Year: 1876

Especial Correspondence Of the Republican,


NORTHERN POLITICS..





Louisiana and New York.
NEW YORK, July q, 1876.


The connection of Mr.. Wheeler with the
Louisiana adjustment and the conservative
character of the Republican presidential
ticket, renders it necessary for the Confed-
Democratic party to make . special
attack upon the Republicans at this strong
point. Something must be done to weaken
Mr.. Wheeler's hold on the conservative
vote of this State, especially on the con-
servative vote of the city of New York, or
the Louisiana adjustment, out of which the
opposition expected to make so much capi.
tai, will eventuate to the permanent ad-
vantage of the Republicans. 1t may lead
to the election of Republican Governor of
the State of New York, besides giving the
State to Hayes and Wheeler. 1t may lead
to the election of a Republican Governor of
Louisiana, and the control of all depart
ments of your State government by the
conservative Republican element. These
are consequences not to be contemplated
by the Confederate Democracy with indif-
ference. The loss of New York at one end
OF the Union, and of Louisiana at the
other, means the loss of everything by the
opposition. For these reasons the COnfed-
crate Democratic batteries in this State are
now being "trsined" to bear on the
Southern situation" in general, and upon
Republican Louisiana in particular. The
first shot comes from the New York Herald.
The gun in this case is pointed in New Or
leans in the shape of letter to the Ameri-
can ''Thunderer" written from New Orleans,
in which the writer seeks to bring the Re.
publican party of Louisiana before the
Northern pnblio as utterly inefficient and
hopelessly divided, and consequently unfit
to administer the local affairs of the State.


The letter to which allude will be found
in the Herald of this date. It is exceedingly
we'll written. The Herald honors this letter
with leading editorial comment and back
ing extending through one column and
halt of that paper. The object of the Her.
aid is, of course, to break the force of Mr..
Wheeler's position, both as it relates to the
result of the approaching elections here and
in Louisiana. Mr.. Wheeler and the Repub-
lican party will undoubtedly be gratified to
see the work of compromise under Repub-
ican auspices two years ago in Louisiana
confirmed by the people of the North in No
vember and confirmed in good faith by the
lovers of law and order in louisiana.
These considerations will influence
the conduct of many leading men
here. Mr.. Wheeler is q ''rising star" He
is coming into power, and those who love
power and the things which it commands
will be swift to range themselves on the
side of success. So, also, in your State,
incline to the opinion, therefore, that the
writer of the letter on Louisiana affairs
published in the New York Herald begins
to see that the tissue of good faith in
standing by the Wheeler adjustment is Civ
ing strength to the Republican ticket in
your State. He sees that the Wheeler ad-
Justment must be repudiated at the polls
this fall, or that the Confederate Demo-
cratic party is doomed. Under these cir.
cumstances, therefore, every possible effort
will be made by the opposition to carry
New York and Louisiana against Mr..
Wheeler and his policy OF Southern recon
struction.


hasten in this brief letter to call atten-
ton to the facts as above stated. They
can not be too generally known or clearly
understood by your people. They affect
every property owning and law abiding
citizen in the State. They are not facts to
be considered from purely partisan point
Of view. These facts possess national i'm
portsnce, because upon the administrative
success of the conservative Republican
policy first inaugurated in the Louisiana
adjustment by Mr.. Wheeler turns the ques-
tion Of peace, social order and the reign of
law in the late slave States of the Union.
The double defeat of this compromise policy
in New York and in Louisiana will hand
over the entire South, as we'll as the nation,
to the control of the Confederate Demo-
cratic coalition. New York conservatives
will stand by Mr.. Wheeler in this matter
1t is for the Louisiana conservatives to say
whether they will do likewise at the polls
this fall.


My last letter from Boston was entitled
"Peace or War" / find that the state of
public sentiment here confirms fully all the
statements of that letter. The Southern





between Confederate leadership and the
cause Of peace. Again ask the question,
whether we shall all labor for
peace, or let the nation drift into second
civil conflict under the guidance of those
who but so re Gently plunged it into one
war} B,


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