New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-06

the hands of the messenger corps OF the
District Telegraph Company. Colonel j.
B. Walton has since taken occasion to COM
pliment the management Of the company
on the satisfactory manner in which the
messengers performed their duty.
Number of vessels in port Thirteen
steamships, 81 ships SO barks, briggs and
% schoOners.
TURKEY GoNE.-The Magnolia saloon,
near the corner Of Poydrss and Camp
neatness and excellent cooking by exposing
to the passer by, on hooks, samples of its
excellent poultry and meats. Last night,
near eleven o'clock, one who had the
proper appreciation of the bird. but lacked
the wherewithal, took Q turkey and vanish
ed, never to be heard of again. But the
Magnolia has other turkeys for its custom
ers to-day.
A Democratic Confederate Platform.
The Toledo Commercial has been collat-
ing-not cOnstructing-a Democratic plat
form from the utterances and speeches of
the recognized leaders and ssvans Of that
party within the past few weeks. 1t truth
fully remarks that "A national platform of
principles, promulgated by great national
party, in the words and phrases - here
given, may not be the one of policy, but the
kernel is there--the true inwardness' of
Democratic principles-and it will only re-
quire q plethora of words, of fine-spun
phrasee, exquisitely drawn specialties and
glittering generalitiee, to conceal the hide
BUSINESS Of its true intent and purpose.
With Northern man with Southern prin-
ciplee, like Hendricks, for president. and
q Southern man with lost cause principles,
like Tucker, or Hill, or Lamar, for vice
president, . platform more in accordance
with the eternal fitness of things, can not
be devised than that which follows:
WHEREAS, The Republican party ''has
seen proper, in this centennial year, to tear
away the plasters from the green and bleed
ing wounds of the late civil war, and has
seen proper to Justify this conduct in the
light of history" and Corj
Whereas, There is mo precedent in his
tory and no canon in political philosophy
which the Republican party has not out
ragged; and (Cor]
Whereas, The history of the Republican
party has been the history Of spOliatiOn,
murder, death and tyranny since 1866; and
whereas. That party is not true, was not
true during the war. has not been true since
the war, and is not true to-day; and (Cor]
Whereas, That party has violated all
law, trampled upon the constitution, abne
gated the pledges of the fathers, melted
raids upon the oppressed people of the
South, and multiplied infidelities until, like
the stars of heaven or the sands of the sea
shore. they are without number; therefore,
Reso1red, That this is not . nation
Tucker.
Resolved, That the right of secession,
though not expressed in the constitution, is
q reserved right.-George f. Pttgh
Resolred, That martyrs owe NO apology to
tyrants and while we are ready to make
every sacrifice to the Union, secession. how
ever defeated and opposed, will confess no
sin to fanaticism, however bigoted and ex-
acting.-HH.
Resolred. That the grace and magnsnim-
ity of the Republican party is exhibited in
the master enslaved, in intelligence disfran-
chised, in society disordered, in States sub
verted, and in Legislatures DISPERSED
Hill
Reso.red, That in Robert f. Lee, who now
sleeps in death. was embodied one of the
noblest Americans who ever trOd his soil,
expression, be thrown on his grave, that
the Democratic party ia not bound by all
the memories of the past to arise and re-
PEI TUCKER.
Resolred, That whatever horrors had ex-
listed at Andersonville not one of them
could be attributed to q single act Of the
Confederate government, and that every
one of them grew out of the necessity. and
that necessity was fastened upon the Con-
federates by federal power, and the federal
government was directly responsible tor all
the untold horrors of the war.-HiH.
Resolced, That all the horrors and atroci
ties inflicted upon the Union prisoners at
the South did not begin to compare with tho
cruelties and tOrtures inflicted upon Con-
federate prisoners at the NOrth.-HM.
Resolved, That on Grant and Stanton
rests the blood of our hOnOred dead who
died prisoners of war, and history will hold
them and the government responsible for
every death in AndersOnville. - Grand
RAPIDS Democrat
RESOLVED, That under the leadership of the
ex-rebel Hill, our oppressed countrymen
would become band OF patriotic brothers,
and, instead of strife and blOodshed, We
would have peace harmony and prosperity.
Kalam a-0o Gazette.
Resolred, That it should be the aim Of the
Democratic party-"in the future as in the
past"-to hasten the "good time coming"
when the names of Grant and Sherman and
Sheridan and Lee and jackson and Brock
inridge-yea, of the martyred Lincoln and
the now insulted Jefferson Davis-will be
read with common pride and common re-
spect by the American youth, and when the
last shall be honored as much as the first
Jones, of Kentucky.