New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-12
coMIEe 70 AN UNDERSTANDING.

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fully award of the strength which. our
earnest and constant advocacy Of Repub-
licanism has given Us in the State q
Louisiana with all the honest and inteilI-
gent members of the Republican party
and we appreciate the Importance OF being
as straightforward and sincere hereafter
as we have been heretofore, If We expect
to hold fast to the strength which more
than five years of labor has given to US.
Confidence is based on sincerity, and as
we have acquired the confidence Of an i'm
nense constituency by being sincerely de-
voted to Repubicanism in the past, 50
we propose to maintain it by being equally
sincere in the future.
| It is no sign Of devotion to principle to
be the devo ed follower of men. On the
contrary, the highest duty Of a faithful
Republican is to warn his party against
any set of men who set themselves up to be
Republicans when their actions belle their
professions. If this proposition is kept in
view the suggestions which we shall now
proceed to make will be rendered clear to
the understanding Of al. our readers.
The partisans Of General Grant, who are
accepted as the Republican party in this
! State by q large number Of our friends, Vi
oIated the principles and usages Of Repub-
Iicanism so fagrantly last year that we felt
it our duty to condemn their conduct as
an imposition, and to denouncs it as IN
worthy of the support of the men who
make principle their rule of government in
public as we'll as in private life.
The REPUBLICAN opposed this de-
parture, and in doing SO it had two alter
native objects, one of which was to reform
the Customhouse party into conformity
with its platform, or in default Of that, to
rally the genuine Republicans in an or
ganization that would adhere to what we
conceived to be the true principles of the
party. This effort, which was suggested
to US by local causes, acquired national
impulse, for the same faults which dis
concerted and alarmed us were found to
have an existence in all the other States
of the Union Genuine Republicans
everywhere protested that the principles
which they had been taught to reverence
and support were violated by the very
men who pretended to be their devoted
and they insisted that if this
evil was not corrected they would be forced
to abandon the men who either did not
understand Repubicanism or did not re-
spect its dogmas in their public policy.
At one time we felt an assurance that
our re1ormatory endeayors would result in
the defeat Of the men who had so offended
against the principles which they had SO
often and 50 publicly proclaimed as their
own. This assurance was strengthened |
when the Democracy apparently consented |
to coalesce with the iberalized sugges-
tons which the REPUBLICAN was one of the |
first papers III the country to proclaim.
The signs were most propitious at one
line that the better portion of the people
If the State Of Louisiana, without regard
o past differences, had really concluded
0 meet and unite in g common effort on
,ehalf Of the country; and had not Messrs.
Iasere and Randolph committed the great
rror Of putting forth the unauthorized
icket that they did, we should to-day
AVE been assured of the success of our eff
orts in behalf of real reform movement.
hat disastrous attempt thwarted the en-
ire scheme of reconciliation that we felt
0 much confidence in.
We do not forego all hope for the sue
ess Of our endeavors as yet as it really
GEMS to us that the whole people of the {
tate ought to possess the ability to pro- {
Idle against an event that they profess to
emble at. There is yet way for them
secure q victory in their own interests, '
ut they must first consent to do exact !
stice to all men before they can hope to c
cure it for themselves. Selfshness and 9
gotry beget their likes, and so long as |
e men who profess to desire reform re- t
Sc to reform themselves they must i
ide by the selfishness that their perver-
" breeds in others. The withdrawal of .
ute men into separate party necessi- i
les the withdrawal Of black men into a =,
nilar organization, and then the result p
1st be left to the congregation that can
unit the largest number of voters. The
'ionists have not abandoned their preiu-
'es as they proposed to do when they Ii
cepted Mr.. Greeley, and their neglect IL
conform their practice to their theory =,
ices them in the exact position of the e
antilles, Of violating their own prin- II
lies. ~
This brings us down to the conclusion M
It the REPUBLICAN, which is now ap- &c
emily aiding the Grant and Kellogg s.
zet by its refusal to accept of Mr.. Nc i
cry, must not be set down as com 70
ted to the support of the former be- II
$50 it seems to be pursuing d path
allel with that pursued by Mr.. Kellogg. At
still hold to our aversion to the Baton tb
1ge ticket, because it does not truly u
resent the republicanism that we pro- nj
to hold in esteem and reverence, and NJ,
t any time there should be presented tn
he fusion movement such evidences of ri,
rm as we can indorse as in accordance IL
our aspirations in that way, our fht
port may be fully yielded to.the effort az,
demand guarantees for ourselves and ~
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