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

At last Democratic arrogance has re-
ceived a crushing and final defeat. The
old State rights guard crossed from the
Atlantic States into Louisiana, and made
their last stand against human equality
and for class rule on our soil. Their
first step was to exasperate the people
against negro suffrage and the migration
from other States This resistance to
reconstruction was manifested by dis
content and violence which has pervaded
the whole interval since the war. 1t has
preserved the rancor of race and of sec
ton, and has taught many people to hate
the Union and desire a state of colonial
dependence upon any nation of Europe.
The events of the past few weeks have
appalled, these enemies of the Union
these agitators for a renewed strife of
separation. A Republican President has
been elected over a Democratic State
rights candidate. This election has been
followed by basis of paeifeation which
surrenders every principle of the Demo-
cratic State rights party and .inaugurates
every doctrine they have ever opposed.
What most astonished the Democracy is
that these terms have been accepted enthu-
siastically by the conservative people of
the South. Democracy has been dis
carded forever, and the principles of its
ancient and eternal enemy, the Wings
have been adopted instead. Henry
Clay was, like Moses, forbidden TO enter
the land promised to the progress and
harmony of the American people. Presi-
dent Hayes leads the nation to occupy
and develop this inheritance.
The question will arise among those
who do not understand the political con-
dition of Louisiana, why was not this
done sooner? The natural alliance be-
tween capital and labor, and between the
two races who had together constituted
the whole property of the South, was ar
rested by the violence of the Democratic
leaders. The whites were afraid of social
prescription, and the colored people took
refuge with class of men many of whom
were untitled by experience or unworthy in
character to conduct this revolution. Sepa-
rated by this unnatural sntagonism, Lou
isiana has suffered the consequences of
which all complain. AS, however, friends
long estranged find upon explanation that
they have been kept apart by the malignant
agency of some common enemy, SO the
business interests of Louisiana find that
their welfare consists in the maintenance
of the Union and the development of
every national measure essential to the
welfare of every section. Notification
Democracy has been defeated. Perhaps
Wendell Phillipsism and sectional hatred
has accompanied it. Both these unhappy
antagonisms have persisted in the dead
lock of a mutual detestation. In their
place has arisen a power grander than
both, power which both had combined
to destroy, but which has survived both
and comes to daninate over both. 1t is
the power of Wing principles. Identical
with Republicanism in all its attributes,
it submitted to a change of form for the
preservation of the Union, but res umes
its control with the future progress OF the
Union. Insensibly these principles are
cropping out and crystalhzing in the men
and measures of the republic. The Presi-
dent is Wing, leading members Of his |
Cabinet are Wings, the Governor Of Lou
isiana, installed by the President, is a
Wing, the Senator voted for by the Legis-
lecture is Wing. Notification Democ-
racy has been defeated and disbanded. |
The Republican Wing doctrines are estab-
lishedbeyond the possibility of overthrow.
CIVIL SERVICE Reform
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