New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-12
A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT NECESSARY.

cratic party, that it will become neces-
sary that the leaders, like Mr.. Tay-
leure, at the Varieties Theatre, shall
take some measures to discriminate
among the political deadheads, and pub
lish corrected and authentic free list.
This will enable the public, and especially
the Republican press, to discriminate
among the very lawless gang Of politicians
who now obtain admission into the ma
tional Democratic caucus through the
very loose system prevailing at the Demo
cratic box Office. We will republish the
creed of Democracy, as it was adopted at
the last national convention:
l. The federal government is one of
limited power.
?. 1t can not commence and carry on a
general system Of internal Improvements.
3. 1t can not assume tie debts Of the
several States.
1. 1t can not foster ore branch Of in
dustry to the detriment Of any other.
8. Every citizen and every section Of
the country has right to demand and
insist upon an equality Of rights and priv
ileges, and to complete and ample protec-
ton of person and property from domestic
violence or foreign aggression
8. Rigid public economy, sani 1.-THE
gradual but certain extinction Of the
public debt
7. The application Of the proceeds Of
the public lands sacredly ito the national
objects specified in the constitution"
s. Opposition to national bank, and
separation Of the moneys Of the people
from banking institutions.
3. The qualified veto power for the ex-
ecu.iye; free immigration from foreign
countries; entire freedom in all matters of
religious concernment; reiterates the
affirmation in regard to the reserved rights
of the States.
10. The principles laid down in the
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of l799,
and the report of Mr.. Madison in 1889.
These are fundamental principles which
affect the future Of the Democratic party.
There are other declarations upon the
slavery question, as well as upon our for
eign diplomatic policy, which have been
in good part carried out by Republican
policy, and which it is not necessary to
quote.
We wish the Democratic reader to ex-
anime this category OF doctrine, and say
honestly where there is one which has not
been either established by Republican
action or abandoned by Democratic as
sent? The federal government is admins
tered at the will of the people, according
to constitution which the people have
changed, and will change again, at their
pleasure. The federal government can
carry on system of internal improve
ments, as in the three Pacific railroads,
complete and proposed The federal
government will not assume the debts of
the States; it will protect any interest, by
either revenue or protective tariff, if
deemed expedient. Il has secured TO |
every citizen and every section an |
equality of rights and privileges in
the constitutional amendments and |
laws passed Hereunder, and has ez-
tended complete and ample protection, as
far as permitted, to the persons aud prop
erty of the Southern ''section' from "do-
nestle violence" as was shown in fur
nishing federal troops upon the call Of
Southern State authorities. II is heartily
engaged in "the gradual but certain ex-
tinction Of the public debt" though
certain distinguished Western Democrats
opposed it; and will not assume the debts
Of the States, though certain Democratic
orators may have thought it just to do so.
The proceeds ofthe public lands have been
applied to other purposes not specified IN
he constitution, but We have heard of
40 Democratic protest against or refusal
% receive this perverted benefce. The
theory of Democracy has been
discarded by both parties, Hon. VIII
lam Allen having accepted a national
bank and national currency and raised
! loud wall because he could not get
enough of the latter. No one objects to
he veto in the hands of President who
oroclaims republican obedience to the
will of the people as expressed through
heir legislative representatives. Foreign
immigration seems entirely satisfied with
he terms offered them as soldiers and
'itizens during the last war. Their suf-
rage and strength did not, however,
'ccrue to the Democracy, who had made
heir rights and admission a basis of
claiming their support in the days of
he Know Nothings. Entire freedom
n all matters of religious concernment"
mas been asserted by the Republican Pres
dent, who stands pledged to guarantee to
very citizen the right "to worship God
according to the dictates of his own con-
and-purse. The reserved rights
If the States and the principles of Ken
lucky and Virginia, so far as they related
n 1883 to those rights, have been super
eded by the decisions of the late war. An
review of these doctrines will
how that most of them have been dis
nantled and abandoned as untenable.
some of them have been carried into |