The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-11
LATE PRoTEsTATIoNs,

LAIh GhUlh0 lAIlVN6I
II Is almost amusing to watch the alaerity
with which the Republican press of the North
hastens togo back on the Southern Repub-
lican party" as they call 1t, since the ex-
posures of Anderson. Id never seems to occur
TO these opponents and champions Of the party
OF great moral ideas and immoral practices
that the Republican party Is O national affair,
and that the entire responsibility for what ills
and has been In the South rests upon the
party OF the North. More than fifty years
before the war Of secession DeTocqueville
predicted the eventual emancipation of the
Southern slaves as the result of q great social
and political revolution. Beyond this pro-
phecy he refused to go, confesslng that he
stood appalled, before the contemplation of
the condition of affairs that might result from
the emancipation of the slaves OF the South.
He did say, however, that the results would
depend mainly upon the people OF The North.
III the feeling Of race proved strongest and
they sided with the whites all would be well;
but IT. from political feeling and other causes
they sided with the blacks the South would
become a bowling wilderness, as all other
countries had become where the white and
black races had come In conflict and the
blacks had proven the stronger.
This prophecy of De Tooqueville presents
to us with singular force and vividness the
distinction between the Democratic and Re-
publican parties In their treatment OF the
South since the war. Slavery may have
been. and doubtless was, q great wrong; our
whole civilization may have been bad and I'M
substantial yet 1t nevertheless remains that
the very best, and wisest and purest of our
people were, heart and SOUL devoted to the
fortunes of the Oonfederacy. Let the people
OF the North say what they will, the men who
led che Rebellion abdlcated the control Of the
nation, which they had always held from the
inception of the government. 10 lead the for
loru hope the South resolved on for States
rights and constitutional liberty. This fact,
doubtless, had much 10 do with the course
pursued towards the South by the dominant
party after the war, The men who con-
troled the Federal government feared even
more than they hated these men and the race
from which they sprung, and they sought TO
crush rather than to conelliate them. This
feeling seems to have inspired the Republican
party In all It's policies towards the South.
They sided with the blacks, and by making
citizens out of what had been mere ehattels,
they sought with blindness born OF hatred
and fear TO relegate to barbarism the richest
section OF the American dominion. Suppose
their designs had been carried out and the
South were now what Che Republican party
sought to make 1t, what more miserable CON-
ditlon Of affairs could be imagined ? 1t cam
not be questioned but that so long as the
South was under Republican control it was
dominated by negroes, and Il the Republican
party should ever happen to control 1t again
1t will be through the negroes. That the Re-
publican party and the negroes do not now
control 1t Is due entirely to the revolt of
Northern feeling against such an ignominy
and the resolution Of the Southern whites.
We here of the South have long been famil-
lar with the debased methods and the still
more debased tools by which the Republican
party has sought through all these years to
fasten upon the South this great wrong and
disgrace Of negro, or Republican, supremacy,
for they are synonymous terms. But, now,
the Republican journals Of the North would
have us believe that they stand aghast at the
revelations Of these latter days, and even the
New York Tribune, the latest and, therefore,
the most senseless and indecent proselyte,
says that the disclosures of Anderson will not
create riotous clamor for the revival of the
old Republican party of the South,
This sort Of protestation will not go down.
The Republican party has had all the thiev-
ing, rascality, depravity, and absolute and
iniquity of the carpet-baggers and
soalaWags in the South preached at them for
years, andyet the whole power of the Federal
government civil and military, has been lent
to sustain them In their projects. Now that
Northern sentiment has been awakened to the
atrocities of the Republican rule, that party
plays a poor part in claiming immunity for
what it has deliberately and knowingly
wrought In going back on Stanley Mat
thews and John Sherman and their coadiu.
tors in the South, like Anderson, McLin and
others, the party only incurs the additional
infamy Of eowardice and treason to its truest
representatives and most courageous and de-
voted followers. That these men are the nat
ural and enforced products of the party none
can dispute, and it cannot avoid the RESPONSE
bility for their acts. The party is responsible
for them; 1t has kissed the people with the
kiss of Judas, and the best thing it can do
now Is TO go hang itself.
The color line has broken out in very VIC