New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-08
THE L1oI'ssm AND rHE ASSES EARs

The Democratic State Central Commit
tee in their exhaustive address have, much
to the wonder of their partisans, given an
item of sound advice, and for the sake O.
incredulous Republicans, who may not
believe that such a rora axis has taken
wing from the Democratic ''mare's nest,
the following is quoted:
SIT becomes us to unite as one man. with
| out regard to race, color or previous condl
tion," and ''fill the Offices with honest mel
and patriots"
Exactly. And this is what the Repub'
lican party is trying to achieve: but how
! foolish for the Democrats to interpose
such insuperable obstacles to their acqul-
| sition of office! How few and far between
are those in the ranks OF the Democracy
| who could qualify under the first ~restric-
| ton; and patriots are not properly de-
fined as those who endeayor to over
throw q great and glorious government
for the purpose of personal aggrandize-
ment.
The Democrats constantly remind us
| that the war is over and that the sectional
and party animosities created by it should
| be buried under the mantle of charity
| that they desire this, ENTHUSIASTICALLY, is
undoubtedly; when advantageous to them
| but they must remember that after any
! one attempts to overthrow a duly consti-
| tuted and legal form of government, he
is not quite the man thinking persons
desire to entrust with political power.
| The Democrats tried to dissever the
Union, and falling, desire to ride into
fofice on account of their pre-eminent
integrity and patriotism.
From the ideas advanced il the sentence
of the address above quoted, it would
! seem that the Democrats had realized and
adopted the sense of the old Latin maxim,
"Tsmpora mutanhw ct nos mutcmw an Ills
but the following is i~rreconcilable with
that supposition. The exact phraseology
is quoted
1.-THE colOred people OF this State may be
assured hat the Democracy 'cih erey continue
to Ire up to the grand principles that hare so
long cb0rdcteri.ed IT,"
COlored men, in this sentence the true
character of the Democracy has at length
cropped out the wolf in sleeps clothing
has been unable to maintain his pacific
character after promise upon promise of
amity and regard for the colored race
of constant supervision of his interests
and necessities, for the purpose of sup
plying and providing for them. we are
at last told "that the Democracy will
ever continue to live up to its former
principles !"
Freedmen, Republicans and thinking
men in this and other States, complain now
of the distrust exhibited by Republicans
toward Democrats, when, at a period like
this, when the Democracy is endeavor-
ing to conceal it's real intents and pur-
poses, its inherent hatred for the interests
of the colored men and Of the State is
such, that it is unable 10 desist from an
ASSURANCE tUaJ lEe OSEIOCfhCy Is IN
changed; that still its notices are, "trea-
son, oppression, v~enality and corruption;"
that in spite of the Utopia revealed by
Hatch to Brown. the principles are IN
changed; that Notwithstanding the prom
Use of admittance of colored men to the
Democratic party, the old ruleslwill be
enforced; that coercion is to usurp the
place Of freedom OF speech and action ];
that, in short, the grand principles" OF
Democracy are still to he sung to the old
tunes, and that the entire ~subiuGation of
the coIored race is still the cornerstone
of the party.
We are thankful to the committee for
its frankness, and shall neglect no fitting
opportunity to let the people, especially
the colored people, know what these
''grand principles that are to be so
strictly lived up to, consist OF, and to
what they tend.