New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-29
A NEW HOPE.

remit them. FROM this imaginary slSui-
tication of discomfort the organ OF the
Office seekers leaps to the conclusion Of an
irreconciliable strife III the Republican
party This is wholly premature II the
figures Of the committee be correct the
colored people could give The Fusion
lists the conjecturai five thousand
white Republicans. and still carry the
State with ease. But let il not be sup
posed that the white Republicans would
surrender to the Fu8ionists. These last
butcher all who yield after the Cuban
fashion. No further accession TO the Flu
sionists can be expected from the white
Republicans They will rather serve in
the ranks than accept bogus commissions
from the enemies Of Republlcanlsm.
There has been no such gain to Repub-
lican deserters as 70 encourage any further
Generalization. As for the hope that dis
content for the distribution of patronage
will dsband q party. i. is unfounded. DO
not on, citizens remember the Fusion
combination held about the last dog days
There were repeated changes Of the ticket
to satisfy this or that set of claimants. 1t
was even proposed at one time 70 cast
lots :or the official garments OF
their opponents. As they might have
been in eontrayention OF the right
of the exclusive privilege OF lot
teries in this State, it would have been
clearly illegal and might have exposed
the parties to prosecution or injunction.
There is no other case that we know OF
where rapacious place hunters proposed
TO throw thigh die" for mayor, or de-
eide city department by turning up
Jack" This sad and shameful suggestion
may be perhaps pardoned and passed
over. on the same plea made by mariners
compelled by starvation to determine by
los among themselves who shall die to
subsist the survivors. Yet this proposal
OF chance is of yecord. OF the Fusion
bargain it may be said as OF the dlscon'
tented couple of Boileau. "Ihelf marriage
was one long quarrel" Yet. Gid this
strife separate the parties to the Fusion
movement? Not at all. They still adhere
together and agitate FOX victory OF tor-
compromise:
If then. these discontents did not have
the effect OF dividing the contracting par
ties, why should even similar difference
divide The Republican party? In the
first ease the conglomerated agreed IN
but one common element corruption
by which they eohered. In the other the
members of the Republican party differ
in nothing. save. possibly. the apportion'
men. OF the patronage. Let there be no
hope 20 the FusionistS from that same.
since, if the worst comes to the worst. the
Republicans can perhaps purchase from
Mr. Howard q dispensation. and by
judicious distribution of prizes and blanks.
satisfy every ticket holder that he had
fair show for something or other in the
schedule. Such We understand to have
been the propose! to the Fusionfsts in the
las. dog days. There is then no prospect
tina. the Republicans will split on the
partition of patronage. which appears to
be. in the opinion of our opponents, the
only thing which justifes political union.
Let us. then. see if there is no other
impeachment TO the consummation OF that
hope. which seems to spring eternal IL
the Fusion bosom. The colored people.
disguised with the five thousand white
Republicans who have fought for them.
are to unite with the fifty thousand who
have fought against them. This. we SUBJ
nit, would be equally bad in logic and
in arithmetic. We will examine this en-
ticing proposal little mora closely.
What have the colored people TO expect
from the Fusionists! During the past
year, Republican leader whom they had
taken from Obscurity and raised 70 re-
nowned wealth. is charged by them with
having made contract TO deliver them to
theis opponents. These co'ored people.
in their late meeting, denounced this as
apostacy. and express the strongest con.
demnation of the act. The Fusion organ
announced among the good effects of this
imputed contract, that it would tend "to
keep some few negroes from the polls. :"
The coiored people believe that. under
the terms Of the implied con
trace, systematic exclusion OF the
colored people from the polls was planned
and executed. This may be true or It
may be a mere suspicion. Yet We assure
all interested that the colored people 20 a
man believe it. Yes, ia the hearts OF their
women and children is the belief that they
were only rescued at the first station on
the way to a resale and destiny to bond
age by the efforts OF the five thousand
white Republicans and the protection OF
the Republican administration. Is it very
probable. then. that the colored people
will renew that trust which they think
was >, abused by apostacy: VIII they
separate themselves from the friends and
the party 20 which they acknowledge IN
the resolutions o: the meeting such obllSa-
tons: /. i: reasonable to suppose that.
enIaged with five thousand Republicans
who deny them a satisfactory pro
portion ri IN. State Offices. they
VIII surrender :, fifty thousand tU-
s;.a:S.> maiienel VII, Ia. famine IF
prolonged exclusion from once. ".
p.ay on. hungry friend, o: :lc Fusion
Persuasion /. .;..cin- .r....,I ne.n. -cul.