New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-27
TALK uN TIE STREET..

| round and comes back to the point wher
| it was years before. Old fashions revolv
around and return once every twenty year
or so. Old customs in politics touch tn
point where they gave place years before
Soon as any great political event come
| about, class of men whose back memory
| is good start mp and go huntin' up parallels
I'm little that way myself; I'm gettin
| old" He passed his hand gently over the
rear and front of bald and gray hairsd
pate as he said this, and then, to reassure
the young man who kept his books, and
who listened to such lectures every morn
ing, he winked his eye and sniled. Don't
they say this campaign is like that of Tip.
pecanoe and Tyler toOH Don't remember
when they built log cabin on Canal street,
and paid out hard cider by the glassful
Lord how the streets rung again with
the songs they sung. l was young man
then my cheek was hot, an l was carried
away by the flush of that-my first cam
paign. Now my cheek is cold and fabby;
but when think of that old time, my boy,
/ can feel my blood dance through these
old arms How we sang and iOked at one
another Over this big land there was one
wild whoop; every fatboat and steamboat
that came down the river, my boy, had a
load that sung the campaign songs and
kicked their heels upon the deck to the
tune Didn't we elect Harrison ! should
say so. The American people wouldn't
stand it. can't feel the same spirit again
but l can feel the memory, it's the shadow
Of it l have now. l tell you Greeley will
60 in. When / looked on the bulletin board
and saw the words Greeley nominated, +" l
thought Immediately OF, the Harrison cam
paign, when Greeley was a Wing and a
noted supporter of that combination. Poll
tics repeats itself"
The book keeper knew his duty and said:
"Thats So"
II believe" said the old man vigorously,
"all the men young then, old now, will go
for Greeley and carry the youngsters with
them"
"O that's all moonshine, said wine i'm
porter who had Just stepped in. Grants
bound to be elected. He's got the patron
age and the use Of cash. Sentiments good
thing for school girls and boys, who live on
it; but the substantials are the things that
win"
Your daily Customhouse duty paying as
sociations have ruined yOu,' a country
trader inserted at this point, having stepped
in to sample some whisky. .Somebody
said believe it was the great Napoleon
rules the world The French
mean by this sentiment and fancy amour de
Ia giOrie and all that sort of thing. What's
love of country but a sentiment-love of
freedom but sentiment? Yet love of cOun-
try, freedom, rights, these sentiments you
turn up your nose at, have won nine-tenths
Of the battles of the world, destroyed des-
pOtisms, dethrOned mO4archs, revolution
zed governments and changed the map of
the world"
You're right" calculated the Harrison
politician.
Just tell me which side the sentiments
~ in campaign, and I'll point out the
winning side" said the country trader,
irmIy.
wasn't it on the side of Seymour four
years ago?" sneered the wine importer.
mo, sin" exclaimed the trader, the old
politician and book-keeper, in breath. "It
vas on the side of Grant"
Yes said the old Harrisonian, "they
aid Grant has won the battles of the ma
ion and made the Union strong. That
whipped the fight. No argument was used
TLis spiked the Grant mans gun.
Yes said the country gentlemen,
Greeley will win everybody feels it. All |
he principal politicians in my parish come
n, hitch their horses and talk politics in
ny store. kept quiet for long time IN
il heard all opinions, or until l discov-
red the drift-tbe current. Then got in. !
We business men We got to be cautious. |
Iy opinions we're for Greeley soon's he was
Ominated."
so were mine, interrupted The old man
ehemently.
But l kept it down until saw which
ray the cat was fixing her tail to jump. We
are obliged to do great many
hings we don't like for fear it will ruin our
usiness. Lord, wasn't glad when found
ut the parish and thought the same way.
think now the nomination of Greeley
truck the soul of the entire people like an
ectric shook.?'
The whole party began to talk business
nd the sentiment is now taking care of
IF all over the land.
MY point in this campaign" said a
rOker, once red hot and Democratic, but
DIV Liberal, sis that made by Hendricks:
he future is before us with realization
nd with hope-there's nothing in the past
ut memory That's true. Everything
eve formed a line upon is gone; every
ratification battered down and untenable
his new party is made of those Repub-
sans who've cast off fanatic Radicalism
Id of the great bulk of the Democratic
lrty, who have unbuckled their fanaticism
| the Confederate and carpet -bagger ques-
)n. What is parted from let rot Each
lie has left something behind, sacrificed
therefore, the bond of the new
all the stronger. Now see how it il.
le radical Democrats and the Radical
epUblicans gravitated together naturally,
ID when each wing was left free to act
u find them with clasped hands. Look
the PicGyin'c and Citizens Guard. You
II see these two papers together in every
ate. Though. they quarreled in the past.
was only because they we're too much
Ike. Radioalism is pretty dead, Liber-
sm forever