The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-01

INCREDIBLE AUDACITY.

The Radical leaders vince and writhe under
Gov. Seymour's scathing Indictment against
them for their misrule and ruin of the coun-
try. His several charges are SO well grounded
in fact as to strike every rejecting mind with
the force of history, and, urged with serene
confidence, though with fervid emphasis, they
90 home to the conviction of honest and
patriotic citizens with the weight of sacra-
mental truth. 1t may well be conceived,
therefore, that upon the guilty backs of the
Radical leaders they fall like whips of scor-
pions But this is not matter of inference
merely; it is strikingly exemplifed in the
case of Mr.. Schuyler Colfax. This dapper
little politician, who has heretofore served in
phenomenal way to show that, not unlike
royal parsonage of the Shakspearean drama, a
man may smile, and smile, and be Radical,
is stung from his accustomed wreath of smiles
into sardonic grimace, and laying aside his
usual blandiloquence, vents his feeble fury at
the speeches lately delivered by Gov. Seymour
at Rochester and elsewhere. And here is the
the burden of his complaint, the provoca-
ton of his wrath 81 listened" he says, "to
the speeches that the telegraph announced to
us had been made by him with no common
degree of interest; but when I read these
speeches must acknowledge the regret with
which l was panied. found them, through
and through, not vindication of his old
political platform, not justification of the
principles emblazoned upon their banner
with which they invited US to the issue,
but an arraignment and a denunciation of
the party to which, he stands opposed, and
which, thank God, blocks up the way to the
presidential chair"
Incredible audacIty in Gov. Seymour to ar
raign and denounce the immaculate party to
which he is opposed Is there to be found
proceeding so fagitious in the whole range of
political annals Well, yes. We know of no
political exhibition that can be compared for
astounding and fagitious audacity with that
presented by the no longer smiling and bland
Eloquent Colfax. when he has the forehead to
stand up before public of presumed intelli-
gence and decency, and to express indigna-
ton at SO statesmanlike, truthful and unan-
swerable an arraignment of the Radical party
for its misdoings within the past four years
as that which constitutes the gist of Gov.
Seymour's late speeches. Mr. Colfax weakly
pretends to think that Gov. Seymour might
have consistently indicated the Democratic
platform, the essence of which is liberty and
equality under the Constitution, without ar
raiguing the opposite party. But the thing
is utterly impossible. The fact is, it
has come to this, that no man can stand up
for liberty in any form. or in any relation,
without arraigning the Radical party and
that no man can intelligently love his coun-
try, and intelligently labor to save his coun-
try, without hating that party and striving to
destroy it from the face of the land forever
And it has come to this-so incorrigibly prof
Egate, interruptions, rapacious, reckless, and
desperate is the party in power, that if the
country is to live that party must die. This
is as sure as decree of fate, and can no more
be cancelled by the rhetorical rant Of Colfax
or the stolid silence of Grant, than hurri-
cane could be blown back with a mounte-
banks trumpet, or be swept back with Dame
Partingtons broom.