New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-19
T8EETTEETE OoRDrALE,

entered the presence by implication. II
was not closeted with the committee II
prop,ia person@, but through the post
office, it is presumed; for the interview
was conducted by the use Of pen, ink ant
paper, and consisted of certain question
and answers which are quizzically put ant
comically answered. Brown asks if col
ored Democrats will be admitted to tn,
Democratic Convention. He then dupi
Gates the question in another shape, some
thing after the manner of legal inter
rogatory, but rather leading in its nature
and then winds up with the consolator.
| suggestion that he and other colored mel
are anxiously DESTROYS to act with Hatch
if Hatch will act with him and his impa
tient reserves.
The fine popularity about this epistola'
| tory interlocution is that there should be
such thing as colored Democrat. Since
| the days of Arnold, it has not been fash
ionable to desert to the enemy, and that
| DIOWu SuOulu luNC bOeoSA oAAA' AAA''~'sAAN~
is sadly to his discredit.
| Hatch is equal to the occasion, for II
there is anything a Democratic Central
| Committee is not equal to, that specially
does not consist in any want of prompt
ness in making promiscuous promises.
With a full heart and O consciousness of
its capacity, the committee bows its ven
cradle head in an affirmative response, in
letter, to the attentive Brown, on the out
side of box No. 1866, Postoffice, New Or
leans. Hatch, for the better information
of the inquisitive applicant, recapitulates
the interrogatories filed in his records,
for the purpose perhaps of keeping the
matter properly before the alligator and
the respondent; for as it is highly prob
able that the questions were written by
Hatch himself it was of the utmost I'M
portance that the supposititious questioner
should not shift his position and affirm
that the answer did not conform to the
pleadings. Hatch is too shrewd to be
caught in any such fish-net as that.
And the respondent, for answer, says,
that so far as the committee is concerned,
Judgment is confessed, and Brown has
legal right to be as good as any other
man Gin the eye of the law" This
wKinging in of the s'eye of the law" is one
Of those significant addendas which are
added in the use of all equivocal NTpres-
sions, and Brown should have it fully
understood that his postofice respondent
did not construe it now and intend to
construe it hereafter as slang term,
thus, sin my eye, and Betty Martin"
However, the judgment which has thus
been confessed, and which was forced out
of the Democratic Central Committee, ac
cording to its own admission, by the con-
stitution and laws, does not grant immu-
nifty to Brown, or any of his color, to use
the rights therein conceded. The COM
mittee consents, but the convention may
refuse If this was original, it might
serve to distinguish its author, but
as it was picked up in the theatre,
where Brown may have heard it
from the colored gallery, we entreat
his attention to the sequel. Richelieu
was once in the same peril as Hatch, and
he needed a faithful seryitor. Huguet
was at hand, but he was distrusted as
much as Hatch discounts Brown. He
was anxious to be admitted among the
nobility, just as Brown is anxious to be
admitted among the Democrats, and to
accomplish the ascent he conceived the
ambition to be a duke. Richelieu knew
this, and when he placed the guardsman
at his gate he carelessly remarked ::
"Huguet, you may be duke some day.!
Unfortunately Richelieu repeated the
saying to friend, and justified himself
by adding: ''The Cardinal will nominate,
but the King will refuse" If Brown re-
members this histrionic plot, he has the |
material for some serious reflection when
he reads the guarded expression that, |
$50 far as the committee is concerned"
the proposition is agreeable. The proba-
bilities are that the convention will not
be overstocked with colored delegates. |
There may be one or two, but even these |
had better contract the habit of shooting |
1T mark or lodging an ebony stick, for |
# we remember rightly, the Democracy
mas an unpleasant way of shooting and
colored members Of conventions.
An ounce of prevention is worth pound |
If cure. '..-'-
All the interest we have in this matter
S to prevent a fraud. If Brown can
inter the Sanhedrim, alongside of Hatch,
hat is Just what we have demanded for !
lin. The friends whom Brown displays |
uch alacrity to abandon have fought for |
his right through seas of blood and |
midst the contumelies Of mankind. And |
low, that they have bought his preroga-
ives with life and bitterness, let him use |
lis honors as if his ancient friends were
10 longer useful. Go forth enfranchised
Brown, and stand up as man with those
vho have spurned you as an animal. That
3 what the Republican party fought to
aake you, and, while you may forget it,
10 not forget that it remembers you and
at any time you stumble by the road
ide, or if your new friends betray, there
) watchful party in the land that over
ooks the humblest destiny in the State,
nd saves the men and the children of