New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-16
5. GRANT.

The secession papers are in the habit o.
representing the government Of the United
States as a "despotism." The extravaganza
Of their language knows no bounds. They
exhaust the vocabulary Of epithets and sigh
for more to aid them ia describing the ex-
traordinary ierocity, rapacity, and tyranny
of our government. One Of them SAID q
few days since that there is no country il
Europe, Asia, or Africa cursed by worst
rnles than our OWL One wonld almost
think that they speak ironically. But they
are in sober earnest, and they expect their
readers to regard their pictures as photo
graphs from the great lnninary of truth.
They expect, or seem to expect, to be
believed by rational men. The writers for
these papers profess to be much more en-
lightened than their opponents. They re-
gard themselves as entirely sane, even
when holding mp our government as foul
blot upon the civilization of the agel We
are not exaggrraing. We could Gil whole
pages Of he REPUBLICAN with extracts from
Democratic papers to prove that we con-
fne ourselves within the limits Of strict
Feracity.
The effect Of their course mnst be Just the
contrary to that which they wish to pro-
duce. It must offend the judgment and
excite the disgust, Indignation, and abhor-
renee of all reasonable men. Such IN
seemly fanaiicism and grotesque caricature
of facts must react against the cause which
these papers espOuse, and instead of arrest
ing must help TO roll on that popular tide
which will submerge it and Its advocates
beneath the deep waters Of everlasting
oblivion
How happens it II our government is the
t'brutal despotism"i it is represented to be
that its opponents have the liberty which
shay enjoy to traduee and hold It up to the
detestatiOn Of the country How happens it
that they who were so lately in mortal con-
fict against Il are now living under its pro.
tscting 4gis, free as those who battled for |
lis existence, in the pursuit of life, liberty, |
and happinessf How comes it that none
Of it's late enemies are in forced exile /?
How is it, If cur government under the
auspices Of It present rulers is the oppres-
Hive power which it is upheld to be, that
Jefferson Davis traverses at his pleasure
he length and breadth of the republic,
receiving the hnzzss Of bis friends, and
quits its soil or returns to It at his option
How is il that General Lee pnrsues peace
Fully and unmolested bis vocation Of teach
e. eluost within hearing Of the national
capital which be tried to taksi How do
you explain sha circumstance upon ire
hypothesis Of the Seymour orators and or
Eans, that Bsanregsrd, johnson, Long
street, and eli the other leaders Of the late
revolt are engaged in useful pnIsuits, and |
growing rich under the protection of the
Victors in the lac ttpggle-how9 Did |
son ever think Of 1T
The Democratic papers, so-oallsd, COM
pare the Sou'h 20 Venice nader Austria.
IRELAND under Ragland, to Poland under
Esuzsia. The snggehtion Ought to blister
he tongue and sufase with shame The
cheeks Of thoss who make It. A lady vas /
'|nsd thousand rnbles, not many months
go a Poland, Tor having . little
sesAs party at her hense
sFlibant = Eevernmens license. Russia ap |
pies she kaont 60 her Insurgents till the