The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-10
A CHANGE OF BASE.

| Unlike the official head of that party, ne
knows how 70 read the signs of the times, and
to trim his sails in accordance to what ne De-
| lieves will be the condition OF the polltical ele-
ments. lie opposes Grants third term asplla-
tons, not only because he is, or rather was
himself candidate for the succession, but De-
cause he knows the folly of such hopes on the
mart Of he man a. the helm and ofthe unscrupu-
| lous ring of parasites and self-seeklng iavorites
by whom he has surrounded himself to the ex-
cInsion of the clear headed leaders whom he
has sedulous.y kept away from his private coun-
ellis.
! While the canvass WAS going on IN Con-
necticut, Mr.. Blaine went there and made
speech in which he sounded the key note Of
what will doubtless be the policy Of the Radi-
Gals in the coming Presidential election. This
| policy is to revive the bitter sectional AMI
mostly Of the North against us, by represent
| Ing that the Southern people will act as a
| unit in support Of the Democratic nominees,
| and that will the help of only three North
ern States they could control the result In
| bis New Haven speech, deliv cred three days
before the election which resulted in such a
sweeping majority Tor the anti-Republlcan
candidates, he made use OF the following
| language
With Colorado admitted, the total electoral
| vote will be 500, Of which 1S3 constitute a
| majority The Southern States united can
give 133 votes, leaving only IL 10 be obtained
out b. the 23l that belong to the North. The
three States OF New York. Connecticut and
California can give these AZ votes and your
own prosperous State is one that is always
! found on the list OF those who wish to con-
| trol the government by this combination.
| Aud if this design could succeed it would
| only be history repeating itself. Against an
| overwhelming maj )rl.y of the free States, IL
| 1856 a small fraction Of them united with
| The South, and were enabled to fasten the
| Buch lnan dynasty upon the country with all
the remembered evils that followed.
| This prediction of Mr.. Blaine will not be
realized if the Northern States which have al
ready repudiated the Radical party stand firm
in their opposition until November, 1876
The result in Connecticut certainly gives no
hope to the sanguine Republicans who
| thought Il reaction had begun in their favor,
| and the internal dissensions which have con-
tributed to bring about the series Of disasters
| to their cause in New York, Massachusetts,,
| Pennsylvania, OHIO and the other great States
| Of the North and West can scarcely be healed
| by that time, but will rather 60 on and may
possibly eliminate into split OF the
Radical Presidential convention, and
the consequent irremediable ruin of
that organization as national party.
But even admitting that Speaker Blaines
fears should be realized and the next Presi-
dent be elected by the united votes Of the
Southern States, and those Of two or three
of the Northern or Western ones, what can
Speaker Blaine or any one Of his more rabid
party friends do about. it I? The election
would certainly be "a perfectly fair and legal
| one-wouli be III strict accordance with every
constitutional provision and requirement.
and unless they intend to raise the flag 81
| in Alrrecti IN against it, and to do the very
thing we Of the South are SO constantly re-
proac.ied and yliiel for attempting to accom-
pi:sh in 1861 we do not sec that they can
do otherwise than to grin and bear it the
best way they may.
! Il is al oanous sign Of the times, how
ever, whea SO clear-mndel and SO generally
moderate o politician as Mr. Blaine has
been looked upon heretofore, thinks him
self justified in making such purely Sec
tional appeals to Northern constituency in
the hope Of reviving the sinking hopes and OF
recuperating the sinking fortunes of his ad-
herents II shows to what desperate straits
the. party is now reduced, and gives US an
idea Of the desperate expedients they will
adopt to keep themselves in power against
the will of q majority of the American people.
Let us be warned in time by these utterances,
4 and be still more careful not to give to our
opponents the slightest rational excuse fol
denouncing us as bent on taking possession o.
the government on purely Southern political
organization, instead Of that national and patr;
otto combination Of men from all parts Of the
Union, and heretofore belonging to every
shade of politics. under whose conservative
and anti-sectional flag we feel confident Of
securing glorious majority in 1876