New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-11

or secession ticket as early as 1851. It
was the first Southern State, says the his
torian, to propose Southern Confederacy
and provide for a provisional government.
It 80 Glanced that Hon. Jefferson Davis
was the candidate of resistance in 1851,
and ten years afterward is reported to
have said in senatorial caucus, upon the
pending discussion Of compelling South
Carolina to submit to the federal laws, Il
would have this Union severed into thirty
three fragments sooner than have that
great evil befall constitutional liberty and
republican government"
The ultimatum of MI. Davis on retir-
ing from the Senate was that property in
slaves should stand on the same footing
with other property in all the States and
Territories of the Union.
With this record of representation it
can not but be gratifying to every Ameri-
can patriot to see representative from
the same State proclaim in another con-
gressional caucus his love of union and
loyal zeal for restored Union, and then
to see the seal Of constituent approval
placed on a commission to the Senate Of
the United States, amid the acclamations
Of crowded legislative assembly. Ger
tainly there could be no greater contrast
than between the ultimatum and with
drawal of the Mississippi Democratic
Senator of 1861, and the doctrine avowed
by the Mississippi Democratic Senator
Of 1876. The State approved the position
Of the first Democratic Senator. 1t
applauds the declaration of the Democratic
Senator Of 1876.
Senator Davis said, rather than that
one State should be coerced, he would
see the Union severed into thirty-three
fragments. He has seen twelve or thir-
teen States subjected to the same fate,
and, like Job, "kissed the rod, yet blessed
God" He proposed as an ultimatum that
slavery should by constitutional amend
ment be put on the footing of "other
property" in all States and Territories.
He has seen the constitution so amended
that his own slaves are his political equals.
and there is no property in men in any
State or Territory of the Union, while Mr..
Davis himself may be the only man in the
Union denied the political rights of the
former slave. There is even now a dis
pute as to whether ex-senator Davis shall
be by universal amnesty elevated to enjoy
equal political rights in the States and
Territories with his own slaves.
Verify, time is wonderful turner of the
tables. Time is great slate breaker OF
the future.
But Mississippi is reconciled. She is
delighted. She leads the forlorn hope that
Q Democrat will be President and the
Union saved.
We are almost authorized to infer that
the price of peace is the restoration of the
Democracy to Office, while if the people
dare to dismiss them from place there
will be immediate civil strife.
There is perhaps still more conclusive
proof that the Union is safe, from the fact
that the Southern Democracy is once more
in full fellowship with the war Democracy
Of the North. They have met in cordial
caucus, those Democrats who, with Senator
of Connecticut, voted to iberate
the slaves in the District Of Columbia,
and voted for every dollar of military ap-
preparation which came before them dur
ing the last war. There can be no posi-
bic fear OF any disruption of the Union
in the future. The Southern Democracy
now understand perfectly that if they dare
attempt such thing the war Democracy
will coerce and bring them back to their
loyal duty Of voting for Democratic can
didates for federal Office. The attach
ment of the Southern Democracy to these
sagacious war Democrats who whipped
them back into the Union is wonderful.
They leap upon, caress, roll on the ground
and follow, under sense of submission,
by awe, for the superior force
that has subjugated them. Very properly,
those who shall aid in the Democratic
hunt after Office will share the offals of the
game. They can never aspire to more
and are well satisfied with this. The
Northern Doughface was the bottom rail
Of Democracy. It is now on top, and
will stay there. The price Of Democratic
peace is Office, but whenever the ultra,
States rights Democrats of the
South hint at revolt, the Democratic
at the North will keep them
straight. Office is the price of political
peace. The Doughfaces can not have
Office without the Southern Democratic
vote; therefore the Union is safe in the
congenial greed of the dominant Dough
face and his hungry Democratic bench
man.
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