The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-08-21

be we'll or Ill applied. 1t may be said
he continues. to be we'll applied:
When exercised but once :! and never repeated
though practiced with eau ion and reserve .
first. It increa~ es instead Of diminishss Will
time. The proceedings OF the former have some
man Of which Agathocles may serve a. an in
stance; but In the latter case 1t Ia impossible tc
support ones self. From whence conclude
| that W whosesoever usurpr the State must exer
else what cruelties he shall find necessary a
once. that 80 he may not be obliged to renew
sratate Himself with viii the people a. and m gain them
over to his interest. by favors and benefsctions
But 4 he takes the. other course. either out Of
toner constantly at his, elbow and can never
depend upon his subjects; as they will put nc
confidence In him when they are daily provoked
therefore. should be finished at one blow: that
SO they may be the sooner forgotten.
Thus we find that an author who
could find much Of wisdom In the terri.
BILE policy Of Borgia and OF the Sicilian
tyrant,S slirsnk1 With disgust from the
imbecile and inhuman course the Re-
publican party has pursued toward the
South. If something after the man.
ner Of Borgia OF, Agathocles, the
Federal Government, after the
war. had assembled all the citi.
zens OF tho South it sohose to con-
demn, and had executed them or ban
ished them from the country, and
then adopted policy toward this sec
ton calculated to protect its remaining
inhabitants, to build up their prosperity
and advance their interests, it's action
would have been far less cruel than
that which it has pusued, and the
South might have enjoyed q large
measure OF material prosperity.
Such is the policy Machiaveli would
have suggested as the wisest and safest.
But infinitely wiser and better in every
respect would It have been IL the Fed
eral Government had adopted for the
pacification OF the Southern States and
the reidentifcation of this section with
the Union, a policy which the more
humane and broader craftsmanship OF
an enlightened age suggests. How in
flnitely better it would have been for
the North and the South for the whole
country, indeed - il the dema-
gogues, fanatics and charlatans
who have controlled the Repub-
lican party, had taken lessons
in human nature and statesmanship
from men who were really great? How
much better it would have been for US
all il they had read and needed the
teachings Of that illustrious philosopher
and statesman, Edmund Burke, who,
when appealing to Parliament for a
policy Of conciliation with America, H.
lustrated the potency Of that policy
In these words, which should be read
by every man who, in this day, desires
a restoration Of the Union: The
benefit Of English laws and liberties"
said he, II confess, were not
extended at first to all Ireland
Mark the consequences. English
authority and English liberty had ex-
actly the same boundaries. Your stand
ard could never be advanced an inch be-
fore your privileges. Sir John Davis
shows beyond doubt, that the refusal
OF general communication OF these
rights was the true cause why Ireland
was Ave hundred years in subduing.
1t was not English arms, but
the English constitution that conquered
Ireland"
But the Republicans, In their deal
ings with the conquered South, neither
adopted those prompt and effective,
though savage, measures for the pacifi-
cation Of the conquered territory recon-
mended by. the Italian statesEan, nor
that wise and generous policy. based
upon an enlightened Christian states
manship, advised by Burke, either OF
which would long since have quieted
the country. and restored by this time
it's prosperity and wealth.
On the contrary they adopted policy
so atrocious and 80 unwise, that the
man who commended the butcheries of
Borgia and the treachery Of Agathocles
denounced it, three hundred years ago,
as wicked and impolitic. They estab-
lished over us governments which con-
sumed the substance OF the people, they
subjected us to the mercy Of vagabonds,
perjurers and thieves, 1et no one be
shocked, we are using Mr. Lamar's Ian
guage,) they insulted, outraged and
plundered us year in and year.
out, they disfranchised the
virtue and intelligence OF our popula-
ton, and offered honors and emolu-
ments to the ignorant and vicious to
oppress and revile us. And when we
protest against this wicked and ruin
GUS policy; when human nature is
pushed by 1t beyond the point Of endur-
ance, and whitened lips give forth the
cry Of tortured and indignant hearts,
Mr.. Garfield rises In his seat and blandly
tells the South it has not accepted the
results Of the war. ...-.....,.
II these be the legitimate results of
the war, then, indeed, the South has
not accepted them and never will, until
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