New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-23

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Millions for Plumber and not dollar for
Improvement. This is the Radical MOTTO
! Democrat.
and the devil took the Savior unto high
mountain, and pointing TO the kingdoms
and principalities of the earth. said unto
Him. all these Will give unto thee if thou
wilt but fall down and worship me.-Btble.
These two texts are opposite, and con-
stitute good theme for Sunday lecture.
We deliver them over to the serious con-
sideration Of the public for comparison
and discussion, together with few sug-
gestions that beft the subject The devil
was a demagogue and a tempter His
stock in trade was promises. His ambi-
ton was to cheat. In these particulars he
resembled the Democracy. It's stock in
trade is promises. It's design is to cheat.
We propose to draw the line of evil
dence so as to prove our proposition. In
the first place, the devil promised what
he had no power to give. He could
transfer no kingdom or principally, be-
cause he had none to transfer He knew
this at the time. The Democracy prom
ises to free the people from taxation and
from the burdens Of government. It is a
promise impossible Of fulfllment Taxa
ton is a part Of government. 1t belongs
to the organism OF society. It must con-
tinue so long as communities exist. And
the only way III which it can be abolished
is to abolish government. The prom
Use to destroy it, therefore, is
cheat. It is made with the same
design that the devil made his offer
to the Savior, in order to deceive and
demoralize. The temptation is held
out by party incapable OF redeeming
its promise. 1t is only made to deceive,
for the Democracy knows that it can not
destroy taxation, and it knows that it will
not reduce the burdens of the people. As
the devil sought to corrupt the Lord by
fraudulent offer, so the Democracy seeks
to corrupt the people by an impossible
promise. And as the design of the devil
was simply to obtain power, so the de-
sign of the Democracy is simply to obtain
power. The design is to be accom-
plished by false promises and unfruitful
hopes.
Colonel Smallwood is opposed to the
..oo1+;cb orictocracv of Now ENGLAND -
and dislikes the shoddy productions Of
that section He said so to a meeting of
political shoemakers, and they applauded
the speech. As all the shoes that come
from New England are made by genuine
shoemakers, and as they only sell them
where there is market, Mr.. Smallwood
was quite inconsistently engaged in ira
ducing labor before q body of laborers,
and he was at the same time insulting the
Southern people by charging them with
buying shoddy goods. Suppose body
of shoemakers in Connecticut should as
semble and listen to a strolling orator
abuse the workmen of New Orleans, what
would our Crispins say about the matter?
And as the wealth of New England is
founded on free labor, and as Massachu-
sets is represented by shoemaker in the
Senate of the United States, is issnot an
untimely joke, in a meeting Of shoe
makers, to denounce as Goldfish aristocrats
the community which sends o shoemaker
to the Senate of the United States? And
do not shoemakers who applaud such
Joke show their unftness to discuss
political matters?
Before the late elections the country
was coddled with the revulsion in public