New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-04

ehlu inc same Every unfetOered Journal
has said the same. The South dare not
give the negro what che promised, and she
hasn't given the negro What che promised.
And the men of the North are on trial too,
the white men of the North are on trial
When Lincoln was called to act as the one
to give the negroes their liberty, he did it
as military necessity. He did not let
them go free, he did not call them free, by
Gods power The great question, then, was
to free them that the republic might be
saved, ana not because they were and of
right free.
Look at the history of the South last
winter. When an American citizen was in.
suited in Japan frigate, with the United
States dag floating at the peak. was sent TO
vindicate his rights When Paul would
have been tried by few in a corner, he
raised his voice, and said, although there
was not regiment of Rome near, II am a
Roman Citizen" and his jailers fell at his
feet. How was it here, in this our own
country Was an American citizen safer in
japan than in the Carolinasl He had
spoken through the South, and his listeners
had gone aeleep over civil service and had
gone out when he began to discuss finance.
Whyf 1t was not the prime question of the
hour; the question was whether white and
black Republicans would be allowed to
live under the folds of a banner which
claimed freedom and protection to its citi-
E7ne' lne career OF CalnOun was given,
and his efforts sixty years ago were com.
meDted Oh, as showing the teaching whose
| effects are apparent through the South to-
day. In the MOtherland the cavalier and
the roundhead had lived eighty years; in
France the radical and conservative parties
| had existed for many years, and in America
| the tprinciples of the contending elements
were likely to live tor years. Only fifteen
or sixteen years had passed since this ttrug-
gle in America began, and it was not to be
| supposed that Wade Hampton could have
| the same views as the men of New England.
II the issue of the war had been the opposite
of what it was, the feeling in the North
would have lasted likewise; for the blood
| of the martyrs was the seed of the Church,
whether that church was true or false.
Mr.. Phillips then reviewed the present
struggle There is Governor TiIden, of
New York. How does he enter, if be en-
| ters at all. how does he enter the White
Housel He entered the White House by
| the vote of solid South. What was
solid SJuthf What was solid South
from 1900 to 1861 1t was simply that Cal
hOun owned forty slaves and Wade Hamp-
ton owned thousand; but that that slave
| power, as the union power Of some of the
Southern States, threatened the rest of the
nation. How was it in the Northl There
was no such thing as a solid North in the
| same sense that there was q solid South.
was sufficient sectional competition TO keep
tIem apart and alive. What did the war
| dOl 1t crumpled up the South; it broke
| that slave power; and once again, when
| there was the spectacle of Louisiana and
Georgia and South Carolina as a solid
South, it was seen what a solid South
meant If the negroes there were left free
there would be nO such thing as a solid
| South. They knew the South must be
| carried or nationality would triumph.
The charge was made that men had
gone to the South and were suffer
ing misrule Who ieopardize the
| South! 1t was the men who like Wade
Hampton, stood by aud would not mite in
making the experiment q success. If Gov
| ernOr Hayes goes TO the White House,
he must, if he would succeed, carry for
ward the principles laid down years ago; he
| must break the solid South, and perfect the
plans which are conceived for 80 doing. Mr..
Tilden was the great veto on the results
| achieved al the close of the war. II he
goes to the White House, he will simply
carry out the principle that the solid South
| made him The dog, according tn the vulgar
| phrase, the dog must wag bis tail and
| Tiden will but show that the creator is
greater than the created. When the can
vass was progressing telegram was sent
by the Associated Press to the effect that
| If Tilden would be elected, if he would car
| ry New York he must carry New York city,
and 50 Kelly, Morrissey and OBrien
| we're summoned To lend their aid. They
were neither PlatOs nor SOcrateses. Tney
were not WasbiugtOns nor Javneses nor
Wilbeforeee, but they carried New York,
| aud howl The State went 40 900 against
| Tilden, while the city throwed the scale
the other way, reversing the vote of the
| State. There were reasons for this. Four
| Northern States went the same way, Indi-
ana following its elder brother COnneOti-
cut, suburb of New York, and New Jer-
sey, the place where New York goes out to
sleep. The lecturer pointed out the ele-
ments of q great city; the dangerous classes
that always gather 10 metropolis, and the
money power which has such Influence at
such times as a canvass like that of last
fall. There was the rum power in the great
cities which ruled. This suggested that
craftsmanship of the ages was conferred ia
the great cities where the masses Of the
population were gathered These were the
piyots OF national action. Ia every age there
were the two classes, the advance class
aud the conservative class. These were
GODS span and check it was at ore time
the Cavalier and the ROundhead, tho Wing
and the Tory, the progressive and the re-
tarding elements. Where there we're
| chances for wealth to double itself they
were used by the interruptions, and gam
bling and drinking and kindred evils were
there in the centres of population represent
ing votes. The consequence was evident
Sir RObert Peel ridiculed America when her
great cities where overrun with rioters, and
the Quarterly Repiet0 took up the refrain,
saying there was no crime man could com
NIT from the consequences of which wealth
could not free him in this country. Aud
when Congress investigated Belknap and
Babcock it was known that Congress was
as corrupt as the men it sought to convict
If public officer affirmed he did not accept
q bride, twenty of his friends would't be
lieve him, and the other twenty would say
he was fool not to have taken it, 1t cOulC
not we'll be otherwise. For forty years thu
, | American people have seen this and havt
permitted it TO go on.
: The lecturer described the rise of thu
Wing party, and went on to speak of thu
, great issues which gave birth TO the Re
publican party. When Lincoln cana u
, the field Of action the sagaciOus, the patri
Otlc, the anxious, stood side by side, shout
der to shoulder, and when the buglt
sounded, went forth to engage in the con
; tiot and to decide the issues of the day
The Republican party went forward. TIT
! Republican party had accomplished par
| OF its work. Again the bugle note sounded
But now, as ia the days of the Wing party
7 there were some men who didn't see thes
| thing. One OF these was Charles FEanci
9 Adams. Ii u Cunarder was com ng up tn
! bay of one of the Atlantic haIbJrs ant
struck on a rock, the captain wouldn't asl
3 the pilot if he had certificate of temper
3 ance society, of an orthodox church, Il
| show he had good moral character; but b
would. aek him it he knew the channel. i
| he was a good pilot. And if the nation i
in peril i5 does not ask after the mora
2 | character of sOme one. hut IL asks il h