New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-09

II is one thing to perceive truth
ouI quite another thing to embouy 1t in our lives
The falling of the platform on Thursday
night was occasioned neither by the wise
sayings of the orator of the occasion, nor
by the foul saws of Radical hirellngs, but
by the buDgling manner in which your
Democratic work was done. Myself joiner
OF no mean capacity, which perhaps &C.
counts for my not having Joined your party,
contend that its frailty gave way under
the immense weight put upon the weak
sentiments of the few persons congregated
within the narrow circle of the lamps that
threw more light upon the meeting than
issued from the mouths of your pet Demo.
cratic champions.
The balloon went up and burst, the plat
form smashed and went down; such is the
fate of all vain boastings and bombastic
nothings. Anything built upon the weak.
ness of human passion is ordinarily the vic
tim of its own overstrained violence. Rome
was not built in a day, and nothing but the
widest imagination could expect to see
your platform stand intact under the
immense strain that you daily sub
ject it to. If you must build, do it
in workmanlike manner, by rule and
line, and not by false angles, for however
pretty the thing may look to Impractical
minds, men of sense can see at a glance
that it will not bear the pressure. That the
platform should have fallen toward st.
Charles street is no very great mystery,
considering that all your heaviest thrusts
were hurled in that direction, intending to
inflct mortal blows on the State house; but
after minute inspection this morning
have been unable to discover where any of
your red.hot shot struck. In future be a
little milder in invective, and the rebound
possibly will not be 80 severe; and by all
means strengthen your platform with a few
more cross ties for the chilly winds of No
vember will play merry havoc with your
tlmbers, and not leave you stump enough |
to whistle your own doeful dirge in an |
empty peanut shell. Rotten wood never
yet made strong breakwater and as the |
main political tide of the whole country will |
soon oe roaring on to you, you can expect |
nothing else (unless you continue in your |
than to be washed away as SO |
much drift wood upon the stream of public |
feeling, honesty, and might.
~ rolling stone gathers no mossr neither |
will Rollins Democrat gather any laureIs |
any laurels by making himself the god at
whose feet all your false insinuations and
bloody catastrophes are laid, as being evil
ience of Radical misrule and oppression
heaped upon you, his sycophsA ic hackers.
However, the game is pretty one while it
lasts, and protiigate enough to have short
life and merry one.
The spilling of human blood, friend Pic,
IS indeed according to all laws, both human
and divine, crime that none should be
guilty of, and one that should stamp upon
The guilty brow the brand of infamy. How
las 1t been with the Democratic party for the
asst eight years? Are not their fnger-nails
slotted to blackness with the gore of thou
lands is not their cup of crimes running
over with the saddened tears of the widow
md the orphan? and is there not recorded
within the gates of heaven countless thou
ands of violent deaths enacted to satisfy
heir hungry Moloch? and now with the
logged stubbornness of Cain it stands out
n the broad MONDAY sun, and not only de-
lies the deed, but tries to brand it on the
shoulders of the innocent.
In an extract from your columns of Fri.
lays issue, headed Foul Words Must
Cease you would seem to advocate mild.
ness of speech and honesty of purpose, and
ending with a threat to all
Radicals if not complied with, and yet in
he same issue you launch out in the most
,currilous and dastardly accusations that
|
The said extract informs us that there are
materials all over the coun.
ry, fact we are well aware OF, and also
hat your intemperance of speech is doing
Is best to guide the hand of the incendiary,
o bring worse havoc and more bitter desc.
alton on the land than blackened it during
our last attempt If any attempt was
made on the life of Rollins through the fall
ng of your platform, might it not be traced
o desire to discover union of which you
re possibly becoming already tired? for the
lead that will mercilessly accuse another
Il so foul crime, is more often than not
lacked by hand that would not hesitate
o deal the blow. That there always has
'een and is vet treachery in your camp the
Lnguarded speeches of your guiding lights
90 plainly testify to leave room for doubt,
nd we hurl back in your teeth the foul
ecusation, fit only to find a resting place
n the unsanctified sanetum of its originator.
Were we to imbrue our hands in |
Hood to achieve victory" other than
through the modest medium of your Jour.
al, we might perhaps be considered ian
onorable foe,n but being content in our
resent faith of preserving life and liberty,
re leave you the unenvied predisposition,
ogether with your bursting political bal !
BON and unstable platform.
Both His Excellency Governor lWarmoth
nd the Official Journal of the city of New ,
rleans were as you generously inundated |
ntirely ignorant Of your plot to create a
seling of sympathy for the champions of
ne Lost Cause, and I feel confident that
1ey appreciate fully the delicacy of the
ompliment.
Look to your timbers.
Your observer;