New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-04

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OoIuEALnEIT or IDEAS.
lrachiavel, Of Taileyrsnd. It i Of no
consequence which, supplied the world in
his day With the information that the
proper use Of language was to conceal our
meaning. The contribution Of this sen-
tence to the diplomatic source Of modern
statecraft hasI been productive Of great
evils to the business Of printing, for thou
sands Of men have rushed into the news
papers protesting to declare their honest
convictions while intending to leave their
readers entirely in the dark as to what
their, convictions might be. We remem-.
her particular circumstance where
prominent pubhcist submitted his
''views to an intimate friend, and in
quired if they s'were Sufficiently non-com-
mitta1?" This is considered statesman
ship where great man can SO declare
himself that neither his friends nor his
enemies, and as for that, nor himself, can
discover what is meant by the utterance. 1t
lisa great pity thatsuch men should exist to
perplex us, but since they do exist and
since the people often take kindly to this
sort Of men, and since they are very dan
gerous because they are exceedingly weak,
it is necessary that those who are not
weak, should, at all times, be watchful of
those who are.
A gentleman of some notoriety, F. C.
Zacharie for instance, whose fame is of
large celebrity a. chairman of the Dem
ocratic Central Committee, Orleans
parish, is an imitator Of the diplomat
whose remark about words concealing
ideas Is mentioned in the preceding para
graph. Mr.. Zacharis published yester-
day morning column Of lamentation
about the last election, which viii serve
to perplex the Hon. NJ. G. Kerr in his
Congressional attitude, because the Hon.
NJ. c. Kerr will never be able to divine
the conclusions of the writer, or the design
of the address. Phe conclusion and the
design are Is impenetrably wrapped up
| in the circumlocutory verbiage of the
epistle Is are the old oaks on the Tensas
river hid and obscured by the. abundant
moss that hangs from their limbs.
All that we can make out Of the pro-
duction is that it appeals to the Hon. N.
C. Kerr to use his great endeavors to have
| justice done to the Democratic party in
Louisiana, Is it is now weak and debilit-
ated, and very much in want of help. It
repeats the Improbable Islander Of the
last campaign against Mr.. Blanchard. and
insinuates that probably the United States
District Judges did not help the Demo-
crats as much as they ought to have done.
Assertion is INDUCED in that certain re-
gistrars perpetrated frauds. and then con-
fessed to them, which is the only real
point in the correspondence, and that is
so weak and vegetable like, that the
Hon. N. c. Kerr will probably laugh at it,
because it fails to contain any of the re-
quisites of q criminal information. Why
does not the voluble NJ. Zacharie
give rs the name, dAte, place, and
fact, duly admitted and confessed to
by the criminal? Why does he use
so much language to tell 50 plain
. story? why harrow up Mr.. Kerr with
inferior rhetoric, when plain, unvarnished
tale would have better served his pur-
pose? And why this jeremiad anyhow?
What has Mr.. Zacharie to fear from law
of Congress which he impertinently calls
the '.Bayonet Bill?" Has he not applied
similar epithets to other national legisla-
ton, and is he not now daily swallowing
his wrath, and atoning' for his indiscre-
ton? If he did not know what was good
to be done three or four years ago, why
is he constantly pretending to know what
ought to be good three or four years ahead?
If men are failures to-day, are they not
rather indicate of stomach when they
set up to doctor us tomorrow? There is
biblical character of whom it is reported
that he 'sclomb tree" and got fall,
and that the people, instead Of following
his example, only laughed at him.
PRUSSIA And GERMANY.