New Orleans Republican., 1868-08-02
Congresslonal Dlstrletn.

One hardly knows whether to admir-,
most the wit, the logic, or the modesty 0
the advocates of Seymour and Blair Il
all these respects they are unique and pc
euliar. Upon the whole, however, we in
cline to award them the palm for modesty
This is brilliantly illustrated in their love
for the Constitution and their devotion ia
law. They are not only pathe tically
welded TO law and order and gospel, az
they assure us, but their reverence for the
great instrument of the fathers is affecting
in the extreme. To witness it is enough to
wiring tears from the eyes of an alligator
They have all along been the champions
OF the organic law. They have guarded it
with sleepless vigilance, and they are now
SO panied lest some infractions of its pro-
visions should be permitted that they
threaten, in the event of their gaining
power, to drive out from among them. with
bludgeon and pistol, the unholy wretches
OF the Union party whom they may have
adjudged guilty of the foul enormity.
Very touching is their devotion
to the Constitution, law, and or
der, and remarkably original is their
method Of showing it, They can bear the
terrible Oppression" with which they are
visited with lamb-like meekness and docili-
ty. So far as they themselves are concerned
they are comparatively Indifferent; but to
think that the Constitution which Washing
ton and his compeers formed for the pur-
pose of securing the blessings Of ga more
perfect Union" to themselves and their
posterity should suffer injury is what pene-
trates them with profound sorrow, makes
them-the Seymour and Blair advocates
aforesaid-cry out in the very bitterness of
their sensitive souls. They call upon Her
cules and the Republicans to help them
save the Constitution.
Certain little "reminiscences OF the last
six or eight years, it is true, would seem
to throw some suspicion upon these their
lofty professions, and to suggest to them
the eminent propriety of laying it on a !
trihe more lightly. But this is all ex- |
planned and made as limpid as tAe waters |
OF any lagoon in Louisiana by the fact that
they have been misunderstood. They have
been the victims Of prolonged misunder-
standing. When they drove Union |
men by hundreds and thousands |
from the South it was only for |
the purpose Of defending the Constitu. |
ton land vindicating law. WAen they |
seized the forts and arsenals of the United |
States, and conhscated the property of citi- |
zens Of the Southern States without law and |
without a hearing, it was solely in the in
terests Of the Constitution that they acted.
When they tracked Union men with blood
hounds and loaded them with chains, and
iert their bones to bleach iR the pleasant
sunshine, Il was all from an intense desire
to preserve the purity Of the Constitution.
and maintain the supremacy oflaw Indeed |
whatever the Radicals may say to The CON
tEsEsy, =, these acts and and = Il thousand more like
them, were done, performed, and perpe-
irated In order to defend the pripciples al
the Constitutional Union, and make eternal
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That this was not perceived at the tinsa
md is not SO regarded now, only shows
he eztraordinary stupidity of The mas Of
uaniElRa Ia general, and Of ca overwhelm-
1e majority ofihe American people in par
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