New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-18
THE DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING,

The Democratic mass meeting to be held
tonight in Lafayette Square will be in
some respects an interesting assemblage.
We are promised an illumination, the
plan OF which was suggested by the same
newspaper which, if we rightly remember,
proposed an illumination in honor of the
passage of the ordinance Of secession. We
are promised professions in which Mr..
Sambola and his witnesses will figure
largely. We are fiattered with prospect
of orations, likewise, from Mr.. Roselius,
Mr.. Randolph, Mr.. Jonas, and Mr.. Ogden.
The last named gentleman, who
is really a brilliant speaker, has left town.
and as to him we are predestined to disap-
pointment. The others may possibly come
to time.
Mr.. Roselius is an amiable man, and his
abilities as an advocate have caused him to
be retained on both sides of almost every
question which has been discussed in our
courts for twenty-five years. Such
course of training does not strengthen the
N0AfASbANho VA Nay mani anu GGL bdtulf uOb
of very amiable man. It is not likely
therefore that we shall be favored by Mr..
Roselius with any clear ideas of what the
party he now appears to be enlisted in is
fighting fer. 1t is barely possible, however,
that as a new recruit in the Democratic
ranks he may conjure up some enthusiasm.
We shall be curious to hear what he has to
say Of the trueulent letter Of Mr.. Blair,
the destruction of Mr.. Blaekburns press,
the doings Of the Ku-Klux KIan, the raw
ings Of the Camp street journals, and the
other preparatory steps which are being
taken to deliver ps from the domination
ola barbarous. people,
Mr.. Randolph, il we mistake not, is of
the family Of Randolph, Of Roanoke. 1t is.
a noble lineage. Whenever we think Of
the whitening contempt which John Ran
delphi felt and freely expressed of the
Northern apologist of slavery, we, wonder
what the brave old man would have
thought and said of Horatio Seymour, the
most pliable of all those New York dough
faces over whom Mr.. Calhoun was wont to
crack his whip. Perhaps Mr.. William N.
Randolph will tell us.
Mr.. Jonas belongs to race noted in elo-
quence and song, the race of Aaron.
David, and Isaiah. To be sure he ID Of the
children Of shem, and perhaps has no
rights which. Mr.. ROselius and Mr.. Ran
dOlph, as defendants of Japhet, are bound
to respect. His ancestors were kent for
weary centuries in bondage by the Ervp-
tian children Of Ham, who, if we may trust
HerOdotus, we're qnothing but mig
gers,n and built their pyramids and
Wallopped their Jewish bondmen with a
singular Disregard Of the curse Or Canaan,
and the laws Of ethnOlogy. But we have
nOpreiudice ofrace, and shall listen to Mr..
Jonas, with as much respect as If his lineal
ancestor had been J4phst. We are willing
to be Instructed By Hebrew, and believe
The nosions Of the merchants Of Venice IN
regard 70 his people 10 have been Liberal
We are glad that the prejudlces. which
unal lately deprived The Jew ofeountFy ana
Ct suffrage sad Of The right to hoIa
Ohace, even il enlIsaseaed Eneland.
have, In America at least, melted awav in
the suhlight Of 9 more humane civilization.
Perhaps NJ. Jonas viii take he history Of
hisown people, their leag bondage. sbsir |
saeoasaal eaaacipailon, their suhseaaent
gl6Fiesj and their present enaeavaFa !. |
assszs tlsif rights ID tioss countries where
theirrighla ere SIN ignored, a. ths text q
bis dlscourse ard tell rs wig the privi-
lsges % long, and in some Instances
g sleee fdlig, demanded By he childfen |
ehsu, should he Withheld ffom ne shiI- |
sssa q HAN. We shaddsf IS we read he /
splendid psgs q Scott and shs pesapianoua
history 81 ri Ascsst, and ana bow IL psopIa
whom ~. Jonas 4 Justly proud to claim ii |