The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-06
BLA1NE'S IMMIGRATION OF THE
DEMOCRACY.

Though the fourth OF July speeches of the
Radical chieftaiils arc in the highest style of
Northern bulldoozetism and boody-shirtism,
the whole country and especially the South,
is indebted to them for their contributions
involuntarily rendered, to the great cause of
O revived constitutional unionism and to the
vindication of the Democracy and the solid
South. They have done immense service in
their behalf by disabling, from purely sec
tiona and partisan standpoint, the acts and
tendencies of the Democracy in the past his
tory of the Republic, which gave that party
its UNREASONABLE title to prominence rs the
great national party of the country.
Blaine's denunciation Of the Democracy Is
the most eloquent and effective vindieation Of
them which has yet been made. He has
shown how that party has led in ali the great
acquisitions of national territory; how
through 1t The vast region now composing
three-fourths Of the best portion Of the con
tinent was wrcsted from foreign domination,
or political and social chaos, and by its add
ton to the Union, as States. has dwarfed the
original thirteen colonies into comparatively
effete provinces, and thus made this the most
powerful nation in the civilized world.
In all this great crime and wrong against
civilization, republeansm and freedom, the
South led the way and must bear the burden
of the iniamy.
To a Southern President is due the crime of
acquiring Louisiana from a foreign despot
and Of thereby adding nine States, six North
ern and three Southern, 10 the original
thirteen. To the same wicked section and
party is due the acquisition. with like dis
astrous consequences, of Florida. Texas New
Mexico and California. All these and other
like misdeeds were perpetrated by the South,
with slight aid from tie Northern Democracy.
Virtuous and pious Stw England opposed all
this wielsedness. It's nationalism, like its
religion, was limited by the narrow
lines of its townships and meeting houses.
The Yankees wanted no more additions to
our population from abroad, no more new
States to oppose and offset the votes of the
"chosen people of God" Having brought to
the country millions of African slaves. sold
them to the South and thereby secured an
enormous capital with which to build ships,
factories, churches and school-houses they
could see no justice. wisdom OF true religion
in permitting other and new States to be set
tied by honester means and more lawful and
moral agencies, and to be recognized as en-
titled to admission into confederacy of free
and equal States. This is the truthful record
which Blaine has SO foreibly revived as ex-
posing the great bottom facts upon which the
party of which he puts himself forward as
the present champion, has always stood and
now proposes to renew the fight which 1t has
maintained since The establishment Of tic
Republic.
The Democracy will not be slow to accept
the gage he throws down, and to confront
him and his sectional army with solid front
| and spirit which will ensure the restoration
to the Union of that power and greatness
which it has always manifested when placed
on the broad and solid basis of the consti-
tuition as upheld and maintained by the Ma
tional Democracy.