New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-13

quantity Of fixed ammunition, medicines,
tourniquets, amputating knives, needles
and other surgical instruments and lint;
what profitable contracts did Connecticut
Democrats obtain for war supplies? Why,
the war was worth to Connecticut fourfold
tariff of protection, and we doubt whether
the industry Of that ingenious people was
ever SO well rewarded as by that bloody
and destructive strife. It is we'll known
that the Northern Democracy was in ac-
cord with the Republican Union party,
because without the Southern Democrat
it would have been impossible ever to
have acquired Democratic control of the
federal government. 1t was good deal
such cooperation as occurred when the
citizens Of the North aided in the recap
ture Of fugitive slave, because the law
required his obedience, while the owner
was instigated solely by the value Of fu-
ture services involved in the pursuit. The
Republicans sought to maintain the Union
on the basis of universal suffrage, amnesty
and equality. This they have proven by
their legislative acts. The Northern De-
mocracy joined in the war on the same
principle Of interrupted ownership stated.
Connecticut and the Democratic party in
! New York furnished thousands of men
and millions of money for the recapture
Of these fugitive States. They now claim
them as the captive Of their bow and
spear, and order their vote to be given to
| whatever Northern Democrat they may
deem expedient.
There can be no doubt but the asser-
ton Of the right Of secession by Messrs.
Tucker and others in Congress will re-
open that issue in the next and future
campaigns, but as the right Of secession
has been deliberately renounced by the
Connecticut Democracy in taking con-
tracts and commissions from the federal
government and in hiring substitutes for
the army, we can not suppose they will
allow the exercise of this doctrine further
than perhaps to furnish supplies to an
other war and take a renewed indenture
upon their Southern political servitors.
There can be expected no further re-
gard for consistency in a professional
politician than in any other attorney. If
there were, it would strike sincere seces-
sionist with horror to join in thanksgiv-
ing for the success Of those who have SO
aided to overthrow his own doctrine. One
who holds gratitude duty will be
shocked at the return made for amnesty
and equality. England prosecutes to
death and exile those who raise the stand
ard of disunion. France has prescribed
from political right tens Of thousands Of
Communists. Her republican government
has just refused universal amnesty and
reposed the discretion of individual en-
reimbursement in the hands Of the execu-
tive. The United States government, ad-
ministered by Republicans in its legisla-
tive and executive departments, has done
what no other nation ever did do-unless
in the Jewish jubilee granted, with a
small and special exception of numbers,
an unlimited and unqualified restoration
of rights to those who had been conquered
in open field by the government of the
country.
II addition to amnesty the Republican
party has given to the Southern States,
by emancipation and the constitu tional
amendments, from twelve to fifteen addi
tional representatives in the electoral col
lege and in Congress. The gross colored
representation having been thus increased
two-ffths, gives this additional power by
virtue of the federal ratio, based on num-
bers and not on suffrage. The Southern
Democracy accept this additional power,
but by resistance to equal suffrage assume
it to themselves, and are not willing that
the colored people who bring this Access
sion of power shall participate in its
direction. This restoration of political
rights and generous accordance of
political power is an honor worthy to be
blazoned as the central arch Of centennial
triumph. The fact that those SO restored
should employ the rights thus given by
the Republican party to overthrow its
principles, should be draped with the
curtain of national humiliation. From
such reasoning the Southern public will
have seen that the Southern Democratic
leaders have no respect for principle and
small concern for gratitude. They accept
an alliance with the shinplaster Democracy
of Ohio, with the high tariff protectionist
of Pennsylvania. They are suppliants
for federal appropriations for roads
rivers and harbors. They accept amnesty
and suffrage from the Republican party,
and hasten to employ both for the politi-
cal destruction of those to whom it was
due. They rejoice with bonfres and
shooting at the success Of those Demo-
cratic soldiers of fortune in Connecticut
and New York, who made money by
furnishing the material of conquest and
received as their allotted share of the con-
quest the political serfdom of their South
ern brethren.
AN INVESTIGATION CHECKED.
The Democratic papers have come to a
dead halt in the matter of the alleged
bribery Of the Lieutenant Governor Like
the Democratic investigating committee