New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-07


David Dudley Field said late last night
that be would rather take his chances IL q
quo tcd,T0Hto suit than new election. He
Is not likely 60 take his chances in either
The New Administrator and the seuthe
The interests of all sections Of the ooun-
try are so correlative that prosperity in
each benefits ali, and the destruction Of
general wealth in one impairs the wealth of
all. IT for no other motive than self-intar-
est the Northern Republicans would desire
the highest prosperity of the people of the
South. And they are conscious that good
government is essential TO both naferiaI
prosperity and domestic security, and that
there can. be no good government when
those who, by their intelligence, character
and property, are the natural leaders Of so
ciety withdraw from political duties or are
excluded therefrOm.
This statement embraces the main prJu-
ciples which must be applied to the South
ern situation. We have no doubt that the
restoration of good government, social
peace and security to life, property and pO-
litical rights, is the subject of the chiefeat
solicitude Of the President elect In what
way shall he proceed, and to what extent
shall he have the cooperation Of those Who
are the natural leaders Of society," VIII
they meet him in this patriotic work like
rational men, with q stateemanship that
takes human conditions, human nature and
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they hold themselves implacable and aloOf
unless they shall be allowed to prescribs
all things, and to prescribe at their pleas
ure
There are signs that many intelligent
men in the South, of those who have the
| qualifications which make the natural po-
lltical leaders, think that the time has come
for political reconstruction on plan more
| intelligent and humRne than the proscrip-
| tive color line, or than tLat plan Of North
ern Democratic convenience by which
| Northern adventurers seek to promote
| their fortunes through solid Democratic
| South, with utter Indifference to the oonse-
quences to the section which they thus de-
| grade to the Office of hewers of wood and
drawers of water. The course of the strug-
gle over the counting of the electoral vote
has developed strong and signihoant indi-
catiOns of this nature, which have created
the impression that large and influential
number of the leading Southern men would
be willing to cooperate with the admins
tratiOn In q national policy for settling the
Southern troubles and harmonizing the
sections.
What is practicable to this enda To say
that President Hayes should give the eOun-
tenance and patronage of the national ad-
ministratiOn TO the leaders of the Demo
cratic party in the South is q short and
simple way, and to these leaders would
seem perfect. But would it net be eqniva-
. l lolAb " pIoMpulbhbbu QHlAuFc EVERY QUELt
An administration elected by Republicans
In one section, supporting the Democratic
| D srty in the other section, would be q
strange affair. And even this would not
: satisfy the Southern Democrats, nor make
them friendly to the administration; for
still they would feel that this was only q
stepping stone to an administration which
would be all their own.
Such course would deprive the admin
istration OF its Northern supporters with.
! out gaining any Southern. 1t would be
Z simply suicidal. An elected government il
, unavoidabiy party government, and there
: fore party conditions and the party which
y chose the administration, and which is its
only firm support, must be considered. A
Z President chosen by one party in the North
: could not ally himself with the opposite
party in the South. Between the pwC
would be jeeIed by both parties. Nor eeuld
the Republican administration make any
I headway in this work by selecting Demo
! crate, and appointing them to offices with
! | the understanding that they shall sever
! / their connection with the Democratic Darty
! This would be simply buying them, and
not secure their allegiance.
The color line of politicsl parties is so bar
bRrOus and Ineffective q measure that all
: Intelligent Southern men must deprecate it
! as many OF them have in public expression
1t is in itself chronic civil war. No rationa
: tion to c0untenance this savage way o.
I settling the Southern conflict. Nor could
: this bs more than temporary; for as aOoY
/ as the Democratic party had gained dc
cided ascendency its own rival faction
: would cross the color line to seek pOpnlal
support.
And while Northern Republican senti
! ment has NO sympathy with mere politiea
adyenturers, who have traEiped TO thi
: South to play the game of politics for thei
1 own profit BY stirring up Ignorant preiu
: dice in the colOred voters, vet ReDublical
4 administration can mot countenaIice iha
! undiscriminating partisan warfare whicl
q stigmatizes as carpet bHggers men who hav
= embarked all their fortunes in the South
they are Republicans, and If they take an,
! part in political duties. There has beef
. occasion for use OF the term cRrDet-bagger 4
Z q stigma, but it has also been widely use
! as mere weapon of party war are, 60 stis
! matize men who have become citizens 0
!. the South merely because they were RI
y publicans and asserted their rights a
9 electors
9 Are there not elements Ia Southern *
!. ciety which can make the desired politics
y resOnstruction practicable9 Is there not
. = large number Of men of the most INTEL
!. gent and Influential class who were men
y bers of the Whig partyg Until disrupte
: : by the slavery conflict, this was powerfI
= party in the South, and it embraced th
They were broken up as 3 party By d
slavery conflict, hut they did not theEeb
Ia become affiliated with the Democrats
ID party, although compelled to act with
le There is an irrepreasible conflict betwee
TO the intelligence Of the country and Ii
Of Democratic party.
I'd The1e Southern Wings we're opposed {
a. secession, and they never believed In an
70 Of the State sovereignty doctrines WhiG
lg were made 9 pretext 20 Justify it. Ths
" we're forced into secession, and althoui
be they fought through the war with bravei
er and determination, yet they are conHeiol
be that all the ealamities which reaellis
he brought upon their section was brought
70 the Democratic party againat their preta.
rd They hold 1t reap0nniblo for al the oeatru
pt tlon of Southern wealth and for putting
9 progress backward quarter OF oentuE
At- Aud they dld not acquire any love ZOE e
All being forced TO assis1 in the work Of thi
Ior own ruin.
ed These are the elements for political
ato organization in the South, which ahl
in abolish the color line the sectional line. {
int carpet-bAg line, and shall faiso up par
aar embOdyinR the intelligence aud respQnali
ma. character Of the Southern people, F4I
sis competent to give good local governnnl.
8ed and which shall Be ia harmonY with I
r0- national administration and With the inl
the ligenoa and responsibility OF the Mprtnl
sed States il the elements exist for n
me litioal reorganization which shall DO
ant this those are they. IT makes but ~
1on difference uhst they call their aesoeiaii
ats With an active organization Of aueh
act monts, the disturbing questions Which
ent now most prominent 10 tho rival cialma