New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-30

THE Horn OF Duty AND Oh ACTION
us reason together little if you please
The situation has never been more intense
or more threatening. Imaginations are on
fire, and the fame which has for long lime
been brewing under our feet is about TO
burst out Immediately. immense. uncon
| querable. We have accepted everything,
endured everything. We emerged from a
colossal war, which others had EtndLed-
we came out conquered. Submitting to The
consequences of our defeat-a defeat for
ever glorious-we resigned ourselves to
humiliations continually renewed, we cour-
| ageously imposed silence on our lust pride,
we almost crawled under the "caudine
forks of skilIful enemy.
We ardently desired the return of peace.
the re-establishment of the Union, and for
the purpose of returning thither worthily,
with our entire rights, we consented to M
dergo the most terrible penances.
| Tbs resignation, after extravagances of
heroism, has been the admiration of the
world, all men bowed themselves in rever-
ence before people who became greater
under adversity-all men, we mean except
the Radicals.
The latter have despised our selfdenial;
they have mistaken it for decadence, they
have concluded that all our courage was
expended on the field of battle. They have
struck repeated blows, furious to see that
so much vitality remained after so much
blood had been lost.
Ought we to persevere in passive atti-
tude at the risk of becoming martyrs?
For our part since (the cause of the
Confederacy being lost we took up again
| in the press the defense of the Democracy,
we have invariably preached calmoess and
patience. In the hope that all human
| sentiment had not disappeared
from the Radical heart, we have
thousand times adiured our political
friends to still endure persecution, we have
| sti1ed our own anger IN order more aptly
to appease thsiIs; we told them with con
vielion, then,) that the moment would come
when they would be largely repaid for
having restrained their ardent and mette-
some nature, and that the most difficult and
the most fruitful victory OF man is that
which he gains over himself.
We were sincere, then. We are also Sin
cere, to-day, when we say that the time for
self-1enial is passed, that it has been of no
avail to US to wear the hair-cloth, to endure
every torture that can be inflicted, and that
to 60 further in tits role of submission
roQld be degradation.
Each day has its duties. We are no
longer at the hour when we can content
ourselves with retailing prose from the
tribune or in the newspaper, in the club or
on the street corner we are confronted by
an absolute necessity, the necessity of &C.
ton. 1t is the moment to recall the motto
OF Danton: " DeI'dudace, encore de rauddce,
ct tououTS de fdaddcs!n
The period in which we now are de-
mands the most energetic treatment. Il
we do not have recourse promptly to hero.
ic remedies, we are done for,' the crisis
will sweep us away. A benign, sedative
emollient policy will be our ruin. TWEEN
ty-live legal days, hardly, intervene be-
tween us and the election of November
and if we do not take an inaexible deter.
mination we shall go into the contest I'M.
armed, victory, so-called, will escape us.
There is in our party an undeniable
union, but we must admit that we are ut.
terly destitute of unity. Vivacity and en-
thusasm are infinite with us, but they
squander themselves, they scatter them
selves in isolation almost, without definite
fruit. Associations are formed, and all art
animated by the purest patriotism, bu
there is. no general plan no organization
no chiettain.
While the enemy furnishes his arms
sharpens his poniards, loads his carbines
and trims his torches, we deliver ourselve:
over to public demonstrations, brilliant, nc
doubt. but sterile in the end. We cherish
a confidence. iustidable if we were in the
face of loyal enemy, but insensate in
the presence of the foe with whom we have
to do. We do not dream that our lireside'
are in danger; too rich in courage, per
haps, we reckon that this courage will en-
able us to conquer in the last hour, an(
\ we leave the Radicals to take all the STRAIT
: egic positions, until some day we shall
wake up surrounded, with but one resource
"a gap in their ranks.
To arrest our adversaries in their ex
cesses, to prevent the attempts they ar
thinking to make, think you it is enough t,
march each evening and at the call of som
impetuous people through Canal street
and to float about the Clay statue lik
fishes in glass jar?
} No, no; all that is out of season; an
while we lose so much time in trifles, on
enemy is getting organized, disciplined
and on war footing.
Let no one speak longer Of the peri
ackich is inrolUed in taking tie ofensivt
| Let US set aside these Prudhommes VIII
ask US to be patient, and in whose vein
runs decoction of Eastwood instead o
blood. Action, united, strong, immediate
] is an indispensable condition, now, if yol
desire your salvation. The instinct of sell
, preservation counsels action, imposes il
r and no one will have the right to say thd
. the prouocalion comes from US.
/ Look at what passes around you.
: The proUocdtioR is ererylohere, under al
, forms. 1t presents itself, day and night, i
) the cess-pooi Of Dryades street 9TH
Legislature), i'd the street, in publ
1 establishments, it does not refrain eve
4 from the violation of the domicile. tn,
: aggressive policy is prescribed to the her
3 OF radicalism, and its chiefs, great an
small, foresee so well the events whic
D threaten, and comprehend the perils c
1 such events SO well, that they ask in
: chorus and obtain, in their legislative shoI
e leaves of absence which may enable ther
to be far from the scene of the conflict,
the conflict come.
Z We do not wish to dwell on the outrage
t with the mailed hand which the radical
iDfict on New Orleans daily. We hav
often written the disgraceful story. 1t
: 10 new danger, the most serious of al
r that we wish to call the attention Of Demo
Gratis.
, The Epeqsse proceeds to speak of tn
new Board of Registration, and advise
the use of force to influence and over aw
Q their decisions, as follows:
1t behooves us, if we do not desire th