New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-07
WHAT Is RADroAIEsM, -AfD -wHo ARE
THE RADICALS7

have taken upon them the fancy appella
ton of Democrats peeps out in many
things Of which they are, perhaps. un
conscious or think other people are in
capable of perceiving. We have an asso
citation of persons holding a particula
kind of property which they demant
should be exempt from bearing an allotted
portion of the public burdens This sec
does not demand general reduction o
all taxes on labor as well as land, bu
contents itself with getting itself ant
effects into the ifeboat, leaving other in
terests to sink or swim as they best may
We do not say that this is a Democratic
association. We see many men who ar'
called Democrats, and who should know
that class legislstion is not Democracy
The imputation Of radicalism to the Re
publican party by a party calling itsel
the Democracy, displays the unconcealable
cloven foot of the noblesse.
There whs one true Democrat and Re
publican in America. 1t was Thomas
jefferson, who was even apprehensive lest
the dignified ceremonial of Mr.. and Mrs.
Washington might lead to republican
court. The Cincinnati, whose certificates
of membership were discreditable, were
compelled by the Republican discomfort
to disbsnd. The theory Of John Adams,
that the executive was above the censure
or criticism of the people-all these were
the doctrines or distrusts Of Jeffersonian
Democracy. And what did the aristocrats
call him? A demagogue-an advocate Of
the blood and ruin which the emancipated
French had spread throughout their own
fair country. He was Q leveler and a
radical He advocated universal suffrage,
the exclusive and direct taxation of prop
erty, religious. freedom, universal educa-
ton at the public expense, and the sman-
cipation Of the slave. .t
Here was radical-such a radical as
was John Bright and Daniel O'Connell.
There is not to-day man who calls him
self Democrat who will risk his political
future upon disavowing single one of
the measures which made Thomas Jeffer-
son a radical - 5te.s -!t
Let us see what is imputed to the Re-
publican party as radicalism. We can
see nothing in its creed which is not to
be found in the programme Of Democratic
freedom which the father and founder of
Democracy in America bequeathed to his
disciples.
To the Republican party in Louisiana
is imputed that which has been proven
against the Democratic statesman and
Senator, Tweed, and the Democratic SEN
ator Lord. 1t has been proven against
the Democratic party in the administra-
ton of the city of New York. This is
not radicalism; it is rascality. If the
Republican party, with its invulnerable
Jeffersonian principles, has been betrayed
by unworthy members, let the conservative
and honest sentiment of the country re-
form these abuses. If the Republican ad-
ministration exercises patronage too
large for the Republican theory of govern
ment, this is not radicalism. This, to the
reader of history, tends to monarchy, and
is an undue development of the one man
power, or the rule of ''single person,
to which the old English republicans and
their American descendants have evinced
SO deadly hostility. 1t is q hostility so
deadly that in the constitutions of thirty
six out of thirty-seven States the repub-
lican principle Of popular election to State
and municipal Offices is held sacred.
II the Republicans favor the education
and suffrage of all men it is the law of
the Union, which all have sworn to obey
as paramount and is the last will. and
words of the greatest and wisest radical
in the world Thomas jefferson.
Whatever there is embodied in the Re
publican creed 10 founded on rock and
can not be controverted while the Union
stands. WhAtever Of wrong may be per
petrated in the name of republicanism
should be reformed if it takes the whole
conservative force. white and black, in
Louisiana to efsctit. Save the principles
and sacrifice the wrong doers, if any, who
may prostitute the good name of the
party to their own personal advantage.
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