New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-31
THE DEKooRACY AND THE BOILERS.

withstanding the great advantages II en-
| joys of an exchange with the REPUBLICAN
appears to be hopelessly muddied aoou
political affairs in this State. Even tn
London Times, the Handy-Andy OF news
papers, could scarcely be expected t.
come wider Of the mark.
The Courier-.]ounM has just been read
| ing the manifestoes of two factions II
this State, from which it has derived its
insight into our affairs. One of these
was put forth by small ring of old ante.
war politicians of all shades OF opinion,
and called the address of the Demo
cratic State Committee. This docu.
ment the Louisville paper dignifes by
calling it the expressed sense Of
the people of Louisiana. Having arrived
at this standpoint, it proceeds to lecture
the negroes and loftily informs them that
unless they support the candidates of the
people of Louisiana, as defined above,
the consequences will be something dread
full. That the aforesaid people will be-
come very much disguised with them, and
that even the North, which is always
swayed more by pecuniary interest than
mere sentiment, will withdraw the pro-
lection that now upholds the right of the
colored people to vote, and the final re-
suit will be rescission of the franchise
The assigned reason for thus invoking
and threatening by turns the colored peo-
ple of this State, is that all the Office seek
ers of the so-called Democratic party are
honest, capable, intelligent and highly
respectable, while the Republicans are the
converse of all these. Taking the cue
from the Democratic address, and echoing
its platitudes and absurdities, the Journal
sees in every Republican destroyer of
the public good, a robber, a being con-
stantly in the market for corrupt purposes,
and Of course an s'adventurer, whatever
that may mean. On the other hand,
every Democratic aspirant is hon
est, a highly respectable citizen,
an old one doubtless, at that, and
consequently identified with the soil"
We can assure our Louisville contempt
rary that such cant as this has lost its
force in this State That some of our
coolest and best" citizens fall far short of.
the full measure Of manhood, and that
one good, energetic, wide-awake man like
McComb, is worth whole street full of
them. Their day is past, and they are
not likely to see it return.
The other document referred to is the
address recently put forth by hand
full of boilers from the Republican party.
This the Courier styles the humiliating
confession of the Republican State Gen.
trail Committee" The members of the
committee will see the joke when they
read the paragraph relied on by the Courier
and ascribed to them. Here it is:
Citizens and Republicans! After an ex-
perience of two years, under the leadership
of the most dishonest and corrupt set of
politicians that have ever disgraced the
political history of any Of the States of this
glorious Union, you are now called upon to
rescue the State from the hands of the pOlit-
ical Adventures who have brought it on the
verge of bankruptcy
This is the language of bakers dozen
of boilers who have been read out of the
party by the central committee, and who
join the Democrats in believing that all
the virtues are centered in themselves.
They are worthy allies The one the
spurned and rejected of the State, and the
other the sloughing from the great and
patriotic party that now rulesit We will
not go into comparison between the two
parties as shown by the history of the
past ten years. Even the Democrats
laugh and wink at each other when they
talk of honesty, patriotism and economy
among themselves. But they are about
to make a grand attempt to get
hold of the emoluments of office, and
having no principles to avow at present,
or point to in the past, they are compelled
to 60 into the fight on the sole issue of
personal character. They regard the APP
preaching election as simply contest be-
tween the "outs" and the ''ins." At pres
ent they are ''outs," but are prepared to
undertake the duties and burdens of Office
under the most positive promise of good
behavior. Not single change of policy
or principle has been limited at. No
pledges of the kind can ever be wrung
from them, or would be relied upon by
anybody if they could be. They assume,
that if they are allowed to try
their hand at carrying out Republican
principles, including the provisions of the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
they will be able to do much
better than those can who fought
'or these principles and gave them
'orce. Their assumption that they are
he "people of Louisiana in the
ace of a registered majority of thirty
,r forty thousand against them in the
State is sublimely impudent If they
ire the ''people," as they so frequently
BOAST Of being, why, let them go on
quietly and elect their candidates, and
ct the minority, consisting of carpet
pagers, scallawags, negroes and the like,
according to their refined mode of stating
he question, give complimentary votes
or whom they please.
The COurieT-Jouraol is informed for its
uture guidance, in case it ever has occa-
ion to use the truth, that it is quite mis-
aiken on some vital points.