New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-29
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The Democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency delivered speech on the
twenty-second instant at Indianapolis,
where he was careful to read from manu-
script, lest his remarks should be misrep-
resented by his opponents" He deserves the
thanks ofall Republicans for this precaution
for the manuscripts of Mr.. Blair, including
the Brodhead letter, are the best campaign
documents we have. There was man in
the play who was in the habit of saying
that he never opened his mouth without
putting bis foot in it - and it is equally
true Of Mr.. Blair that be never puts pen to
paper without revealing such abject and
vulgar conceptions of politics and states
manship as can not fail to effectually damn
him with generous and enlightened
people.
We read such speech with a certain
1 surprise, though after all we need not be
surprised at anything from the Blair family.
The meeting was held in a large city, in a
State deservedly famous for its progressive
civilization. The issues of the campaign
are certainly worthy of candid and high
toned discussion, and yet the manuscript of
Mr.. Blair is not one step above the dreary
gospel of Petroleum V. Nasty.
He begins by accusing the Republican
party of desiring to produce "amalgama-
tion,' and the speech is continued and
ended in this strain of unclean abuse. No
one knows better than Mr.. Blair that ANAL
gamation was a natural conconitant of
slavery, that woman held in bondage
could never defend herself against the lust
of her owner, and that no Republican had
any part or lot in the mixture of races at
the South. And vet he has the assurance
to tell the people of indianapolis that the
noble work of the Republican party in
freeing, educating and enfraRchising the
colored race is going to result in lowering
the selfrespect and weakening the virtue
of that race.
From this he proceeds to say that the
Republicans are very inconsistent, because
in advocating manhood suffrage they have
not also conferred on women the right to
vote, This is logic with ven,
geance. The Republican party has done
right in one particular, and therefore
this right action is wrong because they
have not done right in another particular.
1t is better, according to Blair, to have no
eyes than to have but one good one. 1t is
better to be as deaf as post than to have
but one sound ear. 1t is better to stick in
The mud of Democracy than to make but
one long step of Republican progress.
We have heard of book called Blairs
Rhetoric; we may soon expect an edition
If Blair's Logic, and charming book it
viii be.
Mr.. Blair favors US with some new ideas
n etbnology. He says "the negroes, the
indians, the Chinese, and the Mormons,
Ill the polygamous races, are the natural
ubjects of military despotisms," The
u ormons, we are 10 conclude, are dis
met race. In our ignorance we had sup
'osed that they were a religious sect mere
7, and we thank the learned Blair for
his novel piece OF information. Will he
lrther add TO the obligation by telling US
That especial style of Uranium, facial an
lie, and shinbone is essential to "Mor- j
lon?" We have heard of man, who, being
sked to what religious sect his late brother q,
elonged, replied, "Well, be Eas-let me j
'e-he was, l think, what they call a S
hrenologist.' And his ideas of things
ere quite of the Blair pattern. c
In conclusion, the orator informed his 8
ndience that the reconstruction acts were
immoral and indecent" as well as uncon-
.itutional; by which utterance we take it
nat Mr.. Wade Hampton and Mr.. J. B. T
,ustis are completely distanced. And this,
ct it be remembered, was said in the latter i
alf of the nineteenth century, beneath the
right September sun, in the pure air of s
Western autumn. To assure the freedom d
four millions of people; to enfranchise =
sem; to aid them to attain the blessings :
{ education; to recognize the brotherhood
f man and the fatherhood of God; these
bings are Immoral and indecent" We :
xpect to hear next of the immortality and
Of the sunlight
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