New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-17
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Colonel T. N. Walker, E. H. East, G. c.
Giers, John A. Campbell, Milton Cockrill,
Jesse Warren, Samuel Lyon, James Cham
berlin, Thomas J. Bailey, of Tennessee,
are well known Republicans, whose at
tachments to, and honor by the party, date
back during a period when General Grant
was Democrat, and very pronounced
friend of slavery. Judged as men are
Judged in all the relations of life, these
gentlemen ought to be accepted as relia-
BILE opponents Of Republican sentiment, for
they belonged to the PARTY when it had no
honors to bestow, and when their sole OBJ
ject was to uphold principles that pro-
claimed the same rights and blessings to
all men, regardless Of color or race.
These gentlemen are still Republicans,
but they are not partisans. Their devo-
ton is. to principle first, to party second,
and lastly, if at all, to men. II Repubii,
canism, as it was originally proclaimed,
can be maintained in its purity, they are
willing and anxious to support it, for by
SO doing the greatest goodwill be conferred
upon both the country and the people. Il
it can not they are not willing to make it
superior to patriotism and duty, but assert
their right to adhere to whatever they can
find that is better than party emasculated
of its genuine principles at the instance Of
selhshness Oh incompetence.
The first seven gentlemen constitute a
committee appointed by the Republicans
Of Kansas to prepare an address to be
submitted to the people Of that State.
The eleven other gentlemen constitute
committee appointed by the Republicans
of Tennessee to prepare an address to be
submitted to the people Of that States
Both of these committees have performed
their duty, and the result is before US in
the two addresses, one directed to the
voters of Kansas, and the other directed
to the voters of Tennessee. These two
appeals are very nearly alike in sentiment,
both forcibly written, and both boldly and
firmly directed against the administration
of President Grant as anti-Republican, as
dangerous to the integrity of our instltu-
tons, and as demoralizing in its effects
upon the politics Of the nation.
General Grant is condemned for having
substituted himself in place Of the Eepub-
Ican party and Of the government. He
has directed that the fealty of all the
agents of the people who derived their ap-
pointments at his hands should owe their
full duty to himself, which is nothing but
the spirit of absolutism in the most dan
oerous form. He has subordinated the
civil department to the military in a large
degree. thus deadening the active lntiu-
ence of the people in their own affairs by
rendering its force and efficiency uncertain
as against the power Of armed forces. He
has rewarded his personal favorites and
oyerlo oked their otfenses as a reward for
their craftsmanship toward himself; and be
has used the power Of his Office to perse-
cute and destroy Republicans who
have maintained their independence
of himself in the Senate IL
matters of principal or general interest.
He has fostered abuses in official life by
being the strength and support Of the par
tisan offender. He has asked and re-
ceived at the hands OF Congress extraordi-
nary powers, which he has abused to his
own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. He has declared
his intention, through his chief spokesman
in Congress, to reopen the sectional guar
rels of the past in order to effect his own
election in November next. He has d.
rected that parties who complained to him
against the extortions and robberies OF his
favorites must be prosecuted for having
allowed themselves to be imposed upon,
which is one way to make men silent IN
der oppression. And lastly, as the gravest
charge, the President is accused Of having
used his power to dictate to local COM
munities the men they should elect to
Office: and he has followed this desp0tic
interference up with military intervention
in behalf of his favorites. This last accu-
sation, which every Republican in Louisi-
ana will recognize at once as applicable to
the Gatling Gun Convention, we copy en-
tire:
Under the misconception of the objects OF
this trust. and the utter disregard OF the
high dignity of the office of chief magistrate
of the nation, the highest stations have been
used to reward his almoners and pension
his relatives in almost every instance
either unworthy or unqualified to execute
faithfully and efficiently the duties of the
office
He has used his position and power to
control the local elections Of the States, pre-
scribing the candidates for whom the people
should cast their sutfrages, and Furnishing
honest and competent officials for refusing
to surrender their right of choice to eXecu-
| tive dictatiOn.
| The swarms Of officers, unknown to the
| neople. that have been sent forth as spies,
! informers and political agents INTO certain
| States, as well as the governments counte-
nanced and sustained by the administra.
ton, are a reproach to American justice and
| honor.
The executive has invaded the sanctity OF
the Senate and demanded, and through the
instruments of his will, secured the punish
ment and degradation of the most enllght-
ened. self-denying and faithful Republican
Senators, for having dared according to the
dictates OF their conscences to differ
with him on d great question of national
policy, or still greater question Of personal
| duty.
The limited education of the executive
has been confined mainly TO learning the
duty of obedience and subordination to
| mi, nd lor1 rnorirG Of !