New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-04-28
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Whatever the motives attributed to his
sxceHency, whether she paciAcation Of the
bulldozars with the blood Of Republicans,
or for sppessing the politicians who
menace the validity of his title as means
of blackmail and exaction, we are willing
to accord him patriotic purpose to pre-
serve the integrity of the Republican
party and restore the intersectional har-
monies of the nation. Whatever may be
our disappointments, we should never
permit them to disturb our loyalty I'd
principle, nor should we withdraw our
support from the representative of those
principles because of objections to the
manner in which they may have been car
ried out. 1t is undoubtedly severe
chastisement if the nation shall have
adopted the whole doctrine of the Repub-
lican party and repudiated the agency Of
Republican men as unfit to carry cut the
principles. 1t is the shame of taking the
child from an unworthy mother and COM
hitting it to a stranger.
We ask the aid of his excellency the
President to protect us from the recur-
renee of these evils. To effect this will
require the Inauguration of two especial
measures:
l. The appointment of Republicans
competent by character qualifications and
permanent attachment to the welfare OF
the State to all the Federal offices ia the
State.
We have suffered from the nomadic and
irresponsible incumbents heretofore sent
here to enrich themselves. They have
added nothing to Republican strength,
but have displaced men of the country
who might have made the party more &C.
ceptable. The appointment of home
men will tend to repair the mischief
which has heretofore befallen us.
2. His excellency should address to
Congress the recommendation of meas
ures which will inevitably promote the
welfare of Louisiana. Let the unem-
ployed enterprise and capital of this peo-
pie know that the Republican party
means progress, and is not limited either
to the requirement or distribution of Of
fee. Let his excellency press upon Con-
gress the levees, the Pacific railroad, the
steam lines to Brazil and Aspinwall, and
the construction of the Nicaragua canal.
These are measures in accordance with
the Wing policy of the past. They are in
antagonism to the policy of spoils and
stagnation of the Democracy. His ex-
cellency should address a special message
to the Senate upon adopting a Republican
continental policy which will open the
tropical trade and harmonic the produc-
tive interests of the Eastern and Western
sections.
This humiliating necessity has arisen
from two causes:
l. The usurpation Of important offices
by class alien to the interests and the
sentiment of Southern society.
2. The presumption CT another class
too ignorant to know the danger to their
own immature rights, and too vicious to
value those rights above their own per-
sonal emolument.
This alien class has abandoned the party
as the success or failure of their enterprise
has made it necessary, and the remnant
is now at Washington making the aban-
donment of the Republican government
of Louisiana the basis Of claim for the
highest offices in the gift of the President.
The other class has not hesiiated to sell
for their private account whatever repre-
sentative or personal influence the Repub-
lican party may have intrusted them with.
The safety of the colored Republicans
depends upon the demand for their SER
vices. This again upon the developed
capacity of Louisiana for agriculture,
and commerce.
The administration planted upon per-
sonal appointments acceptable to the
people of the State, and the Wing policy
which Henry Clay and John Bell COM
mended to the South will acquire
strength which no political bargain can
possibly give, and no mere distribution
of Office could render permanent. The
adoption. of this policy will do much to
the Republicans Of Louisiana to
the deplorable events which have placed
them at the feet Of their political enemies.
It will also convince their political
enemies that by having transferred to
your excellency and to your Republican
principles the zeal they have heretofore
manifested in support of the abstract and
dogmas Of Democracy, they
have inadvertently accepted the best solu-
ion of the Southern problem which could
nave been presented to them.
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR PACKARD.
This dignifed and able document af-