New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-08

VOLUME X.-NO. l.
[speca. Correspondence of the Republican,
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, September 4, 1876.
The demoralized and panic stricken con.
dition of the reform Democracy can not be
longer concealed. The leaders hoped, up
to the date of the New York Times expose
relative to Tilden's deliberate perjury and
systematic frauds upon the government, by
the industrious lsbors of their Manton Mar
bles and their Hewitts, to SO divert atten-
tion from the "reformer's" past career as to
quiet the approximations of loyal and honest
men, and to cover up with q mass of verbi-
age and antiquities the perils threatening
: the cause Of general education through
restoration Of the rebel Copperhead Democ-
racy; but the conviction of Mr.. Tilden's
guilt, as charged by the Times, has become
so general throughout the country that his
voluntary. or, in case he refuses 10
yield, his forclble withdrawal from the
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nent. The record is so conclusive that
no attempt at denial has been made except
by a madly desperate follower here and
there, and the puerility of their attempted
explanations only show the hopeless pow
erty of their resources in the matter. The
universal prostration of their hopes from
this cause has been aggravated by the
ridiculous, contemplate and disastrous
trickery practiced at the Saratoga conven-
ton. The managers in this city who were
left in charge Of the campaign work at this
point have never before been 60 unguarded
in their expressions of disgust and despond-
ency as since the adjournment of that con.
ventior, where q few plotting conspirators
betrayed the Empire State Democracy into
the mercilees clutches of the willy old fox at
the head of the national ticket, and against
whose sharp and unscrupulous practices
there appear unmistakable evidences Of a
widespread revolt.
Some recent utterances of Archbishop
Purcell, of Cincinnati, are so notoriously
inconsistent with the teachings and de-
mands of the Roman Catholic priesthood
in this country upon the public school ques-
tion, since the first agitation Of the matter
many years ago, as to lead to suspicion
that they were solicited and procured just
at this present time to quiet the feeling of
general alarm with which all friends of
universal education view the possibility Of
the reascendency of the Dem ocratic party,
associated with, and often led, as it is, by
the only religious sect in the country which
aspires to political power, and which is
openly and Ielentlessly hostile to the
American public school system.
The character of the men nominated by
the Northern, Southern and Western De-
mocracy in this centennial year OF our ma
tienal life for responsible offices is attract
ing general attention and shows very
clearly the reactionary, if not the revolu-
tionary purposes of the leaders. In the
South no man without rebel army record
is considered available, and the more def
ant and unrepentans he has been since 1868
towards the government, the greater is the
unanimity of his selection. Men Of known
Union sentiment, though otherwise unob-
jectionable, are forced to take back seats.
In the States that we're loyal the Democ-
racy only appear perfectly satisfied with
their work when they nominate those who
notoriously sympathised with the rebellion
and who tacitly approved and often blat-
antly applauded the burning of Northern
cities by the rebel incendiary and the star
vation and torture of Union prisoners. The
same animus was observable in many of
the appointments made here in the House
to replace the summarily ousted Union SOL
dier. Proof of this is furnished by the NOM
inees of the St. Louis convention and the
Democratic nominees for Governor in
Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, South and North
Carolina, New York, Indiana, Maine, and
in fact in almost or every State where the
nominating conventions have beeen held.
A vile Democratic slander, which was
aided and encouraged by Bluford Wilson
in his testimony before the committee that
investigated the whisky prosecutions, calls
loudly for a refutation in the interests of
morality and decency. Some months ago
it became known to few outside of Cabinet
circles that the Presidents wife, wives of
members of the Cabinet, and even some OF
the members of the Cabinet themselves,
were annoyed by the reception of anony-
nous, threatening and indecent letters. An
attempt was made to detect the party
guilty of the outrage. Wilson stated that
all engaged in the effort to trap the perpe-
traitor had become satisfied that the wife of
an ex-Attorney General was the author,
and that this discovery led to his 1.-THE said
officiars) immediate retirement from his
official position. The ex-oficial in question
Indignantly denied this statement, and
President Grant has recently confirmed him
in his denial. 1t is difficult for those who
had implicit faith in the ex-solicitors ex-
treme piety which led him to supplcste the
Lord in Secretary Bristow's behalf, to be.
Heve that maliee actuated him in his alleged
libelous attack upon q woman, and quite
as difficult for them to account in any other
way for the many eccentricities of which he
stands convicted out of his own and the
mouths of many other witnesses.
1t is stated that work upon the Washing
ton monument will be resumed in short
time if the engineers report the founda-
tion of sufficient strength, relative to
which many doubts have been expressed.
When completed it will present an impos-
ing aspect from every point of observa-
+;ou rotohIv an tn travellers approaching