New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-31
THB.'PE0PLE,

When and in what age or county has
any religion been established that the
divinity it ,professed has not come to be
worshiped by spguts ahd priests who
violated the sanctity Of the public faith
by the fragrant iniquities Of theis private
conduct? Il IS thus With the Democratic
party, which Processes love tos che
people, which claims authority in the
name OF the people, and yet neither feeds
che people, employs 4ho people, educates
the people, nor feels for thepes2ie. The
Democratic leaders Of the South eegafd
the people IS the Texan ranchefo does his
herd of: cattle or tiorses. Upon election
day the people Afe called OF driven TO-
gether. They are sailed from The cam.
paign fund, they are marked With the
party brand, they are Numbered in che
party register, and turned into the range
toshift for themselves The proprietoes Of
the human and animal cattle alike seek
the honors and pleasures of life through
the! profits OF the droyes which they re.
spectively numbes.
II this be not true, why haze We SO little
popular employment and SO much popu-
lar misery among US? If this be false
imputation upon Southern Democracy,
point out the instance in which any one
statesman has ever lighteped the burdens
Of social misery, OF furnished them with
the strength TO bear them There are in
New Orleans many hundred mechanics
out Of employ. There are pending i'm.
portaDtproposals fos improvement Point
'ut the Democratic movement for the pro-
notion of,one. It may be said that the
eaders OF the movement for the relief of
landlords are chiefly Democrats. Let il
'e granted. Now, point to the, Democrats |
Who are moving for the relief of !
he tenants. We have the extra
ordinary spectacle Of people paying
monopoly prices for market food, and a
Democratic city administration pursuing
0 imprisonment the men who would
heapen and improve the food of the
eople. Not only do we witness the in
onsistent spectacle of Democrats holding
ffices lucrative from. the costs and fees
xacted from the people, but we see still
lore fragrant Inconsistency. The trade
the city has declined; winter threatens |
destitute people. with enhanced expenses
nd, reduced ability; Democratic con-
ention is called to. plunge the city.an /
ito political campaign when there are
elections impending. And for what
this premature strife intended? Simply
assure to certain discounted leaders
that party salaried existence at the
'st of the people. III
We would say to all such politicians,
ithout regard to party what was once
i'd to a writer, afterward distinguished
r his exposure of popular wrongs and
of popular virtues:
There ID one thing in the midst of which |
u live. but which you do not see. 1t
instantly elbows you. snstains, caresses or I
ftroys you. as the ocean sustains, caresses
destroys the vessel. It is the people. OF
is people you do not write or speak. You c
hor it. You despise it. You esteem it as J
thing. You treat it as cypher, and all | a
is without knowing it. Go, then, and see p
is people. Study 1t. Estimate it's value | a
rrectly. 1t is q fifth element, which the | C
sterial philosopher has forgotten to class
:. 1t awaits its historian, it's novelist. its -
ct. You have lived until now in the upper a
yions of society; descend among the .
YER Glasses; it is there that, believe me,
u will find the great sorrows, the great
sery, the great crimes; but. also, the
Sat devotion and the great virtues -
This people among us is everybody. 1t =
the white people depressed by poverty,
d the colored people elevated to citizen O
lp by the brevet of war; Those who
really DEMOCRATS or Republicans, and
o pity the people for their suferings, or p
ne them for their utility, will feel with n n
Roman poet that nothing human is e,
|ifferent to them, and strive to elevate e.
} people to the Republican destiny p
ich awaits them. .. At