New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-11
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yention in New York next month will show
an amazing advance when compared with
lthe Democratic platform Of 1864. The
New York Word Of the third instant CON
tanned an elaborate editorial, four columns
long, laying down the principles which the
: party must prepare itself to adopt, on peril
OF certain and total defeat. This pronan-
ciamiersto was evidently prepared by au-
thority, and is published thus early in the
day in order that the Copperhead portion
Of the organization may have time to
reconcile itself to the dread necessity o.
swallowing its own words and indorsing
what it has long denounced as the most hor-
rible and atrocious doctrines. Nothing could
be more significant of the desperate strait
to which the Democracy has been reduced
than this fact. The life and soul OF the
party consists Of its copperheadism-its
strength is composed Of that portion Of lis
members who persistently and consistently
opposed the war during the whole Of its
progress, and who we're the Northern
allies Of the slave confederacy, It is these
men-of whom Yallandigbam, Henry Clay
Dean, Worries, and Brick Pomeroy are
the examples preserved the wreck
Of the Democratic party from total extinc-
ton during the war, and who have brought
it up to its present position. Villainous
as they are, and bitterly as they are de-
spised and hated by every loyal man, it
must be confessed of them that they have
at least been consistent, and have fought
always for the same end-the restoration of
the slave power
They controlled the Chicago convention
of 1864, and with bitter irony they placed
Mcclellan on platform which declared
that the war was failure, that it should
cease. and that the Southern Shareholders
should be humbly invited to come back to
Washington and again rule the country.
To these men, then and since, the war was
the sum Of all human wiekedness, and to
breathe a word in its favor was to commit
the objectionable sin. But now they are
informed by the leading journal Of their
party, and in manner that leaves no
doubt thot the warning is an official and au-
thoritative one that there is NO hope Of
success for the party next November unless
it can make up its mind to accept and pro-
claim the Republican doctrine Of the
righteousness and the necessity Of
the war The New York World
warns them that they must consent
to declare "tlal tie late ci,H ,oor ,0as a
necessary exercise Of The authority Of a con-
stitutionql goysrna1eat to put doaon rebel
lion," and it is entirely convinced that if
the opposite doctrine were by any contriv-
anee or accident made to appear as the
doctrine Of the party, defeat ,oQl certainly
folIolO" Shades of the martyrs Of Fort
Lafayette, has it come to this Is this the
reward Of your sufferings! The Demo
cratic party must choose between the dis
ayowal of all that it has said and done for
the last seven years and the REIMBURSEMENT
Of all its hopes of future existence. "Tbere
is but one view Of the war that ever has
been or ever will be tolerated by the peo-
pie of the States which adhered to the
Federal government" says the World, "be-
cause it is the only view that embraces the
TRUTH Does the World call this backing
Its friends Is this the humble pie that is
to be set before the Democratic convention
when it meets in Tammany Hall ave
Lave had one lesson, and very severe
one, continues the World, "of the folly of
permitting extreme men to foist upon the
party platform that could not be made
acceptable TO the people. This must not
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Democratic platform of 1s64-a platform
which expressed the honest sentiments Of
the Democratic party. "This must not oo-
cur again y The party must now obtain
votes under false pretenses. It must
raise the flag it has trampled upon,
profess belief in doctrines which it alb
h0rs, and confess that for seven years
it has been guilty Of Sighting against
the truth. There is no pretense that this
is to be an honest conversion. The party
is only to steal the livery Of an angel that
it may serve the devil and il is plainly
told that II must do this or that defeat win
certainly follow. That is sufficient rea-
son. No higher motive need be suggested
no humiliation can be too grieVous, no
hypocrisy too fragrant, no discrimination
too base for the Democracy, if thereby
4" defeat " ear be avoided. Starvation
makes men perfectly reckless, shameless,
and deyilish. shipwrecked seamen thrown
upon desert reef have slain and eaten
their dearest friends to preserve their own
lives. So with the Democracy. For seven
long years they have starved-in sight Of
the fat offices Of the government they have
pinned away. They are now desperate
they can stand It no longer.-if they can not
soon obtain drapght Of treasury pap they
win expire and to keep lie in them untii
November they are ready TO STAY their.
principles ana to roast VaIlaDdigham
There are many other points on which
similar saeriacs will be made BY the De-
mocra cy, and q these We viii in due time
speak BnA wdat We have said Is enough
for one dsy.
THE Last REhEEHsg