New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-07

negro and solicited his Suffrage Inc
White League will never again be able to
wrest this power from conservative hands.
The recognition of colored suffrage will
prevent it,
The Republican party has achieved
great victory. The national legislature
is paramount. 1t may impeach the execu-
tive. 1t may make all laws necessary and
proper for executing the powers vested in
the government by the constitution. 1t
may issue and regulate the public cur
rency, build railroads, and not build levees
at its discretion. 1t may protect iron and
cloth, and leave sugar and rice to foreign
competition. Its courts are supreme, and
may adjudicate between departments,
States and individuals. Citizenship is not
accorded upon an analysis of blood, or by
examining the kink of the hair.
These doctrines are all established and
admitted by the Democracy. They are
all involved in the reconstruction of the
Southern States, and this victory could
never have been obtained save with the
submission and aid of the Democracy.
The followers of Calhoun have accepted
negro suffrage and representation. They
have secured and bound the sovereign
States lately fugitive and outstanding
against the nation. South Carolina, the
tanned shrew of the Union, has abjured
her naughty airs, and bowed meekly be-
fore her lawful superior; Louisiana, the
first to resist, and the last to accept
terms of amnesty, is led in subdued and
repentant They have been brought to
the tribunal of national supremacy by
the very hands that had led them into
armed resistance, and the same Demo-
cratic leaders who have betrayed their as
serted sovereignty are willing to accept
national Office as the price of their
treachery.
It is "a sorry sight" because it was an
unnecessary extreme of political subjuga-
ton. Thaddeus Stevens would never
have asked to see these glorious States led
up in the leash by their own sons. To
have seen the soldiers of the Union order
the dispersion of even the so-called militia
of State; to have heard committee Of
single house demand from an officer Of
State an account of his official execution
of the law of State; to have beheld State
officers dragged with their official records
before single house of Congress and i'm
prisoned for contumacy in refusing to VIC
late their oaths to the State, and all this
upon an order of the State rights Demo
cratic party, would have been humilia
ton of the States, and degradation O
political sovereignty from which Thad
deus Stevens, radical Republican as ht
was, would have turned with disgust.
1t is grand victory of principle gained
not by the conquest of the Democracy bu
by their famine for subsistence. They hav,
surrendered their principles, betrayed
their leaders, and pledged themselves t.
keep the peace at the comparatively mod
crate price of share of the spoils. Thi
they could have attained any time within
the last ten years. Finding that the pric
of power was the surrender of their prin
ciples, they have come in and submitted
They have taken the oath and the bounty
The Union is safe and perpetual, and tn
principles of the Republican party nov
constitute the established doctrines of tn
American nation. This is, in the word
of Cromwell, ''a crowning victory" an
in the words of Thomas Jefferson, ''w
are all Republicans"