New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-11
SENATOR ENGLISH I'm TWO PIECES" Oh
THE DOUBLE DEMOCRACY,

above 1t does not mean the physical |
mutilation and dismemberment of those |
actors, but their capacity to present them
selves in two different and even opposite
characters. The two Sosios, Dromios,
and latterly the Girohe and Girotla, are
explanations of what we intend. Now
the Democratic Senator English is under
lined by the Bulletin tor similar part III
the political drama. He was an anti
State rights Democrat during the war.
he is to play the part of State rights
Democrat since the war.
We recently cited the fact that this
Democratic Senator supported the war
measures of Lincoln's administration" as
a proof that the Southern Democracy is
utterly bankrupt in principle. For this
we were taken to task by our neighbor,
the Bulletin. To prove our proposition
we will quote from that critical journal.
Thus:
In some respects the late great war to
test the right and ability Of sggrieved States
to withdraw from he federal system was
in the nature of litigation, which was ap-
peaed to the awful and bloody tribunal OF
war. Before that dread court the decision
was in favor OF the stronger party to the
suit, and adverse to the people of the South.
We presume that no one will dispute
that Democracy in the South meant the
right of a State to withdraw from the
Union. If Mr.. English then aided in the
enforcement of federal law against the
armed resistance OF States which had Sc
coded, he was no Democrat
Southern Democracy denied the power
of the federal government to restrict or
prohibit slavery any where. Ii Mr.. Eng
lish voted to abolish slavery within the
exclusive territorial jurisdiction of the
federal government, he was no Democrat.
| If the Democracy has ever abandoned
''the equal rights of the States, as assert
| ed By Mr. Lamar the other day, we have
never seen it.
The adherents of Charles Stuart never
did accept the defeat of their liege lord.
They always looked for his second COM
| ing, and for sentiment passed the wine
| glass ''over the water" in a tumbler as a
relict and significant intimation that
their heart was beyond the sea, and that
they only submitted to the Hanover rats"
until they would have an opportunity to
ezterminate them.
The great question decided by the war
was that the whole people of the Union,
and not the people of the States respect
expound and enforce the will of the peo-
pie Senator English, then, and other
war Democrats, were federallsts in their
hearts, when they protested to be State
rights Democrats.
The belief that these hypocrites would
maintain their principles and aid seces-
sion with approval or neutrality, induced
many at the South to consent to and vote
for secession. The State rights war Dem
ocrats are thus responsible for much blood
shed and misery, resulting from the de-
ception practiced on their colleagues.
We have often been surprised that
the Southern Democrats should ac-
cept renegades without striving or re-
pentance. If the assertion that the Dem
ocratic- Confederate administration and
Congress- latter the battle of Gettysburg,
determined to accept Nallandigham's
policy and transfer the contest to the arena
of national politics within the Union, with
the Democratic West pledged for its sup
port, it will explain the cause ofthis extra
ordinary liberation and plenary indulgence
of the war Democrats. 1t would tend to
show the Southern Wings, also, that as
the Democracy urged the war to secure
for themselves a Democratic dynasty in
the South, they gave away the Confeder-
ate cause for power and protection in a
Union which they could not escape. Some
time the facts of this secret and unholy
alliance, never, like Adams Southern Ex-
press, interrupted by war in the harmony
and identity of its interests, will be made
known.
That the Republican party is guilty of
no such Inconsistency in accepting the
support of voters without respect to their
political antecedents, is plain. The Re-
publican party laid down its principles
before the war. 1t has neither changed
nor concealed them. Those who vote for
q Republican candidate accept those prin-
ciples. They are, in short, consolidation
and emancipation. the equality Of man,
and the supremacy of majority Of men.
Democracy, on the contrary, still stands
by its traditional" principles. Its mis-
sion is declared to be ''to restore the con.
stitution to its pristine strength and au
thority." There would have been an in.
consistency in recognizing the Democratic
membership ola Democrat who is opposed
to the equal rights of the States. There
would be no inconsistency whatever il
recognizing the Republican membership
of Wing or Democrat who admitted thu
. doctrine of numerical sovereignty as es
J tablished by the lawful and bloody" ant
final Tribunal of war;"
The war Democrat fought against
Democratic principle never recanted o