New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-21

laden with the weapons of his own de
struetlon, furnished by the official authority
OF the American government, and doubt
less there are now German soldiers sleep
ing in their graves, sent there by American
bullets, fired from American guns, fur
nished to the army of the French Emperor
by the administration Of-Ulysses S. Grant.
1t can not be otherwise wbenawe reflect
that enough was sent to equip an army OF
$4,000 men for the field. Gentlemen, it is
against an administration stained by prac.
tees such as these, and many more Of ike
criminality, that the people Of the United
States are now mastering under various or.
ganizatiOns for a united assault Il does
not follow that those E7,hO think alike in re.
gard to the necessity of the overthrow
should think alike in regard to everything
else.
1t is conceded by men of various opinions
to be common obstacle to the general vel
fare and common reprOach to the good
name Of the country. If a common NUISANCE
was created in a city, the residents would
not stop .tOinquire into each others views
on all other questions before they would
agree to unite for its abatement. TheT
would leave them for subsequent discussion
and settlement, and proceed at once to de.
BtrOy the cause Of a general discomfort and
sickness, 50 now we find men who are in
favor Of high protective tariff, and those
who are against it, as / am, men who are
for negro suffrage, and those who are
against 1t, as | am; men who are for imme-
date return to specie payment, and those
VINO are against it, as l am; men who be-
lieve in paying the bonds of the government
In gold, and those who believe in paving
them according to the law of the country
as decided by the Supreme Court of the
United States, as l dc; men who are in favor
81 exempting them from taxation, and those
who are opposed to such exemption, as I
am; men who believe that 1903 national
banks are necessary to furnish the people a
circulating medium of $3.50, 900, 900. at cost
Of thirty per cent to the taxpayers, and
those who believe, as l do, that a currency
can be furnished to the people without this
enormous per cent; men who, in fact, differ
widely upon nearly every political issue,
earnestly agreeing that the first step toward
good government and a general reform is
20 drive from power the present admins
tration and its corrupt surroundings,
All Democrats will join in such work,
in strict consistency with the principles of
their whole lives, and will welcome an ALI
ance with all honorable men who espOuse
the same cause. In advocating this cause
/ shall abandon no principles on which
have heretofore obtRined your support.
Governor Morton has much to say about
the alleged inconsistency of the Democratic
party, and comments upon the expression
LudG We nave luLubu Jul DuCh5 VI TIC
past. In one sense every man turns his
back uLOn the pastwith the dawn OF every
new day, and with the incoming of its new
duties and responsibilities Whe lives to
accomplish the true work of life lives in
the present and with his face to the future.
However well this work of yesterday is
done, he can not waste the remainder Of his
DAYS in contemplation. He must listen to
the voices that bid him on, and obey the
hands that beckOn him forward. The De-
nIOcracy, therefore, does not turn its back
upon the past in Reputation of its record;
IL simply faces the future, and enters upon
the new fields of action which have opened.
If. however, it had turned its back upon the
past, in the degrading sense ascTibed to it
by Governor Morton, it would not lay in
his mouth to utter the repreach. l can not
recall single political issue in the last
eighteen wears, commencing with the repeal
Of the Missouri compromise in 1881, IN which
he has not occupied both sides with equal
heat and with equal ability, and
with equal abuse Of his adversary,
for the time being. Since the war he has
announced that a State which tolerated
negro suffrage and negro officials would be
an unfit place of residence for white people;
and would expel white immigration from
It's borders. He directly turned his back
upon that position, and furiOusly assalIed
those whe did not do the same. He es-
DDu8Gu the payment VI lLiG DOubS Al SLEGA4-
backs, to the extent that Morrill,, OF Yer
mont, told him in the Senate that he went
farther than even PendletOn on that sub
iect He very soon turned his back on that
doctrine, and bowed lower at the golden
shrine of Grants administration than any
one else in the land. He euiOgized the
treaty with England, by which indirect
damages were to be obtained in the Ala
bama case He turned his back on that and
was the leader of the senatorial party which
changed the treaty to suit England. He
has for wears had himself proclaimed as the
soldiers friend, perhaps, above all other
men in the United States. Has he not
turned his back upon the soldiers What
has he done for them since the war! Who
fill the best federal offices in this State ur-
der his control of the federal patronage?
Not soldiers, or if here and there one has
received an appointment, as IN the case Of
General Graham, he has most likely not
been recommended by Morton. When
introduced a bill into Congress, by which
every crippled soldier as well as the
widows and orphans of those who were
killed in the service, should have $50 acres
of land, without being required TO settle on
and improve it, did Governor Morton lend
the matter helping hand Able-bOdied
American citizens are entitled to so
much land because they can work
upon it. The worst sufferers by the
war; the Wounded soldier element
in our midst, and those made widows
and orphans-are deprived of this benefit
on account Of those very wounds and losses,
which have disabled them from farming,
and have made their wants and their
claims all the greater. Does not a public
man turn his back upon the soldier when
he refuses to him in his crippled condition
the same aid which is given by the govern
ment to the stalwart and robust men Of tie
cOuntrT who were not in the war at all
Again has Governor Morton not turned his
back on the soldier in refusing to assist in
equalzing the bounty Of the early veterans
with the amount received by those who
served later in the war 1t is a shameful
fact that the soldiers who served nearly
three wears of the war have received but
$500 bounty, while those who served but
little more than one year, near its close,
have received a bounty of 500 for their
services.
Various efforts have been made in Con-
gress to place them all on an equality by
paving the additional 800 to the veterans
who are entitled to it. bill for this pur-
pose has passed the House, l believe, three
times, but has always been defeated in the
Senate. Henry Wilson, now a candidate
for Vice President, has all the time been
chairman of Senate Committee on Military
Affairs, and could have secured its pass
age. So could Morton, if he had not
turned his back upon the soldier and his
face toward other subjects more pleasing
and profitable to his ambition. l submit,
therefore, that he is not the proper
person to arraign me or any one else for
turning away from the past. If l am re-
elected to Congress l shall pursue the same
course 1 have heretofore, only promising
you greater industry in your service. In