New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-10

negro and solicited his suffrage. The
White League viii never again be able to
wrest this power from conservative hands.
The recognition Of colored suffrage will
prevent il.
The Republican party has achieved a
great victory. The national legislature
is paramount. Itmay impeaeh the execu-
tive. It may make all laws necessary end
proper for executing the powers vested in
the government by the constitution. It
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. It's 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 haughty airs, and bowed meekly be-
fore her lawful superior; Louisiana, the
| Grst 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
natiO nal Office as the price of their
treaehery.
1t is ga 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
a 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 inn
prisoned for contumacy in refusing to vio-
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 OF
political sovereignty from which Thad-
deus Stevens, radical Republican as he
was, would have turned with disgust.
1t is grand victory of principle gained,
not by the conquest Of the Democracy but
by their famine for subsistence. They have
surrendered their principles, betrayed
their leaders, and pledged themselves to
keep the peace at the comparatively mod
crate price of share of the spoils. This
they could have attained any time within
the last ten years. Finding that the price
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 the
principles of the Republican party now
conatitnke the established doctrinea of the
American nation. This is, in the words
of Cromwell, 50 browning victory" and
in the words of Thomas Jefferson, ''we
are all Republicans.