New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-20

Idh kEPUBLlCAN AS PEACE-MAKER
We can not help editing newspaper ir
a respectable and respectful manner. W.
know the surgical fact that throat NAV
be cut with razor, and the man as effect.
ually killed as if his head had been hacked
off with butchers cleaver. The discol-
ored puncture of the small sword may be
as deadly as the CHASTITY wound of the
bowie. All Of which metaphors mean
that violence and abuse are blunt and
brutal weapons, while civil words and
sensible arguments always secure the re-
spect of opponents and the suppl 1T Of
friends. "Let your courage, says that true
type of the Irish gentleman, Sir Lucius
O'Trigger, ''be as keen, but at the same
time as polished as your sword II
therefore comes of our extreme urbanity
that we excite the ire of our neighbor-
yet our antipode-the Times. If we have
inculcated this decorous style upon some
OF our political opponents, we consider it
a professional triumph. But the Times,
from the absence, perhaps, of professional
experience, is greatly enraged at our
courtly manners and trenchant logic.
Such style would not be tolerated for a
moment by the press of St. Louis. There,
it is understood that subscriber will stop
paper lift does not daily denounce some
antagonists as thieves or blackguards So
the Times thus charactelizes our a1hiable
Intercourse with our neighbor Of the
Picay,tne: ...
The affectionate slObber which the REPuR.
LICAN daily bestows upon the Picavune
indicates that the WarmOth- Her wig con.
Meeting link between the two still strongly
binds together "two souls with but single
thought etc.
The Times does not understand that this
friendly interchange of professional cour-
tesy arises from the fact that the REpuB-
L1cAN and Picavune have been opp onents
for years. Long before the light of St. Louis
waned from the withdrawal of some of her
strongest fish-oil luminaries, the RzpuB-
L1cAN was engaged in the rather ungra-
cious task Of teaching the Picay| ne the
error of notification without ADEQUATE
With the kindly assistance of
public disapproval and a couple of
sheriff's sales, We effected that patriotic
object, and now the Pic trots beautifully
square in Union harness, and in its bus.
mess heart thanks the REPUBLICAN for the
severe but succ essful correction of its
errors. The stan dard journals of the
opposition therefore appreciate the real
merits of the REPUBLICAN, and as neither
Of these journals feel any need to as
sure the confidence of its party by pre-
ferring sham hatred for its antagonist
they get along very well, to the great
,hagrin of the Times, which is not admit
ted into their society upon the same basis.
So we consider the REPUBLICAN to this
extent at least as peace-maker. But the
Times has no such kindly feeling toward
The Picayu'ae, nor does the latter in
Iced manifest much affection for the
Times. In the yesterday issue of the Times
t charges the Picayune in various forms
If periphrase with belonging to and
'eing conducted under the dictation of |
lis ex-Excellency II. C. Warmoth. In
'ur capacity as director of professional |
lecorum, We feel it duty to inform our
visitors of the Times that pre-
isely the same charge was made in 1872 |
gainst the Times ITSELF 1t was then
aid, and came pear to be proved, that his
hen Excellency Governor Warmoth d.
scted that journal as a Fusion organ
nd even took from the refractory REpuB-
1cAN printing Office, and gave the Times
rinting Office warrant for S14O, 900, ex-
ended in election and other public
rinting.
We tell this to new corners because it
'ould be inhospitable to allow them to
ccuse others of having done the same
hing that has been in public opinion
roven against the predecessors for whom
he new corners are professionally respon-
ble. But the Times, in its iTdiscreet