New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-13
WHOLE NUMBER 1864.

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~ y part With their regard for deeoruIn, and
y @ IS familiar knowledge that this is the last
tetianee against dishonest action, after vir-
Suo Lt3, ana pubic spirit are extinct. Un.
ao99touiy wv IN an things there are degrees,
ana IN imaginable instances tbera NAV
be wide liberation; indeed an
quite prepared to say that fbera are
a large number of eminent men n H..
Republican party who might welI have
aspred to the Presidency, and whose sg.
ceptance as a candidate at Baltimore wonId
not have been uniustfable. The nomi-
nation which was in fact made is utterly vis,1 80
1gs folly Is manifest and its failure newt
aole' publle coalition, though it has all
the inherent qualities of conspiracy. has
not the same chance of success. The peo-
PIE may be sacrificed by secret betrayal
they never consent to open sales.
hFeF since the snap Judgment against
! popular sentiment obtained BY the deed of
/ Baltimore, arguments very inapp1icabla or
I very unsound have been used to prevent
| resistance. There is said to be no fit choice
| presented, and that of the two admitted
| evils 1t is wisdom to choose the least. If all
this were true, it should not result in favor
OF the Baltimore nominee OF transcendent
a0lllty and OF energy unequaled, there is no
room Tor comparison between himself and
ms rival. Justice and common sense forbid
Une compliment being acceptable, as it seems
that he is little in anything.
Inc 0utcry "Ioo late" is not lust, even
now; Men travel by steam and commune
ny eiectrlclty. Ii to-day popular senti-
ment exists. it can be stimulated to action
IN an hour. had we only the appliances of
antiquity, national impulse could light its
fires upon thousands of hills and Sreusa
the whole people. With our superior modes
OF communication, let it not be said that
fifty days DO not afford adequate space for
awakening and promoting the object of
your convention.
There was no commitment to become it's
nominee. and until the body adjourned 1
could not have imagined such result as
not to name or even to suggest any
other candidate 1t is assumed that this
action rests supon Mr. Adams and Inyselt
some responsibility of leaving without
power to express itself the antagonism
which we had done our part to evoke.
ana IN which we earnestly participate.
1t is therefore asserted that without
my intervention all Democrats who dis
sent from the Baltimore coalition, and MANY
patrlots VINO revolt at its origin or dread
its consequences, will be left without mower
to record their protest against it. If sueh
were the fact it would present case in
which a citizen could have no moral lih
erty The path of duty would be eplain and
direct, leaving him no choice His coun-
try's defense would require that he should
assent to consenption, and take the place
VI
IN the ranks or at the head, and there
strive for right to the utmost.
For reasons quite different from those
likely to be imputed, / can not SO regard
the present exigency. Part of the vile
code advised by the hirelings of misruIe is
that direct and Immediate success is the.
hrst and paramount aim in every
human effort; on The contrary, my
inculeates honorable sentiments
and many struggles for right however
slight the prospect of Immediate adyan-
tage to the actors, or even to the cause,
Every man OF ardent mind, who is afforded
access to literature, selects in early Iife
from history or fiction the demi-gods of his
ldolatry, and with more or less earnestness
bestoWs upon them through life his con
stant reverence. Mine were not the hero
whose victorious chariot wheels stained
with blood of vanquished millions. con-
aucted MN to power and renown. NV
deals were Troy's champion, at his last
stand beneath her walls; Leonidas in tha,
5recian Pass, and the dissenting consul at
Carras
Without any claim to the heroism that
could initiate them, | could still yield them
ny homage 10 spend in ones allotted
pace Dlameless life of honest effort, and
n Its end to perish nobly contending in the
Ehermopyle of an honest cause, has ever
eemed to me the perfection of happy in
Iividual destiny.
NelGher the personal motives suggested
lor the approximations that you contem-
'lated the movement must fail 10 accom-
'llsh any useful results influence me.
libiting in their climax the vices of the nom
nation system, with its pledges and plat
0rms, shocking to honest pride and sound
MORALS, and the career of bargaining which
J now generally required to precede such
.oi omlnatlons. llIl e The platform is thing got
en- up Tor emergency; on it the candidate is
lade TO SIT as stool of repentance. or as
ne placed IN stocks, by holding him to
!edges now forced upon him. This is a
ltltul attitude, as the most eonspieuous
e-beggar in the land must be occupied
y citizen before he can receive a vote for
ne highest and most honorable of Offices,
Faith teaches that the poor in spirit will
eceive the richest blessings of future life.
tut 1t ls no part OF my political creed that
overly OF spirit in worldly affairs should
e a passport to the respect and confidence 0fs
great people, or qualification for their chief
laglstracy. Whatever might do in this re-
oect to any other Office, could neither ac-
7pt the nomination. or become candidate
n the suGcess0rship to Washington. Like
lany others which my taste and iudp-
tent nave eoncurred in adopting, l know
lat these ideas are unfashionable. Every
9lce that has reached my ears. .concurs in
ssertlng as gospel truth that the elector
IN not vote 1of any one but the nominee
convention who has accepted its non0i-
alton. So be it. | don't presume to sub
ert established usages, hut selfrespect
nd modesty unite in forbidding me to pIay.
| these days of political degeneraoy, the
art OF chief postulant in any self-drama.
Some censure will, no doubt attach to,
lis opinion itself, and still more to the Mt
france OF it. have long withheld il and,
possible, would now avoid expressing
Many man, the Iachef ef whose shoes
am not worthy to unloQse, has subscribed
a platform and s4ood az q candidate;
erhaps, however. Il was in times less cor
lpt. / do not suggest o.. believe that any
them d1d anything r.hich, in their day
i'd uader attendant circumstances, was
I lpgGu1aangt known also shat you, my feIlow-oiti.
MS. and ycsf highly respected CONVEX ven,
d. have described to meno tests. bnt. s.
pform;5 Of 5 with usage not now to be de- -
rtee7 from, you request me to accenf the
; = nation and become a candidate AsY
9 ,,st sald from the beginning, must say, I
FOREIGN.