New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-29
IMPEDING DISSOLUTION OF POLITICAL
UOPARTHE1oHIP.

We feel ourselves justified by concur.
rent evidences to anticipate dissolution
of that copartnery heretofore existing
under the style and firm of s'the Domo-
cratic Conservative party"
Any one who will analyze the doctrines
contributed by each party will find them
SO incompatible as to render the continued
combination impossible. We shall in
quire into these doctrines
l. What is the Democracy of Louisiana
We suppose it can not be better defined
than by the language quoted from the
Democratic candidate for Governor in
1872. Hon. 4 B. Leyisee, in q recent
letter to Colonel B. F. Wharton, says:
In the canvass of 1874, Governor Nc
Emery is reported to have said: There is
not . decent thinking man in Louisiana
| will deny that race lines of distinction arc
| already sharply drawn, and that as each
| day passes the breach gapes wider that
| separates the white from the colOred race
| this lnsOlent encrOaChment on the rights;
| political and social, OF the white people OF
Louisiana is ended, the dey of the irrepree-
| sible conflict will come, when physical force
shall solve tho problems of Louisiana poll.
| ticsi"
Mr.. Levisee adds:
This tells what every body knows, that in
1874 We were politically divided on the color
line, with the avOwed determination of the
whites to secure their supremacy by force
The c0loS line policy, adopted and persisted
| in by tho Democrats from the beginning,
very naturally culminated in tho revolu-
tionary violence of 1874. ~
The letter of Mr.. A. H. Leonard con.
ours in the impressions of Mr.. Levisee.
Mr.. Leonard says:
Some insist that the campaign of 1876
should be conducted as that of 1874 ,cas;
that the white people should unite instinct
lively, as the white people, on tae race issue.
The Conservatives were captured in this
trap. They believed that the Democracy
intended to effect reform in the admins
tration. They had no expectation that a
war was organized against the colored
race, and that all white men daring to
profess Republican principles should be
prosecuted in their local and business
relations, thrown into compulsory exile,
or assassinated. The Conservative men
who own property and live by business
could not have anticipated an armed raid
on the State government, with declared
determination to seize the State govern
ment by mere force of accusation, and
maintain it by an army of ten thousand
men. Such is the constitution of the
Democracy. Intimidation, violence, and
obloquy.
The Conservative members of the con.
Germ, On the other hand, have made val |
liable contribution to its success.
l. They have conceded the nomination
of 1872 to the Bourbon Democrat.
2. They have submitted to contemptu-
GUS imputations upon all who halt in their |
obedience to the White League pro-
gramne.
3. They have contributed forced loans |
to the amount of some hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars in the last two cam
paigns, under penalty Of injury to their
business interests.
When we contrast the radical, intoler>
ant and murderous course of the Cou-
shatta Democracy with the submission to
law, love of order, demand for honest and
governm ent, Interest in the
of capital and labor and re-
wards of industry we have all the social
difference of the Middle Ages. Then, as
now, there were bands of men whose
trade was war, domestic or foreign. They
lespised trade. They demanded to live
IN the labor of others and regarded a
and vagabond chivalry, cased
n armor of proof as the legitimate mas
ers of that servile class which loved
'eace and subsisted by industry. u
The arrogant purposes of the Coushatta
Democracy having been exposed, some
have announced their deter
nination to throw off dependence so
umiliating and so dangerous to their in
srests. |,
The Bourbon Democracy seem to have
cen struck with some misgivings, and we
nd in their organ violent denunciation
those who employ the terms '.Last
'itchers" and ''Bourbons," to designate q
10 White League Democracy. It is, Q
owever, added, that ''happily for the @
tate these terms are no longer in n
ouisiana terms of 'pprobrium;" in +
hich last case we can not see why b
leir use should be objected to. The s.
ew Orleans Picoyune was selected as an y
'ample Of this disturbing influence. 81
here was first tone of remonstrance b
vt that ''all shades of honest opinion v
ould not unite cordially in the Dem Il
ratio Conservative organization. Then v
DUR excellent contemporary" was warned Ell
at the country parishes" and the ''true in
'nservatives" of the city, would not fo
it in any such plan of fo
tion." The irrepressible indignation of p'
e Bourbon could not be controlled, and p'
descended to the congenial dialect in
lich the Red river White League SUBJ th
tutes for argument, or for the shot gun. &C
It says: every blatant demagogue who ID
nts an Office and has been discarded by til
, Democracy"-this can not certainly m
We allusi0n to 'sMr. Leonard's ill-timed IN
d exceedingly injudicious fulmina- w