New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-01

The Bulletin has another article upon the
New England school system. It refers 70
compulsory education, grossly misrepre-
sents the REPUBLICAN, and winds up, as
usual, with a threat.
We have on several occasions stated that
we are not in favor of compulsory educa-
ton, though we are quite aware that some
very strong arguments may be brought
forward to sustain it, and hence it is
unnecessary to refer to this subject
again. To expect fairness toward the
REPUBLICAN from Seymour organ would
be like expecting vision from an eyeless
fish. Misrepresentation and threats CON
stitute the sum and substance Of Seymour
Democracy. An article or a speech from a
modern Democrat of the secession stripe
destitute of one Of those two ingredients
Misrepresentation and threats-would lack
one of its essential elements, and would be
almost meaningless. 1t would be, as the
New York Herald said of Pendleton's
speeches in Maine, without "point or
force
Well, let the Democracy, so-called, keep
n threatening and disappearing. Their
unique success in this direction heretofore
d oubtless warrants them, in their own
estimation, to continue their old habit.
Let them go ahead, and see what they
will make of it. Let them threaten and pre-
pare, as they are doing, to carry their men
aces into execution. They are every day aid
ing powerfully the election of Grant and
Collar, who will take lin connection with
Union Congress, backed by the Supreme
Court, and four-ffths at least of the citizens
of this country, that the laws shall be en-
forced.
We can not help remarking in this con-
nection how steadily the Democratic pa
pers, so-called, play upon the ignorance
and prejudices of the lower portions of the
4 The object seems to be to
goad them into the commission of acts
Of violence; to goad them into a
new rebellion, provided their caprices
should not be gratided by the law-making
power. They tell their leaders, in effect,
this ''If the laws suit you. obey them
if not, resist them.' How strikingly iden-
teal with this was the teaching Of the dem
ocratic party in 1S60-Gl! That party
then addressed the ignorance and the
worst passions of its adherents. 1t kept
from them everything which the party did
not wish them to know. 1t used every
possible epithet, and resorted to every pos
sible expedient which its ingenuity and
feroeity could suggest, to goad them to acts
of phrensied desperation, regardless of
1t told them never to sub
nit to the abolition party" by which it |
meant, Of course, the Gov eminent; it ap- |
1lied to that party or Government the |
erms of obloquy and insult which it now
ipplies to the radical party" by which |
t means the Government just as it did |
hen,
We call the attention of the country to
he identity OF spirit, of means, of Ian
yuage,l and of doctrine of the 'Demoera-
.ic party" of 1S60-61, and the Democratic |
party of 1865. Reduced to its essential
principle, the identity is perfect.
The Democratic party of 1860 de-
eiyed many good and honest citizens who |
allied to perceive, at the time, its hostility |
o the peace, prosperity, and happiness of
he country. Shall the lesson be lost upon
UGH men again ?