New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
THE eUT.ANB-OUTRRs.
BIanton Duncan's CAN fer the LOuisviII
Convention

commence an organization for the purpose
of supporting the principles of our party as
they will be proclaimed by the convention
at Louisville, September The utter
abandonment of principles as evinced by
the coalition between the spoilsmen and
place -hunters, in their attempt to elevate
Horace Greeley TO the presidency, is sad
evidence of the decentralization and cOrrup
ton now existing in our midst /; and based,
as that bargain is, upon fraud and hypOc-
risy, the utterance of one set of sentiments
in the North, and another in the South, it
must be repudiated and spurned by every
man who has a spark Of honesty in his
heart.
There are hundreds of thousands who
already proclaim their purposes of main
tanning the Democratic organization at all
hazards. The disintegratiOn of the Radical
party into two factions renders it self-evi-
dent that the Democratic masses can elect
one of their own faith, instead of lifelong
enemy like Greeley, who still loudly asserts
that he has never abandoned his principles,
and points proudly yet to his record.
And such a record
Can Democrats who have boosted that
they support principles, not men, agree
to falsify their past life by clasping hands
with the worst men of the Radical party
Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull Fenton, and the
thousand other leaders, who rally around
Greeley, and would control his administra-
ton if his election can be secured Who
are the men that thus seek for the highest
honoPs and emoluments of this country,
and who have obtained the support of the
trading politicians of the Tammany school
by promise OF dividing the spoils With
out exception they are the big0ts, whose
bitterness has been evinced for the past
twenty years in defamation of their OppO-
nents. They are the men who have uttered
the most unchristian, the most ferOciOus,
the most YillainOus sentiments about and
against the Southern people ,(wOmen and
children as well as meDl during the war,
and who have done most to develop and
pass that legislation since the war, which
true Democrats denOunce as subversive of
liberty and against the spirit Of our institu-
tons.
They are the men who have riveted the
South in its chains, and burdened it with
its increased debts, the proceeds of which
have gone into the pockets of the select
few who have fattened upon the misfOr-
tunes of the people, and who turn to the
new ring and the Tammany alliance in
order still further to enrich and ennoble
themselves.
Warmoth, who has increased the debt of
Louisiana $45 900, 700 in three years, whose
fraudulent acts and villainOus State legisla-
papers from Maine to Texas, is the leader
par excellence of the chivalry of the South.
His influence at Cincinnati, and the sixteen
votes of his delegation, insured the nOmina-
ton of Greeley, and yet we are coOlly in
formed that the people have done 1t with
enthusiasm!
Warmoth can control the registry of
Louisiana, and can elect by fraud such can
didates as he pleases; Just as the mayor of
VnYal- hos 4ha n iT1'o int
ing all the return officers for Mr. Greeley,
who can, if not checked, carry out the. open
assertion of 80, 900 majority in November.
And Augustus. Schen and others have
written urgent letters for the ''goOd of the
cause" that the Louisiana Democrats
should work in harmony with WarmOth.
And it is boldly proposed to place him i'll
the United States Senate as reward for
his infamY.
Can it be that the people are so degraded
as thus to sanction premium for their own
dishonOr?
Is our body polite to be inoculated with
the base poison of fraud
Is this a better method of securing our lib
critics than the partisan use of those laws
which were originated by the prominent
leaders of Mr. Greeley's party, and placed
among our statutes to be enforced by the
bayonets Of the present administration
either by slow poison or by the sword; or
preferring rather to maintain them and to
insure free expression of the popular will,
shall we not make war against all parties
who attempt to pervert the constitution
Can the people Of the South clasp hands
with those men who have wrOnged them
from the termination of the war! Can
Northern men cOndOne such Otfenses by
placing them in power In TeXas-tO re-
instate Governor Pace, whose. arbitrary
course was so nobly rebuked and thwarted
by the generous and statesmanlike acts of
Hancock. In Arkansas-tO indOrse Senator
Rice, who was the first tOcOncOct and carry
out those frauds by which q Radical Legis-
lature was installed in power, and the in
famous despOtism which disgraces that
State was brought into being In Mis-
sOuri-tO load with hCnOrs Brown, who, in
August, 1868, OutherOded Herod for dis
and persecution, and recant
ed only when Office was to be obtained and
future plumber was in view! Blair, who came
into the party to destroy it and nObly has
fulfilled his mission Schurz, who, l0udest
of all, would sweep the South with the
bosom of destruction" and viewed the
election of a Democrat as the worst calam-
ity to befall the country only six months
agO9 Mcneil, the butcher of unarmed
prisoners! In Kentucky, to honor Bur
bridge, the most detested of all its citizens
In Georgia, Brown, who las an official dur
ing the war, and since, under the corrupt
of Bullock, which plundered
the State of many milliOnsl has been and is
accused of using his official station for pri
waite gain In Alabama, Warren, who
never neglected to carry out the most I'M
crusade while the pay of his Office
rewarded his efforts! These and such men,
whose antecedents are too well and too dis
gracefully known, are to be the Southern
leaders, in conjunction with those selected
politicians, who, a year ago, denounced
them as the most unscrupu!Ous scoundrels "
Ii the fraudulent bargains are faithfully
executed by the selected chieftain of the
clan, can not the people faithfully say "pd'
mobile 1rUtlun1, LutrOnCS GmbO ?" And yet
they dare to sail under flag upon which
they emblazOn honesty!
In the North the leaders of this move
ment are known to be melted by jealousy,
rage and revenge, because of their failure
to receive the dispensing of patronage from
the government. The entire coalition is a
rope Of sand with no cohesive power but
that Of plumber in the perspective. The
people have always, and in all countries,
placed the stamp of condemnation upon
similar bargains. They will do it'again.
The only precedent in history forthe imme-
date Selection of deserter as a command
is that OF CoriOlanus, and for the
Democrats the comparison is unfortunate.
COriolanus betrayed his army and spared
Rome when she was PROSTATE at his feet.
So Mr.. Greeley, with Sumner and other
champions OF negro social equality trein-
dOrsed with emphasis since his nomination.;
trucuIent advisers of Capitalization and
tyrannicaI oppression of their adversaries;
enemies of that constitu-
lion which to them is "a league with hell
and covenant with dearh;" ready to do
anything for power and place, will unscrup- I
IlOusly betray their own followers if neees-
sarY for their own advancement, even in