The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-03-20
New Orleans Picayune for Grant

New Orleans Picayune for Grant.
Surely, wonders will hever cease in
this world of ours. On the LIST Febru-
airy tho New Orleans Picayune passed
from the hands Of the veteraQ Holbrook
into those of a printing corporation, or
ganised for the purpose Of conducting
it as ga great peoples paper" In its
code of principles, announced on max
ing It's bow to the public, it declared
that "enterpise is the conception and
con trivance of merchants and business
men of the city"--numbering, as it at
forwards appeared, about two hun
dred and fifty persons. We read the
paper with great satisfaction, rejoicing
in any accession to the rank OF the re-
form party of a paper, which, entering
the field Of journalism under such aus
pieces, gave promise Of power and in
fuence for good equal to that OF its
best days. Its style was stilted, timid,
prolix, but its declaration of independ-
ence of all parties, platforms, rings,
cliques, and scheming combinations,
and it's determination to make Femorse-
less war upon corrupt legislation, steal
ing and robbery of every form, had the
ring of the true metal.
>-~ :,,rn of Fo1,ruorv
we copied few paragraphs from its
Code, as foreshadowing its approval Of
the cooperative movement for uniting
all the elements of opposition to Grant.
We have since reread the article atten-
lively, and we aver without fear OF
contradiction, that the man who wrote
it can under no circumstances give
either a positive or negative support
to Grant without disqualification.
Every line Of it, from first to last, har-
monies with the reform movement and
with nothing else. And yet the Plea
yune on the 2sth ult., in it's leading ar
ticle-the presidency and South" de-
rides the reform movement as "mon-
, strous mockery"-"a grand conglomer-
: ate opposition" originating with eds
satisfied and aspiring politicians of the
j. Republican party !" 1t characterizet
. the great leaders in that movement
: Schurz, Brown, Trumbull, Logan
;. Greeley, Upton and others, as enemies
: of the South equally with Morton
Conkling, Harlan, Sumner, Nye, etc
All alike are tarred with the same
) stick. All are equally Enthusiastically
=, No charitable allowance made for az
acknowledgment of error in Radica
IS policy. A sweeping condemnation clas
!" es them all alike in the category 0
O 'leprous pests" and rapacious enemies
g And all this is done by our contempt
q rary-this begging the question-so a
, to open the way to the lame and impo
: tent conclusions at which it arrives
that the only hope Of the South is il
our craven surrender, folding our arms
. yielding to what it assumes to be inev
. table, and throwing ourselves upo
T, the tender mercy and magnanimnit
" of Grant. Shades of the departe
t. Kendalland Wilson, can ye rest j
1T quiet repose after thisf
1. 1t will be noted that the Picayun
Is bitterly ignores the results of the libel
- al movements of the past. The rescu
"a of Virginia, Tennessee and Nilsson
)" from the insatiate grasp of radicalisl
10 gives it no encouragement for the fl
IL ture. A beacon to others in all par
IN of the nation, lighting the way to
y glorious victory-a bright ray of hol
to from which even the selfish and exac
ing Bourbon Democracy derives con
10 fort, the Picayune, rejuvinated, rehal
TO ilitated, in taking its first step forwal
no plunges in to tho bog of despai
20 Whether, in despite of its Wanted il
" dependence, it is crooking "the pre-
TO- nant hinges of the knee that thrift ms
g follow fawning," remains to be SCI
1g in the not distant future. Its course
.e- so remarkable and inconsistent
ng view of its antecedents and prese
,ly avowals, that the question qui bono? j
ed stinctively arises. But that our rea
ITO ers may Judge for themselves of t
justice of our arraignment, we 81
them the concluding sentence of t
ar Picayune's article.
,as 'Tt is not time to have done wi
~ this monstrous mockery, and, as
49,; cannot lay hold of the substance
~, State rights, to stretch our hands
" ward the great centre of political pc
'"P er, and get there all that we can Of
Gu. substance of justice; of protection, a
of fostering caref"
len In other words, that we should c,
am fess ourselves vanquished before
we, line of battle is formed, folding ,
arms in mute despair till the ides
N a November; that then with downc
eyes and minciog steps, like Al
ro when rebuked by the prophet for ste
ing Naboth's vineyard, and clad
:, sackcloth, we should Ego softly" to
- footstool of Grant, trailing behind