The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-18
RALIYlNe 10 THE RESCUE.

We ore well aware that in great CONNER
cial city such as New Orleans there is large
number of men of substance, and of men of
industry, who have usually disrehsh for par
ticipating in political parades and displays,
and for mingling personally in the melee of
party controversy. And in ordinary times
this aversion to the excitements and distrac-
tons of politics is as reasonable as it is natu-
raj. For, in ordinary times, politics, as pop
ularly understood, mean little more than the
struggle of one set of men to get Office, and
Of another set of men to keep Office. But
such is not the nature of the present conjunc-
ture. Politics now have a tremendous and
fearful import. The questions that hang
upon the issue lie at the foundations of free
government, of law and order, of peace and
prosperity, of civilized progress. 1t is true
that the ms and the outs are parties to the
pending controversy, as they have been to
previous controversies. But who are the ms?
They are conspirators and usurpers who,
under pretense of preserving the best gov
eminent on the face Of the earth, have been
laboring with Satanic assiduity to establish
the worst rule that ever cursed q country,
scoffed at reason, and outraged decency. And
who are the outs They are those whom this
rule has divested of the only sufficient guaran-
tees of Union without despotism, of freedom
without anarchy, Of social quiet and harmony,
of peaceful industry and material prosperity.
They are the rightly hsFs e the nEsGt92d
by Washington and his compatriots, but
which usurpation succeeded in wrestling from
them, in an evil day while they trusted over
much in the fidelity Of their agents and in
their own strength, forgetful that the price of
liberty is eternal vigilance. They are, in short,
ali persons who are not identified with a domi-
nation which has proved equally fatal to the
material interests and the political liberties of
the country. That is to say, they are the
people.
1t is the people who are called in this
eventful crisis to the high and solemn duty of
wrestling their inheritance of constitutional
liberty from tyrants and transmitting it in I'M
impaired brightness and benefcence to their
posterity.
Here in the South, here in this State, in
this city, this appeal comes home with ten
fold force to every class of citizens who I'M
derstand the perils and the needs of the hour,
and who wish the country well; and to none
does it come home more forcibly than to those
substantial and industrious classes to whom
we have referred, as being usually reluctant to
mingle in party struggles and to take
part in political demonstrations and
spectacles. Hence it eminently becomes
these to be active and stirring today,
amongst the foremost in giving brilliancy and
impressiveness, political significance and
moral weight to the celebration of the grand
popular movement now sweeping over the
country and which is symbolized by the |
Democratic ticket of Seymour and Blair |
For us this movement proposes even more
than redemption from simple tyranny. Be- |
cause for us the issue is not between usurpa- |
ton and liberty simply, but also between CIV
ilization and barbarism. Not one of us can |
afford to be delinquent to an occasion which |
demands that every patriot should rally to |
the rescue, and fall into line with the grand |
column that is moving forward to reinstate |
constitutional government and save the
country