New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-09
gBW OOUyBRTs AND NEW OOMBRs.

We like new converts. In order to
prove that they are truly converted they
work harder than five times their number
of unuuestionable saints. And then we
know the good book says there is more joy
in heaven over one of them than over
ninety-nine, 1--WE think it is, but really have
forgotteu), who were dyed in the wool at
childbirth. At the commencement of the
war Grant and Meade and Franklin, Thomas,
Sheridan, and Siekles we're new converts to
the notions of Mr.. Lincoln, and from the
moment they buckled on the sword until
Lee laid down bis arms were the most zeal
Gus and efficient soldiers in the service.
General Butler was new convert in pol
tics as in war, and who did or is doing
more for the spread of sound Republican
principles now? Some of our friends who
seem to dislike new converts expressed
quite t. different opinion OF them when
Buffers men came TO their relief in this
city few years ago. The war was
carried to successful termination
through the skill and bravery of new coz
verts, and would have been the most lament
able failure of the age if the Republican
party had been compelled to carry it on
alone. In the war of the Revolution Wash
ington called to his aid new converts and
new corners from every nation in Europe,
and it was through their faithfulness
and yalor that We are an Independent
and powerful nation to day. Lafayette
was a new convert and new conner; Gen
eral Lee was a new convert and new
conner; Koseiusko was new convert and a
new conner; much of the best blood that
moistened the battlefields of the Revolu-
ton was that of new converts and new
corners. The growth Of parties, seets,
armies, and countries would be impossible
but for new converts and new corners.
New Orleans wonld have been the home of
outlaws and conVicts but for new converts
and new corners.
The most determined opponent Of new
converts and new corners in Louisiana, not
many years ago, was the pirate Lafitte, and
we fear that some of his blood is still in the
veins of those who now oppose new con-
verss and new Corners. The Jews, when
they crucifed Christ, were opposed to
new converts and new corners. Herod,
when be slaughtered the children
and beheaded John the Baptist, was
opposed to new converts and new comers
Nero was opposed to new converts and
new corners. JEFF Davis and Beauregard
issued their proclamations against new
converts and new corners, and alittle more
merciful than Nero, hung them up by the
neck instead of burning them at the
stake. We do not envy those who
prefer such historical company. As
for us we welcome new converts ard
new corners from the four corners of the
earth, They are our only salvation, and if
they will lift us out of the slough of
despond we are now foundering in, they
are welcome to any Office they can honestly
reach aud efficiently fill. Out upon such
a narrow minded, bigoted, malicious, ruin
Gus policy. Let the dead past bury its
dead. We want all the new blood and the
new life we can get. And we shall get it,
The men who saved the nation are deter
mined to rule it, and will rule it in spite of
all the rebel combinations in the land.