New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-20
rHE dARNrHAL nr RnsHN EAuKRRs.

The great army of loyal freemen in the
state Of Louisiana who are enrolled in the
ranks of the Radical Republican party,
and carry inscribed on their banners the
regular state ticket headed with the names
Of II. c. Warmoth and o. J. Dnnn' are
marching on in firm phalanX to certain
victory at the coming election.
Shoulder to shoulder, elbow touching
elbow, they are inspired by one noble pnr-
pose, by one fixed resolve. They believe
| in their cause as the cause CT liberty, oil
Justice, of Education and of religion. They
believe in fealty to a party which adVo-
Gates this cause. They believe in close
communion of purpose and true con-
cert of action with the same great
party in all quarters of the land. They
purpose not only to reconstruct and re-
generate Louisiana, but to act in vital
sympathy with the Republican party Of the
whole country.
With these sentiments they can net but
look with establishment, not unmiXed with
distain, at the attempts which are being
made to distract their cOunsels and divide
their forces. A half score of selfish, ignor-
ant tricksters, destitute of devotion, disap-
pointed in q thousand schemes-whose past
history is a maze of intrigue end miracle
Of regeneration belonging to no COM
mand, acknowledging no party, and &C
knowlsdged by none, have the termerity
to prowi about the great Republican or
ganization of the state, and attempt
to bushwhaek it; and, like all bushwhack-
ers, their object is not victory, which is i'm
possible, but plumber which is pleasant to
their souls.
No guerrilla warfare ever affected the re-
suit of campaign. 1t only enriches the
ragged bandits who engage in it with stolen
horses and cut purses. And so in political
contests. The bushwhaeking boilers who
prowl and plunder under DISCUSSES and
banners which they change each day never
change the result Of an election. Now and
then they catch an unwary straggler from
the regular ranks, and with yells
that would do credit to a CamaRche
they scalp him Of his common
sense, or rob him of his reputation;
but their strong point is plumber, and their
chief weapon mendacity. 1t is no matter
to them how the campaign may terminate.
They care not whether the constitution be
rejected OF adopted they care not whether
the Republican party of the United States
achieve victory for the next four years, or
suffer defeat. They only hope that in the
contest, while good men are fighting the
battles of principle, they may steal some
petty office, or crafty some ancient grudge.
They organize party on paper and give
them sounding names in the same way that
guerrilla captain, fresh from the robbery
of hen roOst, might stick bunch Of tail
feathers in his hat and call himself
a general. They bivouac under corn
crib and call it camp. They meet in a
back room in a fourth story and call the
place headquarters" and the meeting
They write their own
names on half sheet of foolscap and call
the list estate ticket" They advertise
the beings Of committees which never meet,
and offer to distribute funds which never
have been subscribed or collected among
constituents who have no existence.
Such are the bushwhackers of this Pc
litical campaign. Such are the King Cable
guards, the Little Pill rangers of DR..
Belden, the Wells marines, the Tribune
the Taliaferro chssseurs.
Having no principle Of action they quar-
rel among themselves, like drunken mutt
neers. Intent only on gain, they are al
ready sighting over the slender possibilities
Of spell, and the cliques which may be five
to-day, will without any increase Of actual
numbers in their ranks, be ten Tomorrow,
Meantime the copperheads of Camp street
pat them en- the back in order that they
may get few dollars by advertising their
moHgrel tickets, and then double the sum
by advertising the numerous cards Of those
Who decline their nominations. Suck Of
their nominees as are not of their salAll
snmher reject their propositions with con-
tempt, and the great army Of earnest loyal
voters whom they try to bushWhack move
quickly on to an assured success.
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