New Orleans Republican., 1877-05-30

cate their measures. They care little
about the name of Democracy, but every
thing about the purpose and measures
which pass under that name. The large
body Of white people who engaged in the
rebellion are firmly united in ihyor Of sew
eral things, and they will stand by the
party that favors them, and oppose to the
bitter end the party that opposes them.
Among these is payment for rebel prop
erty taken or destroyed by our armies.
When Tilden wrote his letter, just before
the election, against these claims, he lost
his hold upon the South, and was made
to feel it in the late struggle in Congress.
No Democratic candidate will repeat his
blunder.
Although Southern Democrats voted
for him after he wrote the letter, it froze
the current of sympathies, and had more
to do in restraining them from filibuster-
ing to prevent the counting of the vote
than any other cause. 1t greatly recon-
ciled them to TIE loss Of Iilden.
In the late House the dividing line be-
tween rebel and loyal claims was ignored,
and, with single Democratic administra-
ton, would be obliterated. When this
comes to pass about claims, the distinc-
ton in the law between rebel and Union
soldiers, and the rebel and Union debt
will be obliterated, and the lost slaves
will be treated as other other property
sacrificed by our government. twill not
all be done or avowed at once, but step
by step already becoming more rapid,
until the public mind has become demor-
allied, the rebellion has ceased to be a
crime-scarcely mistake-and the com
plete restoration of fraternity will demand
the abolition of all the distinctions in the
law between loyalty and treason. The Re-
publican party was never more necessary
| to the nation than it is to-day. All talk
about laying down the Republican organ
ization to take up new one, with new
title, into which the old Confederates may
| enter without wounding their susceptible
| tiles would be criminal if it were not su-
premely silly. The proposition that the
| party which saved the nation, and which
embodies in its creed the immortal prin-
ciples upon which it must live, if live it
| does, and which has record the most
| glorious in the annals of human organiza-
tions, shall commit suicide as an act of
Cancellation to the late enemies of the
republic silences comment by its audacity.
We are but realizing what has been
visihly coming for several years. From
1868 it has been apparent that the Repub-
lican party of the South would be over
thrown by force, if it could not be done
otherwise. The opening scenes Of carnage
in that year, in which more than 1000 Re-
publicans were killed and wounded in
Louisiana alone, were but the prelude to
the campaign of violence which culminat-
ed in the bloody field of last year.
The destruction of the Republican party
would make the Democratic party su-
preme, and fasten upon the country its
odious policy and principles. The men
who directed the bloody crusades in the
South for the last ten years, that have
now eliminated in final victory in South
Carolina and Louisiana, are still living
and have lost none of their power. The
men who within seven years have welded
, The Democratic party in solid column
North and South, against the fifteenth
amendment are still in the ascendant. Is
, any man weak enough to believe that
they or q majority of them have beer
soundly converted, and are honest ad
vocates of the equal rights of men7 It il
my opinion that the body of the Southern
3 Democracy have not changed in regard
to the civil and political rights of thl
\ negro, and that if Tilden had BEEN elected
s President, within his term of four year
8 the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment
| WOulu udNO bCCA buDobduLluAAy ONG4bAAOW4
3 in most of the Southern States. Thi
| would have been accomplished by meth
: DDS recently illustrated in Mississippi ant
4 other States, and is altogether possible t.
I that exquisite political genius which car
, extract Democratic majority of 60,00(
: from Republican majority of 10000.
: No one prays for conciiation and fra
1 ternity between the North and South more
/ earnestly than myself, bus conciiatioI
Q and fraternity, to be honorable and dur
!, able, must be based upon the concession
J of equal civil and political rights, peac,
: and protection to men of all races an(
d creeds. If the men who held the colore(
people in bondage, and who at every stel
d, since the war, and until yesterday, tough
against equal rights and the constitutions
q amendments, are to-day regenersted, ant
i will now administer the great principle
= asserted by the Republican party an,
i placed by it in the constitution and laws
/ it is a consummation devoutly to b
o wished for. Such frame Of mind on til
a part of the Southern people 1 should re
Is gard as the most important and desirabl
l. of all political conditions, the grand re
: suit which every patriot has at heart
Q But, if l do not believe in this suddel
Q conversion, ought not to be considers
, incredulous and prejudiced. Aud if abou
= this am wrong, and if the Republica
o party has, by its efforts and discipline
i subdued the very hearts of the Democrac
of the South, how can we sufficient
!, comprehend and magnify the achieve
It ment2
b In Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Ala
d bama, Arkansas, part of Miss ouri an
10 Middle and Western Tennessee free su.
q frage exists chiefly in name. Georgia, i
which there is not difference Of 500
y votes between the two parties, gave Tt
10 den a majority of 81, 900. In six eouI
IS ties not a Republican vote was polled
e Mississippi, with q Republican majorit
d of 10000, was made to return Demo
d cratic majority of 10000. In four cour
d ties, containing 5000 Republican votes
j seven Republican votes we're polled, whic
= were admitted just - show that Reput
d licans could vote. Alabama, with a clea
g Republican majority of 35, 600, was mad
II to return Democratic majority of 40, 00C
Z In Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, az
= proximate results were produced by lik
b processes. 1t is folly to allege that i
l. those States there were liberty, protectio
, and equal rights. The voluminous test
IS mony taken by the Senate committees Of
IS tablishes the fact that the liberty enjoye
L by Republicans, both white and black
n was but nominal. They were outcast
from society," oDpressed in business hunt