New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-09

lican party is asked to be more demo
cratic" than the Democratic party In order
to draw way the "best members" of the
latter. We already have one Democratic
party; what do we want with another? II
their policy is the only one that can succeed
let the organization Of the Republican party
be abandoned at once. and make the Dem.
Ocratlc party unanimous.
After assuming that this abandonment of
Republicanism viii divide the Democratic
party, we are asked to believe that "the
Republican party can win what the Democ-
racy loses if it is rightly handled" This is
ever the politicians idea-that success de-
ponds upon party manipulation, intrigue.
policy, and not upon grand and fundamen-
tai principles. IT we "bandle the party
right" if the wires are deity pulled, if the
organization performs its artistic jugglery
in captivating manner, the nation will
follow in blind admiration. No, no. Par
ties are not SO built up and held together.
Forty millions Of people can not be "han-
dled' by politicians. The old Wing party
tried that in the South, and what did policy
without principle do for it, How did it
succeed in trying to be more Democratic
than the Democratic partyf 1t died the
death Of all temporizers and policy mcngers.
1t was we'll "handled"-in fact, like some
sick kittens, it was handled too much.
If the Republican party were so base as
to CONSENT to betray its followers in the
South, and to abandon all pretense Of pro-
tecting the common right OF any citizen
who does not vote the Democratic ticket.
it could not thus succeed. 1t would he
damned to eternal infamy if it so repudi-
human rights. The "policy" would be
suicidal. 1t would be a virtual abandon
ment of the Republican party. 1t would
be to repudiate the war, to return to the
palmy days of slavery, to restore the
dogma of State sovereignty, notification
and secession, as sound national policy.
The first step in the direction Of concilia-
ton at the expense of principle would be
the signal for the formation of a new party,
in the hands of new men, based upon the
same old principles, more radically ex-
pressed, to be more iBt1exibly adhered to
and fought for until triumphantly vindi-
Gated. The organic alton may be betrayed
and wiped out, but our principles they can
not destroy, thank God! They are part
of the life of American citizens: for them
they have given blood and treasure untold.
We do not measure the value of these prin-
ciples by temporary successes-as we did
not estimate the ends Of our war to pre-
serve the Union by the defeat of our arms.
The abandonment of principle and the sub
stitution of trucking policy ght win us a
temporary success, but such vic cries are
equivalent to defeats. For, once party has
abandoned its moral principles it is dead
forever. Our history is full Of these VIC
toricus disasters, won by party prostitu-
ton.
There is a way which seemeth unto man
right, but the end thereof is death. We
would rather see the old Republican party
60 into ten years minority with its right
eous principles adhered to, and its flag tull
high advanced, than to see it retain power
by sacrificing these. We would rather this
old ship would go down with its celors
nailed to the mast, than to see its colors
hauled down and the flag of its enemies
suDstituted.-Bn.galoE cypress.
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