New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-10

RED AND HACK REPUBLICANs.

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For the last seventy years, many d tic most
gifted RTcMchnen, who successfully have made
their appearance upon the arena Of life, have be-,
logged to The radical Republican school politics.
Posts. novesis journalists and philosophers, have
a given their adherence to this party have writ
tea ana SING, fought and died, To see their ideas
pat IL practice, and yet Repuhcanism, as often ss
tried IN France, has turned out melancholy fall
ure. Whenever the French have been entrusted
with Liberty they have dehased il into license and
their sole idea Of freedom appears to have been
not to be compelled to obey any law, on to pay
any respect to acquired rights. And as strange as
1t may appear, the leading French Republicans
have given direction to these excesses and hurried
their country, while under their rule, into such
horrible depths Of anarchy as to compel tie stable
and conservative elements to fly into the embrace
Of tyranny as an escape. Thus we have seen each
d the brief French Republics followed by harsh
and tsnrping absolutism.
The reason for this Is, that the French Red
Republican party Is party Of extremists and
fanatics, There IS not grain of moderation, %
q spark Of compromise in their whole natures
When they adopt principle, they follow It into
ahsurdty and ii they take up policy, they push
| Il beyond the limits Of reason or common sense
III Jisct. NE tendency of Red Relbficaaisa'l Il to
absbactsoaas. And instead Of busying their minds
| to reconcile and make harmonious the conflicting
forces that are ever present in society and content
ing themselves with the greatest amount Of good
that existing things will permit them to achieve,
they refuse to enjoy any good at all, because it
does not come up to their standard Of perfect bliss
They have not been content with establishing po-
ticaI equality, but have set about achieving social
equality. And after they had tried their agrarian
system, and found that disparity of endowments
and education, ais well as morality and conscience,
still caused inequality as marked as before, they
threw up their work in despair, and gave way be-
fore Tho bloody spirit of anarchy and disorder they
Ind invoked. Perfect liberty and fraternity was
their standard. Nothing under that possessed the
least value in their eyes. And after years Of bloody
and shameful excuses, France lapsed back into
absolutisln. Because everybody could not have
the liberty to do whatever he pleased, and every
man could not be equal, in all respects, to his
neighbor, they pronounced liberty " cheat and de-
lusion and willingly bowed their necks to a tyrant.
There IS striking resemblance between the
French Red Republicans, and the Black Republi-3
cans. The latter are also of extreme and fanatcal
notions. They are welded to distractions. And
III carrying out their doctrines overlook entirely
existing facts and practical Representatives, In re-
iigion they are intoierant and bigoted; and 50
thoroughly convinced Of their own correctness and
orthodoxy that trey have no charity for dissenters
from them, but would give over all such to the
gallows or the stake. They never dream of MAX
ing any concessions on that point; and are just as
sure that all who differ from them are doomed to
the devil, ali that Jesus died for sinners. In poll
tics they are equally as nncompromising and ex
treme. They adhere to certain dogmas alb truths;
and whatever causes may exist to modify their ap-
pIication insist on carrying them ont in their IN
tegrity, and would lose all rather than give away
single jot IN their pretensions.
Owing in d great measure to this impracticable
trait in Northern character, the South has hereto
fore been able to exercise controlling influence
IN the politics Of the Union. And luckily she has
for nothing but the conservative, common-sense
from this section Of the Union, has preserved US
from anarchy and civil war. For let the extre-
mists Of the North once get the control fully into
their own hands, and they not only will quickly
hurry the country Gn their race after impossible
abstractions} into sectional strife but we should
see the breaking out among themselves, Of still
fercer and more irreeoncilable feuds.
Each leader among them aaheres to the doctrine
Of following out his own notions to their full ex-
TENT and repudiates all compromises or the paying
Of the smallest Difference to the opinions of others
This policy would soon put leader III conflict with
leader and sect at war with sect, The Boomers
would forcibly attempt the curtaiment of their
neghbors' petticoats the womens right adyo-
Gates would wish TO burn NIL who did not accede to
their doctrines and the Free Lovers would adopt
means for spreading their theory that would inter-
fere with other lovers, not quite free In short
we should see, very soon after the withdrawal of
the Southern conservative element, which IS the |
product Of the institution Of slavery, the introduce
ton Of anarchy and chaos among the Northern
fanatics; for the same traits of character which
impels them to make war on the South because we
will not adopt their notions on slavery, will mpsl
them to make war on each other, on some abstrac-
ton We shall witness hundred I. irrepressible
conflicts in activity, and see, in short, second
enactment Of the French Revolution. If New
England breaks off from the South and West, her
journey over the road Of anarchy and blood will
be swift towards absolutism and tyranny. Like
the Red Republicans Of France, the Black Repub-
Leans Of America are too transcendentaI for prac
ticai political liberty.