New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-14
Especial Correspondence o. tho Republican.
NORTHERN POLITICS.

NORTHERN POLITICS.
BosroN, January 2, 1876.
While the political leaders ut Washington
are fighting for position" with reference
to the next presidential election, the people
are moving and creating the issues upon
which that election shall turn. More cor
reotly speaking, the people are moving
along the lines Of action marked out by the
elections of last summer and fall. And it
is now clear that New England proposes to
take leading pArt in the struggle. If the
Confederates suppose that they can evade
or weaken New England influence by max
ing the West the battlefield, they are
doomed to q bitter disappointment. If
they suppose that the issues as formed
last fall can be obliterated they are equally
mistaken. No amount of legislative pro-
cedure, for instance, on the part of Con-
gress can give to capital confidence in the
government securities if the Confederate
Democratic party is to have control of the
treasury. Hence the financial issue as a
political influence in the approaching cleo
ton is settled. 1t Is settled finally and
beyond reversal or even of reconsideration.
1t is settled absolutely against the Cor
federate. Dc cmocracy. The "opsn" issues
which remain unset'lsd, and which will
''settle themselves" are the anti-slavery
and scho. questions. Constitutional pro-
ceedure. as proposed by Mr.. Blaine, will not
setsls the school question. The people
have got the thing in hand, and they pur-
pose to settl, 1t their own wsy-by consti-
tutional form eventually, possibly; by po-
litical action at once, certainly. So Of the
anti-slavery issue. The presence of the
Confederate power in the America Con.
gress, as an organized force within the
Union, orly serves to develop this anti
slavery feeling of the North. The fact
that Mississippi proves that this Co nfede-
rate power is also an armed power only
makes the public apprehension the greater.
For these reasons the political battle next
summer and fall in the West will be one in
which New England ideas and influence
will be felt. In fact, can state pos itively
that the Protestant AID anti-slsvery senti-
ment of New England is already at work in
the West. How far the West itself is Pro.
testant and anti slavery, the Coufeder ates
will learn by the votes which will be polled
for the Republican Presidential ticket. We
may perhaps lament the existence of poll
ticA radicalism and religious fsnsticism.
Wemay also regret the existence OF other un-
pleasant things all around and every where
in life. We may desire perfection" in every.
thing. But, unfortunately, we must take the
world as We find it, and not as we would
have it. Thus taking the political world,
we "6nd" that the religious fsna tic;sm of
the North has fused with its political radi.
cslism, and that the fusion means q most
determined antagonism to the Con federate
Catholic alliance which now seeks to gain
control of the national government. This
Protestant Republican alliance is now 60
set, go organized, and 80 "bent" in its pur-
pose that nothing can arrest its headlong
course. It will run its course, just as free
soil run its course. During this "run" it
will accomplish certain things. Among the
things thus certainly accomplished will be
l. The placing of Protestants in the seats
now held by the Catholic Democrats in
Congress-
2. The building up OF the negro power as
Q Protestant political force a. the South as
the counterpoise of the Confederate Catho-
lie power.
3. 1t will nominate the next Republican
presidential candidates.
4. 1t will elect those candidates.
S. 1t will hold the government for the
the next twenty years.
The rise Of this Protestant Republican
party in America is destined to mark an
epoch as world wide in its influen ce as the
Reformation in the Old World und er Luther.
That it has it's origin in the West only serves
to give unusual significance to the move
ment. That it is backed by New England
guarantees its final triumph. That it's OBJ
jsetive point should be the Southe IN negro
assures the p, litical protection of the negro
citizen and his permanent allegian 90 with
the Pro testant party in America.
With issue thus joined between the Con-
federate Catholic alliance and the Protest
ant Republican North, the polite al future
of America Can be clearly fOresee n, at least
for the next twenty years. B.