The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-11-18
New York Press on the Democratic
Victories.

Z The Press Of New York unani
mously comedies the grandeursof the
Democratic victories, everywhere in
the United States on the Sd of No
vember, and as instruction thereon
to our readers, we give the following
extracts: '.''..+.'
Before as yet the smoke Of battle
had lifted from the field of Worces-
ter Oliver Cromwell fastened to- re-
port the brilliant success which had
there brought victory to the peoples
arms and confusion to the hopes of
British absolutism. "The dimen-
sions of this mercy" he wrote, "are
above my thoughts. 1t is for aught
know a browning mercy" And
such a mercy it proved to be, crown
ing as it did the long labors of his
iron-sided. soldiery with the great
deliverance which had been the end
and aim Of their heroic struggles.
The trumpet of a great deliverance
is this day sounded throughout our
land. = Too long has, the nation bent
in the house of it's bondage under the
sceptre Of Radicalism-a rod of iron
for the peeling and oppression Of the
people. 1t is fitting that the voice
of the victorious Democracy should
rise in shouts of patriotic exultation
as-of old the children of Israel sang
together the song of Moses and Mir
lam, when the waters of the Red Sea
had closed over the hosts of Pharaoh
and his chosen captains: "The enc
my said, I win pursue, I will over
take, l will divide the spoil: my lust
shall be satisfied upon, them; I will
draw my sword; my hand shall de-
stroy them. Thou didst blow with
thy wind, the sea covered them: :they
sank like lead in the mi ghty waters"
The consuming anger Of the people
comes like the breath of Jehovah to
blight the counsels and confound the
designs Of the infatuated leaders who
for so many years have ruled this
country only to ruin it. Under the
weight Of their excuses and the &C
cumulated guilt of their political
iniquities the cohorts Of Radicalism
have sunk like lead in, the mighty
waters. We can measure the great
ness of our deliyerance only by meas
uring the depth of degradation from
which the insurrection of Patriotism
has lifted the drowning honor Of the
country as by its locks.
Let then the jubilant Democracy
as they "strike the loud timbrel' in
undissembled exultation over the
splendor of their victory call upon
all the people to rejoice with them
in this browning mercy For it is
in the name Of the people, and with
devout prayers to Almighty God for
deliyerance from our chiefest nation
al calamities that the Democracy
have set up in this contest their ban
ners inscribed with the legend "Free
Trade: Hard Money: Home Rule"
So that if, amid this chorus of ma
tional rejoicing, it falls to the lot of
Democrats to lift their voice the
highest, it is only because they have
been honored to be the leaders of the
people in this prayer for and this
work Of national regeneration. But
the grounds of our exultation are
shared in common by all good citi-
zens. The victory won is a victory
and not woe to the conquered. Our
deliverance is the Republican deliv-
erance just as much. The patriotic
masses of the Republican party may
indeed be thankful that the mad riot
ing of their leaders in the insolence
of Office has been rebuked and arrest
ed. The suffering whites of the
South so long plundered in their
property by Radical thieves and har-
ried in their persons by Federal en-
issaries, may lift up their heads to
greet the rising of a better day for
them as we'll as for the nation at
large. The poor negro, even he who
cast away his ballot refusing to vote
because voting had brought him thus
far no higher wages, may take his
share in the general joy, for with the
advent Of the Democracy to the con-
troll of the nation will come the real
"year oh jubilee" when he shall no
longer be made the pariah of Radi-
calism but enjoy his rightful iber-
ties without becoming the pest of the
nation.
With the light Of victory beaming
from their faces as the pressage of
greater achievements to be wrought
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