The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-07-05
Democratic Unity.

For the willful and deliberate mar
plot who having failed to get his way,
would destroy that which he could not
control we have no compromise, The
agitator who seeks to break mp the
harmony of the Democratic party soc
~ to crafty his Pride of opinion, aud
Tor this purpose would set up one
standard in Kentucky and another
elsewhere, ought to receive very short
shrlft from honest and intelligent
Democrats. But there are thousands
OF sincere men who have been misled
by the clamor and deceived by the
false prophecies of the Bourbons, and
for these we have only kind words and
cancellation, to offer.
We have fully demonstrated the
futility OF the fight against tho three
amendments. AS long as the fight had
any life in it we made it. No matter
how they We're adopted, and we think
they were adopted by very corrupt APP
p'icances, those amendments we're in
corPorated into the organic law of the
land under the forms of established
usage. They have gone into effect.
BY reason of the Thirteenth the ne
groes are free. BY reason of the
Fifteenth they are voters. Can we
deprive them of their freedom, of their
citizenship or of their suffrage 2 If so,
how? The repeal of the Fifteenth
amendment would not deprive them
of suffrage, because most of the States
in their local constitutions have con-
ferred that. A revolution would be
required to deprive them, of their liber-
ty and their civil rights, and no one
proposes that. SO, where is the good
in making an issue Ola question which
cannot be reachedP
But we are told that it may be
reached by the courts. Very we'll, Let
it rest with the courts. Let the courts
dispose. of it. The lawyers and judges
for it. But let us, as partisans, leave
it alone. Until it is decided by the
courts to be unconstitutional it is con-
shtutlonal, part of the law of the
land which we are bound to recognize
and obey, and that is the sum and SUBJ
stance of the thew departure" as fore
Swallowed by the Congressional ad-
dress, as made plain and formulated
by Vallandigham, and as urged late
and early during two years of unex-
ampled obloquy and Misrepresentation
by the Courier-Journal.
On the basis now laid down by the
Democrats of Ohio, PENNSYLVANIA and
lowa-a basis that arises out of a COM
mon -place and obvious view of facts
as they are and not as we would have
them-a basis that underlies the whole
Democratic fabric and is sure to form
the groundwork of the next National
Democratic platform-wei ask right
thinking men of every antecedent
opinion to place themselves, and we
appeal not less to Republicans, whose
votes are needed to save the country
from the Radicals, than to those DEM
oerats who mistakenly consider it un-
democratic to succeed and who would
go on forever polling minority of
votes, whilst our liberties are sunk
deeper and deeper in the abyss of usur-
patton and misrule.
AT all times we have sought the |
harmony of our party. Our assailants
only have refused to make any con-
eession. They would sacrifice nothing.
they must rule or else they will ruin,
and from the first they have pursued |
us with a virulence which has over
leapcd and defeated itself. We ask no
quarter from them. All that we ask is
the unity Of the Democratic party,
which they are trying to destroy.
. Courier-J Journal