New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-21

80 fatal to the Democratic succession. We
may imagine Senator Thurman, upon
learning the reversion of his hard money
hopes, to have exclaimed with Hamlet:
oh, ny prophetic soul my unolep'
1t was, indeed, w. A. redivivus. He
had burst the tenement of tissue paper in
which the people of Ohio thought him to
nave been incremated, and reappeared in
CHASTITY identity to confront and confuse
his congenital murderers This second
advent Of the entombed Allen must have
made each particular hair of his nephew
to stand on end. It must have struck
the conspirators with terror to see the sup.
posed victim Of their unhallowed ambi.
ton in his habit. as he had stood on earth,
and to hear his appeal to the loyal ragmen
| to remember !"
Inc result Of this apparition has been
TO prove that the true ineal descent Of
the Democracy of Ohio lies in the loyal
ragmen, and that the advocates of an ex-
elusive specie circulation are but bogus
pretenders. The Republicans of Ohio
having defeated both these sections of
Democracy may be considered to have
established. their ascendency. We shall
await the sequel.
The national Democracy has proved
that however wildly its various advocates
may fly around the dial, the party needle
always trembles at the last to the attract.
i've spoils Democracy pretends to reform.
1t has proposed no civil service law to
restrict the facilities of official abuse. It
would exclude from Office any Republican
and install any Democrat In its last
national platform (ls56) Democracy advo-
Gated
l. "a form Of government upheld by
the popular will" The Southern De-
mocraoy defes the constitutional qualifi-
cation for suffrage, and contends that the
popular majority shall not rule.
2. That the federal government has no
power 'to commence and carry on a gen.
eral system of internal improvements. I"
The Southern and Western Democracy
are clamorous for vast and costly works of
internal improvement.
3. That the federal government has no
power ito foster one branch of industry
to the detriment of any other" The De-
mocracy of Pennsylvania enjoys protec-
ton on iron; the Connecticut Democracy
On manufactures and the Louisiana De-
mocracy protection for rice and sugar.
4. That the proceeds of the public
lands should ''be sacredly applied to the
national objects specified in the constitu-
ton" Yet We have Democratic appli-
cations for millions of public acres to
the construction of sectional works of in
ternal improvement.
5. That Congress has no power to
charter national bank, and yet we have
Hon. William Allen, of Ohio, s.revisiting
the pale glmpses" of political notoriety
and carrying with him the Ohio Democ-
racy for national banks, national currency |
Of the most diffuse character, and casting |
nettles on the graves of the national |
Democracy of 1856.
The separation of the moneys of the |
government from banking institutions
vas in the opinion of the bullionists and
Democracy Of that period, in
iispensable for the safety of the funds of
he government and the rights of the peo-
lie. The Democracy have been in con-
rol of the financial authority of the gov
rnment in Congress, and have never pro-
'osed to remove the deposits from the
lational banks at all.
g. That 'the Democratic party will
abide by and uphold the prin-
iples laid down in the Kentucky and
'irginia resolutions of 1898, and in the
eport of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
legislature in 1799." While the modern
democracy has accepted the supremacy
the federal government, renowned the
ght OF State construction, and obeyed
ae DEGREES of the federal judiciary as
to any other constitutional de-
rees.
With this summary and signal abdica-
on OF all principle, with general dis
ensation to every member of the Dem {
cratic party to take both sides of anv .
1estion, how is it possible for any party t
hich has established principles to con-
nd on fair and equal terms with COM t
'titor SO needy, SO greedy of Office, and o
INSCRIPTIONS in the political means j,
aployed to secure control Of the govern ii
ent?
when person or party thus breaks
'ay from all past pledges and repudiates y,
3 principles Of leg innate action, they :;
come far more formidable than when =.
tuated by honest convictions and en-
lying the highest amount Of energy and .,
ent. ia
Disbanded Democracy, like other bush a;
ackers, becomes more troublesome
en- it discards all principle and pro-
inns the spoils as its sole object than 81
en- it moved to battle under standard -
own and respected and respected the gu
s of civilized warfare. to
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KICKS AGAINST INVESTIGATION. gu
We can not see why, having reioiced in TO-
commitment of Mcdonald and Nc Oh