New Orleans Republican., 1875-09-29
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The Sunday Delta passed with its last
issue .''under the auspices of the Dem
ocratic committee. What sort of scom-
mittee it is may be inferred by the leader.
1t appears some one of the committee-it
would hardly do to say all-has read Mr.
Pitkin's address to the Wings, and is
| greatly exercised by it. To the Delta it is
an astonishing thing that any one could
suppose Wing would stand on anything
but Democratic platform, and forgets
how few ever got there or could balance
themselves on it if they did But the
committee considering Mr.. Pitkin's ad-
dress as coming from the Republican
State Central Committee. feel called upon
for a column and half of stultiloquy
Fancy may gild it to the eye as an answer
to the appeal, but there are too many lu-
dicrous errors of fact, and too much stale
abuse to permit its being considered as an
argument. For instance "Warmoth's s
fingers" generally supposed to have been
last used in an attempt to put the DEM
ocrats in offices to which they were not
elected, are taxed on the Republican party
as an evil the Wings would have to SUBJ
nit to. Then Butler, who helped ruin
Douglass and delude Breckenridge, who
was the hardest kind of Democrat till
he forgot his party when it was attempting
to destroy the Union; Morton, the In
diana Democrat, who secsred the vote of
every soldier from that State by his un-
ceasing devotion to their welfare, and
Grant, who never cast any but Dem
ocratic vote, are put down as "Whigs
like Matt Carpenter"
Then the Delta committee man saws:
But where can the Wing and Democrat
stan now, except on the common ground,
in defense of the constitution. when Repub-
lican leaders like Thad Stevens and George
II. Williams strike down and spit upon the
guarantees of that instrument
Thad Stevens, who died ten years ago,
may still lead the Republican party, but
if he does he is not in that region to
which all Democrats, who hated him and
their country, long ago consigned him,
and Williams has been out of office too
long to be considered leader. The
Delta says the Republican party excluded
the statue of the Wing Webster from
Eanayil Hall TT tho
it would not be an argument; but the fact
is it was Democratic mayor OF Boston
who refused the use of it to Webster him
selt-and he went out of Office the next
year.
The National L.telligencer and the Louis
vile Jounal-Gayle aud Seaton and
George D. Prentice! What Wing heart
does not thrill at the mention Of those
glorious names! And yet the National Hteli-
ge,lcer was staunch Democratic journal,
and with George d. Prentice, John Bell
and Millard Fillmore went from it's patriot.
ic labors beneath the folds of the Demo-
cratic banner; and to-day the Courier Jour.
nal does battle under the same flag.
1t so happens that Gayle never had any
thing to do with the National Intelligencer
Gales and Seaton owned and published it,
and it was Whig journal from beginning
to end, under all administrations, and
never ceased its opposition to the DEM
ocratic party. They were firm believers
with Hillard, of Massachusetts, that 'you
can't mix Wing and Democratic blood"
George D. Prentice was Wing and a
patriot to his dying day, and never had a
Democratic or rebel thought in all his
life. Since he died the paper he made and
loved has undergone strange transforma-
tions. 1t has swallowed some papers and
been absorbed by others, and is now en-
quilted in a sea of opinions that never
would have tempted the witty and wise
KQtucky descendant of Connecticut to
embark upon.
Of what value anything based on such
ignorance as this can be, it is for the Delta
committee to determine Somewhat tauto-
logically, it says in conclusion:
Get thee hence, Satan. P'oc,a este pro.
fani.
But the article tempts the use of the
words of Sucking:
But when an authentic watch is shown,
Zach man winds up and rectiaes his own.o
And suggests meditation on the words
of Pope regarding ''little learning"