New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-02

AAio DSiuS the case, ana to 90 the
Patriot and the party it represents entire
justice IN the premises, the people at large
should know just what that paper urge:
IN the present struggle against the Repub
lican party.
HE Republican party is daily and sys
tematically treading under its feet every
cardinal principle of a free and daily and
systematically exalting into supremacy
every cardinal principle of despotic gov
eminent. Even the worst that was charged
against Warren Hastings, and which
thundcrs OF Burke, were venial crimes in
comparison with the aggravated assaults
ruthiessly made by this our destroying
angel upon the very life principle, i'm
bedded III our institutions, of those great
truths OF enlightened government. evolved
from the conflict of ages, which have trans
formed barbaric into civilized peoples.
There is swelling roundness in the
sentences Of the foregoing extract and of
sundry others in the article from which
this is cut that might frighten civilized
people if sonorous English was all that
was necessary to accomplish that purpose
but Burke might have exhausted himself
without injuring Hastings if be had imi-
| tuted tie I'ntri0t and confined himself to
oratory without any reference to facts.
Civilized people resent something besides
defamation, and this is what the Democ-
lacy and its orsanI do not give. The ear
OF the public may be appalled, at a gloomy
A. -
pie still remain the same until they are
shown the evils out of which the orator
manufactures his terrible catastrophes.
The absence of ali specification is the
weakness of the Patriots attack. In
dlctments are constantly being thrown
out Of criminal courts because they do
not charge directly the offense which the
prosecution expects to urge. What the
Republican party las done is before the
country, and the wrong which it has COM
mitted, if any, is capable Of definite and
precise statement Why did not the
Patriot give Us the identical assault
which the party has made upon the life
principle imbedded in our institutions 2"
Why did it not mention the time and
place, when and where the injury was in
tlicted? How are we to answer this accu-
sation, which comes at US as if the entire
dictionary fell and arrested the preva-
lence of the Republican organization
Let US see. In special the Republican
ri ic,1,- al,
the rights oc citizenship upon the colored
people, and this We have no doubt is
the source Of the Patriots wrath, al
though it dare not confess it. To this we |
plead guilty, but in extenuation of our
guilt, if extenuation is necessary to be
offered, it may be said that the people |
have ratified the act, and therefore the
Republican party is not wholly answera-
Die for that assault upon the life prin-
,iple. It may be said that, having con-
erred citizenship upon the colored peo-
DE, the Republican party has consist
ntly proceeded to sustain them in this
light. We do not know whether tie
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atifed and assumed the responsibility
or this step, as yet, but this We do know,
hat the Republicans intend that they
hall DO it, and until they force this con-
lusion they are willing to be held guilty
5 the prime movers il the cause. And
ct the Pa'Iio' dare not make even this
5l,l L-,a
riumph, which is assured, would be its
reat defeat. Perhaps the condition of
le national finances, which are healthy t
al progressive instead of being col
Ipsed and uncertain, ofends the Patrit {
al its lIdorsers, since they assured Us
Q less than two years ago that repUdla- {
on was inevitable in very short order |
Mess the charge which they now demand I
as then inaugurated. Or possibly the t
alton itself, concrete aud indivisible, /
andS up to rebuke the partisans who \
ave always won their battles by contend c
g that it was loose and devisible con- V
ready at any time to fall to 4
administer its heritage il tie interest il
caste. The Republican party has done II
mething to declare human rights and \
maintain this declaration after it was f;
AIDE; it has insisted upon honesty in p
ace toward those who trusted the na- a
IN in war, whether they did so with sell O
ii ideas or with patriotic devotion; it has .
me something to teach the children of s.
;ht that they could not extirpate the
Il without falling into darkness, thus
akin9 them love the blessing against p
lich over and oft they had hurled their o
efforts: it is guilty of re-estab- tt
hing liberty out of the wichedness and g
aos Of rebellion second only to that Il
llch Satan inau. urated in heaven; and c.
has done some other things that We q
We not time to enumerate just now, but h
lich the I0t,tot may remember, as the Il
cked remember il their Punishment a.
eli great mlsdeeds. For these errors, if u
rors they We're, we stand ready to be III W
cted: but as against this wor,ly and APP b
Hing accusation, which, like the a.
llian's procession, ends where it started, c;
enter our solemn exception that it is is
, vague and uncertain, and should be j
,missed from the consideration of the II
.elligent tribunal before which it has OF
Ell brought. II
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