New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-06
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican,
NORTHERN POLITICS.
Louisiana n the Presidential Election
NEw YOpU Julv 90 1876

Louisiana n the Presidential Election.
New YORK, July 90, 1876.
The letter written to the REPUBLICAN on
the twenty seventh, headed Louisiana and
New York." was not written moment too
soon. The statements published by the
New York Herald, and furnished by a
Confederate" writer in. New Orleans, in
regard to Louisiana, are of just the charac-
ter best calculated to influence the Con-
sentative vote in this State, in New Jersey,
and in Pennsylvania. This attack on Mr..
Wheeler by an attack on the fruits of his
compromise in Louisiana is an attack on
the Republican party in it's vital point, go
far as the present canvass is concerned.
This is SO because We have abandoned the
radical line Of policy. We have yielded
to the opportunities Of the conservative
wing Of the party. We have inaugurated
the policy Of peace under Republican au-
spices as the method" to be used in finish
ing the the work of Southern RECONSTRUCT
ton. In doing all tins the party Of human
ity throws itself Of necessity upon the
Wheeler adjustment of the Louisiana
troubles growing out Of race antagonisms.
'If that policy has worked badly in Lou
isiana, why should it be continued all over
the South, and why should its author be
elevated to the vice presidency!' This is
the question which the louisiana Conted-
crates and the New York Democrats wish
to make popular at the North.
1urit fan ir0r
chusetts called attention to the fact that
Mr.. Wheeler might yet realize the I'M
pleasant truth that he, like Bristow, had
been used by the Confederates as Repub-
| lican means to a Confederate Democratic
end In the case of Brstow the use was
a knowing and consenting one. Bristow
as willing to be used against his chief and
against his party. But even he will find
| his reward even in Confederate Ken
| lucky Bristow himself will live to learn
| how much reliance is to be placed in the
| Confederate's love of anything except for
| the zone cherished cause" the more dear
because cherished in secret, burning ever
near the heart of hearts," like hidden
| fame. This lesson which Mr. BristOw has
yet to learn is Of no consequence to the
] country The first class Kentucky detect
| i've, who by some strange combination of
circumstance became he Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, may con-
| tinue the practice for which he showed
| himself an adept, either as criminal law
yer or as manager of the national detective
force" BIZ so doing he will accumulate
wealth and die in peace-let Us hope. But
country entirely different from that occu.
pied by the great treasury detective.
Mr. Wheeler stands for prineiple-and
principles outline facts and reach further
than facts. A principle never dies. The
principle" for which Mr.. Wheeler stands
affects the fate Of the Republican party, the
future Of the American Union. and the des
tiny of tho emancipated race. This prin
ciple is involved in 1.-THE supremacy OF con
servative Republican rule for the mex
eight years in each Of the late slave States
Of the Union This principle enters into
the pending presidential election, and vii
do more to determine the result Of tina
election than any other one Influence. |
is this Issue of Southern reconstruction
which will determine the floating or lin
dependent" vote-especially in Connect
cut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsyi
vania Mr.. Wheeler stands for the Repub
lican side of this question. Consequent.
the Confederate leaders, having first use'
him to beat the life cat of tn
Radical wing Of the party, are nov
preparing to beat the life out of him, on
of his compromise, and cut of the priu
ciples and policy for which he and his Lou
isiana adjustment stand. The manner b.
which this is 10 be done is plain. The re
suit Of the Wheeler policy in Louisiana
8 to be shown up as failure-a remedy eve
!, worse than the disease which it proposed t
cure Radicalism having "failed," an
Liberal Republicanism having "failed" t
, solve the Southern problem, what remain
to be done next! Answer-A Confederate
Democratic restoration!
am collecting come facts in regard t
this matter which / will embody in specia
!, communication to the REPUBLICAN,. Agai
l i
: in the future turns on the issue of the pend
| ing presidential election. Let us all b
thankful that we are to have peace under
wise and conservative Republican admin!
! tration. But for this blessing the countr
+, is not indebted either to Southern Confee
4 crates or Northern Democrats.
7 In this connection it may not be out c
!, ! place to give the views of Carl Schurz o
] the issue as now joined in Louisiana an
7 New York between conservative Reput
licanism and Confederate Democratic re
j action. In summing up long letter o
q politics, addressed to the editor Of tn
. | Stats Zeitung Mr.. Schurz says:
It is scarcely necessary for me to spea
at length Of other reasons which make
triumph Of the Democratic party undesil
j able. l refer, among other things, to tn
J. strength which it would give to the ultrs
mOntane element, and to the false hope
: which it would arouse in the lawless men
bers of Southern communities, giving
g fresh impulse to the commission {
those excuses which make US shuddel
, and for which the better part c
our Southern people have as great
It horror as we. l have frequently e1
pressed my opinion on this point, and AZ
cording to an observation which l first sa'
y in the Stats Zeitung not long ago, 20
k agree with me that liberal just, Repul
i. lican government, in view Of the moral
feet Of it's identification with the results {
the war, is, for the peace and welfare of th
r South, far preferable to Democratic go'
d eminent, have, therefore, never intended
n notwithstanding my separation from tn
! Republican party, to unite myself to tn
Democratic Darty