New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-30
A pEAD DYNASTY.

thus that we regard the appeal OF num-
Der of most respectable citizens OF I'M
portant parishes to the Democratic Central
Committee. This appeal boldly breaks the
terrible intelligence that 'the call OF
Democratic convention, to assemble IL
New Orleans on the fourth Monday IL
August next, has certainly been unfavor
ably received by the people of the country
parishes" Some papers have objected te
New Orleans as the place OF conven
ton. 1t is intimated that "dissensionS
will arise (unless steps are Immediately
taken to prevent it, which may prove
fatal to the hope of those who desire TO See
the State of Louisiana redeemed and
therefore the committee is urged to with
drawtheir call for convention at New Or
leans, and it is required to devour the ad.
disional dirt of joining in call for con-
vention of all opposed to the present
! incumbents of Office. History furnishes
many examples of such abandonment,
none, perhaps, more striking than when
| the last Stuart learned that his friends
had signed an invitation to his successor,
and exclaimed in the bitterness of his
heart: "God help me My own children
have deserted me-!
We can imagine the scene when this no.
tice was put into the central committee
rooms at the end of fishing pole, for no
man would have been so bold as to have
made manual tradition thereof.
These Democratic elders have scratched
their venerable polls very bald in awaiting
the millennium Of Republican defeat.
They have become fixed in the belief that
the Southern people we're their inherit
ance, and their wrath against Repub-
licans has been infamed with the belief
that they had been, in some manner,
swindled out of patrimony. They had
clutched the sceptre at the close of the
war, renewed their alliances with the
State rights Democracy OF the North, which
sent so many substitutes, took SO many
commissions and contracts to subjugate
the South, and were only awaiting the
dissolution of the Republican party to
come in and dispose Of every office, federal
State and municipal. For Republican
opposition they were prepared; to Repub-
lican victory they were Injured. They
saw the White Leaguers thrashing the
waters to drive fish into the capacious
Democratic net and smiled. They thought
no doubt the advancing committee was
but some deputation of the faithful COM
ing to bring the gifts of undated faith in
their infallibility and to receive the bene-
diction of established supremacy.
We may imagine the complacency with
which the appeal thrust in with the fish
ing pole Of cautious apprehension was
received. Such elevation of eyebrows
and spectacles, such suppression OF
breath, and such explosion of wrath.
The young dogs! The graceless
scamps! Presenting to secede! AS
Stunning to conduct canvass Such
may have been some of the mere violent
EXPLANATIONS as the appalling fact OF re-
bellion broke upon them. We can not,
of course, di yulge the result of these con-
ferences upon this audacious proposition,
but we may expect the assertion OF su-
premacy with asdecree Of political excom'
munication to those of the rebels who do
not cancel their signatures and ask absolu-
ton for the offense committed. We may
expect that about five days will be given
within which the rebels may come in,
but after this grace their political heads
will be set upon Temple Bar as warning
This denunciation Of this futile old
fraud has taken no thoughtful person by
surprise. The opposition to Democracy
in the South served under it's banner be-
cause it had assumed the position Of de-
fender Of the South. Its exclusive mon
opoly of the Confederate government dis
gusted many officers and men who served
in the field, but then, even before the
fall of the Confederacy, the enlissaries of
Northern Democracy, as the Blairs, Pen
dleton and Vallandigham, came over with
assurances of protection, and with encour-
agement to the Southern Democratic lead
ers that, by the nomination Of some Demo-
cratic candidate the federal government
could be regained. A great many gallant
men in the South had fought in earnest,
and had no idea that war commenced for
independence was to be compromised
by restoration OF the Democracy to
power. Such men ut the conclusion
gave their parole and kept it. The de-
feat of Blair and Seymour did not tend to
strengthen their confidence in the Demo-
cratic prestige, while the nomination of
Greeley was based on the superstition
that no one in the South cared any more
for principle than the Democratic leaders.
Perhaps since the homogeneous image
dreamed of by the King of Babylon there
has been no such mixture of mud and
precious metals as the Democratic party.
Mr.. Chase, the abolitionist, and Mr.. Hun
ter, the advocate of slavery, MIR. CAL
houn, the free trader, Mr.. Buchanan, the
protectionist, and Mr.. Mason the oppo-
nent of land grants, with Mr.. Douglas
the patron of the most extensive conccs-
sions of land-these were few of the
more permanent antagonisms all covered
and concealed under the comprehensive
and indulgent term Democracy.