New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-08
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER g. 1870

when he i NOT allowed y persecqte other
men. is nov : subscriber to Mr. Brice's
address, and will be until it n wiped out
| il November.
The burden Of Mr. Brices melancholy
song is Just the same old tune, with nine
hundred verses in it, all exactly, alike,
| that he and his party have been singing
ait their own funeral for the last four
wears. He does not want the Radicals in
| Office That is all. 1t is the beginning
and ending of Brice. The Democrats are
out and the Radicals are in--turn them
| out and put US in-that is the scale from
p fiat to G sharp.
| Mr.. Brice and his address deal with
but three questions let US say four
all of which he unwittingly, or else I'M
gratefully fails to credit the Republican
party with. In the first place, oil the
measures of iberality proposed in the
| amendments to the constitution, owe their
origin to Radical members. And the law
on which he relies to secure the ballot
box, in its purity, is a Radical measure.
Yet, while this ineffably ungrateful party
is abusing the Republicans as incapable
of doing good, it is advocating the very
measures Of good which the Republicans
have proposed. Eating the bread Of char
ity, and begging political habiliments
from the Republican party, the DEM
ocracy has not only forgotten to be thank
full for what it has, but it fails to remem-
Der that it is not yet too late to be de-
feated in it's aim at total enfranchisement.
If its teeth are sharp and threatening with
"a muzzle on, where is the sense in taking
the muzzle of.
The Democratic address recommends to
the Democratic party to vote for two of
the proposed amendments to the constitu-
ton, which go to confer power on its
friends, and suggests that the third, which
is a proposition no Democrat can consis-
tently oppose, ought to be voted against,
because it was proposed in the interest OF
the present Governor That is, the Demo-
Gratis are placed by their spokesman in
the very attitude of meanness which they
ought to have kept out of by all means
It is accepting charity and biting the
hand that offers it. Governor Warmoth
recommended and urged the liberalization
of the constitution, and now, because a
feature in the programme is supposed to
be in his favor, the very parties in whose
behalf he wrought are urging it as an OBJ
lection against one Of the amendments
that it is likely to benefit him. What an
attitude for party! To be without an
issue is bad enough; but to supply the
want with such miserable sentiment as
this declaration of petty, individual hate
is to fall lower than any political organiza-
ton has ever gone before.
Let us look at this amendment 1t
simply proposes that when a Governor
has given satisfaction he may be chosen
again by the people. Are the people not
to be trusted? Is self-government fail
ure, and is the Democratic State Conven-
ton the party to declare the definition
Why should not good man serve two
terms, or five terms, if the people find
that he is the man they want? And if it
is good to restrict the Governor to one
term, why not put all other officers on the
same schedule Of rotation? If the princi-
pie is good. apply it throughout. If it is
bad. abolish IT, And in the consideration
Of this subject, let every man rise higher
than the Democratic party, or its conven-
ton, or its orators, and vote upon the
proposition as a measure of good or evil
import, without any reference to the
miserable little suggestion Of the Demo-
Gratis that it is or is not to benefit Governor
Warmoth. He can succeed without it.
But can the people afford to initiate the
Persians, who could not trust themselves
but made their laws subject to no repeal
Are we so weak that We can not to-day de-
eide whether we shall have the same Gov
ernor for two terms or for one?
Of all the Democratic addresses, the last
attempt is the longest and the weakest.