New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-21


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j MEAEQY Ap Ns pR4ocl A1ss
i n . recent contsovsrsy- between tn
World asl 7sibGss, Sof New c1esk, ~ +
what are the trade marks by which fire.
trade y to be known end recognized, ]
seems to have been agreed that they hav
changed sincs tie dsys Of Jefferson AMI
Msdison, and that fres trade dses not nov
= then, denote protection. We conced'
j the World to be leading journal in al
Journalistic senses, and hence are surprised
10 find selfstulHfed. OF despoilsa q til
Jefferson element in its political ststus, b,
its own concession or svowal that Jefersor
was not Democratic only Rspublicsn
Yet there II naked truth aud entire free
dom from political frenzy in the World.
position. This keeping partisan principles
in the stocks, and requiring that : Dem
ocrat Of 1870 should exactly square with
one Of 1900, is unworthy Of q journal Of
ability and craftsmanship, such a. We take
tho World to be in spite Of its politics. Not
that principles change, but conditions are
perpetually changing; interests which
govern these, ever shift like the sea, blow
ing white caps to-day, and tomorrow
calm and blue, as if motion or emotion
never unsettled its stiffness. Democracy,
we take it, means the best good of the
whole-not its transient or momentary,. or
in other words, its apparent good, but
that which, sounding in principles, secures
to it peace and permanence against the
war Of elements and the crash of worlds.
No wisdom can provide, nor principles
make u safe against the shifting circnn.
stances Of partisan, more than individual
Life; bat these are the waves that beat
against the citadel, imparting phosphores-
cent CLEANS that only superficial observers
mistake for true light. Around the bulwarks
Of the old time Democratic ship of State
beat the waves Of party fury with an en-
ergy and force unknown now, and even
unsurpassed in the fiercest and deadliest
glamour Of our recent civil war. Yet
throughout the trying period of partisan
strifs, which shook to its foundations TIE
very government itself under the lead Of
Federals on the one hand and Republi-
cans on the other, that Democracy which
was only sigualed By its true name and
rallied under its appropriate banner when
General Jackson took the helm Of State,
was born and developed, fostered and
bred, the more brilliantly for the bitter
ness Of its feuds and the steadfastness of
its iron resisting when it unfolded
in the Jacksonian era the batteries of q
hundred armies, and triumphing in the
birth of real Democracy which its ene-
mics can never confound nor misnomers
confuse into political problems.
When the war came-the greatest of
wars and most momentous of epochs
in the worlds history, what and where
vas Democracy? Elementary principles
could alone be had recourse to to solve
The great issues of that unusual calamity,
} civil war, Q war of sections among q
people indivisible-or divided, Demo-
,ratic-or nothing. The solution lay in
he best good of the whole. Was the So
called Democratic party, under the agis Of |
It's heroic past, to be allowed to shut out |
! whole race of men from participation in |
is benefcences aud its power on account
Of sentiments wholly bigoted and interests
exclusively selfish, and be still demo-
,racy? Or did it cease to be democratic,
only the name, while the power
md glory it possessed passed to those op-
posing its ignoble purposes, receiv.
ing in their embrace the brotherhood
If man, regardless Of condition or race,
md accepting again the name Of the
earnest men who were the Democrats of
he Jefferson age-Republicans? This is |
he real situation as to the state of parties,
md whether Jefferson and Madison we're
less democratic or no, because they were
,ot the unconditional free-traders of this |
IRA Of politics, depends upon their fidelity |
% the true principles Of the government |
If that time, and 10 the best interests of the
whole people whom they served. That
he World, by whatever acuteness and sa-
yacity its conduct may be distinguished,
8 not Democratic paper Of this age, is
9 certain a. that the race it would ex-
dude from participation in the govern
aent ofthe republic is race Of men.
MEDICAL JOURNALISM.
The initial number of new wee ky,
by the Philadelphia University,
ntitled The Medical Independent, is an
nmistakable sign of the iberalizing in
uence of journalism. It is conceived