New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-21
THE BEAUTIES AND LOYALTY OF SEY-
M0UR DEMOCRACY IN NEW ORLEANS.

4nh DhAO LIDO hNO AV4A ALI VI IL !
M0UR DEMOCRACY IN NEW ORLEANS,
It is only necessary to show to the coun
try at large what Seymour Democ
racy is in New Orleans, as expounded by
its own organs, in order to cause all law
abiding citizens TO spew it out of theiI
mouths as foul ching. Take case il
point. The Legislature has had unlel
consideration a bill for the more effectua
organization of the police for the bette
protection of person and property, and the
promotion Of peace and good order-a
object of great importance in all large
cities. The bill lies over Cor further con
sideration and reflection. OF this bill the
Bee, Seymour paper here, speaks as fol,
lows:
1t is link in the system of repression
| which the Radical leaders imagine they can
| put in operation to keep this community in
subsection to the scoundrelism they intend
to practice.
Any one reading this paragraph would
imagine the bill to be something dreadful.
But little further on the Bee says this of
it:
We believe this bill has been modelled after
the system now in operation in the city OF
New York, and its advocates plead that fact
as reason why it should be approved here.
A bill, modelled after the system in
vogue in the most intensely Democratic
city in the Union is held up as something
horrible; a system which the wisdom,
learning, and intelligence of New York
have adopted as the best that could be
framed, the people here are openly advised
never to submit to! Read these further
sentences from the article in the Be:
Another most offensive provision IS tina.
contained in section a. which empowers
the Commissioners to visit and make inspec-
ton of all ferry-boats, manufactures
tenement houses, hotels and boarding,
houses charged with being unsafe or de
trimental to the lives or health ofthe public.
This is simply 10 authorize an esBjOndge
upon the people Of Aelc Orleans acltich 1CM
not be submitted to- They would be the
veriest slaves ifthey entertained or tolerated
il for one moment. We shall
advise our citizens TO resist any such law.
It is plainly and directly contrary to the
Constitution of the United States, aud
violative Of the common law, and ought
not to be respected
This is Democracy in New Orleans nor.
" ITe shall aduise our citizens to rests! any
such lalc.' This is the law-abiding spirit
of the Seymour Democracy of Louisiana
to-day. The law If the bill in question
shall become such-which the people are
thus advised 2 " to resist" it is admit
ted, will be modelled after the laws Of New
York. It will be "plainly and directly
contrary to the Constitution Of the United
States" we are told, and yet the great
lawyers and the courts of New York have
never suspected this most extraordinary
circumstance
The really loyal men of this country are
every day getting distineter views Of the
true genius of what is called Southern De-
mocracy not what it was seven years ago,
but what it is y1o,o, in the year of grace, 'Gs.
We earnestly call the attention of the
country to its atrOcious avowals, its sedi-
tious threats, and its disloyal practices.