The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-02

/ stead OF banking circdiaLioil iet t1eTe be
legal tender notes issued directly by the gov
eminent.
| Capitalization Is the genius,
| THE PRESIDING DEITY,
OF the Republican party. II permeates all Its
| policies and controls its councils. Even the
Federal judiciary, keeping step with tho po-
| itical department. has, under one device or
| another, extended its jurisdiction to every
class of litigation, untll, In the terse and en-
| phatic language OF Col Benton, "the Federal
tribunal stands open, like the gates Of hell, by
| day and by night" Emboldened by past sue
cess, eminent leaders of the Republican party
now propose 10 organize n national militia, 70
be controlled by the general government, In
dependent Of tho States, and In violation OF
| the constitution.
Why is II to-day that Grant Is the unques-
toned leader of the Republican party, aud
they propose TO give him what Washington
never asked, and jefferson never aspirod to
1t is because he is the incarnation OF force
and military power.
When two years ago the Republican leaders
conceived
THE DESPERATE PROGRAMME
which seated In the presidential chair n man
fairly and honestly defeated at the polls !;
when an infamy was perpetrated which will
live In history as the greatest outrage of
modern times, Grant began Immediately to
move his regiments towards the national
capital ~ the legiOns In odan times moved
to an adventurer without the consent, and
even without the knowledge Of the people.
The Democratic party is denounced ~ the
party OF notification, but not one word OF
condemnation or even protest has como from
the Republican press against the eXtraor-
binary declaration OF Gen. Grant that II silver
were remonetizsd he would advise every bust
ness man and merchant in the United States
to refuse 1t In the payment of any debt or the
discharge OF any contract. In other words,
no would nulify an act Of Congress enacted
in obcdience To the overwhelming will Of the
peoplei
Is 1t at all surprising that Gen. Grant Is the
IDOL OF THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Or, to use the language Of Mr. Howe, of Wis
consn, having exhausted the hon ers OF the
Western hemisphere, no has gone abroad that
the East might stand UP to do him rovor-
ence"
The programme will be consummatcd,
when I'm few months he returns through
tho back door of the Republic, and making
hts trumphal march across the continent at
tended by tho plaudits OF the Eastern bond
holders and gold owners, shall realize those
Sonorous verses OF Homer:
" Hark to Tydiies. rushing from afar.
Az with his golden chariot wheels
He thund Jrs to the war;
In nothing, however are 50 clearly demon
strated the centralizing tendencies of the Re-
publican party, rs IN Its so-calied recon
strucion policy towards the South. Under
pretense of protecting the colored man, and
insuring his equality before the law, the Re-
publican leaders have attempted to strike
down the system Of State government, and to
create upon It's ruins an elysum for the
licensed thieves who, protected by Federal
bayonets, have plundered unfortunately
white and black Of the little left by the war.
And here let me say, distinctly and en-
phatcally, that no true Democrat wishes to
disturb any amendment TO the Federal con-
stitution. or to take from any citizen, white
or black, any Of the rights conferred by Fed
eral Legislation. On the other hand, every
patriot must recognize the absolute necessity
of maintaining these amendments, and of
elevating the colored race to true citizenship
by education and q full guarantee for every
legal right.
In vain, by such charges, and by appeals to
the
BITTER MEMORIES OF THE PAST,
do tho Republican leaders attempt to lash the
North to fury, and seize the government Tor
another Presidential term. The scene en-
acted here to-day, when the Democracy Of
Missouri send as their Senators to the Ma
Npnal Congress 4 Scnrred veteran of the
Union cause, and one who espoused that OF
the lost Confederacy, is o oquent OF the great
truth that there y peace In the LAM.
A few months since when the yellow demon
held high carnival In the stricken South,
vessel freighted by generous hearts and hands
In the North, iloated down the Father of
enemies, but now of kin through the great
touch OF nature
The commander OF that vessel, gallant
Union soldier, now sleeps upon the hills OF
Vicksburg, fit monuments to the memory OF
him who died Z not amid the crash
of martial music or of shot and shell and
sabre-stroke, but with higher and nobler
courage, silently and calmly gave up his life
for those he had fought and conquered.
In all history what scene, save one on the
hills of Judea, is more sublime than that upon
the banks Of the great river, where bearded
men and palld women with loving and tender
hands laid in its last restiDg-place the body
of that Northern soldier who died for the
people of the South? The angels looked down
with moiStened eyes, and from all nature
arose that hymn Of love which once tlOated
over the blue Egean:
Love. sons of EARTH for love is earths soft lore
Look when you will. earth o'el flows with me,
Learn from the waves that ever kiss the shore.
And the winds Nesting on the heaving sea-"
Yes, love is stronger than hate and In the
grave Of that dead hero was buried the last
vestige OF sectional strife
The North needs the South and the South
needs the North. The South needs the ener-
CIV intellect and wealth of the great North
whilst the North needs the semi-tropical pro-
auctions Of the South, which God has given
to no other part OF this continent.
THE SOUTH
asks for no pensions, no bounties, no payment
OF its war debt There Is not Confederate
soldier worthy the name who would ask or
receive one cent from the Federal government
in pension or bounty. All that the South
asks is peace, lasting, real, true peace peace
in which to build up its ruined homes and
harassed industrieS-peace in which to pay
its full proportion of the national debt.
What the country demands to-day Is the
development of its material resources, the
protection of all its citizens in every right,
and that every citizen and section shall be
enabled to increase the general wealth.
The country Is heartily and thoroughly
tired Of sectional strife and sectional legis-
lation. 1t demands an equitable distribution
of the Federal appropriations, and that in
stead of millions being expended upon insig-
nlticant bays and rivers. and thousands upon
the Father Of Waters, the fact should be re-
cognized that in the valley of the Mississippi
is the empire of the continent.
Let this mighty river and its tributaries be
the especial care Of the government. No one
State, no five States, can or ought to under
take this great work. 1t should devolve upon