New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-26
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wkDNHsDA { MORNING. APRIL 8, 1884


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Republicanisrn il 4 eeveranisp N ths Avs
Democracy DC persons That consist tues ltself
uponshe aetllsl classes and interests which y
finds snhsisting and snieayofs 70 harmofsx s
sndsto presefse them III. 1egislation shaped
Tor Tie co,nrnon bensiit II HIl aud excluding all
Temporary passion fks directs Itself towards
temporary passion alone substitutes personal
viii Cor slsM il and aims int distinguishing all
olasssa VI III interests bat THY lowest. w
NON, fzI t<@6fs altar All, Il but government
ly the Las teal Of personal wiz. When
ever tbs HIN aione il made to govern. the law
itself will become good but where the personal
will of the ruler directs All public action, ttas
rulers always become bad and tyranical
Thus D Republic is d government guided VINO
restrained by the concurring interests and lit
stall elaae NJ, Who anite to benefit and 10 cheel
eAcloshers By common legislation: while De
moefscy Knows 40 Law, regards.no interest, ba'
the unchecked ascendeney Of single class; aut
tbs interests of this class being small and their
paAsions greats it is passion not law which viii
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Thus that only being . Republic that is, q
CommonwealtlD in which all GLASSES and inter
ests share in the government and thus protect
themselves and limit each other, republic be
longs only to that description II yernments
which we call ( temperate Or s limited or
free n because IL has within IL powers that
cansoheek III, and Is compelled, therefore, to act
bHlaw, not by passion Or will. But as q De
m6pracy il the government of one. class only /;
unlaasonina esaisnAte and unchecked BY any
thir aisAsT bin Or Nithout itself, it essen.
italy belongs ana has always been classed
Aam61g not free but despotic governments; and
is. ii fact, but y monarchy Of the mob, tyr
army Of the forrest part of the societysover all
Nov, We maintain that this government 81
ours was, By our good and wise forefathers,
meant for republic, not Democracy !; that
the progress towards the latter is fast destroy
ing the former, and in 8 word, converting this
from q free into . despotic government. /. M
Let us, however, . little more in detail, ex-
plain what classes should be in . Republic and
whatshou be their political action
1tis tho union, not the eiolant strife, Of the
natursl and lawful orders in 8 commonwealth
their concord. their consent, their federation
each Of the j1st action Of the other, that must
ever be III II slssls highest form Of Freedom ii
which Il Is capable. The maintenance Of each
class within its Limits and its proper influence
is, ter the time Coed Government Anything
else-the atteEnH 10 extinguish, not merely
nEefsl ana ~ t5,S {5s73;oc f,,, !, s.;n+,, 4
Revolution. not Liberty Now, Of process so
violent and always 80 hazardous, q country des-
politically governed may sometimes have need ;
but never people already substantially free,
as ours has Enthusiastically been at all times,
from the very foundation Of cur Government. ~
Unhappy, then, rs q strife within the body
politic itself, STRIFE Of one part Of the com
munity politically to exterminate another Of
course nearly equal, must ever be, even in the
State where there arc ranks, orders, classes.
settled BY the Law. what must it be where all
are alike, where there are no artificial distinc-
tions, ne privileges, no differences among the
citizens Put those which spring up from that
genarAl freedom itself, under which every man
must mplnt o. be depressed according to the
gifts sof Nature and bis possession or eyer.
ton Of the qualities thar confer success and su-
pssiority
p country SO constituted and thus totally
wltliout Banks Or Orders, except just SO far as
the possession Of Wealth and its conseq u
more cultivated ellect give natural and an.
svitAple aattority what can be the meaning
what me laWfu illness what the expediency Of
kindllng up war of classes Glasses, for any
odious, Tor any dangerous, for any inegitimate
purposes, we have none--none that can be pulled
down, unless with Rraperty itself and all that
wise and equal Pua3ie Law that favors its ac-
quisltion In me generation and compels itsHdis-
tribution u the next. In word, we have
Properly, we have Occupations, but no GLASSES
at Ais ~ any political any legal, Ia any real
sfase In common Farlanee. we may, nay must,
sise me word. to convey The idea Of casual and
lnomentary difference Of condition as to wealth.
but shis inequality has nothing forced, nothing
nxesi u y il shifts as freely as the wind blows
or the wave rolls and, in the fnctuation, we
might ~ well talk Of Glasses among the pillows
or tne gusts as amidst the ebb and flow, the up
and down, the blow high blow loW, of our social
order, It's game Of leap-frog in fortune, It's
:. rough. roll and tumble Of Ranks.
La any sense Of Politics, of Government, az
cttss issa permanent separation of men into a
different rank, higher or lower, politically or
legally, than the rest. If, then, we happen, in
common discourse, to call that class which
receives frohi the Jaws no distinction or adv