New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-13

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that casual and temporary directors OF
public journal shall read any exchanges
except those which suggest or favor their
own views, and therefore the Ptcdyooe
may be pardoned the spreading through
ont the State a belief that the late cleo
tons signifed the immediate restoration
of the Bourbon Democracy. This I'M
founded assurance tends to keep those
who reside in the distant prailies of Cal
casieu, or back of the bayous of Vermil-
ion, in the delusion that Slidell is not
dead but sieepeth, and will return to sur
pass all the devices of Blanchard, and
reinstate his followers i'll all their fran-
chises of ballot ard bowie. These teach
ings are as unsound as they are injurious.
The whole press sets down the checkered
results of the late election to popular dis
gust at dishonest practices, or to the AFRO
CANT rapacity of monopolies. There are
no persons in the country so much de-
lighted at these results as Republicans,
because it drives into obscurity many who
made pretense Of principle the means of
enriching themselves, and throwing the
responsibility upon the par y whose name
they dishonored; perhaps incidentally
because it keeps the Bourbons in
the field Of opposition. As for this
election sounding the recall Of the
Democratic Bourbons to power, as well
might Chambord insist that the fall Of
Napoleon, or the discomfort with Theirs,
or the trial Of Bazane, was tie national
voice Of France calling with enc accord
for the white banner Of his house. no
body in France was thinking OF the Bour-
bon, none in the United States regarded
the Democratic party. The one was as
completely ignored as the other. The
white banner had been polluted by the
crimes and debaUchery Of the four last
Bourbons who bore it; the rights Of the
people-the love Of the people-the SYM
patty for the people-had ceased to ami
mate those who claimed power in the
name of the people. These two shams
have been consigned to q common obliv-
ion. Neither Chambord nor Tweed can
revive them. That these are not opinions
peculiar to ourselves, but common to the
press, we have shown By extracts from
leading political papers. TIE New York
San is an anti Grant paper Of great circu-
lation and-violence. It claims the cleo
tons as decision against the adm1nistra-
ton, which It persists in holding respon-
sibles for obnoxious measures with which
we think it Lad nothing to do. After
having recited in detail the issues deter
mined. in every locality and referring
them to the same discomfort with the ad-
ministration, the SIN remarks:
While the benefit of these disturbing
causes naturally enuIes to the Democratic
organization as the most formidable and
compact part of the general opposition, it
would be a great delusion to suppose that
these elections mean a restoration Of that
party To power There has been no such
EXPRESSION anywhere, as Will soon be dis
covered if al effort b" made 10 give pcacti-
cal direction to that false idea.
This is an impartial statement The
power which the SIN and Others have di
rected against abuses perpetrated by, or
attributed to the Republican party, has
been intended, whether wisely or not, for
the preservation OF the Republican party.
When it is claimed that this power vas
exerted for the restoration OF its Demo-
cratic antagonists, notice is gwen that this
false idea whenever presented, viii be
retutcd in the most emphatic manner.
The opposition Of Mcclellan to the Re-
publican administration, or Of Alexander
Stephens to the dospotis,n Of Davis,
neither proved that tie on OF the other
malcontent would, under any circum-
stances, have gene over 20 the enemies Of
the period. Each was, no doubt. actuated
by Il zeal to make his own cause stronger
and more successful.
That the Louisiana question was the
leading issue in the late election, il a
false idea, especially likely 70 DO mis-
chief here. New York, aGitated with the
apprehension Of Tweed and LIS colleges,
the 1uinous Vaccinations of Gould, and
the ever active incentive Of spoil5 by the
million-tLe corn growers Of the West
paying tribute Of three peclls N the
bushel to the lorlly carrier, 1epelled the
covert attempt Of the politicians of both
parties, who sang the anthem
want 20 be Granger,
Ant with the Changers stand
with a peck ct lay seed ia my hair,
AID pitch fork in my haud-
California struggling in the tolls to re-
gain the administration Of her own
at.airs and preserve her mines and her
ha-bor from becoming the mere append
age Of railroad ing; Chicago divided
upon the social question Of the nigh to
limit man III amusements or occupation
not inconsistent with the penal laval
these ana others We're conttnding, it
would .seem, whether Kellogg or McEnery
should be Governor of Louisiana One
would suppose that if that had been the
paramount Issue we should not have Lad