New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-04-28

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we publish, without indorsinR, the tOllOW-
ing letter expressive Of his views on the
situation:
NEW YORK, April p, 1877.
There are those who do not believe in the
existence of God. For such do not write.
There are those who do not believe in the
divinity of humanity and the immortality
Of man. For these l do not write. There
are those who believe in both, who have
faith in God and faith in man. For thosS
write. To such now address these lines.
I write with my faith 10 God aud in His
cause on earth mistaken. We have
come not to defeat but to victory in the |
New World. The sun which ushers In the |
dawn of the universal republic has arisen.
The forces which under the Divine guild /
ance are to work out the Divine plan in the |
scheme of universal good, begin TO con- |
verge, to unite and to combine in pur. |
pose which is as irresistible as the law OF |
gravity in the material world. Nor is this |
purpose confined to human nature. These
forces are now meeting in three different |
spots on earth. One of these spots is Re-
publican France, the other is Confederate
AfTico-Louisians, the other is the classic
land of Greece where civil liberty had it's
birth. So the spirit of Dsmosthenes of the
French revolution and the declaration
of American independence meet IN this
latter day for the final death struggle
with despOtism and wrong. With the
conflict in France do not propose to deal,
only to say that the republic there will
live as the ally of catholic truth and cath
ollie civilization, the queen Of the universal
human brotherhood. On the shores of the
B6sphorus the agents of tyranny are in
their impotence, only preparing the way
for freedom in Hungary and Greece. They
will thus fire a train which will finally
light no Italy with it's blaze, and link i'm
peFial Rome once more with the world in
| q new glory which shall be grander than
| the old. To our brethren across The sea we
| send the salutation, God be with you"
| and then we nerve our hearts for the eu-
preme duty which eOnfronts us at home.
What N that duty, and what the issue OF
| the hourf
In 1776 America proclaimed the rights of
| humanity and founded government rest
| ing on consent alone ana acting through
| the agencies of peace alone, alike for lts
| seif-preservatiOn and for the extension OF
| its intueuce Under the Confederation of
| of I17b we achieved our liberties as peo-
| pie. Under that Confederation we grew
| and prOspered. Under that Confederation
| human chattle slavery had no legal or le-
| Esiized existence, because the common law
prevailed and the negro was in bondage"
under apprenticeship laws which existed in
every one of the original colonies. He was
an apprentice "bouRd to labor" in Massa-
chusetrs as he was in Virginia, nothing
more, nothing less. In both States the
forces of civilization were gradually pre-
pairing him for release from this service of
Eondage and fitting him for absolute hOer.
ty. Under the Confederation there was no
war power. Under the Confederation the
States were free, and local self-government
was assured. Between this infant republic
and the despotisms of Europe, with their
system of debt slavery, rolled a mighty
ocean. All things favored the cause OF
popular selEgovernment.
Into this new political pa sdise came the
serpent of evil. Winding its silent and
Shiny way beneath the flowers and foliage
and trUitage and golden harvest u
this new home of liberty poured into
the ear sf the people the fatal sug
gestion of idol worship. You are God, ,
said the tempter. Be gods unto yourselves
, Rear great political nationality based o.
your own wisdom, directed by your owl
wisdom aud defended by your own sword
The people listened to the suggestion anC
| accepted the temptation. The conte dera
ton of l776 was overthrow. A more per
feet union was formed" At its very brit
this union" was denounced as a thing con
! ceived in cunning and duplicity and exc
cuted in fraud. Patrick Henry, ThOma
: Jefferson, Mr.. Madison, Mr.. Monroe and al
tbs other leading revolutionary patriots
warned the nation against the wlles of tn
5 serpent who was thus tempting them I
. their ruin. And these men were right. Late
a on when the despotism came home to tn
0 heart of New England William Lloyd GA
Z rison, Wendell Phillips and other ant
= slavery men denounced this political idol a
. | the mOloch OF nations, as a covenant wit
. satan and a league with hell. And theH
y were right also. This so.called republi
< thus created did these things which follow
to vii:
b 1. It reared a colossal political idol whic
9 interviewed between God and the hearts {
. the people, aud demanded for this idol froI
d the people the first place 10 their ELECTION
e and the supreme place in their allegiance
- At the base of this idol it wrote with in
y pious hand the motto, VoD populi, pOS De
= 2. 1t legalized human slavery, made
IA perpetual, and made man chRttel to .
sold and bartered, as we do not sell {
+ barter our favolite dogs or horses.
i 1t recognized the slave trade.
e. 4, 1t gave property in man a repIesente
p voice in the government.
G. ) 1t organized war.
E. b. 1t placed barriers upon free eommereii
intercourse between nations.
Thus organized, the union of crime an
fraud and wrong went forth to conquer Til
continent. The lust Of war first broke OIL
in 1872 then in the mereiless invasion
helpless and unOffending Mexico. The POO
Indian was made to feel the sharp edge
the sword Finally, the South found ii
. bayonet at her own throat. And now I'll
IL negro, first 6nslaved, then WTODged, the
y deceived, and finally betrayed BY this lido
finds himself also the victim of selfshne
and dupholty.
10 This much for history. And now the ds
of rehribution has come-the day of II
triumph of right, the dawn of true lbert
for the Southern white man, fer the Mort
Of ern wage slave, for the negro, for the i
dian, for the Chinamal-tor all, under
a. government based on consent, and in whiC
Ia peace alone shall prevail
n This day comes for these reasons:
n l. Because the Confederate South is no
If too powerful and too united to be o.
pressed.
il .. Because the negro power will not a
"a cept serfdom.
as g. Because the Confederate knows next
a. Gods protection that his own safety
d ponds on his alliance with this same negI
70 power for mutual self.protection.
n d. Because the negro. will shake ham
IN with the Confederate, for he has learne
m the bitter lesson the he has nothing to e
la pect under this white mans union b
q overseership, educational, industrial al
er political outrage, wrong and degradatlC
he tor himself and his children.
,e The new epoch in American history
N marked by this alliance between the neg
power and Ahe Confederate power. Iii
Ill alliance will in time lead to national di
I'd armament, to free trade, and the distrib
~ tion OF the burden of the national de
equally among the States for whose benei
es it was created, l say for whose benefit
was created, for the war which created tn
n blood debt was war wsged for the pr
lection OF the Uuion with slavery, al
upon both races at the South alike for Il
q; nnTpose Of power, and power alone. Ema
IA mir finn ma of huf nf nanpaaif