New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12

| That glory never shall his wrath or might
Extort from me-"
Satan thus virtually conceded that the
tissue" for which he had openly fought
was dead. That is, he could not carry
his point by open force. But, being like
our latter-day politicians, fruitful in ex.
pedients, he at once took new de.
parture. He comedies the field to be
lost, but invokes his guerrilla and Ku-Klux
forces to assist him in depriving the
Divine Victor of the fruits of his victory.
If now we can really bury the dead
issues, and with them all the numerous
political views that followed the banners
of error and wrong SO long as they could
be upheld by its miserable votaries, we
should by all means endeavor to do SO.
But none of the issues sustained by the
Republican party have been defeated.
| Our defenders have not been driven from
| a single position. Our men stand victo-
rious on a stricken field. The enemy
concede that they have lost the fight. A
piece of doggerel, inscribed 1.-THE Con-
quered Banner" has been hauled through
their tattered ranks with the most lachry-
NOSE and sentimental evidences of woe.
1t is their duty, not ours, to bury their
own dead. But so long as they keep the
corpses above ground, and sing ballads
to their memory, 80 long the Republican
party will post its sentinels, and demand
the countersign from all the stragglers
from the enemy's camp.
These champions of error have been
driven from their chosen ground. They
are no longer in position to defend any
thing or attack anybody. But they stand
in surly attitude, with menacing eyes
turned toward their conqaerors, which
bode anything but peace or burial of
any of the so-called dead issues, if they
could once regain the power to rule. The
furtive duties of the gentle Ku-Klux would
then be openly performed by the commit
tees of the dominant power, for the glory
which would ensue for such achievements,
in the same manner as was done in the
days before the tissues" died, and were
in need of the undertaken
When we hear a demand for burying
the dead issues, it is always from man
who has made political mistakes. He has
not been successful, and is Temporal
rily ashamed of his failures. He comedies
the field to be lost, and deems the conces-
sion an honorable capitulation. Without
pledges to sin no more, he calls for the
battle to cease. Without giving bail for
future good behavior, he demands ad-
mission upon equal terms into the camp
of his conquerors. Without showing his
fitness, except by admitting the failure of
his former course, he demands share in
the government of those who have just
shivered his idols at his feet. Without
bringing forth fruits meet for repentance,
he insolently demands forgiveness,
when the founder of the Christian re-
ligion himself laid down the doctrine that
no sinner could be Internationally par
doned without first forsaking his evil
ways.
Let the enemies of the Republican
party repent sincerely; let them further
esteem themselves failures and learn wis
dom from their betters. If they will do
this, withdraw their prowling gangs of
and come to the Republican
in sack cloth and ashes, with
sufficient evidence that they have actually
buried their dead issues of Estate rights"
slavery, sectional bigotry, and the indie
feasible right of the rich white man to
subsist off the proceeds or the labor of the
blacks, and poor whites, and they will |
hear but little of their former wickedness
and folly. But so long as they sustain
the highway robbers, and shed tears over
their demolished idols, they may expect |
their dead issues to be kicked around
by those who are offended with their
stencil.