The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-01

Tho reoent elections have given the Demo
cratic party the prestige Of success. and. If tn
NJ cessitiss Of the situation are carefully COZ
sidered North and South, November wi
brlng n still greater victories, and may Civ
to us the controlling influence in the nez
House of Representatives.
In the South the conservative element
classed under the name of Democracy. i
largely in the majority. and, unrestraine'
have little difficulty in carrying the Souther,
States. To be successful, political &C
ton must always Be aggressive; bu
to be aggressive in politics, as i,
I military operations, ability to maintain III
positions already occupied. and to sustain
every forward step, must be considered befor'
! the order for . general advance can be given
The first duty which the South owes to itsel
and to tho country is to assure itself of it
position. In their eagerness to carry the ban
ner to the front the Southern Conservatives
ought MOTTO neglect the security of the place.
now held BY them. The easiest won victory
that November may bring them may be los,
through csrelessness or undue excitement, and
who were fairly defeated at the polls.
on in the South Is not for the purpose Of in
timidating the Democrats to tho extent 0,
keeping them from the polls: bu: it is intend
ed to provoke them to such degree that
they will retaliate by violence, and appear not
as the prosecuted, but as tho prosecutors. The
men who shoulderod the musket at New Or
leans and overthrew the Kellogg usurpation,
and tho merchants who persisted in course
which they deemed right and patriotic not
outstanding the attempts made by the
trooper Merrill to dragon them into submits
sion, are not the stuff to be brow-bea,en and
frightened from the exercise of their fran
chises. The Radicals have no hope OF this,
but they do hope to crowd them to the wall
until they turn in despair upon their assail-
ants, and furnish the pretext of vio-
lence, to secure direct military interfer-
ence at the polls or to invalidate the
elections. Extreme prudence and modera-
ton are, therefore, the essential requisites to
real Conservative success in the South. If
every Conservative will go to the polls and
cast his vote, but go with the determination to
avoid collision and to discountenanse every
manifestation Of resentment, he will be rom
dering his country service and will leave no
room for the excuses which the Radicals are
seeking, to obtain by force and fraud what
they cannot obtain by . fair and free express
sure to secure what she gets, and then get
what moro she can, and she will be doing her
whole duty in the contest
The situation presented in the North is of .
somewhat different character. The Demo-
cratic party cannot be completely successful
over the country until its ranks are recruited
Tho recruits must be found in the North, and
they must be dra wn from tho moderate Be
publicans. In the South the intelligence, and
in most localities. the numbers are on the
Democratic side; IN the North the intelligence
is divided and the numbers are Nearer equal.
While the South is maintaining the positions
which she has seized, or which are within her
grasp, the North must push forward and cap
do this BY the delicate means of drawing from
tho enemy. The evidences Of dissatisfaction
with Radical rule throughout the North are too
powerful for even the Radicals to deny. The
pronounced Liberal Republicans are but
fraction of the great army of disafected. who
still cling to the Republican party only be-
cause they have no where else to go.
The New York Democracy have shown O
thorough appreciation of this fact, and they
have flung their doors wide open to those who
have grown tired Of corruption and misgov-
eminent, and they have welcomed all corners,
not as converts and recruits who must take
back seats until they pass through period of
probation, but they have greeted them as
orothers and equals, and assigned to them the
highest places in their gatherings. It was in
this spirit they placed o Liberal Republican
on their ticket as q candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, and paid distinguished honors in
their State Convention to Dewitt c.. Littlejohn,
who for many years has been one OF the most
prominent men in the Republican party: and
it is with this spirit that the Democracy all
over the North can win access:ons to their
ranks and carry Conservatism to victory in
every part of the county.
Cancellation in the North in the South. pru-
denoe and patience. G,ri~Josv-
raj