The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-13
The People Have Reversed the Engine
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph,1

The People Have Reversed the Engine
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
What does it mean? or rather what else CO.
it possibly be than great popular verdic
against them on all the marked features an
measures of their temper and public policy
"a popular conviction Of the mischievou
spirit and tendency Of the latter so strong q
to break down party ties cemented by lon
civil war-and (stronger Silly so strong as t
break down the bitterest party prejudices an,
lead thousands on thousand of men, who ha,
heretofore voted the Radical ticket, to ARA,
themselves with the Democracy, although il
their judgment tainted with disunion Moth
ing but many thousands Of such transfer
could have shown the practical results which
we are now daily recording. Well, next, con
slider the wonderful significance Of such rev
olution as this, compared with all others.
They occurred on questions of mere consti
tutional Interpretation and power question!
SO comparatively narrow that the most con.
scientious and ibs raj Republicans were ar.
rayed in opposition upon them. But here, We
may say the questions involved, and decided
| by this revolution, took hold upon the vitals
| OF free Republican governmental reache d
| to the very bottom of the foundation stone
scope not more the relations of the Federal
Government to the States and to the people
than the relations of the States and the peo-
pie to each other-nOt more questions of con-
stitutional construction than questions of in
ter.State and inter sectional comity: SO that
with no exaggeration, but in sober truth and
verify, we can say the people OF this country
have arisen in the might OF their original
power and laid their hands upon the Federal
machine, which in mad fury was crushing
through the bones OF law, liberty and the
public welfare, and reversed the engine That
is what the election means. it means "enough
of this"-enough running outside the Consti :
tution-enough running the Government in
the interest of an absurd humanitarianism-
enough oppression of States and oppression
OF citlzeps-enough sacrifice of all public in
terests to shameless craftsmanship
personal government-enough trampling on
law and rectitude-enough scandal upon all
that is elevated and honorable in public adj
ministration- of this vulg II saturualia
of party scoundrelism. We will have a
change in all these that the country demands
and will look tor and insist upon.
II the Democracy fails to give it to them
they will soon be rid of the Democracy.
Losing sight Of its great mission and oppor-
tunlty, and taking tone from the present
infected and pestilential condition of political
morals, 1t is possible mot probable) that the
AAA"y NsAoPhy lie same hungry
greed Of power, place and plunder-tte same
seltishness- besotted recklessness and love of
tyranny-insensibility to justice, patriotism
and the public welfare-in short, the same un-
mltlgated general cussedness. which has char
acterized the Radicals for a decade Thew
may do tit is possible-not probable-but
so long as the devil goeth about like roaring
hon, seeking whom he may devour it is Dos
slble he may possess the Democrats, too We
hope not.
We hope they will remember the lesson of
this revolution, and that popular retribution
is not likely to delay in their case SO long as
IN that OF the Radical. But it will come. A
party which cannot show substantial evidence
of patriotism and benignity in public admin
!stration ought to go down, and will 90 down.
Now is the time of trial and of opportunity.
Let the Democracy now show that it rests. 80
party. on the solid foundations of eternal
Justice and the public welfare, and that it has
lost none OF its ancient capacity for public
administration. foAo