New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-05
TERRIBLE THREATS.

Encouraged perhaps by the successful
strategy which has cyphered away in Mis-
sissippi Republican majority OF some
twenty thousand, the Bulletin rather goes
back on itself as the organ OF the business
men and announces the Democratic pro-
gramme as we shall state. The Demo-
cratic determination is thus stated:
The Louisiana Democracy is now in a
better condition to carry on successful
political campaign than it ever has been.
The encouragement of defeat seems
slightly Hibernian:
1t has been taught lessons of great valne
by the campaigns and elections in the o.her
States of the Union, and now it has but to
profit by them to secure thorough and con-
pete victory at the next election.
This expresses the confidence of o
steamboat owner whose boat has been
stove and sunk by snag. He now knows
precisely where that snag is, and is con-
fdent he will never run against it again
with that boat. An DID pilot being asked
if he knew Mark Twain when the latter
was on the river-"Yes," said he, "but
they used to call him Sam. He was sort
of pilot, and we used to allow that if
they would give that fellow boats enough
he would clean the river of snags." Ii
our compeer had elections enough he
would clear the country of Democrats.
Our compeer requires all such tempting
side issues as flush money and papistical
assistance, and limits the tactics of the
Democracy to the overthrow of what it
calls "Radicalism," and issues the follow
ing general order:
1t must be borne in mind that the interest
of every individual in the State is sub
servient to the greatest interest of the
whole people, and any man who joins the
ranks of the party with any other view is a
traitor to his party and to his State. HIS
punishment should be immediate expulsion
from, the ranks, and entire Ost,acism from all
political or social intercourse lcih The true
men of the Democracy.
The first part of this anathema is little
cloudy. We interpret 1t to assert the tru-
ism that in republic the interests of the
one are subordinate to the interests of the
many, and denounces the man who joins
the Democracy with any other view as
traitor to his party in the first place, and
to the subordinate authority of the State
in the second. We should suppose this
party penholder extremely exasperated,
and not very attentive 10 the logic, or, in
deed, to the application of his doctrine.
The punishment of a person joining the
Democratic ranks under the impression
that the interests Of the one are paramount
to the interests of the many are thus dis
tinctly stated: l. He will be expelled
"from the ranks" there being no vacan-
cies in the commissions of the Democracy.
2. He will be ostracised and excommuni-
Gated from all social intercourse with the
true men of Democracy.
The threat of communication is as bad
as that of poor Guibord, Christian man,
denied the rights of sepulture because he
had read book which did not meet the
approval of his ecclesiastical superiors in
foreign lands. So person having the
views interdicted by Democracy is not to
enjoy the honors of political sepulture
with those consecrated locofocos who were
buried since the battles of Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania and Tammany.
This post norton malediction, however,
is supposed to be lar less terrible to those
political heretics who die in error than the
anathema.
The accommodation is very old and
a very awful sentence. The Romans and
the Jews have both used it as a means of
bullying, political and social interdic-
ton and isolation. As we would not have
to regret the exclusion from knowledge as
a consequence of Democratic domination,
we will even venture to tell that exclusive
society of superiors, of what they seem
historically ignorant. 1.-The Roman Cath
Ole Church pronources the sentence of
communication with many circum-
stances of terrible solemnity," says one
author:
And the sentence contains a prohibition
to all persons of all personal intercourse
icith The person communicated, and of er-
tending to him eren the most ordinary social
Offices. ..-...
Can this be specimen of that "cath-
Ole spirit" which the Bulletin said few
days since that the "hour demands?" 1t
is certainly an exact copy of the intoler-
ance and insult which was visited upon
heretics, dissenters and non-conformists
in former times, and even as late as
Napoleon and Emmanuel upon the
exercise. of free opinion, and must re-
suit from that ignorance of his
tory which distinguishes every mere
political partisan. A well informed per-
son would have never recommended a
system of social torment which has been
repudiated by the whole of combined re-
ligion. No civil consequence of religious
accommodation is considered consistent
with Protestant reform, and England has
swept the last vestige of this shameful
persecution Of free opinion when she re.
pealed the disabilities of the Irish Catho-
lies. In the United States man may
vote or worship as be may choose withou,
being excluded from social Intercourse 70,
that reason. a3f3D lbs ss.e q
Such, however, is the penalty upon, any
one joining the Democratic party with