New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-22
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There vas never . greater fallscy pub
! lished than that che public good required
| only acts Of Legislative or executive policy
without regard to the persona! character
| Of the members OF ministers who enacted
them. 4: indeed the courtiers OF power
whether popular or pontifical. which have
I often brought the soundest and mos
| sacred doctrines into contempt. The Law
| by which the individuals least burdeneo
with moral scruples ascend to the highest
official pinnacles Of party is as well es'
tablished as the law Of tic relative leV:ty
OF atmospheric elements.
The Democratic party has been twice
exploded and thrown from power by THIS
destructive agency. and the Republican
party has suffered from the same cause.
Measures. not men, is contradiction
I Measures can not be carried out without
men Of ability adequateto their execution
II is the same as to say 'Strategy. not
officers or soldiers" The REpuBLicAS
has warned. in ample time. the Legisla'
ture and the party committees OF the ILL.,
po.tance OF supporting sound measures
| with inyuinerab1e men. II was obvious
! that some Of the same class of courtiers
| who have oyerthrown SO many principali-
| ties and powers. have been trading IN the
name Of the Republican party. It. is now
seen tina: the only assault on Republican
principles is directed against the weakness
Of individuals who have worn its uniform
without believing its faith. To the ex-
tent. then. that the Republican line has
given way at every point defended by a
derelict officer. we would hold a court
martial a. the drumhead. cashier and de-
grade him. When the Republican army
shall come to be seorganized, the neces"
sity Of men TO carry and defend measures
will be SO manifest that we shall expect to
see none but tried soldiers in command OF
on watch over It's movements. The opposl-
ton party can. therefore. rejoice as much
as ourselves at any exposure OF inilulty
perpetrated in the name Of the Repub'
lican party. They can render it no such
service as by concealing the wrong OF their
own Democratic city government. and by
proclaiming the abuses alleged agains:
the Republicans. The same small cua'
ming which hides the names of four clerks
in the Democratic Bureau OF Assessments.
accused Of official corruption placards
certain Republican officers in the parish
Of Plaquemines as already convicted Of
crime because indicted by political oppo'
nents. It thus sows the seeds Of Demo.
cratic defeat and Of Republican zesurrec-
ton. The same want Of sagacity which
protects these anonymous offenders
the four assessment clerks-trom exposure
hardens the confidence of their successors.
They thereby know that the Democratic
party will continue to be accessories after
the fact and &C complices in the consum.
nation Of any future deed Of the same
nature.
The placard of Indictment. if proved
acco,d:n: to law. will expel from Repub.
lican trus. courtiers and parasites upon
its bounty who have degraded its name
and arrested its progress.
But the senseiess dogma. measures not
men. has received its most significant
refutaticn from the establishment OF Re-
publican principles and the defeat OF Re-
publican men. Now. what We should like
to know i, what is the use Of principles
without somebody to carry them out:
The sigma! triumph OF Republican prin-
ciples consists in this, that they have
been SO acknowledged by our opponents
as that Republican principles are being
carried out by Democratic mea. The
Boston Post says:
The Democracy neither intend to disturb
the new amendments to the constitution
nor to paw the rebel debt from the fedora!
treasury. They would be inpoteut to Go
it if such was their desire. :.
Democratic policy will insist OF equal and
exact justice to all, white and black. rich
and poor. North and South.
What. then. remains Of the principle in
question between the two parties: Nothing.
Then the Republican party will have lost
the Enforcement Of its own principles
because of the ineaiciency Of its own
men. Can this be? It is SO III part.
There is general decline in the value Of
property and q stagpation in the rate Of
wages. Principles being no longer in
issue. the American people have endeav-
ored to relieve the disease by changing
the physician. The measures having been
decided on. they are looking out FOX men
to execute them. The country is safe. but
the pa:tisans are in danger. There is
nothing hereditary in American politics.
The Republican party, then. having
founded orthodox principles. should put
forward none but good men to give them
effect. They have the measures. now let
US have the men to execute them. Do
not let us be put out of our own house by
our own tenant. holding over on our Own
title.
AVOICE FROM The VATICAN.
1t is obvious from the chronicles Of the
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