New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
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EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
Without the slightest doubt there will be
in the coming State election, November
next, at least four different contending
parties in the feld-the Democratic party,
Reform party, National Republican party
and the Liberal Republican party. That
each Of these parties will nominate regu-
lar ticket is, to my estimation, beyond the
shadow of doubt.
There seems to be no possibility OF an
understanding in the ranks of Democracy
between Democrats and RefOrmers. There
are Democrats represented here by the
New Orleans Bee who would be Democrats
against the world. According to them,
outside of the word Democratic there seems
to be no salvation, no matter whether their
political creed or platform justifes the
name. They despise all sorts of fusion;
they scorn the very idea of compromise.
Forgetting the derivation of the word
Democratic, they would sooner vote for
Capitalization under the appellation of
Democracy than contend for their political,
civil and State rights on Republican plat
form Following the track of their great
leading organ, they are monarchists on the
Seine, imperialists on the Rio Grande, and
Democrats on the Mississippi God only
knows what they would be on the borders
of Salt Lake or Yellow Stone river.
The Reform party may be considered as
the dissatisfied fraction of the great Democ-
racy; the basis of that organization is re-
form, andreform they viii have, no matter
what it costs, even at the expense of the
lives and fortune of others. "Hang Gov
ernor Warmoth at the very next lamp-pOst,' y
says the famous Morgan not the Chat
tanooga man as he asserts himself Congo
SQUARE meeting), and improvement in our
public affairs will follow of itself ''Let us
get rid Of those intruders who sit upon
our Legislative benches, and if the door is
not wide enough, throw them out Of the
window" says another gentleman, and
"peace" shall reign in New Orleans, nothing
short of a eighteenth ''Brumaire."
Such are the friendly sentiments enter
tanned by the Reformers of our days toward
their fellow w-brethren of another party.
Their whole soul is bent on destruction,
without having the slightest idea Of any
means for reconstruction; destroy first, and
we will see afterward, and as the quickest
work is always the best, their principal aim
is the head of our executive department.
Down with Warmoth; death to WarmOth, .
is the universal cry of those peace lovers,
of those great philanthrOpists. QuouSqase
tandem.
If, gazing round, we cast our eyes toward
the seat of our national government, what
dark cloud is that which, rising from the
District of Columbia, comes rolling toward
us, overshadowing the whole land? That
cloud is that of despotism and tyranny,
Such are the words that have been substi
tinted for union and liberty on that great
National Republican banner since the elec
ton of 1868.
Away with it Men of that once great
Republican party, soldiers of that invinci
BILE republican principle which has swept
slavery away from our beloved land, l en-
treat you before casting your vote in this
coming election, either for the national OF
local ticket, pause and behold for moment
that noble flag which covers that platform
lately erected at Cincinnati, and which
carries within its ample folds these words
inscribed there with the blood of our fore
fathers of 1776, Liberty, equality, fra
ternity.
1t is the same that has inspired Jefferson
Patrick Henry, and others, in their strug
giles against oppression; it is the same thai
has led your columns, in our late fratricida
war, from the banks Of the st. John to The
Pacific ocean; it is the same that will leat
us to victory in the elections of 1872.
May it long wave over the land Of the
| free! CHARLES PROVOSTY,
No. 209 Union street, Third District