New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-26
Especial Correspondence Of the hePuone a--
NORTHERN POLITICS.
The Gathering STERN.

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The Gathering STERN.
Bos1oN. July t9, 1876,
The bloody notice to qai6 WHICH tA'
South Carolina Confederates have served
on Governor Chamberlain in the matter o.
the recent Hamburg massacre, Is IN strange
contrast with the reception just gwen u
South Carolina Confederates in Massachu
setts. It is presumed that that the Ne"
England Governor of the Palmetto State
will recognize the notice thus served, acc
will prepare to leave the State accordingly
He has been used to the extent OF dii
available capital by the pro-slavery party
of South Carolina, and there ia no longer
any demand for him. He has served the
| purposes of that party, and now, like thou
sands of other ''compromisers,' he hnds
| that in this human life there are some
things which can not be comprised. Among
these are the deeplyrooted convictions OF
| the men and women who have for the last
| thirty years dominated Southern society.
| To this ruling class Governor Chanher-
| lain. with all other Northern men,
| especially il of New England origin,
| constitute an eye-sors and an insup'
| portable annoyance when they repre-
sent either a military, political or social au-
| thority which brings them into contact, un-
| der conditions CT equality with this
arstocracy. These are hard words and
plain words, but the time demands both.
There is an organized and powerful aris-
! tocracy at the South, made the riore un-
| relenting and exclusive in its spirit by the
presence of the negro, and by the presence
| of the Northern man as the political friend
Of the negro. This aristocratic party at tho
South has large following at the North,
| social and political. And it Is remarka-
BILE fact that the social following Of this
Apthern eristocracy is found chiefly ineide
of the Republican party, while the political
| following is found inside Of the Democratic
! party. All this is we'll understood by the
Confederate leaders. They believe that
sooner or later, if wise and prudent, chat
the North will yield the situation on the
negro question rather than have another
war. They believe, also, that the North
will witness without resistance the over
throw of the political power of Northern
men in the South. Acting along the line
of advance dictated by these convictions
the Confederate leaders have from their first
and early encouragement given by William
H. Seward, William NJ. Evarts and
other Andrew johnson Republicans,
gone steadily forward in the policy CT
intimidation as formally inaugurated in the
New Orleans massacre of Republicans in
1866. That blow in the face was followed,
it will be remembered, by declaration Of
war in Georgia when Grant was first elected
President. In that State General Grants
first election was responded to on the part
of the Confederates by the deliberate assas-
sination Of the more obnoxious Of the white
Republican leaders, and by the expulsion
of the colored members from the Legisle
ture. The Georgia trouble was settled by
compromise" Then came North Carolina.
Here the same procedure resulted in COM
promise with Confederate ascendency. So
with Virginia. So with Arkansas So with
Texas. So with Florida, So with Louis
lana. Emboldened by their successes the
Confederate leaders assumed the same a.ti-
tude of defiance in Congress. Ben Hill
spoke for the Confederate power and gave
the nation notice that the Con tederates,
looking back over the past, had but one
regret and that single regret was that the
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not been made inside of the Union! Here
the lash was laid over the shoulders OF the
North ITSELF So long as the Confederate
lash" was laid over the shoulders of South
ern Republicans these Northern gentlemen
were ready with any amount of excuses
for the "bad state of Southern affairs,
But when the tide of violence be-
gan to cross Mason and Dixon's line
it became quite another affair. Blaine
awaked at last to sense of the danger
against which Southern Republicans had
80 long warned their Northern allies, con-
fronted Hill. The ''Hyena from Maine," as
the opposition named him, became at once
the leader Of the Republican party. The
Radical element at the North closed imme-
diately, like Spartan phalanx, around the
man who thus proved himself capable Of
leading the nation, sensibly and surely,
although through sharp and bloody pol
icy rign; out of the ong-drawn out Southern
trouble. Never in my life have witnessed
such a change as was wrought upon the
North by Blaine during the contest with
the Confederate party IN Congress. but
here again "pacifcation came IN and
compromise at Cincinnati with the au-
thor of the Louisiana adjustment as the
vice preside .ial nominee of the Kee 'ublicah
party closed the contest and ineugu,. atec
the era and policy of peace.
One would have supposed tina. under
these circumstances common prudence
would have restrained the party Of violence
at the South, at least until after the presi-
Dental election. But no. Here on the eve
of the election, when the change of few
votes in either Of the great States
of the North may determine that election,
we have enacted in open day the most
cold -blooded act of political atrocity the
civilized world has ever been called upon
to record. Nothing in the case of Ireland
or Poland or Of the Christians in Turkey
compares with the recent massacre at Ham
burg, South Carolina. 1t is a repetition OF
the pistol shot which laid Abraham Lincoln
in lis bloody grave. 1t is renewal of the
sacre of Republicans in New Orleans
in 1866. 1t is the echo on the banks of the