New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

VOLUME A.-NO. IL
rspecial Correspondenoe Of tho RepubNeaal
THE NORTHERN AGITATION.
Easter Sunday In New York.
NEW YoRK, April II, 1876.
Easter Sunday Of 1876 will long be re-
membered - . remarkable day in the an
mails of American political life, for on that
dsy there met side by side ON the same
plstform the two mon who, OF all other
man, may be called the providentlal men of
the New World. Ono WAS the Catholic
Emperor of South Anerica, tho other .
plain, self-made, self-educated Protestant
man of the people, and yet claiming to be
tho ambassador Of God by divine right
moro sacred than that accorded to kings
and higher than any priestly authority
which the Vatican itself can send forth %
ito word of command. Through all the
fuctuating conditions Of the struggle of
humanity in behalf of its own innate divin-
ity and heaven.born dignity. beginning
with the republics of Greece and Rome
and eliminating finally in America, the two
forces which were represented ON the
preachers' platform at the Hippodreme,
on Sunday evening last, have ever
confronted each other. In this cease
less and irrepressible conflict of
royalty, privilege and priestcraft will be
found on one side, with political liberty,
civil equality and the individual worship of
God on the other. Lying between and
around there are other issues and influences.
But these surrounding conditions, be they
what they may, are subordinate to the two
principal factions in the problem which the
world has been trying to solve through all
the ages. In Europe the struggle has been
narrowed down to . few simple formulas,
and these formulas are maintained in the
Old World BY sword and sceptre and bayo-
net over the crushed hopes of humanity.
In France republicanism has "nsme,"
but even there the royal idea, backed by the
church, 10 slowly rebinding with still
stronger fetters the beautiful limbs of
once FREQ people. How this can be done in
the name of ''iberty," and by process and
form of claw" NO Republican of Louisiana
need be told. In Switzerland republican
ism deserves not even the ''nsme" which it
claimA In South America it is farce; in
Mexico anarchy. On the Northern cont.
nent of the New World alone the Greer
and Roman ideal stands, - it were,
1t bay against the world. In the
Northern States of tho American Union ex-
Ut the men and women who stand guard
over the last hope Of civil freedom on earth,
md of this civil freedom Protestantism is,
Of necessity, Of logic and Of fact, the final
analysis. It il centennial year with these |
people, . year which commemorstes the |
hundredth birthday Of the Protestant ma
lion. Tho celebration of this event has
been preceded by the overthrow of negro
.lavery within the Uoion, by civil war be-
tween long hostile sections, and by tho entire |
of the fundamental basis |
apon which the superstructure of the new |
republic rests.
These two events, tho emancipation of /
he negro slave of the South and the over
battlefield, bring into renewed activity the
involved in the conflict between
he Cavalier and the Puritan in England,
,etween the Huguenot and the Catholic in
France, and wherever else privilege has
,laimed the right of the rule of the few
'ver the many. Mems minds are therefore
stirred by the deathless hopes,
md by the mighty issues which are bound
ID in Americas celebration of the CEN
ennial anniversary of her independence.
his American feeling finally found its
eepsst and truest expression in the won
erful Protestant meetings held in the COM
nercial and financial metropolis of the ma
ion. And now these meetings, these great
'rotestant demonstrations, are made the
1ore significant by the sudden appearance
n the platform of the only crowned head
, the New World, and that crowned head
he child of the Catholic Church and the
olitioal ally of the Roman hierarchy.
Although Mr.. Moody could have reached
ut his arm and laid his heavy plebeian
and on Dom Pedro's shoulder, as the EN-
eror sat and looked upon only his face,
ct the separation of fact between the Two
len was wider than the occasion. Nor can
nese things be reconciled. The things for
1hich the South American Emperor stands
lust some day bear sway here in New
ork. or the things for which Mr.. Moody
;ands must finally invade and conquer the
outhern continent. and upturn and pulver- ,
% even into the finest dust every vestige of
,e Brazilian empire. Midway between the ,
Republican North and the grow !.
e Catholic empire of South America stands
10 man whose sword may yet turn tho .
ale in the inevitable conflict which will :
mo when imperial South America and
epublican North America shall meet face
face in the shores of the Gulf Of Mexico. =
that conflict will the negro power, as the
" of Catholicism march northward, or .
IL it, - tho ally and advance guard Of
overrun South Americaf
These are tho thoughts which Easter
lnday of 1876, in New York suggest
hat win Easter Sunday of 1877 bring to
For ono answer a,
"Above al creeds end forms oflAw, IL.
That s scse sos2 snd raht % :ssli swsy The world
And man redeem his brother-man" -,