New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-20
A POLITICAL LANDMARK.

MI. y. 40. ROZler is WOrkluS Dia'oAJ
for given purpose. He wants monu-
ment Grateful communities build bronze
statuettes to orators. statesmen, and phil
anthropists. These silent testimonials
exist in all cities, and preach sermons 10
the world about virtue, eloquence, lnteg-
rity and heroism. Hercules has one at
Rhodes; Pompey did have one at Alexan-
dria. and another at Rome; Wellington is
remembered with one on Trafalgar square;
Bonaparte has several in different parts OF
France; Boss Tweed sees his own monu-
ment in Central Park; Jim Fisk is about
to build one in his own honor in New
York, and Rozier wants one in New Or
leans If we can assist in forwarding this
ambition, it will afford us comfort to do
so. 1t ought to be erected on Triangle
square, and the design should present
three sides: Ossian might furnish blazon
for one panel, the Italian miller boy for
another and Salathiel for the third. Who
can penetrate the mists of Ben Lomond
with greater ease than Rozier? Who can
adhere with greater tenacity to ancient
tradition than Rozier? Who can wander
about with greater persistence and to
less purpose than Rozier? His ability in
these several respects entities him to
monument, for what better device can the
world adopt to mark the present progress
than to set up monument significant of
the immense stupidities from which it
departed when it discarded the hyperbole
of ancient Scotia, the practice of the
miller boy of Italy and the superstitions
of the Wandering jew? We have de-
scended to the useful from the suggestive.
The contrete has taken the place of the
abstract. And since Mr.. Rozier is merely
a suggestion and an abstraction, in piling
up monument in his favor, society will
only determine its own advance from
ideality to fact.
Mr.. Rozier's latest effort in his own be-
half appeared in the Times yesterday,
and was written in a sort of Mosaic style,
combining Ossian's hating rhetoric with
Horace Greeley's philosophical essays. Its
chiefattractions consisted in epigrammatic
sentences and emphatic capitals. 1t
abused adjectives by converting them
into nouns. Its main force was devel-
oped by marshalling mere descriptive
words into battalion of proper names.
There was manifest attempt to initiate
Victor Hugo by being short-winded.
Then, again, there was lurking effort in
another part to rival Henry S. Foote in
being long-winded. One section of SEN
fences were colicky, and another section
was chronic. The reader was either in
hanger of biting his tongue at short
stop, or of smothering under the attempt
70 render long one. And when the end
was attained the remark of the preacher
might well be repeated, commonplace of
all is commonplace.
What does the ambitious Rozier mean
when he crucifes the constitution in his
Effort to applaud it? He says that all
legislation is null, void, despotic and vim |
lictive which does not conform to the |
and this assertion he follows |
Up with an assurance that the constitu- |
ion is dead, debauched, discarded. What |
loes he mean when he says that the States |
IRE paramount to the constitution, if he |
as he says he does, that the con-
titution shall be recognized as the only |
ule of government? What are we to I'M
lerstand when he assures us that military |
nen, all booted and spurred, are quar-
cred upon the South as rulers, while the |
ountry is under negro supremacy |
Does he mean anything? Is this not
shaft directed at the mists of
Ben Lomond? Is he comprehensive
7hen he declares that the speeches of
Webster explain the present constitution?
S this not going to mill with his peck of
orn in one end of the bag and his big
ock in the other? Is not Salathiel APP
aren't when he mourns over the appoint
lent Of partisans to Office? Would he
ppoint his enemies Would any sensible
IAN select the enemies of law to enforce
:? Where is his respect, even for the
enerable constitution itself, when he as
ais the right of the State to call on the
ederal authorities for military assistance,
hitch was a right that Webster Endorsed
S applicable to Massachusetts,?
If Mr.. Rozier desires an honest answer
} his inquiry, "Can there be found
lore perfect network of tyranny" it is
asy to respond that if his vagaries were
ossible of success, the job would be an
asy one. We should live under the rule
chance.