The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-10
THE REPUBLICAN AND SENATOR
ENGLISH.

The Republican makes rather unintelli-
gible criticism on the BULLETIN for having re-
published from the New York Tribune IA
vorable notice of Senator English, of Connec-
ticut. AS well as we can understand the Re
publican, the BULLETIN incurs that journals
censures because it omitted portion Of the
Tribune's article, which the Republican, thinks
would have presented Senator English in
very different light. Says the Republican,:
"These interesting facts are accidentally
clipped off by the partisan scissors, and the
Northern Democrats are left to believe that
Senator English, of Connecticut, is the same
sort of Democrat with Senator Gordon, OF
Georgia. We should suppose, according to
usual geographical description, the Senator
from Connecticut should be a "Yankee."
From his votes he ought to be Yankee
abolitionist, and also Connecticut Republi-
can Yankee. All these valuable attributes
are clipped away by the partisan shears, and
Senator English will go through the South as
a "hard money" Democrat of great worth
and ability, who has defeated some Republi-
can Connecticut Yankee, and came to aid in
securing Democratic majority in the Senate
Of the United States"
\ The interesting facts referred to are ex-
pressed in the following paragraph:
4 Upon other matters-such as administra-
five reform or any questions into which par
tisanship is liable to enter-we shall hope to
see him taking the same manly and coura-
geous stand when in Congress during the war,
as when he rose above party, and not only
supported the war measures of Lincoln's ad-
ministration, but voted for the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia.
This paragraph was omitted by the BUILE-
TIN on account of irrelevancy. Senator Eng
lish's course with reference to the war and
slavery in the District of Columbia, have no
connection with his actual standing in the
Democratic party. They do not make him
either more or less Democrat, nor do they in
crease or lessen his resemblance in Democracy
to Senator Gordon. Those gentlemen are too
near together 10 please the Republican, and 80
that journal solaces itself that once they were
far apart.
We can not begrudge this small comfort to
the Republican, In "reminiscences like these
of a time more fraught with bliss to its party
when the Union was threatened with destruc-
ton, and the Democratic party seemed hope
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its only joy.
But if it is indecorous, or even only incon-
sistent, on the part of the BULLETIN, TO over
look or forget the facts that many eminent
Democrats supported Lincoln's war-measures,
and reprobated slavery, why is it not indie
corous or inconsistent on the part of the Re-
publican to overlook or forget analogous facts
in the history Of distinguished men of its
own party. When the Republican praises
Grant as the chief Of its party, it does not
show much zeal in recurring to the fact that
his solitary vote before 1853 was given for
Mr.. Buchanan.
When Gen. Butler is referred to as an emf
nent Radical chieftain, the Republican gener-
ally forgets to tell us that he voted on many
ballots for Jefferson Davis against Douglas in
the Democratic Convention of 1860. When
Mr.. Boutwell, is held up for admiration, we
are not reminded of the fact that Mr.. Bout
well was once elected Governor of Massachu-
sets as the candidate of the Democratic party.
Yet we presume that these gentlemen are all
regarded as good Republicans to-day, just as
Senator English is Democrat-a Democrat
of whom his party is proud on account of his
fidelity to fundamental Democratic principles,
and in whom the whole country may confide
for his integrity, his capacity and his states
manship.