New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-24

cessful operation as early as next May.
Brown is a good name, and so is Smith.
They are both good names. johnson is
good name. There are more Browns, Smiths
and Johnsons i'll this country than can be
easily reckoned. They are, in fact numerous,
and they have been known to be influential,
and some of them are men that have made
their mark and each has had his own parti-
cular way of doing it. Old John Brown
made his mark by making war on slavery,
and the friends of slavery made their mark
on Old John Brown by simply placing
rope around his neck and choking him to
death f. Brown has made his mark by
joining the Democratic party for the pur-
pose of securing equal rights of those who
thought it right to choke man to death
because he opposed slavery. The difference
between j. Brown and E. Brown is material,
though both are of the same name, and,
should it be requisite, this fact can be made
to demonstrate that "a rose will smell as
sweet by any other name" or that there is
nothing in name after all. Against the
Smiths we will not breathe word, for they
are numerous. and embrace, like the Browns,
black and white Smiths, Smyths and
Slnithers.
The Smiths may not be all pinks of per-
fection, and in this particular they are not
unlike the Browns, some of whom, like
other folks, sometimes 60 astray. f. Brown,
who seems to have a being, has evidently
!, not n
this way. By the Republicans he is hu-
namely regarded as having gone astray in
wandering from them whereas had he wan
dered from the Democrats in Olden times
| he would have been regarded as an estray.
| The Johnsons come next to the Smiths and
Browns in greatness-of numbers-and
| MANY of them are men of mark, thusly: \;
| A. johnson made his mark, like E. Brown,
| by going over to the Democracy at time
| when the Democracy were sorely puzzled
| how to steal into power again, and take
charge of the poor, dear peoples money and
| liberty This is question that has always
| gravely concerned the honest leaders of the
| Democracy. In or out of office, they have
| ever maintained a watchful if not longing
| eve on the public treasury, and without any
| of that suspicion that William Shakespeare
| says ever haunts the guilty mind, they have
| given their most disintcrested attention to
! the public interest. And when the De-
| mocracy have tried all other means, and
| failed to oust the Republican vampires, as
they Hguratively and good-humoredly style
| Republican Office holders, then they appeal
| to weak -kneed Republicans like Mr.. E.
| Brown and Mr.. A. johnson to help
! them out of their troubles. Mr.. A.
| johnson - better known as Andy -
| did all he could as white man
| to help the resuscitation of the fast-fading
| Democracy, but he was not good enough
medicine man, although President, to arrest
| the fatal disease that had been gnawing
upon the Democratic vitals since the days
| of Buchanan better known as "Old Buck"
| And now the patient seeks a black doctor,
| in the person of E. Brown, to prescribe for
| Democracy, the tast-fading treasure OF
many hungry office-seekers. Alas how
| tickle are politicians-Democratic poll
ticians-more tickle than Dame Fortune,
who is often charged with being capricious
| in the bestowment of favors. But Of late
| she has thrown off much Of her capriciOus
ness, and through the Louisiana State Lot
| terv has lavished her smiles upon many
who have been made joyful by becoming
suddenly possessed of prizes that secured for
them wealth and independence. The Cod
dess of Fortune, who presides over the
drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery
asks no questions of political or other ma
ture She showers her fayors upon all alike
who have secured tickets. The Smiths, the
Browns, the Johnsons-all in fact, who IN
vest in the tickets of the Louisiana State
Lottery-enjoy the most perfect equality il
the chances of fortune. So popular has be
come this institution, that all parties pat
ronize it with the utmost confidence that
their turn to win will certainly come, if they
only persevere in the purchase of tickets.
w. Jasper Blackburn has already two pa
pers. the Homer Iliad and Magnolia Flower
He now proposes to establish third paper
to be called The Monroe Doctrine. 1t vii