New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-09

The Political Middle In LOuistana-Uid
PrejHdices Strong and Rampant-The
Growth Of the Liberal Party.
We transfer from the columns Of the New
York Herald the following letter:
NEW ORLEANS, July 81, ls72-The polit-
ical middle in this State thickens and
darkens. Where, in other States, rapidly
developing events have served to harmonic
conflicting elements, here they have been
worse tangled out of tune. Our political
garment is worn threadbare, and every at
ben8pt 20 sew up one rent tears out dozen
others. The fact is, Bourbonism, in a greater
or less degree, Is becoming as much prom
jnent characteristic Of the Southern people
as their dark eyes and brOnZed compilations
We can not, as yet, be brought to proper
sense Of discrimination between progress
and 1G0noelasm. Every deviation from the
faith of our fathers is held treason. We
are impatient of argument, deaf to reason,
and denounce the lapse from grace before it
has time to draw breath in it own defense.
But this impractcabllity is not to be utterly
condemned 1t Is the offspring of high sense
OF homer and Of long period Of misf0rtunes,
kOrgtving your enemies is very beautiful
doctrine to preach, but very difficult one
10 perform, particularly where we have
found these enemies as treacherOus, oppres
Bive and unfeeling as they have proved
themselves TO be in this State. If it were
not so, the people of Louisiana would doubt
less exhibit as much intelligence and plaza
bility in dealing with political affairs as the
people of the Northern States. AS it is they
do not. They are obstinate, but with sin
certify. They are resentful, but under a
deep sense of injury. They are impolitic
but with due regard to esteemed princi-'
pies. They are intraetable, but have no
lack of patriotism. In short, they are
Bonrbonis 10, because they refused to make
the sacrifice that every step forward
In politics, Of whatever. nature, in
.evitablY entails, and consequently
hold on with desperation to the little
starved and dying bird in hand rather
than take their chances in bush full Of at
tractive singers. You will, of course, see
that the political revolution which has just
swept the North like a whirlwind must
crawl slowly as q tortoise through the
cotton and cane fields of the South and
you can thus readily understand the utterly
demoralized condition Of our present politi-
cal relations
THE DEMOCRATS.
Up to the meeting Of the Baltimore con-
vention the prevailing sentiments of the
Democratic masses was in favor of straight
out nominations The birth of the Liberal
party at that time, mainly composed of
the irreconcilables of both great parties,
staggered them for a while, and they
became reticent, but from no love
Of the new dispensati0n, which, when
a.
the bitterest of pills. The leaders who are
almost to a man hungefing for office, there
upon determined to make a struggle for
supremacy. True, they had nominated a
straight out Democratic State ticket at the
June convention, which fell stillborn among
the people, but they did not despair; they
mad yet left the old Yankee hating COnfed-
crate clement they still had all the war
preiudices to revive, and also, it must be
confessed. terrible record of wantonness
oppression and extravaganza in the late
administration of the State government to
appeal to. Armed with these, they sum-
mOned the chiefs of the lately scorned Re
form party to a conference, and one bright
morning, about three weeks ago. flung a
new banner to the breeze in the shape of a
ticket made up of both parties, under the
title Of the united State ticket" With
this they have since been energetically can
wasting the State in opposition to the Lib
eral movement which is flourishing like a
green bay tree ia spite of it. The. theory
OF the Democratic party which now sup
ports this mongrel ticket is, that the true |
interest of the South lie in keeping
national and State politics separate. and |
that while they support Greeley and Brown |
because it was so decided at Baltimore, |
then intend to "keep the corpse or rather |
MAINTAIN the old mOuldys organization in |
TINS state intact and uuimpaired forever. |
4ney are consequently, you perceive, thrown |
49, - .rNeSVbAn4u Win the new Liberal /
party born of and supporting Greelev, and |
: 5iown' and, like all family uuarrels. this is
ten times more bitter and viruIent than anv
ever waged with the common eppmv II |
mas had no parallel for malfpnancv' since
The war In numbers they ere n0f s3aa, 60
strong as the Liberals, what STRENGTH tboT,
Save being principally confined TO The .citS3.
bUt they more than make this mn in no;SSdi
ana energy, and, at all events, viii succeed
ln welding an important, if not paramount
influence over the deliberations Of the an
pfosehing Liberal convention.
THE LIBERALS.
As there is no rose without its thorn. "a
~ Snele II ho party without its MephistOpho.
~ als zee aoar-and this the new Liberal
party hnds in Governor Warmotb Far
more astute, far-seeing and poIitie shan an1-
rival politician or politicians in +be Secs
ne ahuclpated the grand political dis
15SuPuoh OF to-day long before tba |
democratic leaders ever dreamed ~
" ~ ana, as you know. took such 4 nron1i- ,
.1sng part IN MIR. Greeley's nomination. 81
NJ IIiliollnatl as to become the virtual head ~
~ party "a ms State. The unpalatable re-
I ~ 49, nas oeen that everybody Joining fba i
1S 5 organization has had to sysaJIovy bi1,,s :
slln more or less reservation, All tIe sensi.
~ people Of the State, outside the stan1ci, N
~ BOURBON element, saw plainIv tisat ~ y
~ Il interests lay IN the espousal NJ IN y
stsS,eiey cause, and had WaFmotb hesn o,,+ (
I We way even the latter would Ia "a l,esn / i
p;,lB? e mo q 10 by tue sheer force of public Fl
I, ,,A.on put ne Is known to be a candidate n
49,. ~ lnallon' backed mp by a ftrorg 3,
over ne was also known Ia a bitf,-ls u
0sllie 70 his old enemies & nd A c11I, y
% mink of euPrept + aYir,r tba - - 19s.L0 "a