New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-15
LITTLE MORE GRAPE,

A LITTLE MORE GRAPE.
If the Bulletin will refer to the lecture
on "Social Tyranny" delivered by tn
REPUBLICAN, on Tuesday, it will discover
that We took good care to guard ourselyc:
from its q tinkling cymbal and sounding
BRASS We addressed ourselves to the
people who are suffering under weight
of prejudice that just such infammatory
organs as the Ba,Uetin are daily spreading
abroad. We reserved ourselves from the
answers from the different parties who
foster and attempt to live by creating
animosities between different classes OF
the same community. And this thing was
done knowingly. There is never any use in
trying to convert Democrat who makes
money out of Democracy, And there is
just as little use in holding an argument
against bruisers with an organ that lives
upon extravasations. Our design was to
reach the people, and show them first how
they were misled, and then to show them
who misled them. This design We intend
to adhere to. As the organ Of prejudice;
as the self-eonvicted advocate Of pernicious
evils; as the interested author of that
social tyranny against which we protest,
the Bulletin is not our game. If quack
doctor is administering his quack remedies
to our friend, do We go to him to discuss
the evil. or do We go to the confding vic
tim Of his charlatanism? We 60 to our
friend and choke him OFF from tax
ing that which Injuries him. The
Bulletin is changeling. 1t does not
advocate the same principles now
that it did two years ago, and. it did not
maintain two years ago the platform that
it upheld twelve months before. And it
will still further alter its politics before
another year has gone by. And all these
have been made upon one
subject, and its still further improvement
will arise out of the same matter. It is
either, then, incompetent to gauge itself,
Or it is merely the organ Of that prejudice
which is the most prevalent Our posi-
hon has been, and is, and promises to be,
The same. We have, then, this advan-
age, that our politics are regulated by
principle, because principle alone is con-
'istent. What business have We to stand |
N the corner and discuss stability with
None whatever There
ore We address the clerk Of the weather
lirectly, and argue with him about the
'ropriety Of south winds when we are
ired of northern blasts. The people of
be South are the objects of our solicitude.
hey are the losers By the evils which We
re seeking to correct. The men who
reate the evils. live by them and are in
orrigible. The REPUBLICAN circulates
mong all classes. 1t goes to colored
Ian and white man. 1t addresses thou
ands of people daily, and is read by the
roducers of wealth as we'll as by the
atherers. 1t exceeds the Bulletin in
setulness as much as a steam engine
zceeds mule, and yet business
len who are afraid to advertise in our
ltended issue hide their notices in the
Of the Bulletin. This, of itself,
lows wonderful lack of business capa-
ty. and, more than that, it proves what
e asserted, that Northern men, or men
to be Northern men by their
ok Of prejudice, were visited with os- {
acism and total neglect in New Orleans {
I'd the South. This is personal argu- 6
ent, but it is the most forcible, and in {
owing upon the enemy it is necessary to {
e force. The Bulletin will Please let US {
one, therefore, while We are talking to a
clients. And, above all things let it G
It attempt to disprove our propositions t
citing into court Northern men who S
e afraid to say their souls are their own. f
lere are genuine Yankees in the South a
10 taboo Northern Republicans because
ey are afraid to offend the caste of the {
immunity. These men are not the par f
s that We bother our heads about, al
ough they will be the first to profit by
r manliness if we correct the business d
as Of their customers. G.