New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-13
MODERN DgmoCR ACY,

EngoR REPUBLICAN;
Allow me to congratulate you upon
your briet but withering ventilation of the
recent illumination from the central sanhe-
drim Of the modern democracy of Louisiana.
May the fruits of truth thus hurled at error
be like bread cast upon the waters-even
more 50, in that the gathering up thereof
may be not very many days hence.
Does it not strike you, Mr.. Editor, as
something more than lightly ludicrous for
class of politicians. who for lifetime have
been seeking and praying for an opportu-
nifty TO destroy the unity of the national
government, and rend asunder the federal
constitution, and after a foar years war for
this special purpose, brought about as the
legitimate fruit of their apostaey to liberty
and unlempered sectional fanaticlsm, all
resulting in an ignominious failure--the
more ignominious because inaugurated for
mean and unnatural purpose--is it not,
repeat, something more than lightly ludi-
crous to see and hear such characters now
WailiDg and bowling of national unity,
national loyalty, and national democracy I?
Aud at the same time denouneing and
Safeguarding and meanly slandering snd
impugning those Immortal few" 10 the
South whose purpose and pride it has ever
been to stake their fortunes, their lives,
and their sacred honor for and upon the
preservation and perpetuaion of those
great principles and issues ofnatiOnal glery
and honor, as coupled with the beauties
Of political liberty and the loveliness and
immortality Of individual ffeedom-prin-
ciples and issues which these same strange
ly fledged politicians have for so long
time striven SO hard and so UNANIMOUSLY to
destroy! Such eendact say, ssvors of
something deserving harsher phrase than
that of eighty ludierous.n It is simply
wickedly contemplate.
! can look back Only a few yeara ago,
when i was standing almost single-handed
and alone In this state, striving with all
my feeble power-none the less devoted
and sincere Because feeble = to hold the
government together upon the time-hon-
ored issues and principles Of national
democracy, with the immortal Stephen A.
Douglas in the lead as against the fool
ish encFoachments and wicked machina-
tions Of sectional partyism, as headed by
John @. Breckenridge, hissed on by such
piratical and more than shameless political
Dondescripts as John Slidell and Judah
P. Benjamin! What was the hue and cry
then Of these same patriotic gentlemen
who now so Justify howl around Political
graves they have themselves dug, and
call. with fostering lips and pol
luted tongues, upon the name
Of national democracy? Their
Slogan watehword then was, secession
and a Southern ConfedeFaoy.s And in re-
ply to any one who might be 80 foolish as
to then stand up for the Union and for the
appliea Of national Democracy, their in
snltinS and reasonable reply was, "There
is no misSWpy evasiVe ground "A strong
rope and the nearest limb was the Just re-
ward Of every one who then dared lisp the
name Of conservatism or of national Dem
ocraey, or who refused to swear by treason
and believe lie and be damned
Mr.. Editor, I become so thoroughly dis
| gusted in contemplating these things, that
I must confess | at times have but little pa
iience. Still, there are 30 many clever
/ gentlemen and kind and Warm-hearted
| personal friends mixed up in this
heterogeneous mass Of dead and
rotten political nonsense, that
ind myself often IN the same mood in
which poor Joseph found himself when his
wicked but destitute brethren "came down
into Egypt e get q little corn for bread
to save their souls and their bodies from
fAmishing-I iuyoluHtarily step aside and
/ weep; and / would as fully and freely
forgive, II the same true repentance could
Ia ibis case be made manifest. But 30 long
ts ~ former Democratic brethren persist
in licking in the lean flesh pots Of those
daya-then full and refreshing, but now
made Empty BY their own consumnats
folig shall continue to look upon them
as uuEeF1 saat hypoeriles, unworthy o.
help or coHaaenee. Il they believe In God
let them kean rs commandments. If they
love their e4aag lat fhem swear By II
DAG and ceass 6nnds and peraecui,
tAeee who neyel eed t.
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] Nae 0rleAna, 1858.