New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-22
WTCKBDEBsg SEEKING C0MMIssBRATI0N.


to the courtesies and policies of war.
WICKBDEEss SEEKING CONVERSATION
The perambuIating representatives OF
Democratic defeat and distress who have
essayed to palm themselves off in Wash
ington city as the victims of many sorrows
and expressions in Louisiana, never once
told how their own wickedness was the
origin of their Affections. In this REGARD
they differed with Bunyan's pilgrim, who
made it point to admit that his punish
ment and distress were but the proper
penalties for his perversity and sinfuines8.
If Messrs Hearn and Fenner, the only
two pilgrims whose names have. been
handed down to us in connection with
that OF Judge Campbell, have neglected to
add confession to their plea for assist
ance, but on the contrary have risked the
chance of being considered unworthy OF
sympathy upon their own pleadings, by
making their statement so unfair and I'M
just as that the power to which they ap-
pealed could not fail to see the defect IN
their story, they have departed from the
example set before them in the ''Plgrim's
Progress.
The origin of all the troubles in the
State Of Louisiana is the opposition of
the Democratic party to the negroes
Their mis- fortunes do not arise from any
disposition or attempt that has been
made or is likely to be made to effect
their injury; but it does arise from their
attempt and fixed design to injQre the
negroes. They may deny this, but their
denial will not amount to row OF pms
either in their own household or in that
of the opposition, for in this matter &C
tons have determined the controversy
beyond the controversy Of mere profess
sions TO unsettle the public belief Sup
pose, for instance, that the Catholics
should say, as they do in Louisiana, that
they are in favor of public schools and
have no design to Subvert the system,
would the Protestants believe the asser-
ton long enough to allow the followers of
Loyola to entrench themselves in power
in the State? Never; although it seems
that Christians might trust each other, If
they did not have q history to refer to
that prevents it. So in the political
struggle that now vexes the State of
Louisiana, the colored people do not
trust the professions of tie Democrats any
| more than the Protestants accept of the
protestations of liberality made by the
Catholics.
What the committee Of perambulating
representatives should have done in the
| premises was to have initiated the example
of Christians, and confessed that they were
the originally guilty parties; that they had
| ostracised class of voters on account Of
their color; that they had attempted to de-
| fraud these voters by the use Of sundry
| tricks and cheats, and that nows being
caught and worsted in the endeayor, they
| desired to- be assisted out Of their dis
tresses by the very power they sought to
| despise and defy. The committe can not
honestly deny any portion of the confess
sion which we have suggested whatever it
may brazenly do, asst has done thousand
times before; and therefore it should make
] clean breast of it at once in order to OBJ
tain that consideration as a favor which
they have insolently demanded as a
right.
and the people among whom tie discom=
! fitted Democrats are perambulating know
shat the fusionists prachced treachery in
the last campaign in Louisiana, and this
wealzens public sympathy for the repre-
sentatives of any such wrong, especially
when these representatives boldly insist on
forcing their unwholesome statements
down the threats of people who dislike to
swallow talsehoods. The perambulators
had better return, therefore, because they
are only aggravating their melancholy
condition. and uniting themselves to ap-
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