New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-28
THOSE WHO sHou1p U1ITR.

THOSE WHO sHouLD UIITR.
Daily the Democratic party il being told
by those who have misled it for four years
yes, for twelve years-that it 10 about to
be traded of Like sack of oats or pair
of old breeches The organs that refused
to give it good instruction when there was
room for good instruction, now that it has
been taught wisdom by experience, cen
find no better employment than to Islander
it as they have slandered others The De-
mocracy of to-day is like man who has
just escaped from a madhouse, fearful to
trust itself into new company, leastwise it
fall again into the keeping of its old GUS
todians, who fed it upon thin and often
times upon deleterious food. The men
who taught it the way out of prejudice and
consuming hate it seeks to avoid because
in its escape it brought away the false
hoods and scandals that had been dinned
into its weakened system by the selfish
men who thought to keep it in subsection
to themselves by the two-fold power of its
antipathies and its suspicious. Men often
dominate their fellows by cautioning
them to be wary of others who may
seek to help them. The mind of, weak
ness is poisoned against trusting all
assistance by those who seek to control
it in their own interest. Thus the De-
mocracy are lectured not to trust the Re
publicans, although it is told to conform
to Republican principles. 1t is told, by
men who abused it with scandalous sug-
gestions for years, that although these
suggestions were false and baneful, it
must still listen to those who misled it in
preference to attending upon those who
who sought to give it good advice and who
have at last rescued it from error. What
right have the Bee and Picayune, whose re-
cords are filed with mistakes and fallacies,
to still pretend to give advice? Did they not
charge the people to spit upon reconstruc-
ton, and do they not now advise its &C.
ceptance? Did they not swear to bear
eternal enmity to negro suffrage, and are
they not now reconciled to its existence?
Did they not spurn the military element
from all interference in the affairs of gov
and have they not asked that the
State should be put under military rule?
Are they not bitter enemies to the Repub-
lican party, and have they not begged the
government at Washington to turn out
one set of Republicans and put in another?
Have they not averred that the Democracy
was unpurchasable and above the reach Of
and are they not now charging
it with design to sell itself, because it
does not follow their advice? What bust
ness have these weathercocks to set them
selves up as advisers of men in any. de-
partment of politics?
As we said, the Democracy is now in a
position where it fears to go forward and
breads to go back. Behind defeat before
uncertainty, present division, all around
suspicion, what should reasonable Demo-
rats do that will help themselves and |
lelp the country? There is but one
answer to this question, and that is, they
should reject the counsel which misled |
hem, and accept Of that which never de- |
,eived their reason nor appealed to their |
orejudices. Certain mep are to be trusted |
Is friends who have long been considered
rs enemies-not because they offer pro-
essions of friendship, but because they |
adhered to the right, and |
nave been successful. Their past record |
gives guarantee that they are entitled to
he confidence of those who seek assist
lnce. In business matters we go to the |
eliable and the steadfast because they can
De relied on in every emergency. In
politics we should follow the same rule, by
those who do not vary with
he changing populace, to be this to-day
nd that tomorrow.
1.-THE Democrats who have stood against
Is until they saw that they were wrong and
We were right desire to be just, they will
lot let the former opposition that existed
between us deter them from making an
lliance with us, but on the contrary, they
will rather assume that since they have
ome to coincide with our views it is only
roper that they should be friendly with
hose who only opposed them because they
we're in error. There being no cause of
uarrel to divide the men who accept the
anne opinions, why should they not bury
he past with all its unpleasant memories,
nd coalesce in the future for mutual
dvan' age. We offer to do with our
trength what they propose to ac-
omplish with theirs. The welfare
f society and its advancement by
,ell understood measures of public policy
eng the common aim, what is there to
revent all men who hold their views from
citing in concert instead Of in opposing
amps? The Liberal Republicans pro-
ose to deal justly and honestly by all
heir friends and by the community. This
'just what the Reformers and Conservative
democrats ask. Then let these elements
onspire to effect their purpose and they
ill become the saviors of the State
gainst the personal ambitions of the fed
raj administration and the reactionary
forts of the Bourbons. Being of one
llnd in all things but in name are we to |