The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-11-19
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The Republican organs are very full
of advice to the Southern people since
the election. The New York Tribune
tells them that their only, hope is to
join the Republican party. That is
about the tenor of the .sadvice." One
organ, the Philadelphia Bulletin, says :
"The people of the North long for
peace, for good feeling between the
sections, for the restoration of the
South to high prosperity. But they
are fully resolved that the Government
| shall never be surrendered to unre-
pentant rebels; that the victory won
by them in the field shall not be lost
at the polls; that the negro citizens of
the country shall have the rights guar
anteed to them by the Co lstitution,
and that there shall not be in this
broad land any spot wherein an Amer
ican citizen may not hold and express
freely political opinions of any Kind
and vote as he pleases with a certainty
that his vote will be counted. They
will defeat the Democratic party every
time that it dares to bring forward the
old issues. The South will do wisely
to accept the fact as settled. There is
nothing left for it but a new rebellion
or full and final acquiescence in the re-
suits OF the war. It's northern ally is a
broken reed. 70 attempt to lean upon
it further will be to invite new disaster.i
The Republican party is the best friend
that the South can have; and it now
invites the Southern people to divide
upon political questions as all free peo-
pie do, and to permit in the South that
freedom of thought and action and
utterance which are essential to truly
Republican government"
1t is undoubtedly true that a major.
ity of the people of the North are in
favor of the Union as against the dis
unionism and sectionalism of the Re
publican leaders and organs. In this
earnest desire of the majority of the
people of the North, the Southern
people share, and hence they voted for
Gen. Hancock, a Union general, a
Pennsylvania by birth and the candi-
date of the Democratic people of the
Northern and Southern States. % That
is the position of the Southern Demo
cratic people, and of the Democratic
people of the North, and the Republi-
can organ which calls them "impeni-
tent rebels" writes itself down as a
sectional mouth-p piece and an avowed
enemy of the American Union. The
Republican organ which declares to.
day that the South has not accepted
the results of the war, utters false
hood; the Republican organ which
declares that the Democratic party
| s'brought forward old sectional issues" !"
is simply trying to pin its own party
label on the Democratic party; and the
Republican organ which says the
s'Republican party is the best friend
the South can have' is simply utter
ing the most imprudent of irony. The
Republican party is not the friend of a
republican form of government, and
therefore it can never be the friend of
the Democratic people of the North
and South. During the recent cam
paign no fact was more apparent than
that the Republican party. is not the
friend of freedom In the Northern
States, for the leaders took special pains
to prevent thousands of Democratic
workingnen from voting according to
their convictions by practicing the
worst kind of intimidation and coer-
cion. This was notably the case in
the Bulletins own State of Pennsyl-
vania. The Democratic people of this
country will not accept the avowal OF
friendship of a political organization
which made the. bayonet factor in
politics, which stole the Presidency
and which has openly avowed it's pur-
pose of destroying our republican form
of government. -tfr5E
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