New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-22
AMNESTY AT HOME.

stock in the disputes OF Southern PoA
ticians among themselves, it can not helI
observing that while the Bourbon Democ
racy accept without scruple every act o
amnesty, and denounce Northern Repub
licans for Directing to extend this PRIV
lege to the ex-President of the Confecer
acy, these same Bourbons prescribe every
Southern man who fails to obey their par
tisan edicts. What is, perhaps, even more
remarkable, many of those who were mo-
in the field at all pursue with obloquy
those who were. soldiers throughout the
war. Longstreet, Mosby, Forrest and
others, whose services contributed to de
fend the Confederate cause, are almost OK
cluded from social intercourse No one
has ever coupled the names of these mer
with any act of official or personal dis
honesty, yet the fact remains that they
are excepted from the Democratic am
nesty entirely.
What is this Bourb on amnesty? Gen
eral Mcclellan led the flower of the
Union army to the seige of Richmond
He fought seven Of the mos. bloody bat
ties Of the war. He inflicted and suffered
as much of wounds and deaths as
was within his capacity. General Nc
| Clellan was nominated as the Presi'
Dental candidate of the Democratic party
in 1864. According to the authority Of
Mr.. Greeley he received Democratic
vote in New York and Pennsylvania little
less than that of bis competitor, Mr.. Lin.
coin. The Northern Democracy then de-
liberately selected candidate who had
inflicted great military injury upon the
South. The few Southern States which
voted in the election gave large, though
minority vote. for Mcclellan, the war
Democrat
At the election Of 1868, the Democracy
again Endorsed war Democrat, Mr.. Sey-
mour, and General Frank Blair, who lead
colored regiment to Southern invasion.
In 1872 the same Democracy, North and
South, nominated and supported Horace
Greeley land Gratz Brown, Republican
and Abolitionist, who urged the march on
Richmond, and protectionist He gave
notice that he renounced no principle Of
his political record. He received the
Democratic support of the South.
In these principal and decisive historical
examples we find the Bourbon Democracy
granting an amnesty to these military in
vaders, and to this Republican, one blast
from whose Tribune was worth an army.
The amnesty is granted to these men and
Endorsed in speech and action, while men
who stood in the ranks to resist are now
denied social recognition.
During the war, it is alleged, there was
a correspondence between the Northern
ard Southern Democratic leaders. There
were undoubtedly Democratic missions
from the North which came into end con-
ferred with the Confederate councils.
The REPUBLICAN can not, of course, dis
seminate among the Confederates, nor can
it read any lecture upon the merits Of their
controversies during the war; History
shows that there was much discomfort
with the administration of Mr.. Davis,
greatly on the ground Of bastowing the
chief honors Of executive appointment,
military commissions and foreign repre-
sentation upon Democrats. The most
prominent men of the Wing, or Bell and
Everett party were not recognized as their
friends thought they should have been.
We have heretofore stated the opposition
of many of the strongest Southern men to
the violations Of the constitution and bill
Of rights. This opposition to the Bour-
bon Democracy was only kept down from
the imminent dangers of the war. 1t is
kept down now only by the alleged abuses
in the legislation and administration of
the Southern States, and by the unpopu- |
lar military authority which the Demo-
cratic opponents Of the law have rem
dered indispensable. This distrust of the
Bourbon dictators still exists, and with |
such system of official reform as the
have projected carried into
effect, an alliance could be readily effected |
by which the business interests of agricul- |
ture and trade could be brought into close |
and kindly relations with the enterprise
and labor, and this ambitious, dangerous |
and intolerant Bourbon element dispersed |
and disbanded forever. We look, indeed,
10 this solution for the restoration of |
peace the Development of industry, and
he renewed progress Of the Southern |
States.
It thus appears that the Bourbons can
forgive their enemies who fought against
hem, but pursue with inexorable hatred
some who fought for them; that they can
accept any amount Of amnesty or appro-
oriation from those they habitually de-
aounce as tyrants, yet feel under no
obligation to extend either clemency or
courtesy toward their fellow-citizens who
lisobey the orders of Democracy.
Such seems the intolerance of the Bour-
BON Democrats. Such was their I'M
with the Wings during the
var. They now denounce Mr.. Blaine for
keeping open the wounds Of war by ex-
Guiding the Confederate leader, while they
lenounce and prescribe any Confederate
soldier who may exercise the right to sup