The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-17
THE LOYAL NORTH AND THE REBEL
SOUTH,

Decided" the malignancy or idiocy of which
we do not know which most to wonder at.
The Union, as it was in 1860, has been re-
established; slavery has been abolished, and
there is not an armed rebel in the field Yet
one unacuuainted with these facts might
Judge from the violence and bitterness of
the SUMS attack upon the Southern States,
that Mr.. Davis was now occupying tbs pres-
DENTAL chair of the Confederacy in Richmond,
and that all our armies, headeH by Lee
and Johnston ard Jackson, were moving in
force upon Washington. The Sun has evil
denly become the ser.gile tool of Coskling, and
Is doing all In Its power 10 organize solid
North against the South Could q great pub
lie journal pursue policy more eontemptible,
eowafdly and disgracefws? We have thrice
read the double-leaded editorial OF the SIN,
seeking most diligently to discover some rea-
son for its virulepce; bat In vain. The edito-
rial seems TO be the prompting OF a blind Sec
tional hate, or the malicious diatribe Of a base
and malevolent hireling We have seen, in
all our experience, nothing IN journalism so
mean and disgraceful.
The sum and substance Of the SUMS diatribe
is. that the Democratic candidate for the
IEtSluenCy WaS SOU Oub ny Tie poublleTU
rebels because he was pledged against the
payment of rebel war claims Upon this
Himsy and utterly untrue charge it hurls
it's fierce broadside of senseless but vindc-
tive sentences at the Southern representa-
tives i'm Congress and the Southern people
generally. We are denounced as traitors,
rebels and heaven knows what else. All the
epithets that could be moulded or forged in
the heated fires of sectional hate are launched
at our heads, because, as the Sun alleges, we
made terms with Hayes in 1876.
And let us see what right this virulent
sheet has to accuse the Southern Democracy
of treason to the result of the election of
1876. Mr.. Tilden was entitled by that re-
suit to 1876 electoral votes out of 800,
or clear majority of 49, OF these 1876
votes the Southern States gave him 1871, and
the Northern States only g. In other words.
every Southern States voted for the Demo-
cratic candidate and the supremacy of the
constitution, while in the East only Connec-
ticut, New York and New Jersey. and In the
West, Indiana, by their votes protested
against the Ubiquitous policy of the Grant
United States more ably and persistently
than the Sun denounced the corruptions and
of Grantsm; no paper more
asserted that the good of the
country and the preservation of the prin-
ciples of the constitution required the de-
feat Of the Republican party. The Repub-
lican party was defeated, as the Su, declared
it should be. But If we are to resolve the
vote Of 1876 into its sectional elements. who
won the victory for the constitution? Certain
Iy not the loyal North; not the States which
crushed the rebellion, abolished slavery and
and plundered the seeding States. :
The victory the sam so vehemently affirmed
was essential to The preservation of civil liberty
and the re-establishment Of the constitution
,gds IRON by the rebel Southern States, which
gave Mr.. Tilden 131 of his 1856 electoral votes
The South realized deeply and keenly the ne
cessity for the defeat of the Republican par
ty. The States of this section under the rule
of that party had been crushed in the very
dust of poverty and humiliation. They had
no rights which the Union armies quartered
upon them and the carpet-bag thieves
minions of the eonquerors- were willing or
required to observe.
The South was, therefore, a unit against
The Te,ublcan party, and it made the whole
tight for Tilden and the constitution The
North, on the other hand, like beast of
prey, licking it's blood-statned jaws, switch
ng its tail and growing lay with its paw
upon our necks willing rather that every
restige of constitutional liberty should be de-
stroyed than that its beaten, ruined and
Drostrate victim should escape its persecu-
,ors. Thus we find that in the mighty strug-
gle of 1876 for the rescue Of the const- |
,ution. the loyal North and West gave
he cause but 65 votes. That was all
,he loyal East and the loyal West-the one
represented by the candidate for the Presi- |
iency and the other by the candidate for the
Vice Presidency-could do for the constitu-
ion and against fraud, usurpation and CEN
after one OF the greatest cam
,aigns of political history. If what the Sun
said of Grant and the Republican party in 1876, |
md what II is saying now be true, how shame
Jul, how contemplate, how oowardly record
ioes the North and West, which crushed "the
show against the splendid struggle
made by the rebel South in the common
cause.
And now, In face of these facts, the South |
8 charged with having sold out the
Democratic victory and bargained with
Hayes. Has the New York San really no
sense of self respect? The conspiracy to re-
,erse the result of the election and enthrone a
,ase fraud and usurper In the presidential
hair was organized by Northern men. Nota
Jingle Southern man had any part in it. The
southern people with the Northern people
ooked on with amazement. No such auda-
ious conspiracy had ever before been set on
DOT. The Southern Democrats anticipated a
evolution, and they began to talk Of rallying
o the standard Of Tilden and the constitu-
ion. They never dreamed that Tilden
would remain silent In face OF such
movement, or that the love Of law and jus
ice had so completely died out of the North
IN heart that the conspiracy could be con-