The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-07-12
Politics and the Heated Term.

To those Of us who find so much
difficulty in keeping cool, with the
Thermometer at 100, it is subject
of generalization that the heat OF
q political campaign is not added
to the rays Of a Summer sun. But
our Northern friends seem to have
no more fear Of a high degree Of
temperature than a veritable sala-
mander itself. From Maine to Cal
lfornia, all along the line, the two
opposing political parties have an
array Of candidates in the field, who
insist on instructing the dear peo
pie in their rights, and on unfold
ing, beneath a burning sun, "the
great principles which underiie onr
Republican institutions,'' as Judge
Douglas used to be SO fond OF say
ing. The New Departure and the
old Departure, are both thorough
lily belabored at the hands of hun
CRY office-seelers and ambitious
stump orators, whose exertions are
rcdoubled and whose eloquence be-
comes the more fervid as the mer-
curry rises toward the boiling point.
Surely cur Northern brethren must
be the most patriotic Of individu-
ais, Or else Northern politicians
must be the most greedy and i'm
Fortunate Of ofico-seekers. Those
liberties must be sacred indeed and
that country really the best in the
world, which are worth saving at
so great a sacrifice of wind and
tongue and sweat and bottom.
We said wc congratulate our
selves that we have nothing of the
kind Just now. We ca IL sleep
soundly without fear Of being
troubled with a subscription to a
torch light procession i'll honor of
the ''New Departure" We can
grumble over the crops and the
weather under the shade of onr
own vine and Jig tree without the
slightest apprehension Of being in
!
vited to an augering experiment
under h manipulations OF a
spread-eagle orator. We can even
indulge q slight hope that the
whole body Of the Fifteenth amend
ment may be permitted to hoe cot
ton and corn without molestation
for at least few months.
But we areF writing little too
fast. The seething cauldron OF
Northern politics seems to have eX-
cited the envy of Louisiana Radi-
Gals, who dream that their party is
going to the dogs uHless they are
always in council connecting some
new kind of devilment. A conven-
ton has been called for the middle
of the dog days, regardless of the
possibility that the faithful might
be scattered by a visitation of yel-
low fever in the the metropolis,
The call lays down with great mi
nuteness the number Of delegates
and the basis Of representation in
each parish, showing that the Con
vention question has been carefully
considered and that it is not the
offspring Of sudden impulse or heat
of political passion. What's in the
wind? Has the Dunn and War
moth quarrel got to such a pitcf
that it is necessary. to try to settle
it, or else to commence open war
fare at once? We might ask hal
a dozen other conundrums without
the hope Of a satisfactory solution
At any rate we humbly beg o
them that they will do nothing t.
call out the Democracy in these
hot days. II they would only swal
low each other alive, perhaps vi
could(bear to witness the spectacle
, and it may be, be refreshed at be
holding it.
70 In our journey through thi
busting world, and amid the strif