New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-29

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been brought in to aid them. These have
been practiced until discomfort has fol-
lowed upon the heels of oppression, and
the people, outraged in every right of SOW
ereignty, will no longer submit to bare
faced aggression. Theyare determined to
regulate their own affairs in their OWL way
despite the acts of Congress designed to
interfere with the rights Of election, or the
traitors in our midst, who, lackey like, ap-
plaud every indication Of federal oppres-
sion. To accomplish this, no nan Of re-
s~pectability in the South will be found to
shirk his duty.
But how is it to be accomplished? This
is certainly an important question! Gen
eral Beauregard answers it in this way:
The old parties are pOwerless to save us /!
We must call on all Disconnected elements
and parties to unite with us to resist the
Entertainments and ~cOrrupting influences
of the government under which we are
living, or, | should more properly say,
dying" for a slow but sure political death
is now staring US in the face. What then,
may be asked, is the remedy that we have
at hand? 1t may be an unpleasant one to
many of US, but we had better make a
virtue OF necessity and accept It ere 1t be
too late.
To me it appears plain that to insure
success we must all unite Under the banner
of ''the constitution and the laws" IRE
union and reform, - "hOnesty and universal
amnesty" That banner has been lately
raised at Cincinnati, under the leadership
Of Greeley and BrOwn-in the past two of
our most earnest and dangerous enemies,
but two, also, OF the purest and most honest
of men, who. when they shall have said
to the country, Let rs have peace will
mean it, and viii give us peace in spite OF
all opposition. For my part, l prefer haV-
ing as a friend one who has been my open
and fearless antagonist, to one who has
friendship IN his lips, but hatred in his
hearth"
Cancellation and compromise have ever
been found far more effective than Sec
tional bitterness and luminosity. Since the
war, the Democratic party, as an organiza-
ton, has been considered in a measure
sectional. It has never been able, and
can not now unite the conservative senti-
ment of the country. If it is unable to do
this, upon what reasoning can be justified
its opposition to a party that can. There
is no necessity for the individual members
Of the Democratic party to abandon their
principles in a coalition with the Liberal
Republican movement. They can retain
these and still act with the party Of COM
promise. The condition of the country
demands it the purity and stability Of
American institutions require it. It is use
less to disguise the fact that it will require
a united effort to rescue the government
from the hands that now control it. Such
another opportunity may never occur,
Why then, for this 4 time, should we
hesitate to sink the partisan in the patriot.
General Beauregard says:
1 ask nv friends if we are likely to 20
amiss by following the example Of such
men as Seymour and Blair, Democratic
candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent in 1868, and of Charles Francis Adams,
who would have been very acceptable to
the Democrats, it is said, if chosen by the
Cincinnati convention in preference to
Horace Greeley2 Those gentlemen, we are
approved and lndOrSe tine NOM
nation Of Messrs. Greeley and Brown, and
adopt the Liberal Republican platform
Why should we be more hypercritieal than
they are? Are they not supposed to be
better judges than we are Of the merits
and qualifications of the candidates who
can or should command success Let US
then bury the Ratchet, forget and forgive,
both sides, and march in solid phalanx
to reform and victory.
This is the correct doctrine. It is the
true policy as well, and, if rightly needed,
viii lead to success. With so much at
stake, it is scarcely possible that the Dem
ocratic party viii hesitate to unite in the
grand movement for reform, to strike a
blow at Capitalization, and to uphold in
their purity free institutions.