New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-04

| its opponents, or give the first shadow of
| approval of their Iawless and violent meas
ures; we mean only to say that it needs to
| acguiesce in those accomplished facts,
| whether constitutional or unconstitutional,
which the people will not permit to be un
done. All constitutional governments have
witnessed violations of their constitution,
and no constitutional government, we be-
lieve, has ever undone "A violation that ex-
tended privilege.
The object of the Democratic party, as
expressed above by'i its organ, is to secure
the vote of the people, and thereby defeat
the Republicans in the presidential cleo
ton, in. 1872. The organ is satisfied that
this can not be done unless the Democratic
party fairly and calmly recognize and ac-
cept the popular sentiment of the whole
country. And this leads to the inquiry of
what is meant by this language? What is
meant by "the popular sentiment of the
whole country We will answer by stating
that it means the acceptance and indorse-
ment Of all that has been done since the
Republicans have been called by the
people to administer the government.
The "creed and policy" of the Repub-
Lean party has been and is the ''creed
and policy of very large majority of tie
people-''the sentiment" if you please,
''of the whole country" With what in
effable disgrace and hyl ocrisy, then, does
the organ say: 1--WE do not mean to init
mate that the Democracy must adopt the
creed and policy OF its opponents, or give
the first shadow Of approval of their law
less and violent measures; we mean only
to say that it needs to acquiesce in those
accomplished facts, whether constitutional
or unconstitutional, which the people will
not permit to be undone."
And we might put another question
right here by asking what are the "ac-
complished facts" referred to? They
are the amendments to the constitution,
adopted since the close of the war, and
the laws prescribing and securing the
mode Of demonstrating the States that
were in rebellion. sAfter advising the
Democracy to accept these as the "popu-
lar sentiment of the whole country" it
ip the next breath denounces them as
"lawless and violent measures"
This is the fairness with which the
Democracy would accept the popular SEN
timent of the whole country; the mode it
would take to deceive the people and
gain victory in 1872. 1t promises that
victory then will restore the wounded
constitution to its old authority, and
arrest the alarming ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
the central government. This clearly
means the re-establishment of the fatal
State rights doctrine which led to the
war of the Confederate States against the
government of the United States-or cen
trail government, as the slave Democracy
is pleased to call it.
The Democracy's love of power must
be great and its faith in the intelligence
of the people small when it can hope to
regain power by so bold a deception can
hope to be again intru5ted with the ad-
of. the government it once
betrayed. The history of this party is
yet fresh in the minds of the people, and
they have got to have better evidence of
its submission to the popular sentiment
of the whole country than they have yet
had before again trusting it with power