New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-18

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for both philosophess and poeh He p
never 50 completely self ptished a. when
| he gets ON the seedy broadcloth Of one Of
..our oldest and best, and bewails the
degeneracy Of things in general; but. by
law Of his nature, the seedy broadcloth
can not long contain him, and soon q
cloven hoof, or forked tail, or sulphur
GUS Smell betrays the presence Of the gay
Old Boy.
In 1868, when the Democratic party
made temporary effort to assume pleas
ing shape, by clothing itself with the de-
cent garments Of Seymour, the solemn
and sobbing, the same result ensued.. Out
came the cloven hoof and forked tail OF
the Brodhead letter; out came the sulphur
GUS smell of Blair, melting to deeds Of
violence and rapine. Grant cried, sect
thee behind me, Satan y and all the peo-
pie said, "Amen."
And now comes Beelzebub in new
shape, with the same treacherous design,
and the same inevitable blunder. The
prince and power of the air in this case
is Perry, of South Carolina, who is an ex-
governor, and, let us hope, will always
remain so. We find in the New York
World of the eleventh an extract from his
first epistle to the Carolinians, in which
he assumes the character of an apostle
only to prove himself to be quite the re-
verse. He is writing ostensibly in the
interests of peace, of modern civilization,
of social order, of Christianity, if we may
suppose he has.any idea of the real mean
ing of these words. Does he counsel
good order for its own sake? Does he
press the claims of modern civilization?
Does he urge the cultivation of that true
social morality which would mako dis
order impossible Not q bit of it. He
could no more do this than Beelzebub
could make the sign of the cross. No.
He recommends prudent postponement
of insult, and assault, aud murder, until
such time as they may be safe and of prac-
teal use to his party. Here is what he
says:
Iwouid urge on the people of South Car
DINA to he quiet, and preserve by all means
the peace Of the State. The Radical party
is going down rapidly at the North, as is
proven by the New Hampshire election.
Any outbreak at this time would be God
sonI 70 <ho< MARTY If tho Sou%baru ,,o0n1e
will only be prudent, the next presidential
election will result in the reinforcement OF
General Grant, and the election of Demo
crat to the presidential chair. Then there
will be hope for the republic. Those I'M
principled adventures from the North, who
have stirred up bad feeling between the
'colored and white races, will flee, like Grim
mails from justice, with their stolen wealth.
The scallawag traitors to race and country
will soon follow, and the negroes will live
in harmony with the whites.
Note we'll the fact that in the view Of
the prophetic Perry these results are to
be attained simply by the election of a
Democratic President. The Democrats
of South Carolina are to be prudently,
not sincerely, peaceful, till that result
shall be attained. Of course, they can
not carry their own State in 1872, for with
anything like o fair election it is sure to
be Republican. The adventures from
the North" that is. those VIII" SO tar
forgot themselves as to serve in the army
of the United States, and s'the scallawag
traitors to race and country" that is, the
white Union men of the South, who be-
ieve that colored men have rights, and
that secession was crime aswell as
mistake, will be elected, but they will not
be permitted to take their seats. They
''will fee." Why? From what?
The answer is easy, and it was in sug-
costing it that Perry showed the hoof and
tail, and emitted that fine salphurous odor
which betrays the presence of the genuine
Ku-Klux Democrat They twill flee"
from insult from outrage, from mobs.
from murder. The plastic touch of tar
and the pleasing music of the pistol will
remind them that South Carolina is no
place for Northern men and Union men,
when Democratic President is in Wash
ington to reassert the doctrine that ''sov-
ereign States can not be coerced;" that
Capitalization is dangerous" that the
Democrats of South Carolina are, alone,
''the people Of the State;" and that if
they choose to Danish all who differ from
them in political belief it is no bust
ness of this Democratic President.
And then, says the ecstatic Perry,
''the negroes" who. in his view, seem to
have nothing to do with citizenship,
will live in harmony with the whites"
That is to say, with the white Democrats
who shall be left after the other ''whites"
shall be driven out. We all know what
this "harmony" means. 1t is the quiet
of political death the harmony that pre-
vailed in plantation quarters in 1850.
This is the gospel according to Perry, in
the year of our Lord 1871, in the United
States of America, in republic where
free thoughtand free speech are supposed
to be for all men, whether Northern men,
or Union men, or colored men. Will the
people accept it in 1872? Not if they