New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-05

serious Of possible calamities, for l shall
read in it tie probable loss Of much OF that
liberty which it has cost SO great sacrlflce
to attain, and the certain renewal OF those
fierce contentious which we have had to
endure, and from which we were only de-
livered by the strong arm Of friendly ted
eral power.
Gentlemen may Nsten with crelulsus sat
isfactiOn to the soft wOOng of the Demo
cratic siren, but l can not share their con-
fidence. l can not forget the terrible les
sons of the past, nor give my trust to that
party to which this country owes the dire
full woes with which it has been afflicted. !
can not trust their promises The CONVEX
sion has been too sudden. 1t is not yet four
years since, in my own native State. Union
men were threatened, and not Idly. but
with such deadly intent that none of US
could say that our lives were safe an hour.
There are men now representing Louisiana
III this Congress who did not dare to sleep
two consecutive nights in the same house.
Our voters dared NOT for their lives go 10 the
polls to cast their ballots for the men of their
choice. Am to believe that these persecut-
ors are suddenly turned into lambs Nor
will I.permit myself to be lulled into any Ill
timed security by the hope that-a few men,
heretofore Republicans, can, by joining this
lawleSs Democracy. control its fierce ele
shrieks of victims of barbarons kuhlux
Outrages, telling us that the Democracy OF
the South is still the same. That party has
held supreme sway in New York. Have re-
cent disclosures strengthened our hopes
that the Northern Democracy have i'm
proved since the day when an outraged
people hurled them FROM national sU-
premacys What reason have these reform
Republicans to hope that the virtue OF the
", of Il is Ut
that enforced propriety which comes OF lack
OF opportunity to sin! Where opportunity
has existed, have they proved superior TO
the temptations that have caused some Re
publicans to fall into error
|, The most that can be said in favor OF the
Missouri resolutions is that they are not H.
consistent with Republican principles. If
not, why go out of the Republican party 20
adopt our principles, upon a mere protes
sion of new faith by those whose lives
have been spent in making war upon us I!
There may be things proper for complaint
III the transactions OF our party, but
Rather bear those ills we have.
Than fly 10 others We know not Of
If our personal preferences among men
are overborne by the will of the ma ority.
why may we not acquiesce, as We would
expect others to acuulesce, IT the ma
jority should be with US! While l have
my own personal preferences, stli, TINS
man or that is of the things of to-day,
while the continuance of the supremacy
in the national councils of that party which
saved our country from division, which
swept away the foul blot of slavery, and
consecratei our wide domain. in fact as in
name, to freedom, and which by its strong
hand has sustained and encouraged the
weak until they are becoming strong, is a
mater of all the failure. When the great
work of the Republican party has been
finally completed, and in this broad land no
force is found formidable enough to threat
en- the perpetuity of the order of things thus
established, then, and not until then. can
patriotic men heretofore identified with it
turn their backs upon that party and seek
in new interests and affiliations to secure
that identity Of sympathy in minor matters
which a sense of duty should now constrain
them to sacrifice to higher considerations.