New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-27
SOLD TO THE YANKEE pEMoORACY.

SOLD TO THE YANKEE DEMOCRACY.
The sole policy of the Democracy seems
to stimulate such hatred toward their
political antagonists that their followers
may go into any alliance, howsoever i'm
moral, to escape association with those
they have been taught to regard with such
adherence.
We habitually use decent language, be-
cause it requires more intellect to convince
the reason than excite the passions. Mr..
Pope meant good deal when he said that
want of decency is want of sense" II
is true. The more stupid a man may be
the harder he swears, and the more whisky
he must drink to bring himself up to a
companionable standard. Hence when
we find Democratic contemporary to
whom negroes are "vicious, ignorant and
venal," and Republicans thieves, robbers
and corruptionists, we know that it has
not the capacity to state, argue and prove
political proposition. vulgarity and
abuse are resorted to for the purpose OF
creating such prejudice against Il party
as will prevent fair examination of its
principles. 1t is very much as the cry of
'heretic' used to be; it led the populace
to regard the dissenters with such horror,
that no private virtues could redeem the
monster from torture.
The effect of party hate so sedulously
cultivated by the Democracy of New Or
leans effectually excludes their followers
from any knowledge of the shocking in
consistencies and shameful exposure which
the Democracy presents elsewhere. Since
no allusion is allowed in the Democratic
papers, and the follower is forbidden to
read anything except the Democratic
Douay edition, the average Louisiana
Democrat may 60 to his grave without
having even heard that Tweed, the DEM
ocratio Senator, was in prison for the
crime of being caught robbing the State
treasury or that Lord, the Democratic
Senator has been detected at the same
game.
Turning from a majority of the people
Of Louisiana as 30 abominably wicked as
that no Democrat can have anything to
do with them, the Democratic leaders
point to the North as the direction from
which will appear the Messiah of strict
principle and thorough reform. But do
they tell their followers the true character
of the Yankee Democracy? Is it known
that they went back on the State rights
South and had their share of war com.
missions and contracts? +? Is the Confed-
crate soldiers told that the Yankee Democ-
racy burned and robbed to compel them
to return to the Union to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket? Is it known that the Yam
kee Democracy, in a horrible minority, as
the divided Union would have stood, was
the most ravenous enemy of his fugitive
Democratic friends? The plainest mind
will see why the Yankee Democracy har-
monized with the Union party. Without
the capture of the absconding Democracy
they were politically bankrupt. Why, the
war was, SO far as the Northern Democ-
racy was concerned, but one huge pro-
cess for recapturing fuguitive Dem
ocratic serfs, who were needed to
garner the crop of political office. Does
any remember the jesuitry with which
this party, while taking contracts and
sending substitutes to the front kept up
their underground correspondence with
Mr.. Davis? AS the tolls were closed
around the Confederate cause the Yankee
Democracy" sent agents and emissaries
to persuade their Congress and army that
the cause was, in military sense, hope
less, but that .they-the hypocritical De-
mocracy-would soon recover by votes
what had been lost by arms, and would
reinstate the Southern Democracy in the
administration of the Unioa government.
The mission of The Blairs, Vallandighams,
and hundreds of their emissaries was
notorious. The common purpose of these
Democratic leaders on both sides was
never interrupted. 1t was to rule the
South, if the Confederacy was success.
and the Union if it were not.
The hate engendereda against such people
of the South as will not submit to the
yoke of the Democratic aristocrats, con-
ceals further facts in regard to the Yankee
Democracy.
A hypocrite is logically dishonest
throughout, SO the Democracy which sent
substitutes and took contracts to subju-
gate the sufrages of their political friends,
naturally carried the same fraudulent
spirit into all their transactions.
1t now appears that the ''Albany Re-
gency" conduct their political campaigns
precisely as the Tammany ring governed
the Democratic city of New York. The
leading spirit Of the Albany ring was
one Hon. Jarvis Lord, Democratic
statesman and Senator. He was one
of the ''two" Democratic ''orphans," 4" of
whom Tweed h the other. 1t is to be
noted that this Jarvis Lord was a Demo-
crat; that he, with his son and others,
"consummated swindle" which fieeced
the State of New York out of millions:
that it was effected in mart bv the aid of