The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-08-11
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two giant factors in the great equa
tion of national prosperity will natu
rally harmonic, and new life, new
confidence and new guarantees Of
wealth and power will be impaired tc
the crushed and struggling millions
in the land. 1t is chiefly the indi.
yidual and aggregate prosperity and
wealth of people that constitute a
strong, prosperous and free
government. When men succeed
in the business relations of life, they
feel degree of manly dignity, indie
pendence and contentment that nee
essarily infuses the spirit of these
qualities in the laws and character of
the government; the governed and
the government becoming alike in-
spired by pervading spirit Of indie
pendence and liberalism. But when
they are crushed and bowed down by
want and poverty, they naturally be-
come humble and submissive. They
not only lose sight of all inherent
rights, and forget what are the true
sources Of legal power in a govern
ment like ours, but they become so
accustomed to the ways of tyrants,
so familiar with the rod that smites
them, and so thoroughly broken in
spirit, that, to subvert their manhood
and make them nation Of serfs is q
work of easy accomplishment, when
power is lodged in the hands Of an
INSCRIPTIONS and ignorant chief.
Has not the INSCRIPTIONS and ig-
norant chief magistrate Of this gov
eminent, bncked by so-called polit-
ical party equally dishonorable in
ficted poverty and suffering and hui
initiation upon that class of people
in this country most certain to resist
his encroachments, with the manifest
purpose of subduing their spirit and
disarming their resistance? Has not
Gen. Grant, in the mad delirium of
his ambition, dreaming that he had
broken the spirit of opposition and
prepared his path to perpetual power,
called npon the council of the nation,
the majority Of whom knew no will
but his, and demanded the power to
chain or kill citizen when he would?
Did he not ask this prerogative at
the hands of partizan Congress,
claiming it as political necessity?
Have the Democrats of Ohio or Lou
isiana forgot that this great crown
ing achievement Of Capitalization on
ly failed of accomplishment by the
merest accident?
Then, when we know that our
chains have already been forged by
this man and his party; that the
doom of serfdcm has been decreed
against us, and only awaits the issues
of another national campaign, and
when we reflect that only one eIecto-
raj vote in the great political crisis
of 1876, may turn the scale in which
our liberties are balanced and become
the instrument of rlveting dhese
chains upon us, when these startling
probabilities are placed before US by |
the logic of past events, does it not |
earnestly behoove all good citizens
to take alarm at the magnitude Of
these dangers, and nerve their hearts
to the great purpose of overthrowing
the Republican party3 All other
questions before the country would
seem to sink into insignifcance when
contrasted with the great duty of de-
feating this party. This duty rests
with the Democratic organization.-
Then, to that organization all good
men in the land, of whatever pastpo
litical associations, should rally and
proclaim their adhesion. Ifany have
been taught in the past to hate the
Democratic party, they should now
N this hour Of their country's peril
,heerfully forget that hatred. Ifany
have sworn loyalty in the past to the
I'D Wing or Know-nothing faith, they
should, for the time at least, forget
such loyalty. They should consent
20 serve their country in the ranks of
The only political organization that
low can possibly save it. We will
nave a thoroughly disciplined and
powerful enemy to meet in the cam
oaign of 1876. IF the Democratic
party would save the country-and
ibis party alone can save tits scat
;ered ranks must be organized. Its
executive departments must endeav-
'r to bring into the folds Of the party
I'll good men who are willing to bury