The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-03-02
Waiting on the Liberal Republicans.

The Mobile Register contains the fol-
lowing manly Democratic sentiments:
Every days experience the more and
more confirms us in the belief of the
deadly mischief that is being wrought
to the Democratic party by what our
correspondent truly calls the 'Einfernal
policy Of passivism." The Liberal Re
publicxt,,S arc the sole bcneficiaries of it,
under all and any circumstances-and
it seems to have been invented for their
special bcnetit and behoof. The DEM
ocratic interest in it is only suggestions,
possible and remote, and ana at last de-
pendent entirety upon the ,cIiim or the
interest Of the anti Grant Republictu,s.-
This single consideration is enough to
condemn it. Whoever heard of Il great
army putting its power at the mercy of
the leaders of a smaller one, on the plea
that the latter might possibly, under
certain circumstances, become its ally?
This is what passivism proposes to do
| with three millions of Democrats, and
! the result is intense disgust throughout
the ranks Of the party, and we are glad
to see growing Indignation against
the timid or false leaders who have
done it. And now we find the Demo-
cratic party distracted with doubt and
uncertainty, halting in inactivity, while
it should be moving against the enemy
and fighting, and all in order to see
what the Liberal Mrs. Grundy has to
say and means to do-and yet at the
same moment we have not Il shadow of
Il guarantee that Il Liberal Republican
will ever push :, bayonet or fire 4 shot
in our ranks.
The policy is more than puerile and
pusillanimOuS; it is asinine-sO much
so as to raise a doubt in every Demo-
cratic mind whether the champions of
it are not better Liberal Republicans
than they are Democrats. And so we
are waiting OH these boilers from Grant |!
How long have we to wait: Why, of
course, until these gentlemen take up
their position on the battle-feld-the
best, Of course, for themselves and then
we are to take whatever ground is left
us-perhaps in the rear of the Liberals,
to cook their rations and bring up their
baggage. And so the great body of pa
triots that Gen. jackson led to victory
is to be reduced by Passivism to the ex-
allied post Of scullions and horse-holders
for Trumbull Il Co. If men cnamoured
Of the Missouri policy are prepared for
this, the masses of manhood that con-
stitute the untcrrified Democracy scorn
it, and we rejoice to see the spirit rising
to give emphatic voice to that feeling.
Democratic paper is one of these voices.
We hope the National Democratic Com
mittee will be called together, and that
every member of it will respond to the
call-at least, to consult and let the De-
mocrncy know that their sentinels are
not asleep ON their posts, and that the
great fortunes of public liberty which
it carries ON its shoulders are not to be
thrown down and its high duties dele
gated to Il band of boilers from Grant
who do not speak even in Delphic ac
cents to their putative allies.
Nothing can be clearer than that the
,, Liberals arc making their game IRE
spectiVc of the deStinieS of the Demo
cratic party, and that they will tigh
! with us or against us, just exactly as i
I accor,ls with their interests. And meal
, time, passiVism is making Of the Dem
l ocratlc leaders Il mass Of drivellcrS Wht
will be unfit to fight with or agains
them when the time for battle comes
V We pray the Democratic press and TIN
.. Democratic leaders to speak out ant
= crush out this cowardly, dilatory ant
, damaging policy.