New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-14
WHOLE NUMBER 1872.


the United States Supreme Court says he
nIniselt Grew the bills. They used as an
argument against your right to vote that
you, were lazy and would not work.
while they already admit that Won
work better than while you were slaves. 7
might go on for month reciting their pre
dlctlons, and proving them false, did time
and strength permit me.
Every position of the Republican marty
has been verified by the progressive spirit
OF the age. Its wstchword is liberty Its
opJects the reconstruction OF these dissey-
cred States-the establishment upon an
enduring basis of peace and prosperity, and
Lhe equality OF all men before the law. The
hepuoncan party, atits national convention
In Chlcago representing the people of forty
two States and Territories, unanimousIv
nominated General Grant for President, and
Schuyler ColfaX for Vice President of the
United states. Here we have the victorious
Radical soldier as the unanimous choice of
the Radicals, nominated on Radical plat
form to be elected by an overwhelming
Radical majority President of the United
States. Schuyler Colfax, the accomplished
orator and statesman, the strong man of the
west, Will be Nlce-President. The past pub
lie life and services of these eminent men
are sufficient guarantee of what their fu-
ture' Will be. Their deeds are part of the
history of the republic. That General Grant
I
| doubts. He was first in the war. The first
great peacemaker of that war. And that
he will be, next to the immortal Washing
ton first in the hearts of his countrymen. I
firmly believe. Louisiana united with her
sister free States of the North, East and
west, hand and hand with the returning
erring sisters of the South, will at the next
election, for the first time in the history of
the nation, help to roll up the Radical ma.
Jorities that will make Grant President.
| His election will be the requiem of the De.
mocracy. Its superannuatedo old carcass will
at last be consigned to oblivion. Its apos-
| ties will even no longer Weep its memory.
| The Congress of the United States expect
the loya! men of the South to do their duty.
| To that Congress you owe debt of eIati-
tude which you never can repay but by an
| abiding adhesion to the Republican partv.
| We must and shall elect General Grant. His
| on the wall.
| The experience of the last two or three
years should not be in vain. We have had
q fearful opportunity of learning the evil
| one bad man can accomplish. The memo.
rles OF the crime and stupid folly of Andrew
| Johnson are engraVen upon the tablets of the
mind. He was Southern mind, an old
slave owner, Democrat. and political
trickster, became accidental President
and IS living example of that
proberb which says that as the
| twig is bent the tree is inclined. He
has been an instrument in the hands
OF Providence to teach us what we must
expect from the election OF Democrats. We
know that as we SOW so may we also expect
to reap. All the efforts of Mr.. johnson to
destroy the march of Republican principles
have only created little delay, q little
bloodshed, and, for the sake of charity let
us say, only little misery. He might as
well have tried to allay the surging of the
Jyhg Of NtparN
on the troubled waters as to check the de.
termination of the American people to ac
compIlsh great end By his political fill
clustering.
The fourteenth constitutional amendment
will be adopted by more tLan the requisite
number OF States. Then the old Constitu
ton, with her new copper. bottom, will roll
no longer on the tempestuous sea at the
mercy OF the wind and wave, but crowding
on every stitch of canvas will let 90 the
chains on her side as of old, again nail the
flag to the masthead, and running out hel
broadsides she will rush like fleet horse
| rejoicing to run race. on the road to ma
tonal greatness and prosperity, debating
terms OF peace by the thunder of her guns.
Vote as you please, but let no vain hope
OF mOmentary reward tempt you from the
sublime end you have to accomplish Not
in the indulgence of vain confidence did the
fathers of the republic build the ship OF
state. In the noble words of one of our
poets:
Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State!
Thou, too, o Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With Its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate
We know what master laid thy keel,
| What workman wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast and sail and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat.
In what a forge, and what heat
| We're shaped the anchors of thy hope;
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'ris of the wave, and not the rock;
'Tis but the tapping of the SAIL
And not a rent made by the gale.
In spite of rock and sail and roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea,
Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee.
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, oul
tears,
Our faith, triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with thee-are all with thee.