New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-18
SOUNDS FROM oousHATTA.

/ SOUNDS FROM C0USHATTA.
| We observe sedu lous disposition o.
the part Of the sir knights of Democrac.
to produce two impressions: l. Tha
they comprise all the birth, breeding ant
integrity Of society; and 2. To create tn
belief that Republican can possess NJ
one Of these quail ties. 1t may be re
marked that this mob ility usually dwin
dies upon acquaint ance to q geod deal o
arrogance and ignorance. while the pedi
| gree of the pretender sometimes realizes
the snob-ility thus satirized:
..Thus ran the far. famed Roman way,
1 Thus ende0-in the mire."
We may anticipate new ''creation o.
peers" There may be the Marquis o.
Mash Tub, the Knights of the Colder
Drawing, the Independent Order of the
Cotton Clad, and so on. Such nobility
The Republicans appointed to Office in
this State are described by one organ Of
the nobility:
Brutal and ignorant Experimentation
| who can not read or write-scOundrels who
| ought rather to be in the PenitentiaEy than
| on the bench.
The Democrats who would fill these
places are said to be called
Rebels, traitors and assassins by black
guards like Sheridan, and as prOwling ban
dts by hypccrites like Frye and Hoar and
Blaine.
II 10 then added-
An election has been held in Chicago, and
the Republican candidates, who, strange to
say, on this occasion, represented Opposi-
lion to fraud and corruption, were sup
posed TO have been elected. Those who
are called, or miscalled, the Democratic
candidates, are believed to have been de-
feated. Some of these candidates are men
who have gained the kind Of notoriety
which constituted an almost necessary
qualification for Republican Ottice-hOlders
in the South-men taken from the worst
classes of society and thrust into Offices
which they used for purposes Of fraud and
plumber.
In all this there appears an indication
that we are to have q violent and bloody
campaign. The white people of the
State are to be persuaded that there can
be no honesty in a Republican, and that
the value of their property will depend
upon expelling every white Republican by
force, and commanding the colored Re-
publicans by military subjuga,ion. 1t
seems strange to the Bulletin that "Repub-
lican candidates should represent opposi-
ton to fraud and corruption" 1t does
not consider that ''men who have gained
the kind Of notoriety which consti-
tutes an almost necessary quali6ca-
ton for Republican Office holders
in the South" can be Democrats.
They are miscalled Democrats, being,
upon the Bulletin theory, Republicans
by rascality. In thus imputing exclu-
sive personal dishonesty to Republicans,
the Bulletin does unconscious injustice to
. political colleague of Democracy, Tweed,
who has been convicted by legal judy
ment of the largest theft ever made. In
fact, standing as the Democratic centen-
NAL thief Of the century, Tweed has fed
into exile upon the collision of Demo-
cratic jailers, and meets on the happy
hunting grounds of Europe the Demo-
Gratis Harry Genet, Connolly and a score
Of Democratic public robbers convicted of |
frauds upon the people.
We keep this specimen OF the only De-
mocracy who have had an opportunity to
show that they were no better than others
10 warn the people that fraud is confined
10 no profession of politics or religion.
We do not think these Democratic
thieves robbed the public because they
we're Democrats. It was because they
we're thieves. Aman is morally no better
u worse for his political or religious
opinions He is entitled to the equal
or confidence of the impair
ial public. Our censure has been direct
ID against the dishonest abuses of public
rust, and we have shown determination
o bring all offenders to trial, without ad-
hitting as plea in abatement of penal
prosecution the fact that the offender
'oted the Republican ticket.
We have only wri item to protest against
n apparent effort and probable conse-
uence that by publishing all Republicans
S corrupt and dishonest, the majority"
escribed by the autoc ratio organs as un-
lst, variable and capable of violence
lay determine to make st. Bartholomew
lassacre against the white Republican
and slau ghter them all, while
le colored captives Of the horse, bow and
Dear shall be led into perpetual political
ondage.