New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-01

I"SSa TIC SSLtAOA4c tACAO Wuo dG G4C NCOs
and North a nondescript class calling
themselves Estate rights Democrats. "
Many of them employed wealth and infu.
ence to keep personally out Of the fight,
but Herod was nowhere in the race Of
military achievement Of these ''war Demo.
Gratis" as they were self-christened. After
the fight they resumed their positions as
the leaders Of the South, and counseled a
resort to agitation, and a serv!le obedi.
ence to the rescsip.s Of Tammany Hall.
This right 70 Southern obedience has ex.
tended West, and the Missouri Republican.
as deputy whipper-in for Tammany. is
cracking its small whip over men,
any one Of whom. from the chief
of a corps Tarmee down 70 the
humbles: private, stands. immeasurably
| above the sub-Tammany scribblers
on the roll Of honor, And as for the
scribe who executes orders 70 defame war.
riors and gentlemen. who is he? Did he
OF his employer. fire gun 70. the Con-
tederate cause: Did either Of them stand
with Williamson. or Wise. or Iongstreet
Was either of them with Longstreet az any
Of the hundred battlefelds in which he
illustrated his fidelity to the cause he had
chosen: Was either present when he laid
down his sword with Lee. and gave his
parole with Lee, and kept his parole with
Lee:
Yet these men who fought must 60 to
these men who were safe under the immu-
mites Of federal protection and ask leave
to take any political step whatever.
Jus. see what an aristocracy Of opinion
we have among US. This Republican. pre-
tending TO be free trade, supported high
pro:ectionist. claiming to be Democratic,
voted :or candidate who despised the
"sham Democracy" This Democrat
took radical, abolition, high tariff. John
Brown Republican. OF course. from its
superior and supreme authority. it could
take any course it chose. It was infalli-
bic. When. however. men Of homo. and
courage decided TO support another Re.
publican FOX the same Office, these men
are denounced as suspicious. We may
suppose that when there was any fighting
to be done, ii Longstrees or Williamson
had been seeking recruits in St. Louis,
these dictatorial Tammanyites would
have been found snugly fixed up with ex-
emp:ions. 1t is only when the fighting
ceased these fellows began for the first
time 20 &c. real mad. When Longstreet
and Williamson had ceased gallant and
glorious defense in the field, and accepted
the federal amnesty. these bomb-proof
warriors come out Of their holes. and
question the motives Of those who fought
They court-martial Longstreet. William
son and Wise, sentence them TO degrade
ton, and order them to report to the Ms
souri, Repnjl;ca, and its war-skulkers for
:urlough or regular discharge:
We vindicate these soldiers from the IN
worthy insinuation that they are the dupes
0: IS high bids" We apprehend it would
have taken thigh bid and several yoke
Of oxen 70 have drawn the publisher of
this insinuation TO Gettysburg. Or to any
other battlefield in which Longstreet led
his division for no bid OF pay at ALL
We vindica:e these soldiers because they
are striving to make peace, and re-.
store prosperity; because they are aid
ing the federal soldier in renewing the
relations which once existed between the
sections. Those who imp7te mercenary
motives to gallant men belong TO a class Of
insects whose stencil is far worse than their
sting, ye: we feel an impulse to crush
them wherever we see them crawling over
a character with no other instinct than TO
irr:tate OF pollute it.