New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-22
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rome denounced carnage because 30
: | would never keep treaty if it becam
her interest to violate it. The opponent
. Of alpowerfal religious sect assert that il
members made verbal declaration whic
apparently bound them to do or forbea
to do an act, but that this was Away
done under the mental reservations Of
!. discretion to violate the very letter of tn
; profession. It is fresh within the memoir
. Of all that the Modocs regarded q flag Q
truce as only Of value so far as it woul
enable them to get within range Of. foe
FOOLS enough to believe in its protection.
Democracy proper has always emu
lated this characteristic. Its name is
} deception. True Democracy was defined
by Mr.. Lincoln when he said, govern
ment of the people. by the people ant
for the people. Democracy, founded b,
that Radical, Thomas jefferson, mean
universal political equality, the egua
diffusion of knowledge among thu
people" to ''impose all public expenses
upon citizens in proportion to their prop
erty." The Democracy who have taken
the name Of Thomas Jefferson in vain
have opposed these principles, and have
never advocated an act to carry either OF
them into effect. The proof of this
initial hypocrisy is to be found in the
traditional hostility of the Democracy to
schools. roads, shipping and work.
shops. They have proposed nothing for
the. improvement of the people in
their individual capacity. They alone
assume to represent the people in its ag-
gregate capacity. They predicate State
| hood Of the community, and demand the
honors and emoluments of government
for the upper classes" in the name of an
ignorant and misled multitude. It is
again the royal duke who attempts to pre-
serve his own wealth and station by pre-
tending to advocate the equality Of all
men. This is by no means defamation.
Its truth has been proven by the whole
history of Calhoun Democracy bafore and
since the wal; and the dread of Robert E.
Lee lest Virginia should be tackled on to
South Carolina as avowed in a lately pub
ished letter proves that the aristocratic,
exclusive, intolerant and Carthagenian
character of that school was ap-
preciated by. al. conservative men
in the Southern States. The REpup-
IcAN has heretofore adyerted to the
combination Of men of opposite opinions
under the very elastic tent of Democracy.
1t has been shown that the war exposed
the fact that one class of Democrats meant
to fight for the Union, and the other
meant to fight fer the separate sovereignty
of the States.
The basis principle Of the aristrocratic
Democracy being to. secure federal and |
State Office, they can never be expected |
to compromise on anything less. There |
would be no trouble or inconsistency in
their voting for high tarifite, federal
fst or an abolitionist. This they have
done, aud could do again without the loss
Of man, if it led to the presidency, or
share in the presidency. But when any
compromise is proposed which merely in
wolves the peace of society and the en-
ployment of industry, such compromise
will no more be kept than would Garth
'gen;an truce or mental reservation
promise.
The particular application Of these
rats of political character at the present
inc is to be found in the removal of four
MEMBERS of the Legislature who, in the
words of the Bulletin, occupy the seats
i Democratic members" Were this not
movement of the Democratic party to
ain power, the disqualification of each
these members to hold seat would have
een imputed to some specific cause. They
re not objected to because of such causes,
ut because they occupy "the seats of
democratic members" The inference is
cry fair, then, that if these sitting mem
ers were Of the Democratic faith there
'ould have been no objection made to
aeI continued service. We have no pur-
oseto contend thata Legislative body has q
OF the power to investigate the title Of I
ember to his seat at any time. The .
ght Of body to see that it's constituent /
is always legal is not denied. a
he bylaw of Legislature, that ques- Il
on once decided shall not be again called C
] question during the session of that Ii
'dy, can be no doubt suspended accord I
g to the.same rules. But the patent OBJ d
ction is that the Conservative compro- d
isers should have disturbed at this ses- 81
IN Of. ten days the body of the House q
it was constituted at the date Of the if
mpromise. That the composition s,
this body should remain as it n
rs is affirmed to have been q e.
rnl of compromise. and it must be tt
parent that if the Republicans had fore X
own the use which the Conservative in
ajority would make of their power, they re
'uld never have assented to the special OF
'sion at all. It was very well known
It the Conservative majority could and
uld re-organize the House. But of
at use could an addition of four mem ye
rs have been for that purpose9 OF none be
oil. But House majority would be Sc
ftient to control legislation on all lei
estions of joint ballot. ~, on
His eycellency the Governor viii re- pr