives Under which he
acts are always eccentric and peculiar.
He went over to Grant when Grant was
every day becoming more and more
pronounced In his enmity to the South
err people, and he announces himself
In favor Of the election OF Hayes and
Wheeler. because, though he fought
for the Confederacy, he Is now seriously
alarmed at the prospect Of q Bourbon
restoration" CIV an
h Col. Mosby declares the sectional
unity OF the Southern people to have
been "the governing idea and bane Of
their politics" While the white people
OF the South held undisputed political
control Of their own destinies, and had
q common interest In the maintenance
Of the peculiar institution, which found
it's sanction and guarantee In the solemn
utterances Of the Federal Constitution.
the charge Of sectional unity might have
been applied to them with some degree
Of propriety. But since the war these
conditions have been entirely changed.
The late amendments to the Federal Con-
stitution have given to the enancipated
slaves OF the South a full and unques-
toned political equality with the white
voters of their section, and have at the
same time destroyed that peculiar COM
munity Of interest which the white
Southrons had in the maintenance OF
an institution, forced upon them by ex-
terror cupudity,. and guaranteed by con-
stitutional pledges. Hence, there no
longer exist such solidarity Of politi-
cal and material interests as, under Or
binary circumstances, Is likely to make
the vote OF the South unit. Sectional
unity among the Southern people need,
therefore, be no longer dreaded. ''7
Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and
Kentucky aspire to be manufacturing
communities and therefore favor pro-
tective tariff and in this respect are con-
by no means in accord with the
rest of the Southern States. Maryland
and Virginia are DESTROYS OF diverting
the trade Of the West to Baltimore and
Norfolk, and are opposed to such i'm
provements of the Mississippi river aAd |
its mouth as would give that trade a, to
them, adverse direction. 'hl@' ''i
We find, therefore, that, under the
new political dispensation that has
come upon US, there is not q single |
interest In which the |
Southern people are agreed. True,
they entertain CONF mon feeling OF in
dignation against the Radical outrages
committed upon their. section in the |
names OF liberty, equality |
and reconstruction but this is based |
neither on q comm unity Of prejudices
nor Of interests lit is q. sentiment shared
with all honest and honorable men |
throughout the world-the verdict Of
humanity against outrage, not OF a
baneful sectionalism, as alleged, against
political progress. , .-s.-,.
Even the race alignment, which has,
since the war, been the real bane OF
Southern politics, Is now dying out,
through the common conviction which
he thinking men Of both races enter
ain touching the deplorable eonse-
luences Of Radical perfidy. Hence We
zee the negroes voting with the
whites. not only in Ken
;uoky. Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee,
,ut in Arkansas. Alabama and Missis-
'ipppi; and even in Louisiana and South
carolina they are joining the whites
or q common deliveranoe from rule
which has become intolerable to both.
"All that the Republicans propose. .
ays Col. Mosby, sis to preserve what
hey have accomplished, and which the
Democrats are themselves pledged not
0 disturb. The Democrats are indeed
pledged not to disturb the constitutional
amendments, which are now part and
'arcel OF the organic laws Of the land
mt they have made no such pledge as
0 what the Republicans have achieved
d the way, Of usurpatiop, corruption.
and fraud. The, conven- |
ion which nominated Col. Mosby's can