The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-25
SUPP I N B n I.
RADICAL FEARS.


Now that the victories of the Democratic
party all over the country are conceded, and
the control of the Government is about to
pass out of the hands Of the Republic ms il
is both amusing aud instructive to observe the
remarkable anxiety displayed by the organs Of
the suppIanted party and the gloomy pre-
dictions they make for the future OF the
country. Their chief alarm seems to be that
the Democratic party, on its ascendency to
power, will not continue to foster those pet
notions of political economy, and those pecu-
liar constructions Of the Constitution Of which
the Republican party has been wont to boast
since it attained the direction of the National
Government.
They fear that the legal tender acts the
constitutional amendments, the tariff and
some other notable iniquities Of Radical
legislation, may not be regarded with that
tender care and solicitude which they re-
ceived from their originators. They fear that
there will be Immediately inaugurated poll
teal crusade against all the men and meas
ures Of the Republican party, and that in a
very short time not vestige of either will be
left to tell the story of the Wanted achieve
ments of that once powerful and overwhelm
ing political dynasty.
Those journals picture in an ironical vein
the blessings Of free and honest government
that are expected to flow from the ascendency
Of the Democratic party. One Of them says:
every poor mans pot is now to boil over
with plenty Industry of every kind is to
revive The musical clink Of Astounding gold
and silver is to be heard in the land. Peace
and prosperity and profound regard for equal
rights are to descend upon the South. JUS
tee, economy, progress, prosperity and benef-
cent reform are all at hand" But behind
all Of this is lurking suspicion and ''wish,
that is father to the thought" that all Of
these sweeping promises will not be fully
realized.
And this doubt, it is contended, is not
shared by the Republicans only, but it is that
also of the Democrats themselves and many of
their friends In proof of this is cited such
expressions Of caution as the following:
''Let tle Democrats behave themselves, and
the future is secure, says Tic CluclundLl En-
quirer, the leading Democratic journal of the
West. u ask you,' says Senator Gordon, in
Georgia, to his Democratic constituents, to
commission me in your name to pledge upon the
floor Of the Senate your fidelity to the Union
Democrats Of Selma, in Alabama, "that the
rights of all classes of men must be respected
and preserved inviolate." s'The party should
lose no the New s 4oTx 1o re
Baltimore platform of 1872 in relation to the
rights of the negroes and all the constitutional
amendments" ''No reputation and no seces-
sion," cries the New York Herald
Such warning is unnecessary to the Re-
publican party, the Journal Of Civilization says.
Very true. That party would not see its work
undone, but would rather rejoice to transmit
to lis successor their financial and political
policy-the policy which resulted in the over
throw of Republicanism. It would see the
cons titutional amendments which were forced
upon the Southern States, when they had no
representation in Congress, maintained invio
late. 1t would see..the Leg tender act, passed
the Constitution, respected, and calls opposi-
ton to it as virtual reputation It would see
the plainest doctrine of States rights repudi-
ated and calls an acknowledgment of that Con-
stitutional privilege, secession.
1t is the well-grounded fear that the Demo-
cratic party will quickly regulate all of these
political issues in a manner that will bring
back the country to that period when politi-
cal parties respected the Constitution, the
law and the rights Of the people, that the
Republican journals manifest such anxious
solicitude. Such wise and eminently proper
course for the party On its accession to power
will commend it to public favor, and will
secure its hold upon the people just 50 long
AS its administration is marked by justice,
economy and honesty.
It is the fear that the Democracy will adopt
this line Of policy, and profting by the fatal
experience Of its late powerful opponents, will
avoid the rocks upon which the Republican
party was wrecked-that all Of those sham
are INDUCED in, feigned alarmed
expressed, that all Of those benefits we expect
to enjoy from a change of political rule, are
doomed to disappointment.
We say, however, to the dethroned political
San ledrim Of the Republican party, contain
your souls in peace. The Democracy, with
it, experience, its talents and its sense Of JUS
tice, requires neither advice nor caution from
its worst enemy, whom it has just vanqu1shed.
Republican dogmas, Republican ideas Of
political economy, of finance, and of national
and fame, will meet with no favor
in the estimation Of a grand party, whose
escutcheon, when it was all-powerful was never
furnished by the black and damning deeds
that have brought ruin to that party which is
passing away to return no more.
GOV. JOHN McENERY.
Our distinguished fellow citizen, Gov. Nc
Enorx hos re4nrr al from his visit To Nashville