New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-03

intelligence perceived the importance o
maintaining free institutions, their wealth
supplied the money Of giving effect K
Union principles, and their valor achieved
the success of their convictions. Hav,
We no other wealth and intelligence in thu
Union? Undoubtedly. The Southern
States and people possess both in an emf
nent degree. They direct productiv.
force greater and more profitable than an,
other portion of equal extent or Numbers
This sectional wealth and intelligence.
dominates at home, and has devoted it
self, in Republican opinion, to the repea
Of those very rights which the same ele
ments Of power have been elsewhere dedi
Gated to maintain. Then the same ele
ments are arrayed in antagonist purpose.
Upon what is the issue of this conflict?
Five millions of persons have been
adopted into the citizenship of the Union.
It has been effected through the wealth
and intelligence Of the North. The
wealth and intelligence of the South has
been united and arrayed in the repeal Of
this citizenship. It is one Of the old
struggles that we read of in Europe.
An aristocracy would suppress its serfs.
The solid wealth, intelligence and courage
of the middle classes interferes in defense
of the serfs. We have thus the solid
South proclaimed by the aristocracy Of
wealth and intelligence. The suffrage Of
five millions as protection to life and
right has been suffocated and silenced by
the superior military skill and intellectual
culture of the Southern Democracy.
Then comes the Intervention of the same
elements which gave these rights. The
Republicans of the West and South sur
pass the Democracy of the South in these
elements of power, just as the Democracy
Of the South surpasses the -unarmed and
untutored wards of the nation.
They cast the wand of intelligent su-
premacy between the bulldozer and his
abject victims, as the hunter throws his
whip between the hound and the hare.
To give higher and historical example:
It is the proud warning of the Roman to
the Carthagenian oppresser of distant
and feeble ally, ''Touch not Ssguntum."
It was an admonition which, disregarded
and for the moment despised, laid at the
last Carthage in ashes and bondage. We
utter the same words of earnest adjura-
ton to the dominant wealth and intelli-
gence of the South. We will give our
reasons: From the fearful narrative of
now poured into the ear of JUS
tice, it is evident that wealth and intelli.
gence has permitted, if it did not direct,
the employment of brutal force against
simple right When We read the sancti-
monious declaration of the Last Ditch
lawyer, 1.-THE ld,c-whether fundamental,
statutory or common IL supreme"
We presume that astute intelligence
has changed its veaue, and would 60 be-
fore the humanity and intelligence of the
world to confirm the results of violence
and of fraud.
Were this contest now pending between
the right given by law and the sense of
political justice which prevails around us,
The timid and helpless colored Repub-
leans should at once surrender their
suffrage to preserve their lives. Were
here not an amount of wealth and intel
igence elsewhere to guarantee the rights
hey have deemed due to these colored
7oters, we should, in common humanity,
.dvise them to give up contest SO une-
lual in all the attributes of physical
warfare. With the knowledge that
he superior possession Of these
great elements of power by the
Northern and Western Republicans,
lone holds the Democratic party in
obedience to the law, we confidently as
'ure Republicans, without respect to
'olor or past condition, that their rights
will be respected and enforced by the
wealth and intelligence of the Repub-
leans in the eighteen States of the North |
nd West. We will assure them, further,
hat such terrible abuses as those testified
y the maltreated and terrified victims
# Democratic violence, will spread
the Union, and will eliminate
ither in the recognition of those rights |
n the negro, or in canceling the Demo-
ratio representation of the negro.
The Republicans Of Louisiana will
tand steadily by their rights. The Last
pitchers began with their usual ante-war
ictory. They claimed everything before
single return was legally before the law
III tribunal appointed to examine and
eclare legal results. Upon Democatic
uccess in four Northern and one Western |
tate, the presidency was claimed for
be Democratic candidate. This was upon
be tactics of Tammany. From that time
1ese pretensions have been on the de-
line until the sole hope of the wealth and
stute men of the Last Ditchers consists
, a revolution at the North to put the
overnment again in the hands of those