New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-25


explosion.
The plan of the plot SO exposed is
failure. It will neither restore the multi
fers to national power, nor inaugurate q
Federal authority to assign them the
Southern States, and still less will it
achieve the same object through civil war
and national revolution.
FRUITS OF vITUPERAT1oN AHB VIOLENCE
We do not choose to attribute to our
last ditch contemporaries anything worse
than the natural desire of every news
paper to stand well with the majority
Of readers, and SO to secure the patronage
of advertisements. There might be in
the distance the heading ''oficial journal"
with such incidental perquisites as used
to be enjoyed by Democratic organs in
Washington and elsewhere. In this COM
petition of abuse, in this counsel of vio-
lence there is just this danger to New
Orleans: The people may be excited by
the persistent misrepresentation of the
press and leaders Of the last ditch element,
to o pitch Of frenzy in which they may
commit or permit some act of overt op-
position to law. 1t is true they are
taught that SO long as they do not
carry the quarters Of General Sher-
idan by storm, or open fire upon any
war vessel stationed in the harbor, no
exception will, or indeed can be taken by
the Federal government. This vitupera-
ton and evaporation may. however, re-
suit in bringing many innocent people
into great trouble and suffering. 1t had
better be moderated and indeed reformed
altogether" We propose to give some
reasons why this advice deserves at least
consideration. The REPUBLICAN, has fur
nished some comparisons of the military
ability of the two parties. It has shown
the Democracy dominates in four North
ern and one Western State. The Repub-
licans dominate in eighteen Northern and
Western States. 1t lis not probable, there
fore, that the Northern Democracy will
take war risks in this matter, nor is it
likely the Democracy of the South would
go again into sectional conflict upon the
backing of friends who would be either
neutral, as Tilden, or who would besiege
their cities as did Mcclellan. The Amer
lean nation demands that this sectionalism
shall be extipguished. They will support
the only party which has the strength to
command and maintain the peace of the
nation. The Northern Democracy is palpa-
bly, wanting in the first element of that
power--the disposition to exercise it.
Does not the local press of Louisiana
see that all this system of abuse and
violence tends to promote this national
demand for sectional peace? Will not the
local press tell the people what may be
the result OF such q demand? We will
briefly intimate these possible conse-
quences:
l. A republican form of government
to the Southern States by the
military arm Of the government
2. A limitation of the Southern con-
gressional and electoral vote by raising
the ratio of representation as to the five
millions CT citizens practically disfran-
chised on account of race or previous
condition.
The REPUBLICAN disavows any other
base of belief than the inevitable recur-
renee Of historical situations. The late
civil war began with the politicians and
the press; both sections were excited into
q fever heat which nothing but blood
could allay. As one result, Southern
States were occupied by Federal armies,
and Southern cities blockaded and even
burned to the ground. We can intimi-
date no one by these "reminiscences. All
men know that when the election of Lin.
coin was regarded as the first gun, few
at the South imagined any serious oppo-
sition would be made to the withdrawal
of the States. No one dreamed that the
cities would be burned, the levees leveled
or the slaves emancipated. Yet all these
came with civil war. There came other
even more serious. Tens
of thousands were disfranchised at the
South because the nation demanded
guarantees by obedience; heavy
tax was put upon two chief agri-
cultural products of the South. There is
another most pregnant consequence Of
the war wholly unforeseen at its COM
The South relied on the
Mississippi and its outlet as the only
means of Western communication with
the sea. The chain booms and blockade
Of this outlet compelled the nation to look
to artificial ways Of communication be-
TIVE en- the West and the ocean. As a re-
suit the West has become so independent
Of the Mississippi outlet that it scarcely
uses it at all for commerce with the coast
Of the United States or with foreign coun-
tries. With national determination to
extlnguish sectionalism, and with the un-
disputed ability to execute this purpose,
g it wise-is it just to so influence the
Southern mind as to instigate the overt
.cts of violence? Any such act perpe-
rated against the rights Of American citi-
ems is, in the estimation of the Repub-
lean majority, an overt act against the
,eace and dignity Of the Union. 1t will