The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-20
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There seems to be almost as much trouble
to settle which is the genuine Republican
Central Committee. as it was to decide which
was the original DIR. Jacob Townsend, in the
palmy days of sarsaparilla- The distracting
effects of the appeals made to the public on
behalf Of the rival aspirants for that pre-emi-
nent position, no doubt hurried many des-
pairing hypochondriac to an untimely grave.
1t is lamentable to reflect on the consequences
of the division among the radicals on those
unfortunate disciples of vagrant and mendl-
cant loyalty, who wish for nothing 50 much
as to be orthodox, and who stand in fear of
accommodation, if they happen to fall into
the abyss of heresy. Which Of the two-or
three-to choose? That is the question.
Which is the Simon Pure? Which is the real
old Dr. Jacob Townsend? Which is the
genuine committee, and which are the false?
Is It the organization which assemblies at No.
CO st. Charles street, which was created by
the inventive genus of the blue
coated and brass-buttoned Cutler, and
which is supported by formidable
array of fffy-fve thousand voters supposed
TO be blue-coated and brass-buttoned like
their chief? Is it the committee which the
organ Of the indigenous radicals declares to be
the only true central committee, and which is
presumed to represent the section Of the party
opposed to carpet-baggery, in any Of the
multiple forms of that peripatetic institution,
and which wants to set up its lares ct pendtes
in the temple of radicalism7 Or is it the
committee which supports the indefeasible
claims Of those unparalleled chieftains of
carpet-baggery, Warmoth and Conwaya These
questions are perplexing; but they must be
answered, or the effects may be too distress
ing to contemplate. 1t is pity that the I'M
constitutional convention of Dryades street
did not take charge of this point, and settle,
or at least elucidateit by an ordinance. After
settling that everybody shall sell everything
to everybody; that everybody shall go every
where in everybody's company, and that
everybody's children shall go to school with
everybody elses children, without regard to
any sort of color or inclination after
arranging the momentous questions of
Smiths ferry privileges, and Browns levee
contract, those sagacious legislators ought to
have solved this vexed problem of party
orthodoxy. In the absence of this sacrament
tai authority, people viii be forced to form
their own opinions, and come to their own
conclusions. If a layman may be allowed to
suggest a judgment on so important a topic as
this, we would mildly intimate that in our
opinion the Warmoth- Conway concern is the
real original DR.. Jacob Townsend. 1t has
about it more of the marks of legitimacy than
either Of its rivals and competitors. It is
''trooly loil" from the top to bottom. 1t is
simply q mistake that the head is not woolly,
and that the tail is not streaked. Apart
from these deficiencies the ticket is perfect.
1t enjoys an unmistakable prominence in
mendicant vagrancy, and vagrsnt mendicancy;
in professional itinerancy it is unapproachable.
II is the carpet-bag incarnate. These are
advantages with which its rivals may not
hope to compete. The majestic and magis-
terial Cutler may be sufficiently avid of Office,
and sufficiently impudent of pretension; but,
unbappily for him, he is a citizen of Louisi-
ana, and he, therefore, cannot hope TO fulfill
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radical leader. The indigenous radicals are
equally Objectionable. In repudiating the
carpet-bag, they have ruined their case.
They can never aspire to the supernal heights
of "troo loilty" as long as they refuse to
honor that vsgrant and mendicant itinerancy
which is the highest qualification for radical
Office holder. The carget-bag is supreme.
1t is ruler-it is dictator--it is king Rebel
hon against it is a crime to be made odious.
So the indigenous radicals and the followers
of the blue-coated Cutler, will have to give
way to the peripatetic Conway, and the
itinerant Warmoth. In this way all doubts
will be solved. and radicalism will be made
happy in the suppression of schism, and the
triumph of orthodoxy.