New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-17
STOP THIEF.

of all artfully written editorial, given n
new signal to the party. This signal will
be found in the New York World of the
eleventh instant, in an article entitled
"Repudiation the Upshot of Imitation. "
We have never seen more perfect illus
tration Of the policy which impels a
criminal to cry stop thief in order
to divert attention from himself than is
displayed in this article Nor have we
ever seen a more clever exhibition of de-
termined purpose on the part of any crin,i-
nal to repeat the very crime which the
| World is now denouncing, and from
contact with which it is apparently seek
ing to escape.
In this case the New York organ OF the
| Confederate Democracy charges the Re-
publican party with two crimes; first,
with the crime of having created the ma
tional debt; secondly, with the crime of
deliberately intending the reputation Of
the debt thus created. Than this, can
political effrontery go further? Under
this cry OF ''stop thief the World ar
raigns the Republican party as the real
criminal in this matter, forgetting that
| the Confederate Democratic war on the
Union was the cause of the debt, by rem
dering the debt necessary, and forgetting
also that Confederate Democratic ascen-
| dency in the government must lead finally
| to the reputation of this debt. But it is
| unfair to say that the World forgets these
facts. The editors of that paper are aware
| of the facts in this case. They know their
| statements to be an evasion of truth, and
| a most shameful evasion.
Having thus thrown what is supposed
to be the necessary amount of ''dust"
into the public eye in order to blind the
public intelligence, the Confederate-Dem-
ocratic organ whispers to the faithful il
accents sweet and low as follows:
The inevitable result of reputation
Is not yet made level to the
popular apprehension.
The writer should have said the in
evitable process" of reputation, etc.,
is the process which the Confederates
are interested in. The result" of repu-
diation is already 'level'' to every ones
apprehension. The result of the repudla-
ton Of the national debt is the overthrow
of the Union and the triumph of the Con-
federate conspiracy. The World, then, is
Lind onnJoh 70 hat - &c for sltlie
reason" dhe result you knowD "that
We are SO constantly anxious to keep this
momentous subject before our readers"
There we have it at last
Are the conductors of Northern news
papers aware of the danger of employing
Confederate partisans on their editorial
staff, or as contributors to the Thought
of Northern publications? In the case
before US, we have conclusive argument
against the business of the war which
created the debt, against the equity of the
debt itself, accompanied by showing of
the only way of getting rid of it. If we
are not mistaken, all this is from Con-
federate pen. Having been told that the
Republican party should be held response
BILE for the creation of the debt, we are
then shown that the nation can not pay it;
that the attempt to redeem the pledge of
the government in this particular must
end in utter bankruptcy.
Having placed the country in this
H. L.
organ of the New York wing of the con-
spiracy goes on to say:
There is only one of two issues out of
such a condition-either the administra-
ton 1.-THE Republican party that has ruined
the nation tby creating this debt in the
suppression of the military phase of the
Confederate conspiracy must be destroyed,
Or The debt mast be repudiated.
Ha, ha! Monsieur Tonson. You have
come again, have you? And so we are
kindly given the alternative of a Con-
acknowledgements rule or reputation.
In 1860 it was Confederate Democratic
rule or war. In 1864 it was peace under
Confederate Democratic administration
or continuation of the war. And now
it is unconditional surrender to the old
enemy, or the overthrow of the financial
basis on which rests the credit, securities,
industries and business of the country.
The article in question rambles on after
this quite pleasantly, filled with the usual
amount of national feeling, patriotic pur-
poses, etc., but the head of the arrow and
the very point of the head is contained in
the climax, as above quoted. The exceed
ing adroitness of this article will be I'M
derstood when it is remembered that
widespread apprehension exists among all
classes of the North that Confederate
Democratic restoration in 1876 carries
with it the reputation of the national
debt. By the cry of ''stop thief" the
World seeks to evade this public senti-
ment and at the same time to keep alive
the very Confederate purpose which it
processes to deprecate.
THE GINHOUSE RUPNrpa