New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-12
THE pRnFRsaInHAIR nP pARLnR 2.

Tue knoll OF professional pollucinnS VINO
have their headquarters in Parlor P Of the
St. Charles hotel have appointed their ON
issued their manifesto, ard given
the public to understand that they are
going 10 do great things. That they will
make great exertions is quite likely. Their
real leaders are men of shrewdness and
activity, ready in misrepresentation, plansi-
BILE in speech, skillful to bride, and bold 10
bully and whatever they can do by fat
terry or by Intimidation, BY corruption or
by abuse, to divide or to weaken the Re-
publican party of this state and to recruit
their own ranks will surely be done. Their
plan of operations is simple. Of a certain
class they are sure the bitter secessiOnists
who still mourn the lost cause, and to
whom the flag of the United States is
odious the idle young men who hang
around our cities and villages cursing the
Yankees and declaring that the freedmen
will not work the loafers in our grOg-
shops, with bloodshot eyes and b~lossoming
noses, who hate the colOred man because
they instinctively feel that the colored man
is really a more decent, honest, and indus
trious and valuable citizen than themselves;
these are certain to vote the Democratic
ticket, and vote it early and often. They
are the faithful and the unterrifed. Those
of this class who can read have already
perused the gospel according to n. B,
Brady, and renewed their VOWS and those
whose education has been neglected in this
regard are fully satisfied that it is all right
so long as it denounces the congress of the
United States and the black man. But the
professionals of Parlor P will not be salts
fed with such easy conquest. They seek
for the excitement of a more difficult Sc
d%uctlon, and try to captivate their ancient
enemies. the old Wings, the former con
servatlves, the respectable men who tried
to stand up for the Union before and even
during the war. They appeal to their
prejudices, to their sectional feelings, to
their fears, and hope in this way to entice
or drive them into their sty.
Before these former Wings and Union
men allow themselves to be bribed or bull
lied into such unsightly c~ompanionship
they will be apt to consider who the pro-
f~essionals Of Parler P really are, and
what are really the principles of this
so-called Democratic party. Without going
at length into the subject we can safely
affirm that they are a free trade party.
pledged by every theory of their platform
and history to break down the sugar in
terest of Louisiana; that they are opposed
to works of public Improvement by the
general government, and therefore pledged
against the building Of the levees and the
removal of distractions to navigation bv
national add and that they are a states
rights party, pledged to keep alive that
pernicious doctrine in every practicable
way.
If they are Democrats these are the main
planks in their platform. If thew are
Democrats these are the cardinal peints Of
their creed, and they dare not denv the
assertion. II these are not the main planks
Of their platform and the cardinal points
Of their creed, then they are not Democrats
a. all, but a humbug Of the irstmagnitude,
q congregation Of hypocrises, a faction Of
false pretenses. Whether, therefore. We
accept one horn Of the dilemma 81 he
other, It is certain that there is no place
among them for that class of our citizens
who, in 1860, stood up fer the protection II
sugar, the work Of national internal i'm
proVement, and the sanctity Of The Union.
DsSsncy' consistency, and patriotism forbid
TIE banns Of matrimony between this later
class and the professionals Of Parlor p