New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-17
How They DO 1t.

The honest and innocent Democrats who
come to New Orleans to study the situation.
are not likely to get much real information
from their Democratic entertainers. The
strangers are much impressed with the
reports of quiet election. Lst them visit
the United States cemetery at Chalmette
and they would find quietness there. The
battle was not all on election day, nor the
day before. When the colored man was
clothed with the rights of suffrage he be-
came target for Democratic guns. Thor
oughly intimidate Q poor man once, and he
does not care to have the lesson repeated.
Mississippi, with its 80, 900 Republican ma
jority, was captured year ago by the sol.
diers of Democracy. The Democrats this
year had no trouble in carrying the State
of Mississippi by an increased majority.
All quiet on the day of election. The Dem
offices on the Mississippi plan. How they
saw it is family outlined in an editorial
which appeared in the Nstchitoches Vi,adi-
Gator, November 13, 1875. For the informa-
ton of our stranger Democratic it should be
said that the Tisdicator was the most influ-
ential Democratic paper in the State out
side of New Orleans. The article is as
follows:
We of North Louisiana, the white line
inauguratOrs and aggressive policy people
of Louisiana, as annunciated by our noble
journal, the Shreveport Times, and its gal.
liant and immortal Hearsey, have every
reason 10 congratulate ourselves upon the
glorious result in our sister Southern State,
Mississippi.
The mighty, the virtuous, the intelligent
White Liners have gained complete and
triumphant victory. Unsheathing the
sword of justice and liberty, casting its
scabbard, weak, pulling policy to earth, our
gallant white brethren have stormed every
position of the enemy. and to-day the lily
flag of the mighty Caucasian waves. in
triumph over the walls of conquered Radi.
calism and dead negro rule.
This is the way we taught them to win,
and what apt pupils did they make. Still
there are some who would rather work yet
q few days under hedging policy. Do our
friends know why this is so! We can tell
you. and tell you plainly, caring not whom
it strikes! Your compromise men are all
office seekers mark that well and when q
ticket or plan Of policy is arranged, it is to
lCt Ia a CCAtdAu Au"uC1 hS OulCl0lS VI clGucE
side The compromise is not Tor the people,
it is to give office to grabbers. 1t is for
division of spOils, and one set of robbers
are as criminal as the other.
Louisiana is as certain to be saved as the
sun rises, if her people, her white people,
will but act wisely and right.
We want bold out-spoken aggressive
policy, white line platform, and victory is
certain.
Look at Mississippi and then snub your
whining croskers.
Troops have played out, excuse the vul
gar, but apt expression, they can be used
no more! Whys Because they can no
longer frighten US from our duty.
Don't talk about leaders. There are no
leaders in revolutions! The people lead;
let them not be swayed by time servers, by
compromisers, BY hoping.to-geta-crumb
towards. Louisiana expects every man to
do his duty. The campaign for liberty has
never closed; it COOS on till the last vestige
Of barnacle radicalism is torn from the hull
of the ship of State.
White men of Louisiana, are you ready
The enemy of liberty, of society, of virtue,
is before you. Up and at them!