New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-12
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican.
NORTHERN POLITICS.
The Fight for Position.

Especial Correspondence Of the Republican,
NORTHERN POLITICS..
The Fight for Position.
NEW YORK, September 6, 1876.
The proposition made by the San to
bring forward General Slocumb as the
Democratic candidate for Governor is an
impertinent one. The objects aimed at by
this move are threefold: l. To secure can-
didate who possesses a good Union war
record. 9. To secure reform Democrat
and a gentleman to lead the party. 3. To
carry Kings county brooklyn district) for
Tilden. 1t is not to be supposed for one
moment that the Irish Democracy, having
kicked Mr.. DOrsheimer and his German
friends into back seats. will now give the
front seat of all, the very chair of State, to
a war Democrat, to gentleman, and to q
reformer like General Slocumb. The Gen
eral belongs to the same lot of "squeezed
oranges" in which Governor Chamberlain
and Governor Ames figures so conspicu-
ously at the South. The General has been
"used' las Dorsheimer, Carl Schurz and
others have been here), by the Confederate
Democratic leaders, and he will never be
"ca!led en-" again, unless when the party is
in ertrenlis.
But the interest of your readers in this
Slocumb move does not end here. General
Slocumbs locality tBrooklyD) imparts an
exceptional interest to the fight in Kings
county, therefore considered doubtful
district, and consequently give you here
with a sample of the manner in which the
Republicans are urging the war on the
other side of East river.
Iquote freely from the Brooklyn Union,
because it is the leading Republican paper
in Kings county, and also because it is
strongly conservative.
The first article is on General Banks
late speech, at Worcester. Massachusetts,
and is as follows:
FACT WELL STATED.
A magnificent Republican rally in the
heart and from the heart of the old Bay
State last evening, at Worcester, r, when Mr..
Jewell, Senator Boutwell,, Stewart L. Wood
ford and General Banks we're the speakers.
We give the substance of President Seelye's
noble words elsewhere. We find much
sound sense in what General Banks had to
say, agreeing with all the points the Union
has sought to make in this matter. Discuss
ing the monstrous and unnatural, as we'll
as un-national proposition, that the South
is to be q unit in the coming election,
General Banks said that such q thing
has never before been attempted in
the elections in this country. 1t is an
nounced that the vote OF the South will be
given as a unit for the Democratic party.
This of itself ls enough to guide our course
in an opposite direc ion. 10 is q subject of
immense moment to the country. 1t will
necessarily fall to this Southern section to
govern the country if they succeed in this
endeavor in this canvass. The North has
great interests at stake. All the results of
| the war would be imperiled. He believed
this sectional endeavor of the South would
| be defeated, and with it liberty be saved
| and the country be relieved for all time
| from any similar contest IN the future. An
| other reason the speaker gave for the pres
ent campaign being of paramount impor-
| tance, was that the question whether the
| country would be controlled by violence
would be probably settled in the coming
| election for all time to come. He thought
| that when the South found that it could
not control things by violence it would affil-
| late with the Republican party. For this
i
would be better next year. The prospects
| of business are frightening, and he thought
| the country had seen the worst portion OF
the stagnation of business.
! Business complications are being adjusted
| to q new grade. Let it be seen that national
stability is assured in the triumph of the
Republican party and we shall enter upon
a new era Of peace and prosperity. Well
said, General Banks. $50 say we all of us. ,
| 1t will be seen from this that the larger
the Confederate Democratic majorities in
Alabama and Arkansas, the greater the
effect of the recoil in such conservative
Republican districts at the North as that o.
Brooklyn. Following up the attack which
Banks makee the EniOH in another column
says:
| AN IMPORTANT TRUTH.
The New Orleans REPUBLICAN, in speak
ing of the spirit of sectionallsm as KEEP,
alive at the South for political purposes
| uses the following just language:
1.-THE effect, however, of this intolerance
has been to divide the country as before
the war. They have entertained the futile
expectation OF uniting the whole South
without arraying the whole North. In an
age of free speech and instantaneous publ
ca ion it has been impossible to effect thit
sectionslism on one side without a similar
aggravatiOn on the other. Let the Rhetti
and McEnerys lead up with the stars and
bars flying, and the fife and drum playing
"In Dixie's land I'll take my stand" and al
if by electricity they will see the granC
old flag with it's armament of diamond stars
and without bar across its ever broaden
ing folds, given to the wind, while the ma
tiOnal anthem will res0und from ocean II
ocean, and reverberate from the most re
AL l.. ~c ~ LII, :AoI~ oLA
Sectionalism can only produce evil. The
North and the South are one people. South
ern whites and Northern whites are ont
people. In the solution of the race problem
which confrOnts US both at the South, WI
should remember that we are mutually
guilty of tho sin Of slavery. that we owe {
mutual debt to the negro which should b
paid, and that all that is best at the Soutt
and the North should join hands for th'
common good of all-colored and Whit
alike-under our common government.
When will the people Of the South learl
that Northern politics are governed By
ideas-that general intelligence prevail
here and that the scheme of q re-sectionsl
lied South for the control of the Union il
the political interests of Tammany Hall il
sheer nonsense9
General Slocumb will not be nominated a
Saratoga The Germans will be kept in tn
back seats of the Democracy. What then
Only this. That Kings county, embracing
the wealthy and conservative district o
Brooklyn, will 60 for Hayes and Morgan b.
an increased maj ority. B.
| Appointments.
Acting Governor Antoine has made tn
following appointments: