New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-23
The Awakeuips of the North,

Advices from the entire rural portions OF
the North indicate an undercurrent of the
| most intense feeling of anxiety regarding
| the present critical condition of the coun
| try. The people OF that section are just
| beginning to awake to a realization Of the
| desperate intentions of the White Line
| Democrats of the South, and they feel
that rather than have the government
| snatched from the loyal element Of the
country by violation, intimidation and
| .fraud-thus rendering the expression of
| the popular will a farce and Inockery-it
| were better to meet the question at Issue
now, and settle it at cnce and forever.
They contend that the first step should be
| a firm and untiicching demand for the
puIgation of the retnrns of the States of
| South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana of
| fraudulent ballots by the Canvassing
| Boards and the Issuing OF the certificates in
| ccordance with the vote " hen thus purged.
| 1t this course is interfer with By violence
| TOR the purpose OF throwing the vote into
| the House in order to defeat the expressed
| will of the pr Opie by the election OF Tilden,
| il will b then time 10 consider what fur.
| Their steps should be taken to prevent q con-
summation of the victory of the marplO.s.
As We have eaid, this feeling ia q powerful
undercurreRt, such as prevailed in 1861,
when the same elements threatened to pre-
vent the inauguration OF Mr.. Lincoln alter
he had been constitutionally elected Presi-
dent. 1t is the more terrible, this under
tow Of political feeling, from it's quiet
earnestness and serious determination
There is no brag or buster about it. l. is
simply foregone resolution not to be
cheated out OF the election By those who
have failed by fair means to wrest the
control Of the government from it's friends.
believe that the white voters of
the South can be SO lost to all eeuse of
honor as to go deliberately to work to cheat
the negroes out of their newly acquired
franchise. They can not conceive that men
apostr0phes to constitutional liberty should
be willing to stultify themselves by vic
lently debarring weaker race than their
own from the exercise Of the only privilege
which they hold as a guaranty of their
freedom. But if the men of the South shall
now prove by their conduct that they Go
not intend to live up to the latest amend
ment Of the constitution, that their design is
to disfranchise the negro and remand him
to practical slavery, then will the Northern
masses be driven to the realization of
the fact that when the men and the journals
Of the South speak OF ''our people" they
simply mean white people, and when they
speak of ''citizens" they mean white
citizens. the corrollaTy Of which is that
they do not regard the negroes as peo-
pie or citizens at all. The masses of the
North will then learn that the caths of
Southern white men TO support the constl-
tuition OF the United States simply mean 10
support that instrument with mental re-
servatlon that the new amendments do not
count. When the loyal people of this
country shall awake to the tull realization
of the rebellious aud beadstrong spirit
which animates the leading Democrats of
the South, when they resiiza the fact that
toev are fully determined to either rule or
ruin this republic if it requires the resort to
the assassination OF their opponents, and
the enlistment in their service of oil the
barbarous horrors of the clark ages" they
will NEST certainly hold the conspiratcrs to
fearful reckoning. 1t now looks very
much as though that period was rapidly
approaching Washington, Republican.
Get rich yourself. $40 will do it.
Get rich Yourself. $40 will do it.
Grand extra drawing
Grand extra drawing
Grand extra drawing
Louisiana State Lottery Company.