New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-05
BxoHANGB ALLEY.

The readers Ct the New Orleans Tribune
who have been by turns amused and dis
gnsted at the recent vagaries Of that journal,
and its constantly shifting and shutting
course, will find an almost entire change of
entertainment in its leading column of yes
terday mornings issue. For several weeks
OF. more that column has presented a series
Of badly gotten up dissolVing views. First,
upon the transparency "a very apropos
tern by the way) we had the nomination
of Mr.. Durantfor governor, and the TrtbEne's
harps were thereupon strung and thrummed
through a series of appropriate melodies
until that distinguished gentleman by dint
Of repeated and peremptOry commands
secured %agwithdrawal. Next appeared the
name of its present nominee for the
lieutenant goYernship, with new tunes,
variations, and Accomplishments, and when
the state nominating convention failed to
be dined and wined, wheedled and bribed,
into seeing the excellence of the picture
the seeHe again shifted, and up popped the
venerable but Indiscreet old judge, and
the ergan crank has been in motion ac-
c.rdingly ever since.
But, amid the general roar Of applause
and acceptance Of the regular nominations
which has been steadily swelling up from
every part of the state, and is daily re-
echoing from the Northern papers, not
one distinct squeak Of approval Of the
alley ticket has been heard from any guar
ter, excepting of course the "signers,"
fifteen all told, counting in the lady in
Washington. And 10 yesterday morning, an
entire change of programme, If, indeed,
the current report is not true of q change
in the management.
A new light has broken in upon the
alley, a new and palpably borrowed light,
in which one may see without much diff
Guilty, simply a pale reflection of the gas
lighrs in a certain parlor Of the st. Charles
hotel.
By its present illumination it has sud
denly become plain to the Tribune that at
the coming election for the ratification or
rejection of the new state constitution the
secondary election Of state officers can not
be held. That, in other words, the recent
nominating convention and the present
constitutional convention in all their steps
aud acts providing for such secondary
election have been and are simply stulti-
flying themselves and the constituents that
sent them here; that the people of Alabama
who yesterday were voting at such an cleo
tion, and therein acting under the full
approval and authority of both the late and
the present commanding general of the
district, were equally wrong and astray.
Nay, more, according to the new effulgeAce
in Exchange alley, every territorial con
VentiOn that ever sat in the country has
made itself and the people that abided by
its actien ridiculous. AND, whereas, with
few exceptions, every state convention
called for the purpose Of remodeling a
constitution, in states, too, fully or
and recognized as states by the
general government, has assumed and exer-
the power without demur or question
Of ordering new elections of state officers,
when the last prior elections had been
very recently held; therein, according to
The Tribune, all these conventions have
shown themselves and the communities
hey represented to be children and fools.
We have neither space nor time to follow
he article referred to through all its
and clubbing clauses, and show
contrary are the positions taken to
lot only the general spirit of the recon
I~truelien acts, but to the plain letter Of
hose acts, wherein it is again and again
set forth in ipsis vsrbis' that conventions
such as the one now sitting in this city shall
establish not only Constitutions" but @eiyil
governments as well. Nor is it necessary
% remind Cur readers what would be tho
iegieal result Of putting in practice the
Ih6aas's present ideas; what additional
to the state would be in
I9lved, or how many thousand addi-
iOnal votes wOuld be secured to
rebel uckeE, " an election Tor state ON
held after Che mild dis~enfranchiaing
ilauses Of the new constitution shall be in
We have commented on this present
altitude Of q prOisssedly radical journal to
how how willing are its controllers 10 sell
'ui themselves and the dearestrightB Of the
'eOplefn whose behalf they most loudly
to be liboring, to crafty the animosi-
y Of personal disappointment which the re-
nSal Of that people TO accept their dicia-
Orship has excited