New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-14

SOUTHERN BoURBoIs AND NORTHERN
DEMOCRATS.
The Democrat is evidently disappointed
and displeased with the cool reception
which the proceeding Of the late st.
Patrick's Hall convention has experienced
from the Northern Democracy. 1t has read
the reports from Warrington sent specially
to two of its fellows grubbers in the Demo
cratic vineyard, and affects to believe they
are the result of detection and tendency to
apostacy on the part Of its brother
journals. Unfortunately for the correct
ness of this position no good rebutting
testimony is to be found in the Northern
exchanges of either party. The Demo-
cratic oracles are painfully silent on the
subject. Their GOODNESS threatens to
freeze all the life and ardor out of this
supreme effort of Southern Bourbonism
to vault into notice. The party Of the
North, therefore, comes in for good old
fashioned shaking down. The cold blood
ed brother is remined that 1.-THE people OF
Louisiana" know what they want, and are
not to be snubbed by their Northern allies
without their hearing Of it. tits the theory
of this oracle of Bourbonism that there is
altogether too much manhood hereabouts
to be patient under advice. None is wanted.
It is not advice that is wanted, but the
right to have our own way. Their con-
stitutional rights, they know, have been
violated, and they demand redress"
Well, suppose they do not get it, ana
we confess we do not discover in the
Northern horizon any symptoms of their
being lively about it. what are the con-
vention fellows going to do about itf
Will they declare an other war of sections,
and thus put their allies in the way Of OBJ
tanning mule and meat contracts? Or
will they follow the precedents which
have come in since the war, and gently
simmer down when they find their threats
scare nobody?
Times are not what they were. There
has been a change from the old to the
new. Northern Democracy no longer
shakes in its boots when its little South
ern brother flies into pet and busters
and stamps around, cracking its little
whip. The Democrat has surmised q great
truth when it intimates that possibly there
may be "a breed of Democrats different
from those who were in other times the
defenders Of the constitution. Yes, there
has been q change in many things; the
constitution itself has been changed, and
the Democratic party at the North has adj
iusted its ancient traditions to suit the
new order of things. They are keen
enough to discover that there are fewer
chattels and more voters in the South; that
the Bourbon element here is entirely Deepen
dent upon their Northern allies for politi-
cal existence. In short, the twenty or thirty
thousand ex-slaveholders of the South ''do
not call for SO much" as they once did,
and the ''constitution of the fathers, as
it has been uniformly interpreted by them
is covered with the dust of decade of
years. For forty years they led the North
ern doughfaces by the nose. The same
great conflict that freed the slaves from
their dominion also emancipated the
Northern Democrats from the vassalage of
nearly half a century.
Hence it happens that "there are Demo-
Gratis in Washington" and elsewhere who
protest against any further attempts at
revolutionary and riotous conduct which
is likely to result in call for national as
sistance to check. If there be no better
way to establish constitutional liberty in
Louisiana than by depriving one-half the
people of the right guaranteed by the con-
stitution, it is hardly worth while to press
the work at present, for truly such a
cause will, as it ought to, find, even in the
hitherto INSCRIPTIONS Northern Democ-
racy, "a most uncertain hope" Not only
is this true, but there is no longer any
great effort made to conceal the thing.
The telegraph and fast railroad trains have
pretty we'll ratified the Democracy out of its
hiding places. Sam Randall does not
want to risk the exposure which would
result, if he were to make protection
speech in Pennsylvania on the same day
Mr.. Lamar was illustrating the beauties Of
free trade in Mississippi; for the lightning
gathers up the homogeneous utterances
and the steam printing presses and steam
cars lay them before the whole nation by
breakfast time next morning. Governor
Wise is reported to have thanked God
there was not printing press or news
paper in his entire congressional district.
He was sharp enough to see that the de-
velopment Of spirit Of inquiry by means
of spreading intelligence among the ignor-
ant would be an obstacle to his uniform
success.
When people hear SO much of "vio-
lated liberties, " they naturally feel curious
to know what is meant, what special
franchise has been withheld, and by
whom, and under what circumstances?
If these alleged grievances happen by
operation of law, there is no remedy but
repeal, unless it be emigration. The con-
ot;tntion. which is construed alike in all