New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-27
THE CANVASS.

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| body of Germans attempted to organize
Republican Club night or two since they
| were disturbed by Democratic rowdies.
It is useless to mention where this oc-
| Cured, or when, for, as we know nothing
positive on the subject, we might state
what is not so. The suggestion that such
a thing did occur, and the possibility that
if it has not it may happen, is our excuse
for saying what we propose to do on the
pending campaign.
In the first place, the Republican party
of Louisiana proposes to conduct the fall
campaign on the plan of reason and az
gument, just as it has conducted cam
paigns in Connecticut or Ohio. The
people are to be accepted as jurors, and
their Judgment is to decide the contro-
versy. There need be no noise nor con-
fusion, if Republican suggestions are TO
prevail, for the issue is too I'M
portant to admit of any such DIS
plays. We enter the contest with
calm and settled convictions that we are
right and if these convictions can not be
maintained, it is for the final inquest TO
determine in November. AS matter OF
course, Republicans prefer to hold the
honors that Office bestows; but We claim
that they have at all times manifested
that degree of patriotism which lnsures
their acceptance of the result if it is ad-
verse to their cleo ton. They have de-
clared policy, and they have submitted
their platform to the people. AS
party, we appeal to the ballot-box.
We are not used to violence, but we
know how to repel it. This being under
stood, let US say to the good people OF
Louisiana that. it is in their keeping
whether this dernier resort Of their enc
mics and of the Republican party shall be
invoked. If it is desired there can be
trouble; but we shall not presume the ex-
istence of any such disposition, for it is
not right to accuse the opposition OF
sentiment which we deny having an ex-
istence n our own party.
Public meetings will be held through
out the State, and gentlemen OF
ability will present both sides Of the
controversy. Eloquence which will en-
terrain if it does not convince, and argu-
ment which will be honest if not decis-
i've, will be delivered by Republican
speakers. The same eloquence, and the
same, but opposing, arguments will be
rendered by Democratic stump speakers.
The people will listen, and let US hope
that they will profit by what they hear,
and that during the time, and after, good
feeling will prevail We are nearer to
harmony than we have been for years,
and nothing but the selfish ambition Of
aspiring men can destroy this feeling.
We are not engaged in war that men
should be buckled about with weapons,
and demanding blood, but in peaceful
contest as to what men and what measures
we most desire. The baleful fires OF
hate have well nigh died out, and moth
ING but the extreme of lustful
disposition to override the just
and legal right of the citizen to
exercise his choice freely and without mo-
lestation, can fan it into life again. Let
us meet, then, as men having rights to
preserve, with enough of frmness to
know what ours are and with enough of
patriotism and justice to allow that all men
have the same and are entitled to exercise
them.