The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-06-26
THE NEW PARTY MOVEMENT IN
LOUISIANA


Our telegrnphic dispatches of yesterday
contain the programme Of a new party,
proposed to be started in our sister State Of
Louisiana. The resolutions, adopted at an
adjourned meeting and reported by com
mittee Of which General Beauregard was
chairman, are given in full, and their con-
tents are likely to attract much public at
tention South and North. While some of
the sentiments, expressed, meet with our
entire appreciation, there are others which
We emphatically disapproye, and as a
whole, we do not hesitate to say, it has our
utter condemnation.
In the first place, there is no need Of any
other party in Louisiana than the Demo
cratic party. This is national party, per
vading the whole Union. It is an old and
time -honored party, with record the no
blest of any party which has ever existed in
this country. 1t is deeply grounded and
rooted in the judgments and affections of
millions Of the American people. It has
more positive strength than any new party
possibly could have. We viii not pretend
to say that it has never done wrong. Par
ties, like the individuals of which they are
composed, are never perfect-they some
times make mistakes, sometimes err. But
no party, that can be mentioned, has ever
mistook or erred so little, or has ever been
the instrument of so much good as the gsn-
uine old Democratic party, founded by JEFF
ferson and Madison and their noble associ-
ates. All the reform necessary can be ef-
fected within its organization. It's platform,
while it should contain all the cardinal
principles which have ever distinguished it,
should be conformed to the inevitable cir
cumstances of the times; and thus consti-
tuted, it viii be all that is wanted as a ba-
sis, broad, strong and firm, for the Democ-
racy to stand on and make a successful fight
for the redemption of the whole land, and
the re-establishment of liberty and consti-
tutional law.
In the second place, the doctrine of So
cial equality, set forth so strongly in the
resolutions, is all wrong, impracticable
and absurd. There never has been such
thing as social equality even among
whites, and there never can be. As ap-
piled to negroes and white men, it is an
impossibility-being against nature and
the will of God. Gen. Beauregard and
his associates in this new movement may
make all the promises they please-ahd
We doubt not they make them in good
faith-but they never can be and they
never will be carried out, and it is folly
to make them. Gen. Beauregard may be
willing to walk arm in arm along Canal
street with a well washed and fashionably
dressed negro or negress, to sit side by
side with such at the table of the St.
Charles Hotel, or in the boxes of the
French Opera, but the white people of
Now Orleans, Louisiana, and elsewhere
will not follow his example, however pa
triotic and philosophic he may deem it.
The thing will be q failure, and its at
tempt win only injure the Democratic
party and retard its ultimate triumph.
We know what the people of Louisiana
have suffered, and what they are suffering
at this time, and this is the only poor
excuse, which can be offered for this un-
natural alliance, as proposed by General
Beauregard and others; but this is not the
way to obtain relief. The movement is
unwise and viii prove improbable, and
should be abandoned as soon as possible.
Let there be no other organized party
against Radicalism but the Democratic
party. All honest white men and all in
teligent negroes, who can see their own
best Interests, can rally around the Demo-
cratic standard and bear it on to victory.