New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-28

the duplication Of the Carolina order.
We earnestly deprecate any possible vio-
lence which may renew and repeat the
painful consequences which may follow.
TIE POWER OF NEW YORK.
The abstract and impraoticable school Of
State rights men had the capacity to COM
prehend that these rights could only. be
represented by population and wealth.
Lear was undoubtedly ''every inch q
king" when wandering bare-headed in q
storm as when he welded a sceptre. The
rights Of South Carolina were, in the alb
stract, as great at Appomattox as they had
been at Sumter, while those of Delaware
were as undoubted when the Federal gov
eminent could have suppressed her Sc
cession by turning down . forty-gallon
iron kettle over her, as they are to-day.
The States of New Jersey and Colorado
are, upon this theory of State rights en-
! titled to the same authority in their own
affairs as Pennsylvania. They are the
equals Of the Keystone State in one
branch of the law-making power, and
they would have the right 10 walk out of
the Union, with public lands, railroads,
light and customhouses under their sacred
skirts, and no one might stay or search
them.
New York is but ono State, yet she
possesses more power than many States,
and is even superior in political influence
to the whole section of the South. Why
is this? Because she has the representa-
tive force of thirty-ive electoral votes,
based upon a population Of three or four
millions of people. Because she has q
financial power arising from the control
Of the Federal credit. Because she has
an influence in the shipping, the CORES
pondence, and the press opinions of the
world. All these make New York an
arbiter Of political empire. Who does
not know that when these great interests
were in peril they were all thrown into
the Union balance and determined the
war. What Union man that did not look
with delight at the one hundred and twen-
ty regiments Of soldiers equipped and sent
ont from loyal New York to subdue the
refractory rebels? Who has forgotten the
strenuous services Of her capitalists, the
gallant deeds of her sailors, the rapid
pulsation of her press which throbbed
in patriotic unity from Sandy Hook to
San Francisco? The REPUBLICAN has
heretofore adverted to the fact that while
the Republican Unionists, waged this
war for preservation Of the Union the
New York Democracy wisely employed
this war process to recapture the fugitive
Democrats of the South, and bring them
back into their present political bondage.
But New York rendered invaluable, we
might almost say indispensable, service
in suppressing the rebellion. Here,
however, our Acknowledgements must ter
inmate. New York is now, under the
lead of State rights Democrat, attempt
ing to reinstate the same doctrine pro-
posed by the New York Democracy before
the war and practiced by their allies at
the South in the war itself. They pro-
pose to pacify the allies whom they have
aided to recapture by Withholding any in
in the internal administration
of the States in which their allies are
dominant. One effec: of this non-inter-
vention will be to so suppress or subordi-
nate the emancipated vote, as that it
will be cast or counted as their Southern
allies choose. Another effect will be to
add to the column of the Democratic
electoral and congressional vote the
whole representative vote as given to the
by the acts Of emancipation
and reconstruction.
To bring about this bold and decisive
strategy, Democratic New York has
scattered her money in reckless profusion.
1 AC AA0ACAhA dAIAOIAIlCo W w I'LL oVACCt
have addressed letters of warning and
admonition to their agents and depend
ents in the Southern States. The great
contract interests-the railroad carriers
between the East and the West-the
Democratic aspirants for the State and
Treasury Departments, and lastly but far
from being the least formidable-the
Democratic pool gamblers all consen-
trate their selfish and corrupt exertions
upon the few and feeble Southern States
which bravely hold out for the principles
of human freedom, equality and independ-
ence. Here is again visible the power
of New York. She has contributed
to organize and sustain the extraor-
binary opposition to law and peace
which now tries to overawe both
the State and Federal authorities in
this and other Southern States. She has
sent emissaries here to ascertain whether
the legal authorities are malleable under
the trip hammer force of hez ingots Of