New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-22

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With her Southern sisters. and it has
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lutionary and questionable remedies.
These wsrs psraaps somes pasjfoneD in
timations that she did not enter tho field
Of resistauce to ths Federal government
80 soon ~ the more Assy spirits would.
have liked, but she passed through the
war without further imputation q Mat
sort, and has ret an example Of compH-
ance With her own pledges that has given
her an sxaltsd stand in tie estimation Of
all. Virginia now offers thu testimony Of
her own sxampls 70 South Carolina She
advises perseverance, in that tobsdiencs to
the law protested by Nr. Hampton in his
assumption Of . right to declare himself
elected. TO keep the peace is certainly
judicious advice On the part Of one State
in the Union to another, but question
may naturally arise - to whether de-
mand of the executive and legislative de-
partments Of the government Of South
Carolina in opposition to the forma
decision Of the lawful authorities, is
exactly such . peaceful programme
as Virginia recommended. When
we see that it has required strong
detachment from the army Of the United
States to keep the Hampton forces out of
the State House -when W geo that the
moot and bogus Democratic Legislature
has expressed its decided preference for
the hero Of the Hamburg outrage a. their
fit representative in tho Senate Of the
United States, We apprehend there may
be some mistake, whether the peaceful
obedience to law, exempl6ed in the OK
ample Of Virginia, is precisely that which
besisges State House and would invade
the Senate.
History renders it obvious that South
Carolina has never been content with this
from Of republican government For many
years she agitated construction which
would have given the aristoozatical i'd
ministration Of the few IN equal power
with the superior numbers Of the moro
prosperous many. Her leading statesman
opposed the Democratic principles Of
Jackson. Her later representatives diff
fsred radically With the great Democratic
tribune Of the West upon popular, SOW
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It appears that having lost the power To-
control the Federal government. the sole
hope Of South Carolina consists in fomsnt-
ing dissolution OF the Union by tho
hands Of OTHERS In such general conflict
among the principal forces Of tho rspub-
lie, South Carolina might escape from 8
Union she seems always to have disliked
and resume the moro congsnial condition
of colonial dependence upon some Eu-
ropean power. We trust the discomfort
of her people viii be appeased by mature
reflection upon the impossibility Of having
things their own way. Little States. like
little people, unjust be seen, and not
heard" quite 50 much on the premises Of
their equals in right and superiors
in strength and interest. The adj
vice of Virginia is excellent, but
her example is infinitely better.
She has accepted the situation; she has
improved it; she has not increased her
debt or taxes; she has never had politi-
cal massacre or even . murder; she has
recognized all the rights Of the emancips-
ted people, and she has received acces-
sions of immigration and capital. This
fidelity to her pledges and this sagacious
employment Of legitimate advantages,
demonstrates high integrity and wisdom.
Such an adviser should therefore be re-
spected by all those who have under sim
liar circumstances adopted exactly an OPP
posite policy. We fear, however, it will
pass in at one ear Of South Carolina and
out at the other, without leaving any
salutary impression. It would really
seem that South Carolina loves no
sound except the shouts Of strife
and the boom of cannon. Let there
be lullaby lest somebody should
be accidentally hurt. These political
sieges must be raised. It is too expensive
and too dangerous to our institutions to
guarantee domestic peace by q standing
army. Possibly constitutional amend
ment might insure the one without en-
ploying the agency Of the other. Virginia
will retain her representative strength in
Congress and her presidential election by
according to the emancipated all their
lights. South Carolina and those States
which follow her example may find that
{ universal amnesty does not secure uni
'ersal suffrage measures may be taken by
which These two provisions of national
'lemency may be made to correspond
With each other.
NEW ORLEANS AND HER RAILROADS.
Among other consequences of the
hronic civil war which has continued in
lew Orleans since the cIoao If octivo