New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-12

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Letters on the situation-NO. 4.
EDrToR REPUBLICAN:
The State of Louisiana has arrived at a
grave and a aomentous crisis, one pregnant
with issues of vital Importance not only to
her political institutions, but also to her
agricultural and her commercial interests.
On the one hand, common sense and pa
triotism makes plain the way before us out
of all of our troubles, and points the finger
of hope, with all Of its cheering and in
spring influences, to a progressive and
glorious future; on the other hand, political
prostitution, disappointed ambition, passion
and prejudice appear to rule supreme,
threatening to terminate in general despair,
bankruptcy, and even in blood itself. I'm
der such circumstances as these, the truth
of which all are perfectly willing to admit,
it does seem that the Democratic party
1.-THE Reform party having lost its separate
existence, and no longer having a name
and domicile among us, owing to its re-
cent marriage to the Democratic party,
which successful fraud upon large, un-
willing and now indignant majority of its
voters, was .perpetrated by those able and
far-seeing statesmen, Randolph & Co., on
theseventh instant, composed entirely of the
white element, and processing to represent
the wealth and the intelligence Of this
State, protesting to realize the perilous
condition we now occupy, and to re-
alize the weight of responsibility that
they owe not only to themselves,
and to the sacred memory of their
patriot fathers, but also to the con-
dition of pOsterity, to redeem their State
from the sink of political degradation in
which she is now weltering; say that it
does seem that they, the Democratic ele-
ment, should be willing to lay aside and to
Danish from their cOunsels all wild and i'm
practicable theories, all false and delusive
hopes; that they should be willing to sac
rifce their likes and dislikes, their passions
and their prejudices on the altar of their
eountry's good; that they should look at
things as they are, and not as we would
have them; that they should stop looking
backward, but that they should look for
ward; and, finally, that with all of their
intelligence, that they should realize that
consistency as to method sinks into
nothing, and becomes no consistency as all,
when compared to, when it comes in con-
fict with consistency of purpose and of
object. Are they acting in this manner
Are they doing anything of the kind Are
they acting as if they. were equal to the re-
quirements of the hOurl Are they rising,
in a time of common danger, superior to
the selfish aspirations of their leaders
And do they manifest disposition to dis
regard party lines and to unite with all ele-
ments in one grand effort, zone long pull,
one strong pull, one pull altogether" for
the redemption of our. common country,
and for a restoration to the condition of
peace, quiet and security No! most en-
phatically no the answer is echoed from
all parts of the State, from the mouths and
hearts of all of those Of her peaceful, law
abiding and intelligent citizens, whose eyes
are not completely blinded by prejudice
and by passion, and whose minds are not
biased bysparty influences.
What, then, is the course that they are
pursuing They are being led on by de-
signing and mbitious men, with few mis-
guided but honest heads among them, who
would rather see this State in a condition
of the direst anarchy than to depart from
the method which they have adopted for
private considerations and personal objects
from the method that has led them to pub
lie defeat, but which has been to the pri-
vate advantage of many of their leaders in
the past, which has been, in a great meas
ufe, instrume ntal in plunging the State
into her present deplOrable condition. That
method will lead to nothing but defeat in
the future, and W hich will be sure, if con-
tinued in, to bring upon us condition of
things far, far worse than anything that
we have yet expe rienced, and which will
be fully equal, if not worse, than the load
of oppression u nder which that once proud
and prosperous but now BUNDLED and de-
graded State, South Carolina, now grOans
under, and from which she vainly prays to
be delivered. NAMRUF.