New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-09
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with such snew-white fur and soft darh
eyes that it seems cruel to accuse itof being
tho same deceitfal and predatory anima
we have known 50 long. Yet it is even 50
We have no time to follow this commit
tee through their lengthy paper. 1t i
merely restatement of arguments which
have been again and again exploded, and
Of allegations long ago dispreved. 1t il
signed by Mr.. N. B. Brady, and any one
who Will take the trouble to read the testi-
mony of that gentleman as given be
fore the committee on the New Or
leans riots will fully comprehend Che
scope and spirit of the address. 1t is 6
document emanating from people whc
forget nothing and learn nothing, on whom
the lessons Of the last seven years have
fallen unheeded, and who have not even q
perception of humor to keep them from
being absurd, For example it calls the
late war "a rising of alarmed millions in the
South dreading a perversion to their ruin
Of a constitution which they loved p and
this with as much gravity as If the state
ment contained some scintilla Of probable
| ity. And it characterizes the approaching
triumpb of reconstrnetiop as an violent
cbange af n Government AGAINST the con.
sent Of the governed" as if the few dis
fraHchised persons in the South were the
only ones who are "goveruedn and the
| millions of every Marty who bave hoor
registered under the acts of coneress have
nothing to say ON the subject
But the committee make one statement
with which we cordially agree They tell
US that afor drearv period the passions
engendered by n terrible civil war
were not permitted to die ont with its
close. They were wickedIv fomented. =,
True. every word of II: surprisingly
true. Ii might have been supposed that
the bitter fruits Of secession would have
taught something to its leaders: that the
passions, the ambitions and the lusts ,f
those who led the South into Destruction
woald have SHRINK awav abashed nv their
defeat: that some sense of bnmi,itv and 70.
peptance for great and manifest error would
have stolep IN upon their minds and a. Tho
6 passiens engendered nv tbe war, wonld
have sdied ant Win IT, oloson Rat NO
thew we're wiokedlv tomenfed , The tlrst
Democratic convention which met in Touis.
lana after tbe war closoa commenced The
worl, If fermentation . II daoI.rad s,L
stautiallv tbat seoes.ior vTos iust. ,so+ tbo
war was nothing 10 no sorrv far and whom
DR. Riddell attemnted 70 suggest n MIGHT
have bsen d n bInnder be wa q, CO bowIoa
AZ and Upasbed unon that he actnsllv faII
i'll and died. And tbus tbe kev nate was
sounded and the time With variations bas
been nlavea evar sinoe ~ r1oritr ths
.rabellion. a dano,,nce ,ho sou.Sorn IoraI
IA q nv snd ,,sa5;eaa4. !.
slauaer the Nortbarn settler IN onr
midst as a barnv. III ostrocise ali Trn;or
man from society from, nolitIos ons f.o,.
the church, and 10 insnlt and threaten
Them in the street the car and tba ..,oon
these have beep r., constants rrao,,oos &C
the Demooratic marty IN fb,s state .;Doo ~.
war closea. and ctITiuatea IN tba bloodv
massacre Of July 1855. since than whot
with martial law. the investigation, corn
mittee. and. mere iatelv. the nolicv os y.
construction. these peonla have bosr r,or.
wary and guarded. Il is NO longer ouito
safe for them % threaten Union man al