New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-04

party which has no other motive than the
spoils of Office and no other means of
acquiring the spoils than fraud and in
timidation and armed violence? Let Con-
servatism say.
DEMOCRACY THROWS THE SOUTH OVER
BOARD.
The Bulletin L appare,tly struck with
the denial Of all appropriations to the
South, while other sections have hereto
fore received the disproportionate share.
Of public money to which we have be-
fore referred. The Bulletin says:
In letter to very we'll informed friend
in W ashiDgto he remarks: vt will be an
easy matter next session to get all we
want" From the same source we are in
formed that Northern and Western men,
bers of Congress, who are well known to
be favorably disposed toward the South,
and who are willing to grant all favorable
legislation sanctioned by the constitution,
not msnifestly inequitable or unjust, are
not acilting to appropriate this session dol
lar that can, be hOnorably ,cithheld for any
section, bit especially for the South. The
Democrats claim that every dollar ex-
pended needlessly will be equivalent to the
loss d Northern vote. The Republican
members find themselves under . similar
fnonious appropriation. Members of both
parties are afraid of losing their seats and OF
defeating their respective Presidential can
didates. The Radicals snap at every tritie
that will bear sectional construction,
while Democratic members in caucus ar
gently beseech Southern representatives to
wait for . time when Justice can be done
without playing into the hands of Republi.
can politicians. The political issue thus
seems to take precedence of oil others, and
Southern measures of national interest
nust be postponed until the qusdrennial
hurly-burly is over.
We see the Democrats Withholding
Southern appropriations for fear of losing
Northern votes" Why should q just
apportionment Of appropriations have this
effect, we're it not that the Democratic
North sanctions this injustice? How can
the Republican minority be held equally
responsible with the Democratic majority
for Withholding this appropriation? The
Republicans have given the South every
dollar and every aid that it has received
since the war. It has never injured the
Republicans at the North, nor do we be-
lieve that the Republican popular vote
will be affected by such an act Of justice.
National progress is the theory of the Re-
publican party. The repression of pro-
Rress is the'doctrine of Democracy. Why
should the Republicans opposs railroad
or levee bill? Did they not vote in the
lower house last year for canal and jetty
appropriation? Why should the Democ-
racy vote for either of these works? Have
they not always opposed such works on
principle?
The vague promises held out in the
paragraph quoted, that the Democracy
will, after the s'quadrennial hurly-burly,''
grant the aid to which the Southern States
are entitled. This means that after the
Democracy shall have carried the Presi-
Dental election upon the plea Of superior
economy, when assured Of the offices,
they will 60 back on their professions of
principle and oblige their Southern
friends. This is nearly 8 simple an
avowal as was lately made that the De-
mocracy. would hold many charges in
secret caucus against Republican officials.
They would take the chances that Repub-
licans, ignorant of these charges, would
nominate men thus Objectionable, when
the Democratic Congress, sitting as a
secret inquisition, would publish the
charges during the canvass. The plan
indicated by the Bulletin seems 10 be that
the Southern Democracy must keep quiet
until the Democracy, under pretense Of
economy, shall have gained the govern
ment, when the mask will be thrown off,
and the Southern States shall have what
ever they wish.
This is prepoeterous. The government
is as we'll able to do justice this year as
it probably will be the next. Its credit
was never better. Each year brings its
burdens and liabilities. If the South is
entitled to anything more than one dollar
in ten already appropriated to the North
and West, it should be awarded its rights.
The pretense that Democracy will not dc
Justice to the South lest it thereby play
"into the hands Of the Republican politi.
clans" is an attempt to evade an avowal
Of the true state of facts. Internal i'm.
provements have been arrested for two
reasons.
1. A leading 81. Louis paper grows i'm.
patient about the levee bill, and says:
New York, waiting for the centennial
fourth of July to give the signal for The
is understood to take q firm stand on the
levee question and on the question of the
improvement IF rivers and harbors gener
ally. Its frmness upon this points mate
rally reinforced by the conviction that all
the money necessary for carrying on the
work at He'll Gate has been appropriated,
and with the coming summer New York
may confidently expect to have her harbOl
put beyond the need Of appropriations
This touching conviction, joined to the
manifest advantages Of favoring economy
on general principles, enables the New
York press to be very heightened, to speak
of appropriations as steals, and to intimate
that anybody who proposes to continue the
work Of public Improvement, which had
been part of the policy of the country fol
the last thirty years, is necessarily a dishon
est person. Especially is the New York
press severe upon people who think that
the frequent foundations of late years have
strengthened the reasons for improving
the eystem Of levees along the Mississippi
river.