New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-29
MULTIPLICATION STRATEGY.

appears obvious evidence that the fire.
eaters have lost their control over the
planting States They are too idle for o
poor people who have to feed them
and their horses. They are far too
bloodthirsty for people who look to re-
stored industry and imported capital for
subsistence.
That this intractable class is losing its
influence has been shown by the hard fall
which the Coushatta Democracy, under
White League command, received in the
nomination of Mr. Nichols. 1t was q
very adroit trick for the White Leaguers
to pile in under the opponent who had
defeated them, but whenever these ultra
| politicians shall attempt to pervert the
more conservative policy to their pur-
poses Of notification, they will find the
text of Mr.. Nichols sustained by the
| business and conservative classes, and
even by Republicans, precisely as was the
Wheeler compromise by the plate.glass
Conservatives and Republicans.
The Times Of the period halted at the
first gun of the fourteenth of September.
1t was a totally different mode of deciding
an election from that pursued in the law
ruled States of the West The bold
Picay,lne Of the period berated the Times
for its "ill-tim ed prudence" as General
Washington termed the failure of General
Lee (the Englishman) to charge at the
battle Of Monmo nth. 1t is not probable
that the paper having ''the largest cir
culation" would have received the smallest
slice Of the chicken pie had any just dis
tribution of political pastry followed the
overthrow of the ''usurpation.
Subsequently both journals came to
support the compromise, which measure,
indeed, each of these largest circulators
had originated and carried.
The Times now quotes from the letter
of Wade Hampton, Esq, of South Caro-
lima, to show in what respect that gentle
man corresponds with the programme of
Mr. Nichols. The Times is right. The
same compulsory conservatism which de-
feated Mr.. McEnery in Louisiana has set
aside the Rhetts, Buffers and Prestons, of
South Carolina Mr.. Nichols represents
the same sentiment. He is the young
Man Afraid of His Horses of the anti-Re-
publican party. There is a couple of po-
litical grooms at the head Of each of these
untamed fiery steeds, and they go along
champing their bits, and looking for a
chance to run away and dash the whole
Union into fragments-if they could.
The Times is somewhat mistaken in
saying that General Hampton, of South
Carolina, "has followed General Nichols
declaration of principles. General Hamp-
ton preceded Mr.. Nichols by six or seven
years. On the contrary, Mr.. Nichols has
followed MIR. Hampton. In order to show
this consequent coincidence, and to show
that the White League element has been
compelled by public sentiment to abb
dictate in favor Of more moderate men, we
will quote from q document which the !
Times of the period has not perhaps seen,
as it was uttered in 1S69-7O. It is let |
ter of Mr.. Wade Hampton, so moderate,
so just in its tone as to have at that time |
placed that gentleman out of the pale Of |
the White League or Ku-Klux leaders,
and postponed his claims until the
moderados have been enabled to super
sede the ultramontanes. In this letter
Mr.. Hampton even goes so far as to make
q public address to the negroes-an act Of |
class condescension which the fre-eaters
Of the period would have never permitted;
an act which our Democratic Central Com
nittee would deem useless, as it regards
he negroes as a race not to be reasoned
With.
To give the Times and the public the
means Of comparing the original views of
Mr.. Hampton with those adopted by MIR.
we reproduce extracts from Mr..
letter. We adduce it, also, to
how that the anti-Republicans, alarmed
It the Ham burg massacre, have been COM
,elled to put their rabid Democrats in
and do as Virginia, Ken
ucky and Louisiana have done, place
men of known moderation before the
'eople.
Extracts from letter written by General Wade |
1
The negro is undoubtedly better fitted
y his long training, his physical configura-
ion, and his adaptability to all the diversi-
les of our climate, to make more efficient
aborer than any other. Especially is this
he case when the labor is to be performed
4 the more malarial parts Of our country
The rice fields). Our object, then, should {
9 to develop to the utmost his capacity ,
8 laborer To do this, time is requisite,
nd we shall have to exercise great tor
constant prudence, and steady | {
indness. We must make him feel that his
lterests are inseparably bound up with
urs, that high prices for our products as (
IRE high wages for him, that we are not /,
is enemies, but, on the contrary, that we
arly associations and old memories. Let ,
8 be scrupulOusly just in our dealings with
i'm. Let us assist him in his aspirations | I
,r knowledge. and aid him in it's acuuisi- | I
on-try to elevate him in the scale of =,
ue manhood, of civilization and Chris
anity, so that he may be better fitted for '
le grave duties and high respons Utilities
reed upon him by his new position--in a
ord, convince him that we are his best, if
,t his only friends-and when we shall r
ave done this, we shall not only have
aced our labor upon a sound footing, but
9 shall have gained in the laborer strong v
I'd jealous ally.
On this subject speak not from theory
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