New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-28
THE BALTIMORE DEMOCRACY.

THE BALTIMORE DEMOCRACY.
Il The botanists must get hold Of the Dem
ocracy; they must classify the varieties
, genus and species: We have now the Bal
. timore variety which differs from that o
Ohio In the first place it is imbued will
'those cardinal principles of republican
government enunciated by Thomas Jetfer
son."
K Now, there were certain deductions from
these cardinal principles which the Dem
ocracy does not avow. The education o
the people and the emancipation OF tn
slaves were measures advocated by Thoma
Jefferson. Equal and exact justice to al
men, of whatever state or persuasion
. religious or political, - was doctrine in
corporated into the declaration and enact
ed into law so far as Thomas Jefferson
had power to effect il, but we have known
Democrats, supposing themselves his dis
ciples, who denied the right OF colored
men to political equality, and who have
driven citizens of the United States from
their homes for no other offense than a
difference Of opinion. "The support OF
State governments, in all their rights. =
Now it seems that when certain States
asserted their rights. that the whole
Northern Democracy left them TO support
their own rights. and Immediately took
the bounty and commissions OF the United
States to reduce those States 70 obey the
laws. as they were expounded to them by
the Northern States rights Democracy
serving under the Republican nationalists.
'Jn all their rights" forsooth. What
State rights did Northern Democrat
support when the ultimate issue was made?
"The rights Of the States" is now included
in and comprehended with the right Of
petition. The States are under the law as
the citizens who compose them, and yet
Democracy pirates of defending the rights
of the States. The rights Of the States as
protested by these Northern Democrats is
precisely the right Of the subjugated hus-
band who. driven with the broomstick |
under the bed for Sefuge, declared that ''as |
long as he had the spirit Of man he
would peek out" That is what the rights !
Of the States means in the mouth of
Northern Democrat. But the Baltimore
platform considers these rights bulwarks
against anti-republican tendencies We
must look to them for defense against
Democracy itself, which is at this day
decidedly anti-republican in its tendencies.
The tribute to the general government
Gin it's whole constitutional vigor as the
shest-anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad, is patriotic, and adopting
and applaudlng as we do the following
compendium of Jeffersonian republican
ism, we ask what longer separates parties,
and why the political millennium should
be longer deferred?
The supremacy of the civil over the mill
tary authority; economy in the public ex.
pense, that labor may be lightly burdened;
the honest payment of our debts and the |
sacred preservation Of the public faith; the
of information and arraignment
Of all abuses at the bar Of public opinion;
freedom of religion; freedom of the press; (
freedom Of the person under the protection
Of the habeas corpus and trial by juries i'm
selected.
Among the measures which this variety
If Democrats recommend is one in regard {
% the financial policy of the government. 6
t reads thus:
VNo oF =
currency, but demand that such
measures be adopted by Congress which
will result in the resumption Of specie pay
nents at tbs earliest possible moment.
That earliest possible moment is good. .
t is not so punctual as was Mr.. Mi
awber when he made a minute of the
maturity of the Toodles Endorsement in 4
lis bills payable, but we do not doubt it
8 equally sincere and just as obligatory.
Old julius said to young Pomp: I'm
ot gwine to Ak you fur dat two dollars. G
loant you no more. l shall leave TO de
God Lord to colleck it," Whereupon the =
npudent debtor inquired: '.Look heah, Il
Incle julius. has you got any more money I
, put out on dem terms?' This Demo. L
ratio resumption ''at the earliest possible
,oment" is so accommodating, that Will o
am Allen himself might ask his brethren b
they could not initiate couple Of hun 81
red millions or 50 to be redeemed on "
dem terms A
We need follow this platform no further. b
he opposition to ''monopolies, as un. O
arrantable in law. corrupting in ten
ency, and utterly subversive of the prin. I p
piles of good republican government"
hight be read by way of argument before !
Democratic Common Council on the
lird reading Of an ordinance conveying
lie public right in the wharves or water
orks. 1t would be received with great
luanimity by our Democratic corporation
nd corporators. and would be laid on the
bile as irrelevant.
The programme for the mex: campaign fc
plain. Father Allen holds up his al
ands and grants dispensation to all be-
evers from the tenets of the Democratic r
aurch. When they confess 10 have gone IL
ack on hard money, to have embraced a "
gh tariff, or hankered after land grab,
ley are to receive plenary absolution
I'd an open policy OF indulgence. The
eat end and object Of public spoliation
held to justify any means Of political
sincerity and. deception necessary to 60