New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-30

OLQor let Is our correspondent mis-
taken in assigning to the Wings of the
South the position of the dwarf in the
alliance. The Wings Of this city were in
the majority of numbers, Of wealth, of
intelligence. The Democracy relied then,
as now, upon the roughs of the levee
and the frauds of Plaquemines. The
Southern Wings were the giants before
the war, during the war, and if they
have chosen to take all the wounds, and
award to their arrogant allies all the
honors, they can blame none but them
selves. They have seen every prediction
made against the Democracy before the
war verified by results. Opposition to
the constitution and laws by the nulli-
fers; the arrest Of immigration; the with
drawal of capital; the refusal Of improve
ments-Murder and revolution stalking
hand and hand throughout the State.
These and other evils almost as serious
have followed the ascendency of the
Democratic party, and yet the Wings
who have so much at stake seem to con-
slider themselves captives at the chariot
wheels of the Bourbons and do not ap-
preciate the fact that they were emanci-
pated at the capitulation.
1t is to be observed that the Bourbons
neither nominated Wing nor negro at
their convention. The one is regarded as
the political, and the other the personal
serf of the Bourbon, and neither is re-
garded as the equal of this aristocratic
order. The Bourbon was failure before
the war, during the war, and since the
war The legislation of the Democratic
Congress Is utterly destructive Of all
Southern restoration. The investments of
the Southern people sunk, their credit
gone; dependent upon foreign aid for de-
velopmeut, the South is far more more
than ever dependent on Federal justice.
During Southern Democratic ascendency
the South was debarred the fair share of
Federal appropriations for general pu--
poses. Now, when the South has nothing,
the Northern Democracy deny her rail-
road, levees, Mint, or any appropriation
due to her rights or to her necessities.
Let not the Southern Wings think the
Wing party disbanded, Wing principles
discarded or Wing measures forgotten.
The Wings have eliminated the sectional
defenses and the whole growth and fame
of the republic is due to the national re-
cognition Of the principles Of Clay and
Bell and Seward.
We have before US the Baltimore Ameri-
can, sterling and standard Wing jour
nal, which has been published sin Balti-
more town and in Baltimore city with
its three hundred and twenty thousand
population. Wing of the revolution,
Wing of the days when Jackson first per-
verted the executive Office to the purpose
of party: Union paper during the war
often ridiculed for Federalism or for po-
litical Puritanism, but never for coward
ice or for corruption. The Baltimore
Amer lean, so far from considering the
Wing party as etfete Or extinct, considers
that party .rlumphan: in the permanence
and progress of the Union. It regards the
Wing party as embodied and perpetuated
in the Republican doctrines, now even
forced upon the Southern Bourbons.
The old Wing ship still survives. 1t
has been turned from the Republican
party by the most outrageous imputations
and by appeals OF section and race. Per-
haps its accession to Republican support
has not been made as practicable as it
might have been, since the Republicans
have been compelled to accept the issues
forced by the unreconstructed Bourbons.
The Wings are, however, satisfied that
the Republicans offer not only State
ticket unezceptionable for the integrity
OF its nominees, but platform in exact
with the creed and teachings
of ancient and honored Wing leaders.
The Bou.bons have neither placed
Wing or negro upon their ticket. They
adopt the principles of the one and accept
the vote Of the other as tribute of their
It is time, then, to remind
both these political elements that the Re-
publican party offers cordial recogni-
ton and common participation in the
Of Office to any who may
in good faith adopt its principles aud