New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-31
DESIGNS OF DEMOCRACY.

Statoe. OuueE tne ltau Vi Ato OAN PNA'
chiefs, and with the aid of the same press, 1t
is rallying the same desperate band oil men
who followed the stars and bars to the bat
tie ground of Virginia in the spring Of
1861. From the day of its overwhelming
defeat at Appomatox Courthouse until the
present moment it has kept up its organi-
cation through secret societies. secret clubs,
and secret bodies of almost every name
and nature. To the outside and ignorant
world it has put on the guise of charitable
and benevolent associations, and at stated
periods has marched through our principal
streets to the music of the Bonnie Blue
Flag and Dixie; but to the initiated, and TO
those whose duty it was to knew the real
meaning of all public demonstrations, it
has been simply the old Democratic party
keeping its forces in hand, and drilling
them for the serious work of great
political coatest. Knowing it to be i'm
possible to achieve victory over united
| fee, it has at last determined to resort to
the tactics it learned at SO great price
during the war on almost every battlefield.
The enemy united" it reasons, Z" never
have and never can conquer, but the enc
my divided, split up into armies or corps or
divisions, can concentrate upon in
double numbers and defeat at my leisure.
l succeeded in this way at Bull Run, all
along the Peninsula, at Antietam, at Chan
cellorsville, at Fredericksburg, and from
khe Rapidan to the James. Why, therefore,
should not succeed in the paltry cam
paign in Louisiana, where ballots and not
bullets are to fill the air like snow flakes +?
True. our great tacticiau, jackson, lies
cold in the grave, aud his clear brain AID
iron will are no longer our sole resource /;
but the lessons he taught us are burnt into
our brains by the hot brand OF battle,
and direct our otherwise unskilful hands
| in all engagements with our old enemy.
To conquer, we must divide, aud di-
vide we will il we have to use all the
subtle strategy Of hell, all the
assimilation of the prince Of
hypoerites, and all the money in Golfers of
the banks from New Orleans to Richmond.
The name Of our party is living incarnate
lie, why not, therefore, keep true to the
name, true to the antecedents, and true to the
entire history of Democracy from the day
of its birth ~
Aud in this way Democracy reasons and
will continue to reason through the cam
paign about to open. Its objective point
is the centre of the Republican party. A
steady, well told blow, delivered with all
its concentrated power at the leading col
umn will throw all the rest into confusion
and render victory easy. OF course before
the blow is struck, governed by good gen
eralsbip, it will throw out its skirmish line
and to its own satisfaction ascertain where
the head and front of the enemy lies en-
trenched. That once thoroughly recon-
noitered and scanned on all sides, it will
call in its Outposts and the battle will
begin in earnest.
Loyal men and Republicans of Louis
lana the skirmish line of your old aRemy
is thrown out all around you; thas learned
your stronghold; it has seen you perfect
your organizations it has the names
Of your corps commanders, and even
Of your subordinate officers it
knows your strength and all your
resources; it has examined the country all
along the line of your march, and now it is
about to be withdrawn and the battle is
to begin--yes, we may say, has begun
fsebly, we must admit, and with but little
of its old recklessness and abandon, out yet
it is ominous of coming, desperate, hand
to-hand fight. Its one single hope and aim
is to strike at your perfected organization
and divide it, and then fall with its whole
weight upon the separate parts
The Radical Republican party of Louisi-
ana has an official head, has put forth its
standard bearers, has perfected its organiza-
ton in the only legal way known to par
ties, has all its machinery in order, and Is
known throughout the country as an or
ganisation in entige harmony with the great
Republican party that carried the country
successfully through the war; The Demo-
cratic party Of Louisiana, knowing this, has
stolen one Of It's cast-of garments, en-
tered the fold of the Republican party,
enticed away few weak aud unwary lambs,
and penned them up ia little alley in the
hope that their feeble bleatiDgs may entice
others into the mouth of its wolves den.
Let US, therefore, in these eventual moments
be careful how we wander away from the
old fold that protected US in our weakness,
and will shield us until We are able to stand
alone. They who fly 10 the protection Of
| Democratic wolves generally meet the fate
they deserve, and in few months all that
there Is left Of them is few bleaching
bones By the wayside, serving as warning
70 all political travellers not to stray too far
from the beaten track. United, the Repub.
lican party Of this state will achieve an
overwhelming victory with or without ad.
ditional aid from congress; divided. all the
congresses in the world can not save Il from
an annihiIatiDg defeat. And the Repab.
liaan party defeated, Louisiana ii Ill lei
maierial interests will be put back half
century, and civil liberty receive 1 blou
from which she can not well recover Ia Isl
generaiions. Thus Gar there has been ID
rirayiug from the party Of any weil-knowr