The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-05
WE SHOULD LIKE TO KNOW

We should IKE 10 know thus chantS, or
cants, the New York Times-'if Gen Hancock
approves of the late speeches Of Gen. Wade
Hampton? We should like to know if Mr..
Chase approves of the late speeches of Mr..
Toombs? We should like to know if Gen.
Franklin admires the late speech of Admiral
Semmes? We should like to know if Gen.
Custer joins in the lately-uttered sentiments
of Gen. Forrest? For are they not all shining
lights of the one, united, coherent, homogene-
GUS Democratic party 2"
Perhaps Gems Hancock, Franklin, and Gus
ter, and Mr.. Chase would like to know what
business the Times's editor has to demand their
private opinions of what is said by Gems.
Hampton and Forrest, Admiral Semmes and
Mr.. Toombs The gentlemen addressed are
not candidates, and are not canvassing for any
ticket. Because they are known or presumed
to support Seymour and Blair, gives an editor
no right to put such interrogatories to them.
1t would be about as PROF er and pertinent
for photographic whippersnapper of radical
sheet to break unceremoniously into the pri-
vate parlors of any other gentlemen of sup
posed adherence to the Democratic nominees
and platform, and to insist upon knowing if
they agreed with all the political sentiments
uttered by Jones, or Smith, or Rogers,
or Podgers, or whoever should profess adj
herence to the same nominees and platform.
The platform speaks for itself. The nominees
have spoken for themselves. Gen. Hancock
and the rest know well enough what these
opponents of Democratic principles aud
policy mean, without looking for interpreta-
tion to rambling commentaries which have no
binding force on the candidates or the party.
They cannot mistake the grand object at
which the Democracy, as the party of the
people, now aim-the rescue of the central
govern rent, of the Federal Union, Of the
several States, from the blindest and most
pernicious set of political charlatans and
usupers who ever spurned honest and states
manlike counsel, and organized universal
misrule, and hurried a country to perdition
over the ruins of constitutional liberty and of
national honor and prosperity.
But there are some interrogatories touching
utterances of distinguished and representa-
tive radicals which it would be eminently per-
and other radical papers which are giving to
the Chicago platform-a juggling continuance |
which palters with the people in a double
sense-a verbalistic embroidery, as many |
colored as Joseph's coat, and which improves |
the original production about as much as the
Endorsement of one swindler and bankrupt i'm
proves the check of another swindler and
bankrupt For example, we should like to
know if the New York Times approves now of
The sentiment uttered by Mr.. Raymond in
1866, that the late Confederate combatants
1t the South would be unworthy of restora-
ion to the Union, and unworthy of the bles-
sings of free government, if they should con-
sent to come Lack shorn of any of their con-
'titutional rights and on conditions which
would degrade them or their States to Unequal
ty We should like to know if the New York
Tribune approves now of these memorable
words of Mr.. Greeley in 1860: ave hope
never to live in a republic whereof one
section is pinned to the other by bayonets."
Is Mr.. Greeley or the Tribune, or both, pre-
pared to stick manfully to the solemn promise
in the foregoing utterance by emil
5ratioa or salfdestrnctinn We shnnld like
Q know what the radical press in general
hink of the opinion officially given by Gen.
Grant less than three years ago, that the
southern people universally aequiesced in the
authority of the general government, and that
I would be just and wise to admit them to
as soon as possible, and free
rom requirements humiliating to them as
itizens. And we should like to know what
'ressed to Senator Doolittle, according to the
testimony of this senator, that
he radical project of negro suffrage in the
outh would bring on war of races If
hese views were sound then the whole theo-
y and scheme of radical reconstruction must
est on rotten foundation, which is essen
ally antagonistic to the interests of peace
nd order, of Union and national welfare.
IN the other hand, if they are held to have
cen unsound, what confidence Ican the radi-
al politicians who so regard them have in the |
olitical intelligence of the man who delibe-
ately uttered them and what confidence can
be public have either in these politicians
tho are running this man for president, or in
i'm who, as the radical candidate, stands
Of having been grossly and
lexcusably wrong yesterday, or of being
rossly and inexcusably wrong to-day, on one
the most vital political questions of the
me?
One of the most sensible and least partisan
h. L. L e. |