New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-03


mont !" That this Is the case, and tha
''our fellow citizens Of the United States
have SO regarded the acts of the Demo
cratic party is most clearly demonstrate
by the fact that that party has been sbor,
of all political power by the people sine
the memorable year of 1860, when it al
lowed the enemies of constitutional
economical and honest government Il
plot and attempt its destruction. Though
the Democrats were then in power, W,
will not now attempt to deny that up tt
the time of Mr.. Lincoln's first election tt
the Presidency we had constitutional
economical and honest government
nor do we believe the Democrats will
be disposed to gainsay this, though
now, BY implication, they deny it and
assert that We have q Revolutionary
extravagant and wasteful partisan rule. ,
And why do they say this? Simply be.
cause important elections take place this
year that will determine the complexion oil
the next Congress, and their object is to
get possession of that branch Of the gov
eminent and pave the way to possession
of the entire government in the next
Presidential election.
Considering what this country has
passed through during the last ten years
to preserve its integrity and the liberties
of the people, the question of who shall
control the government is still most i'm
portrait one. There is nothing in the his
tory Of the Democratic party the past
ten years that has received the sanction of
the people Of this country; on the con-
trary, its course has been antagonistic to
the popular will and interest in all matters
Of legislation growing out of the late war,
and i it has policy it is one that it dare
not yet give utterance to, as it is
undoubtedly in opposition to all of
those great measures and principles of
government, adopted by the people since
the termination of the war, and held by
them to be permanently settled. As the
Democratic party opposed the prosecution
of the war to successful termination on
the part of the government, SO it now op-
poses all Of those measures that have been
adopted by the government aad people, as
useful and legitimate results of the war.
Therefore, when the Democratic party says
upon the coming elections then depends
the question of whether the Demo-
cratic and conservative element for the
Senate shall be increased, and whether
that element shall have a majority in the
House of Representatives,; and, as con-
sequence, whether We shall have const!-
tutional, economical and honest govern.
ment or continuance of revolutionary,
extravagant and wasteful partisan rule,
what does it mean: Why, it simply
means opposition to all of those great
principles involved in the war, and which
were supposed to have been settled by its
successful neutrality-suspicious. that
have since been engrafted in the consti-
tuition of the United States, and
are regarded by the people as law of the
land. The adoption of these great prin-
ciples the Conservative Democratic
party" no doubt, considers as 'unconsti-
tutional, partial and unjust class legisla-
tion;' and for the purpose of undoing all
tina. has been done by the Republican
party since the close of the war, and that,
too, with the sanction of the people, this
Democratic party now asks
our ''fellow-citizens of the United
States to trust them who sympathised
with their enemies in time of war
and discard those who stood by
the Union, the constitution and the laws,
through that long siege Of strife and blood,
and are still true to the great principles of
human liberty. AS these principles
should be considered established under
our government, the people of this country
could admire conservatism that would
assist in preserving them; but as soon
sentative" evidently mems the reverse of
his when used by the Democrats as
, part of their party name-that is,
hey have not changed their politics
We believe they are still opposed |
% all that has been done by the Republi- |
,ans since power was conferred upon them
~ the people. 1t certainly does not
peak we'll for any party whose success is
made to depend on class prejudice, and
hould the Democratic party once succeed
n this way, it might be at the peril of that
liberty and equality before the law that
very honest Democrat and Republican is
Wiling to concede as right. We have too
much faith in the American people to be-
ieve they will place the Democratic party
q power at the risk of all that has been
chieved within the past ten years.
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