New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-23
WHAT TIE AMERICAN PEOPLE THINK OF
THE SOUTH.

LID QUILL
The New York Herald says, and We be-
lieve it, that it cares not pinch OF smut
about either party ticket. 1t has been IN
the habit of Boosting, and We believe with
cause, that it would not give the patron
age of the chambermaids advertising IN
its columns for the patronage of any poll
teal party. The history Of the Heralo
shows that it was deceived by the pledges
of Democratic patronage. and that II
demonstrated its contempt of the Demo
cratic managers. The Herald has accu'
mulated fabulous wealth. 1t has daily
circulation of much more than hundred
thousand. This is reduplicated by re-
publications in thousands of other jour.
mails. This circulation is not confined to
all parts of this country, it extends
throughout and beyond the civilized
countries of the globe.
The Herald takes up the reckless and
ruthless murder Of the negroes in South
Carolina. 1t expresses the important
opinion that the Richmond Wing and MIR.
Lamar have adopted the proper course in
declaring that
There are bad men, Ignorant and wicked,
generally desperate In fortune and wholly
worthless in character" who commit these
outraRes, land the misfortune is that pub
lie opinion is not OutspOken enough to dis
courage these bad men from such acts."
The Herald says:
Every riot like that in Hamburg is an
argument in favor of Hayes and Wheeler
The Herald testifies that, had the DEM
ocratic leaders at the South accepted the
results of the war in good faith
There would have been no negro suffrage;
not one Of that oppressive series of recon
structiOn measures. BY this time there
would be no Republican party.
1t warns the Democracy that it can not
by the election of Tilden even repeal those
laws. It asserts that these laws
Are immutable. and it is not in Tilden' q
power to change them. Nay, more; i he
,rere to intimate q desire to change them he
wo,tld be whipped IN eyery Northern State.
This is plain talk. 1t is true talk. It
concludes with this admonition:
We look upon it as q grave misfortune
as q calamity, in fact-that States like Tex
az, Kentucky, Georgia and other great
commonwealth. should have
taken this attitude of irrecOncilable Sec
tional hostility to the Republican party.
There never was case of such total polit-
cal blindness.
Now these opinions of the shameful
acts of violence which have dishonored
the South will go throughout the world
with the weight Of journal which while
It is not political, takes care never to be
1t is to be observed that the
Herald indorsss the conservative recon-
mendation Of the Richmond Wig, a
paper of the highest character, which sup
ported the Confederate cause throughout
he war.
The New Orleans Democrat. and we
suppose other ultra enemies of national
sovereignty, enters the arena against the
Herald. against the Richmond Wing, and
against Mr.. Lamar. It especially de-
lounces the Herald because it is not q
Southern paper. Will the Democrat point
,ut Northern paper that is? Will it in
licate Democratic journal at the North
hat justi6es or paliates the murder of the
Delegate Pierson, the mutilation of Sena-
;or Twitchell. and the assassination of his
amily? Will it quote from paper or
statesman of the North who considers the
deeds at Colfax, Coushatta, Clinton or
Hamburg excusable a? The contest, then,
between the Democrat and those authori-
les which it denounces is very unequal.
We may suppose that paper the organ
If the Coushatta sentiment. Its ut
,erance may be acceptable to those whose
leeds it has justified, but we risk no
error Of expression in asserting that the
opinion of the American people will be
more Influenced by the weight Of Con-
authority than that of passion.
We have long since called attention to the
homogeneous, incompatible and antago-
nistic doctrines of the Democratic and
Conservative parties. We have shown
that there was but one bond of cohesion
between these hostile elements. It was
common opposition to the occupation of
office by Republicans. 1t was an imputa-
ton of exceptional abuses in the political
administration of the Republican party.
This last ground of fusion has faded
away. The prosecution Of the Repub-
lican administration the reforms, fnan-
cial and other, of the Republicans; the
nomination of irreproachable Federal and
State Republican candidates have removed
this ground of union. Conservatives. here
will, like the Richmond Wing, see that the
Southern Democracy really cared nothing
for reform, but that they were actuated by
) hostility to all who held Office, if not to
the form of Republican government and
popular sovereignty. The further union
Of these elements is now impossible. The
American people see the true nature of
Democratic discomfort. They see it will
never be appeased except in the separa-
lion of the Union or the restoration of the
Buchanan Bourbons. This the American
people do not intend to permit The Re-
publicans and Conservatives upon this
point are a unit.
MANHOOD TO THE FRONT.
The gyve and the manacle are giving
Tay before that higher civilization